A monthly publication of The Vintage Motorcycle Club Johannesburg, South Africa.

Volume 32. No 04. April 2017

CHAIRMAN’S MESSAGE:

It was with great disappointment that I received a message from Pierre Cronje on Saturday, 15 April, informing me that Barbara Norquoy had passed away the previous day. On reflection, over the weekend, I could not think of a more appropriate day of the year for Barbara to be recalled to her beloved Saviour. Her funeral was held at her congregation, the Trinity Community Church in Sunward Park, Boksburg. The turnout from VMC members was a tribute to the lives she touched in the club and the respect that motorcyclists have for the Norquoy family. Thank you to all who were able to attend; I hope there presence was a comfort to the family for all the Barbara and Ginger had done for all the clubs over the years.

As a reminder to us all, we are not getting any younger; I again urge you to bring younger members into the fold of our movement and ensure its sustanability.

The committee is upset by the decision that was made to cancel the Century Run at short notice. Rob Pattison-Emms was made aware of a cycle race, for charity, that was being held in the Cradle of Human Kind on the same day. He even received a phonecall from the Krugersdorp Council, enquiring into his knowledge of “other” events in the vacinity on the April 23. After looking for alternate venues, it was decided to postpone the Century Run until later in the year.

On a last point for this month, our Newsletter is under serious threat. I need to make a furvent plea to everyone as Kickstart (YOUR monthly communication with the club) is under threat. I have, in the past, asked that our Editor has the content needed on a monthly basis and most importantly gets feedback on what works or doesn’t work for you. This is a very lonely task and Chantal needs as much support as possible to continue delivering what we all take for granted. Remember, everyone has a story to tell; please don’t keep your annecdotes and tales from us – send material to [email protected] so that we can publish a newsletter you will be proud of.

May this biking winter be the most memorable of all, as we approach the Winter Solstice. Yours, in motorcycling.

Ken 1 The VMC would like to welcome the following new members:

Nicolaas Luwes George Szabo

Past Events

2017 Johannesburg Century Run

Unfortunately this event had to be postponed at short notice.

The event clashed with a major charity cycle event run in the same location and on the same route … but from a different venue.

No matter how I tried it proved impossible. I tried to find a different location but at short notice this was going to lead to problems.

I had no choice but to postpone the event till a suitable date can be decided. The next two months are fairly congested with fixtures.

With winter approaching I feel that spring is a better time to reorganise the event? There is always a shortage of events in the months of September and October?

Watch this space, we will keep you informed when a date is decided.

Rob Pattison-Emms

2 VMC Calendar of Events 2017 (For next 3 months) May 1 Dam Busters Rally Sunbeam C. Harties Dam 4-7 Jaguar Simola Hill Climb Knysna 7 CMC Club Sunday CMC Germiston 19-20 Natal Classic CMC Natal Natal 21 Cars in Park Natal VSCC Pietermaritzburg 21 Piston Ring Swop Meeting PR Modderfontein 22 VMC Club Night VMC Oaklands 26-28 South Africa Bike Festival Kyalami 28 Cars on the Roof POMC Pretoria

June Willem Prinsloo Mampoer Vintage & Classic Car and Bike 3 POMC Museum Rally

4 CMC Club Sunday CMC Germiston 18 Chrysler Day (Piston Ring) PR Modderfontein 24 The Great Train Race VVC Magaliesburg 26 VMC Club Night VMC Oaklands

July 1-2 1000 Bike Show CMC Germiston 16 General Motors Day (Piston Ring) PR Modderfontein 24 VMC Club Night VMC Oaklands

Other events in July (Dates to be announced) Natal CMC Bike show, DJ Memorial Run Jhb.

Dates, events and locations may change. If anyone has information on changes or additional events that they would like included, please contact Rob Pattison-Emms at 082 891 8399 or [email protected]

Logger Purchase

We have a new batch of loggers in stock for sale to members. Due to an unfavourable exchange rate, the price has increased. These will be sold to members either at a subsidised price for first time buyers or at our cost price if this is a second logger purchase. Prices are:

First time buyers R500.00 Normal price R750.00

Please refer any queries to me at [email protected] Peter Vlietstra 3

From the Treasury Subscription increase

Unfortunately, due to the sliding value of our currency, it is necessary to review subscriptions from time to time. While we would like to retain our subscriptions at a constant level for as long as possible, it is now necessary for an increase. In view of this and due to the pressures experienced by many pensioners, we have included a discount.

