Cycle thread taps & dies

[Frank S]

I've had several bikes over the years some were lots of fun more were lots of work all were unique in in their own right one way or another. a Powell that was supposed to be a mini bike but had a 10 hp Kohler a stupid and I mean that in the literal sense Honda 50 with a real tube frame not the stamped pressed factory thing. BSA 1 lung 500
ankle buster. Harley 45, chopped & raked 750 Kawasaki half a dozen 350 & 450 Honda's a 48 Harley Pan head a 74 Electraglide Triumph 650 a 1921 Ner-a-car but the 1 bike that if I still had it today that would melt a millennial's brain was my 73 850 commando that would pull the front wheel of the ground in 3rd gear if you sat back on the seat and really gassed on it would eat a Kawa 1300 or a GS 1100 Suzuki as long as you weren't going more than a 1/4 mile at a time. it would hit top about half way between the 1/8 & the 1/4 mark all you had to do was aly down on the tank and hold on .and let those 32 mm Mukuni s feed it the stock Amal 28's were better run around carb's but just couldn't feed it as well as the Mukuni's when you wanted to get there NOW! the only thing was when you wanted to start it you had better want to start it or it would toss you over the bars.