The new fee structure, applicable from 1st July 2017 is as follows: Joining Fee R50 Full membership R300 Country membership R220 Discount for over 70’s 50% Discount for over 80’s 100% Family membership (no discount R20 applicable)

Discounts only apply to members with at least 5 years of continuous membership. If you qualify now for a discount or will shortly qualify, please send me your ID number or birth date. This can be done by email to [email protected] or via SMS to 082-650-9880.

4 The fearless adventure motorcyclist who’s a woman, and British

Over 30 years ago rode her motorcycle around the world, she crashed in Australia, fought hepatitis in Iran, forged permits in India and now she lives in a restored Victorian water tower, Bryn Davies speaks to her to find out more about her epic trip...

In the mid-eighties Elspeth Beard became the first British woman to ride a motorcycle around the world. Her trip started in the US after she had shipped her bike over from the UK. She rode her 1975 BMW R 60/6 flat-twin into before heading south to Mexico where she sent the bike to New Zealand and later Australia.

After spending eight months working in an architect's office in , while living in a garage with her bike, Elspeth once again hit the road having saved up enough money. The second leg of her ride took her across Australia, where she had a nasty fall and ended up in hospital for two weeks, up through Indonesia, , Malaysia, Thailand, Nepal, India and before reaching Iran and then making her way to Europe, finishing in the city where it all began, London.

Elspeth: then And now

Now, Elspeth is a highly decorated architect, living in an old 1898 Victorian water tower which she designed and restored all by herself (you may have seen it featured on various TV shows throughout the years). On a gloomy Sunday in November I took a ride down to Munstead Water Tower in Guildford to have a cup of tea and chat about her incredible ride that took place over 30 years ago.

The wall next to the front door is decorated with various architectural awards, and as I entered the building I could see that they were clearly deserved. There's no lift in her seven story tower, and so after walking up four flights of stairs and running out of puff Elspeth showed me into the kitchen where she put the kettle on and we sat down. Surrounding us were mementos of her time on the road. "That was me on my first bike, my little Yamaha," she tells me, scrolling though her old pictures on her tablet. "I must have been about 18 or 20? There was my first helmet. That was my second bike, my Honda 250. Me at the airport. That's what my bike was like, you can see I've got the big five gallon tank on there. I left the fairing in the outback in Australia because I cartwheeled the bike and ended up smashing it up".

Hanging off the back of one of the chairs was Elspeth's old Lewis Leather jacket that she wore on her round the world ride. "I can still fit in it, it was quite tight for me then but it's not bad after 30 years!" she said as she slipped into it while showing me the two badges she had pinned to the front. "That's a Golly motorbike, probably shouldn't have that any more, 5 it's not very PC," she says while laughing. "I never rode without my jacket or helmet on but I wore cotton trousers that I bought in Oxfam in Sydney for about 20p! I've got all the gear now though," she tells me as she reels off a list of four jackets, two pairs of BMW boots, heated gear and helmets.

It was amazing to look back on these personal pictures and possessions of hers. Elspeth was just 23 when she left on her round the world epic, back then it was almost unheard of for women to go riding anywhere, let alone to circumnavigate the globe, so she found that most people just simply ignored what she'd done. "For me, it was 30 years ago so it's like it's someone else's life almost. After I got back and nobody was interested in what I'd done I just shoved everything into the back of the garage. I just kind of moved on with my life. I bought this water tower, spent seven years restoring it, I've got my own architectural practice. I just moved on and did other things."

And if people didn't ignore it they were simply rude or insulting. It was a stark reminder of how things used to be, and how attitudes have changed over the last few years. "I got a charming letter from a bike magazine. I had written to them and sent them a picture of me on my bike saying that I'm leaving on a round the world trip, I offered to write them articles and all I got back was an insulting letter. It shows what it was like 30 years ago, the way women were treated and the attitude towards us. I was so insulted and it was letters like that that made me more determined to do it.

"People just didn't want to talk about it, even my friends didn't because they couldn't actually relate to it. Now people can because people travel a lot more, but in those days people didn't really travel a lot, especially doing these kinds of trips. It was a bit like if Neil Armstrong came here and was talking about what it's like to walk on the moon, you can't relate to it because it's so far away from your reference."

It was interesting to learn what it was that made a young aspiring architect want to get in the saddle and head off into the unknown. Often we hear tales of how broken hearts are the catalyst for adventure, but Elpseth had slightly different reasons. "I don't know what made me want to do it, and I know that sounds a bit bizarre. I think there were probably several reasons, one of them being a personal one. I felt I needed to escape and get away. I'd finished my first three years of architecture and I wasn't sure whether I wanted to carry on and finish my course. It was a seven year course and your fourth year was supposed to be spent working in an office, then you'd go back and do another two years before again working in an office for the final year. I didn't want to go and work in an office, so I thought well, if I am going to do my work experience I'd rather do it somewhere else, so I rode to Sydney and did my work experience in an office there!

"I was in Sydney for eight months and I had three jobs. Two pub jobs and the job in an architects office as well. I did the time and earned the money and it worked out well. I lived in a garage there with my bike, it was $20 a week so it was pretty cheap!' It was also in Australia that Elspeth made her own aluminium top box and panniers, taking three months to build them."

"I always felt slightly more vulnerable", she told me when asked whether she ever felt in danger being a woman travelling alone in foreign lands. "But when I was on my bike with my helmet, everybody assumed I was male anyway. It didn't occur to anybody that I was a woman, especially in those days. In a lot of ways, because I was a woman and I was on my own, it was almost as if people wanted to protect me and let me stay with them, so in many ways it was an advantage. If you're a woman people don't really see you as a threat, you're not going to attack or rob them, they seem to feel much more comfortable. That being said, I don't know what it's like for a bloke to travel though! 6

Elspeth Beard at Srinagar Leh pass Caption

"There were times when I certainly felt a little bit uncomfortable. Muslim countries were very difficult to travel through. Every country has its own difficulties though. India I didn't particularly like, but I never felt particularly threatened there. It was just constant staring of all the men and they would very rarely touch me. I just felt that sometimes the Muslim countries were a bit more aggressive and I never felt comfortable.

"I had everything stolen in Singapore. My passport, my money, my bike documents, all nicked. All my shipping documents as well and my bike was still in the docks. My bike keys, everything. I still had my clothes though. So I was stuck in Singapore for about six weeks just basically replacing everything, getting a new passport, new visas because my old passport had the visas in. I had to deal with the DVLA in Swansea as the shipping people wouldn't release my bike without my registration documents. Dealing with the DVLA in this country is bad enough, let alone in bloody Singapore!" I ask Elspeth if she was glad that it happened, and whether anything good came from it, "No I'm not. Why would I be glad that happened? Nothing good came out of that."

Elspeth Beard and her BMW Bad accident in Aus

"There were certain events that happened, like when my bike caught fire. The wiring on my bike was shite anyway so I had to rewire virtually all of the bike else it would have caused me endless problems all the way back. So while it was a pain then, I had two weeks with this Welsh guy in the outback of Australia, I got drunk with all his mates and that kind of stuff. And I ended up getting my bike rewired because it turns out he was actually an auto- electrician in Wales! So there were certain events like that but getting my stuff stolen in Singapore, nothing good came out of that."

7 After she had spent eight months working in Sydney, Elspeth took off on the second leg of her journey. While riding through the outback in Australia she had a bad off which ended up hospitalising her for two weeks. "I can't remember what happened when I came off in Aus. The whole of that day and the day before I never gained memory of. I think what happened was I went into a pot hole almost the size of my wheel. The back of the bike flipped and my top box was almost completely flattened, like an accordion. I had met this English guy called Tom who had bought a bike in Sydney and was riding around Australia. He had picked up a hitch-hiker and was riding about a mile behind me and found me on the road.

"The ambulance had to come about 180 miles to get me. Apparently I was trying to get back on my bike but everyone was trying to stop me. The next thing I remember is when I woke up in the hospital. That's two days of my life that I have no recollection of. I was very lucky, I had concussion and a few scrapes, it was a very good job I was wearing a helmet, the doctor said it saved my life."

The helmet that saved her life The trusty BMW

"It's the unexpected things that go wrong, that you have to deal with that make the adventure though. If you smooth all of them out and you make it all easy it's just passing scenery and it's just a bit boring." And Elspeth's time in India was anything but boring. In order to get out of the country she had to forge a permit after being sent on a wild goose chase by a border guard. "I met this Dutch guy, Robert, and he was on a BMW 800. We were up in Ladakh when all the trouble in the Punjab was brewing and we knew that when we came down again, the area was shut. We thought we'd give it a go and try and get to the border with Pakistan so we rode through all of Punjab with all these soldiers and road blocks. We didn't stop, we just waved and pretended we didn't know what the problem was.

"So we got to the border and out of India into no man's land and this bloody idiot, because he knew that we weren't allowed to ride where we had just ridden, said 'no you can't go through as you haven't got a permit for the ride you just did through the Punjab'. So he sent us back to Dehli to get a permit, back through the Punjab to Dehli, to get a permit to enter the Punjab. That's Indian logic for you.

"So we rode back to Dehli and after three weeks of being faffed around by bureaucrats we realised that this permit didn't actually exist. They'd sent us to buildings that didn't exist to see officials that weren't ever there. I just woke up one day and said to Robert, 'these permits don't exist and the people at the border have never seen one, they don't know what they look like'. So I just forged one! I put 'permit' at the top of some registration paper and

8 when we got to the border the guard picked it up and went 'ah! Permit!' And that's how I got out of India.

"It was a similar story in Iran where my carnet wasn't valid for. In order to include Iran on my carnet they wanted a £4,500 deposit. I didn't have the money so I thought I'd leave it and worry about it when I actually got there. In those days the carnet just had all the countries typed on to it so, you guessed it! I just typed it on! You've just got to think slightly out of the box, and it worked! Back then there was nothing that they could check it against."

After riding through Iran in seven days it wasn't long before Elspeth was on her way through Europe, an experience that wasn't quite as she had expected. "The thing that struck me when I came through Europe was how miserable everyone was. In the other countries everyone was poor, they didn't have very much but in general they were happy. Then you get to Europe and I think it was probably Germany where I noticed it most. You just had these people in their BMWs, their Porches, being really aggressive and angry. Really miserable.

"They had all this stuff but it wasn't making them happy at all. Then you go out and there's some woman in her shack with nothing but she's as happy as anything. So, Europe was somewhere that I thought would be wonderful, but actually it wasn't at all. Having gone through all these countries and seeing what we would perceive as poverty, you realise that we're only looking at it in a materialistic way. They were fit, healthy, they had their families with them, they had a roof over their head. They lived in an amazing country with beautiful scenery, they didn't have a car or a TV but what they didn't know didn't matter to them."

Like all of us Elspeth suffered big time from the blues when she got home, having spent three years on the road it was a bit of a shock to go from riding through Pakistan to learning architecture in England once again. "I was seriously unhappy. I was so depressed. It took me about a year to get over it and I thought about going off on my bike again every day. And I sort of did. I was back for a short time, about three months, and then I thought 'right, I'm going off again'. My plan was to go to Syria and Jordan, I got as far as and I just thought to myself 'why am I doing this?'. The whole thing before that had driven me was riding my bike around the world, start here and go all the way round and come back and that's what motivated me to do it. Somehow just aimlessly riding to Syria or Turkey seemed pointless.

"It was very difficult coming back, there was no one I could talk to who understood what I had done. I could see people when I was talking to them about riding my bike through Baluchistan and breaking down, they'd just be like 'yawn' and their eyes would glaze over within 30 seconds! On the road every day was an adventure and it was really intense, every minute of every day you're just trying to survive, and then you come home and it's all blurgh! Everything's easy and there's no excitement, no challenge, no nothing. I was just so depressed for months and months. It was really hard to come back, really difficult."

After hearing Elspeth talk about how hard it was for her when she got back I wondered, would she do it again if she had the chance? "Not now. I mean, I've done lots of other travelling since. I've ridden Enfields in Tibet, gone round Peru, I've done bits of South America, bits of Africa. I've gone back to Australia three times and I've got my pilot's licence. I've flown planes round Australia, Africa and bits of America, I helped Nick Sanders, I was his tour manager for three or four years so I used to help him on his mad trips. I was manager on his 2003 RTW trip when we took 23 motorcyclists around the world. Yeah, I've done lots of travelling since, but I wouldn't have this whole thing of going 'right, I'm going to start here and ride around the world and finish here'. I'm glad I did it when I did it.

9 "I do look back now and again though, more recently I got all my photographs out, all my old diaries and I hadn't looked at them in years. It was just bizarre looking at all these pictures. It's like looking at someone else's album. I'm reading bits of my diary and there's parts from me at the airport when I was leaving, wondering if I was going to be alright and whether I was doing the right thing. Thinking I would hate travelling and be back in three months time. I remember I started crying when I was writing it and you can see all my tear marks on the page."

Forgotten Innovators By Roger Moss

As for motives, then I much value fairness and believe that courageous engineers, whose innovations have added much to our society, should at least be remembered. The subject of this story made one of the most important inventions to effect motorcyclists but is almost unknown. - Roger Moss

In 1888 a young engineer named Joseph Day worked for an engineering company in Bath England named Stothert and Pitt. This company made cranes and small engines.

Joseph Day left and set up his own company making cranes, but his main interest was in making bread making machinery. Of all the processes involved, the mixing of the dough was the most arduous and so a

power source was needed. Most bakeries were on a small scale, so a steam engine was not ideal. The Joseph Day option was an internal combustion engine running on coal gas as was then readily available for lighting.

The engine design then in use was the German four-stroke with existing patents held by Otto. Joseph Day felt that with cams and valves to manufacture and patent royalties to pay on the Otto patents, this was too expensive and set out the design of an engine which would use the crankcase as part of the engine's system. This was the world's first successful crankcase compression two stroke engine and was patented in 1891.

The inlet into the crankcase was by way of a primitive form of reed valves, but the transfer of mixture from the crankcase to above the piston was affected by a tube set into the head of the piston with a non-return valve in it. So the first crankcase compression two-stroke engine was a gas engine for mixing dough. The engine worked but its power was modest.

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Original Day patent drawing side section c/o Zurich patent office.

11 Fortunately for Joseph Day, he had a skilled workman in his employ named Frederick Cock, who had experience with the different forms of sliding valves used on Steam Engines. He devised a transfer system to replace the valve in the piston crown, but then found that this routed the transfer gas into the cylinder above the piston, but immediately opposite the exhaust port. To prevent the transfer gas going straight across and out of the exhaust, a wall or "Deflector" was added to the piston. The patent was amended to add the name of Frederick Cock in 1893, so I invite all who have respect for the two stroke engine to remember these engineers who did so much for so many but are known by so few.

Alfred Scott was the first to use this new system commercially into his innovative motorcycles where the lightweight and very flexible power output was ideal for a motorcycle. The Scott, with its two speed gear, kick starter and telescopic forks was light years ahead of most motorcycles before WW1. For those who have never ridden a Scott, the Day design of engine with the deflector gives a very long and flat torque curve. The revision to use side transfers by Schneule in about 1926 did produce greater power but only within a much more narrow power band. Scott's made the fastest lap in the IOM TT in 1911-12-13-14 and won outright in 1912 and 1913.

12 SAVVA Technical Tip 118 – Master Brake Cylinders

Looking through the brake section of a workshop manual for pre-war cars it warned of problems one could encounter if incorrect washers and/or piston return springs were fitted to the master brake cylinder. This brought back memories as years back it happened to me and in my ignorance and inexperience I thought I was the only person in the world this had happened to. However, it turns out it is not uncommon.

As a reminder, a friend came by a couple of weeks ago with tales of woe about his old series 2 Land Rovers brakes. He has had all the cylinders re-sleeved but the brakes won’t “bleed” as they should. He has taken the master cylinder out many times but cannot find anything wrong with it.

The problem could be two-fold. Firstly, the return spring is now old and weak and not returning the piston all the way back allowing the fluid to travel from the reservoir into the bottom chamber. Then there is also the small possibility that the new washer is a bit wide and partially covering the port.

Last year I had the same problem on an early car. I had the master cylinder re-sleeved by the brake experts and it wouldn’t bleed as it should. After becoming slightly neurotic and suicidal and taking it back to the “experts” twice they found the problem – the old return spring was inadequate to return the new washer (primary cup) all the way back in the re- sleeved chamber. A slightly stiffer spring solved the problem.

When I think of the hours I spent going up and under the car as well as the bottles of brake fluid wasted trying to get the brakes to bleed I’m thinking of making an effigy of the chap behind the counter who insisted I wasn’t bleeding the system correctly and sticking pins into it.

13 Fuel & Oil Filler Caps and Necks

Who would believe that the company that made the filler cap for our veteran, vintage or even classic bikes still exists and is able to make that elusive original cap that we have been hunting for years.

Ceandess Limited of Wolverhampton. --- Famous for “The Ceandess Patent Filler Cap.” ….. Or so the slogan goes? The name Ceandess is derived from; - Chilcott, Stevens & Scott. (I can’t figure it out! But so I am told.) – The “Stevens” part is the Stevens family of AJS … (A.J. Stevens) --- (That must be good???) Still in Wolverhampton! …. (Is that good???) Original suppliers to AMC, Norton Group as well as many other British motorcycle, car and stationary engine manufacturers. They still manufacture the fuel and oil caps with text stamped into the top, as found on flat-tankers where the fuel and oil tank are one. Prices may be better than restoring and re-chroming / nickel plating your old ones?

Question! _ is the part a reproduction or an original part, if it is made by the original manufacturer, to original specifications and made with the original tooling? This is important to the purists among us! The tooling is evidently still in good condition and producing quality parts.

Often the fuel tanks on our cars and motorcycles have been rebuilt several times but we have retained the original filler cap and neck, as these are difficult to fabricate. They manufacture the caps, the filler cap necks, even that rare retaining chain and “Y” spring that has been lost for decades. The fuel caps for Morgan cars and the AC Cobras are made by Ceandess.

While browsing through their “historic catalogue” on the web site. www. Ceandess.uk I spotted the clutch lever arm for my 1936 Matchless (Early Burman gearbox) Interestingly they list the ornate fuel caps with the ball tipped tommy bar on the top. --- Very twee? As used on the Rudge, Brough Superior and some Cottons. --- I think??? I have always thought that this is the ultimate in fine design, almost “art nouveau.” Be sure to look at their old catalogue under “About us.”

This is not an advertisement or a recommendation, as I have not purchased anything from them – yet! You can’t get the Pounds (£) --- you know!

So if the cap fits …… buy one!

Rob’s Tweedle

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PRIDE OF OWNERSHIP CLASSIC MOTORCYCLE DISPLAY

Organisers are looking for the most rare, most unusual and most cherished motorcycles in all of South Africa. All those with motorcycles 1995 and older can nominate their classic motorcycles to be one of thirty especially chosen for the Pride of Ownership Classic Motorcycle display, hosted on the 2nd level of the Kyalami Pit Building, inside and at the top of the stairs from the main exhibition hall.

Owners are encouraged to submit details of their bikes as soon as possible as space is extremely limited and highly sought after.

Nicole Muller, festival director says: “The standard of the bike is obviously important, but for us, the passion of the owner and the journey the bike and rider have traveled on is equally appealing. It will be tough to decide which bikes join us so we are calling on industry experts for their help and advice.”

Visitors will be asked to cast their votes in person over all three days of the festival and you might even hear a bike or two fired up over the weekend. Being the second classic bike competition to be held at South Africa Bike Festival organisers are already receiving entries from a maelstrom of vintage motorcycle enthusiasts.

For 2017, we are joined again by The Classic Motorcycle Club of JHB, and would also like to welcome The 2 Stroke Smokers with their assistance with the vetting, voting and prize giving.

Bikes will be loaded on Wednesday afternoon and can be collected on Monday. Each of the entrants chosen to display at the show will receive two festival passes per day to the value of R1140 as well as Beard Oil sponsored by Beard Boys to the value of R170

The South Africa Bike Festival webpage for more info and to enter your bike: http://www.southafricabikefestival.com/pride-of-ownership/

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IMPORTANT NOTICE Dear Valued Client

We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your valued support. The SAVVA scheme has grown rapidly over the past year and we thank you for your support and referrals received.

In dealing with more cover requests, we have established one area causing some confusion amongst our Clients, i.e. the definition of Club Use. We have therefore taken the time to review our policy wording to rectify this uncertainty.

We hereby give 30 days notice to amend the Club use as set out below. The amended wording will be effective 1 August 2016 for existing clients and immediately for new clients.

CLUB USE / USE 1 · Any activity by a recognized club affiliated to SAVVA or not affiliated, including displays, rallies, fun runs, processions, club meetings and journeys to and from such events, hire for weddings/matric dances and the like, but excluding: speed trails, circuit racing, off road events and hire for reward. Display beyond the immediate supervision and control of the Insured.

· Being taken for repair, restoration or maintenance under own power or by trailer provided this is not done in peak traffic time.

· Occasional journeys of a purely social and pleasure nature but excluding to and from a place of business, employment or education institution and business use.

We thank you for your kind co-operation in utilizing your Vehicles within the new perimeters, reflected above.

Kind regards

FNB INSURANCE BROKERS

16 Classifieds NB! only remain in for 3 months then must be renewed

FOR SALE:

1978 KZ 650 – fully reconditioned, registered and licenced – R35k negotiable 1978 KZ 650 – only 10 000kms – R25 negotiable 1978 KZ 750 Twin – (rare) – R30k negotiable 2002 Derbi Senda trail 50cc as new 50kms - R12 negotiable 2002 Derdi Senda trail 80cc as new 50kms – R14 negotiable 1992 KMS 200 trail registered but needs new main bearing – R6k negotiable Please contact Roy on 082 373 4716

Ducati M900 1995. Motorcycle in excellent condition. Lots of carbon fibre. Rear sets and special speedo cluster. R 45,000.00 Contact Ken Fox on 071 434 5060

Lathe with thread cutting gears, chucks, dial gauge with magnetic stand and cutting/turning tools etc. Chuck diameter +- 20cm, Bed length between centers - +- 45cm Price – R 9,500.00 Please contact Mike Lang – 082-8211826

Brand new motorcycle tyres. Classic thread pattern. Czech Mitas make. Size 3.00/3.50/4.00 x 19 available. Call Janus 081 065 8275 (Benoni) for details.

1981 Honda XLS 500. Only done 4700 km’s. In excellent condition. Asking price is R25,000.00 ONCO. Serious parties must please contact Errol John on 082 651 4331

I have two BSA’s for sale: 1) 1948 BSA M21, 600cc, very good condition, needs only a check over, fresh oil and fuel; R30 000-00 ONCO. 17 2) 1947 BSA B31, 350cc, complete, but could do with a re spray and rebuild; R15 000-00. Both are SAVVA dated, Offers to Errol John on 082 651 4331

1936 Triumph T70 250cc - 90% complete. Bike can be viewed in Germiston R25000.00 (See picture below) Contact Jason 082 551 2634 [email protected]

Honda Black Bomber (CB 450) spares for sale. 2 Motor/gearbox units, some parts missing but generally complete 1 Spare head with valves, no camshafts 2 complete Keihin carbs and a box full of spares, float bowls bodies etc 4 new air filter units complete with rubber connectors Box of new and used cables, speedo, revcounter, clutch, front brake etc Lots of new and used engine parts including 6 new pistons and rings Box of assorted electrics, coils, condensers,light lenses, points etc 2 boxes of assorted used parts, covers, levers, footrests Maker a sensible offer to: Kevin Robertson, 083 321 3234; 012 997 1554

Books for sale The following books are the OSPREY Collection by Roy Bacon. To me these are the greatest books to have in your Classic Book Library as each book pertains to one particular MARQUE . The models they cover reflect engine specification, colours and original layout. These books are no longer in production BSA Twin & Triples - Roy Bacon (Osprey) - R 450.00 Royal Enfield – The Postwar Model - Roy Bacon (Osprey) - R 250.00 BSA Gold Star – and other singles - Roy Bacon ( Osprey) - R 450.00 AJS and Matchless – The Postwar Models – Roy Bacon(Osprey) -R 350.00 Ariel – The Postwar Models – Roy Bacon (Osprey - R 350.00 Norton Twins – Roy Bacon (Osprey) - R 350.00 Triumph Twins & Triples – Roy Bacon (Osprey) - R 450.00 Tuning for Speed - P.E. Erving - R 450.00 18 Modern Motorcycle Mechanics – J.B Nicholson - R 400.00 Matchless – Peter Hartley - R 400.00 CONTACT -: MIKE LANG – 082-8211826 OR 011-8495859

Books for sale Classic British Motor Cycles – Bob Currie – R450.00 Tuning S.U. Carburetters- including full needle charts – Speed Sports R150.00 Automobile Electrical Maintenance – Arthur W. Judge – R 150.00 AJS & Matchless Postwar Twins 1948-1969 – Roy Bacon- R 50.00 The Auto Expert – understanding the Ignition System - R150.00 Ariel Square Four – Super Profile – Haynes – R100.00 Honda – Mick Woollett – R150.00 Motorcycles an Illustrated history – Erwin Tragatsch- R125.00 Superbikes from around the World – Roland Brown – R150.00 The Complete British Motorcycle – John Carroll- R150 The complete encyclopedia of World Motorcycles – Mirco de Cet-R200 Miller’s Classic Motorcycles – Price Guide 1995 – Professional Handbookm- R200 Popular Mechanics Encyclopedia –R50 Classic Superbikes – from around the world – Mac McDiarmid – R150 CONTACT- MIKE LANG – 082-8211826 OR 011-849-5859

Workshop Tools for Sale I am moving to a retirement village and have to sell the contents of my workshop. Over the last 40 years I have collected some really useful and unusual tools for all occasions. There is far too much to list and I invite you to contact me to have a browse. Lathe with gear cutting facilities - 65cm between centres including, Chucks, Tail Stock, Magnetic dial Gauge plus lots of extra cutting tools. R 8500.00 AFROX Porta Pack – Oxogen and Acyitilene Small bottles – Bottle gauges and pipes nozzles etc. complete R 9500.00 Arc Welder with welding leads etc. Like new still in the box R 2000.00 Workshop workbench – 4 meters long R 1000.00 Large Vice - used R 350.00 Large electric grindstone R 450.00 Drill press and cabinet R 1250.00 Wooden workshop bike bench R 1000.00 Hydraulic bike – workbench R 5500.00 Industrial Buffing machine R 2000.00 Large Steel Cabinet–with worktop +- 2.5X500X1High R 1000.00 Large Set of adjustable bush rehemmers suitable to finish bushes R 2500.00 Electric jigsaw in very good condition R 550.00 Electric high speed grinder (25 RPM ) with grinding and routing bits R 2000.00 Wheel Clamps (each) R 100.00 Portable Compressor 24 Lt HP 0.75 like new R 850.00 High Speed Grinder with chuck and tools(ideal) for boring out metal or routing R 1500.00 Gun safe – rifles R 1250.00 Micrometers (assortment for all occasions –metric and imperial FROM R 75.00 Cad Plating Plant – suitable most motor cycle parts R 2500.00 Many other factory tools for sale to suit BSA, Triumph, Etc, Including factory pullers. CONTACT -: MIKE LANG – 082-8211826 OR 011-849-5859

Restoring your bike? Classic Restorer offers VAPOUR BLASTING SERVICES. We clean aluminium, brass, and copper parts using VAPOUR BLASTING method. 19 It’s a gentle, water based, non-destructive process for aluminium cylinder heads, engine blocks, gearbox casings, carburettors, etc. Professional, British made equipment is used. There is no excessive metal removing, no blasting material embedded on metal surface. Just a smooth satin finish. Call Janus Gruska from Classic Restorer for details: 081 065 8275 (Benoni) or email [email protected]

Eddie Kirkwood has a selection of spares for mainly British bikes which he needs to dispose of. Go to "Spares for Sale" on Blogger website: http://britbikecapetown.blogspot.co.za/ 082 568 4913

WANTED:

M20 BSA : I need an alloy front mud guard for a 19 inch wheel as well as a tool box for a M20 BSA Please contact Mick Skelly 0828249427 or [email protected] .

18inch Borrani Aluminium Rims please contact Pierre Cronje 072 513 9432

Velocette MOV/ MAC / MSS webb Girder forks please contact Brandon Jarvis 082 410 8828

Velocette MSS gear box or parts thereof please contact Brandon Jarvis 082 410 8828

BMW R26 or R27 to purchase and/ or spare parts. 083 326 4911 Gawie

Norton racing type oil tank to fit slimline frame Rod Thomas 031-762 1509 / 073 365 6494

Alternator type primary chaincase for pre-unit swinging arm Triumph. I need two inners and one outer. Will buy or have parts to swap. Tony Dodsworth. 082 742 1742 or 011 453 2688

To fit BMW R50 : 2 x Bing 1/24 Carbs complete pair or 2 x 1/24 Bing Housings (blocks) OR 2x AMAL Carbs (pair), same size as above Contact Trevor Jones – (082) 416-4650

Triumph Tiger Cub T20 engine and any spares Contact Pierre Cronje 072 513 94532

Ian Otridge looking for donor parts / bike for a Puch MS50V that I was given. It is commonly known as a 'Help my Trap'. Call 082 572 9749.

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British Bike Spares, Specialising in classic British bike spares supplying parts from Wassell, the biggest new classic bike part wholesalers in the UK, has been purchased by Gavin Walton from Mike Lang.

All the stock has been moved from Benoni to Springs on the East Rand. Gavin’s intentions include enhancing and growing the business, web basing it to provide on-line browsing and ordering and shortening the time between import orders and delivery at a competitive rate.

Gavin’s details are:

74 Phoenix road Selcourt Springs 1559

Home 011 818 4055 Mobile 083 408 4296

Email [email protected] (this will change in the near future to [email protected] ) Please call to enquire or make an appointment to see him.

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RESTORATION and other SERVICES

Full restorations. Pierre Cronje does these as well as wheel lacing and building. Call him on 072 513 9432.

Ultrasonic cleaning call Henry Watermeyer on 084 800 8862.

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COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Ken Wiggins Chairman [email protected] 011 793 7138 083 256 1949

Ian Holmes Vice Chairman [email protected] 011 793 7304 083 646 3089

Pieter Vlietstra Treasurer [email protected] 011 793 4841 082 650 9880

Ian Storer Secretary [email protected] 072 727 7382

Kevin Walton Club Dating Officer [email protected] 082 891 8399 Rob Pattison- Committee Member / [email protected] 011 849 5180 082 891 2869 Emms Events Dave Watson Committee Member [email protected] 082 551 5147 Chantal Committee Member / [email protected]. 083 708 3522 Madgwick Editor za Brandon Jarvis Committee Member [email protected] 011 907 3000 082 410 8828

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CLUB ACCOUNT DETAILS Account Number 1970259841 Nedbank Sandton Branch 197-005 Please use your name and surname as your reference when making a payment

CLUB MEETINGS Meetings are held every 4th Monday of the month (except December) at The Vintage and Veteran Club (VVC), 3 Athol Oaklands Road, Oaklands Johannesburg, at 20:00.

The opinions expressed in KICKSTART are not necessarily those of the Committee or the Editor.

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