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Owner's Club of Southern California Owner’s Club of Southern California Established 1978 A Monthly Journal April 2015 My Frank Forster built B50MX previously owned by Joe Powers III….Ed. The Piled Arms is a publication of The BSA Owner’s Club of Southern California. We are a member driven publication and rely solely on your participation. Technical articles, photos and “Member Experiences” and opinions are essential Meet Our Directors Burt Barrett (661) 742-5539 …..…….….…………....President Steve Ortiz (951) 245-5287 ………….Membership/Secretary Barry Sulkin (310) 569-1383 ………………………….Treasurer Barbara Barrett (661) 832-6109 ……………..Events/Director Clive Brooks (714) 771-2534 ……Piled Arms Editor/Webmaster Randy Ressell (714) 502-4502 ……………. Regalia / Facebook Jody Nicholas (714) 730-9257 ...….……………….…...Director Piled Arms Production Staff Clive Brooks (714) 771-2534…[email protected] ....Editor; Contributing Members and Named Sources The Piled Arms, 820 South Esplanade St. Orange, Ca. 92869 Please submit your articles by E -Mail or direct mail. Deadline for submissions is the 10th of each month. Members may place Non Commercial “4-Sale ” or “ Want ” Ads in the Piled Arms Free for 90 days, without renewal. Contact Editor for “Commercial Ad” rates and information. Librarian….John Gardner…. 310-920-3393 BSAOCSC Regalia… Randy Ressell….714 -502-4502 BSA Owner’s Club Web Site www.bsaocsc.org Front Cover Photo ; Sandra Bilewitch Rear cover; Randy Ressell 2 President’s Page by Burt Barrett Friends and fellow Clubmen. I’m finally feeling better after my knee replacemen t on January 28. Right from the start, I could get around, but have had lots of trouble sleeping, which left me too tired to do much of anything. Now I’m getting 5 or 6 hours a night and am feeling like doing things. Barb and I are looking forward to the new riding season and the BSAOCSC Events. I woke up my old motorcycles after not starting them since about November. The Bonney started on the first kick, just like she always does. The Comman- do was quite stubborn, and required quite a few kicks. However both motorcycles started and ran well, and I was able to ride them easily, no pain on my operated knee. I have nev- er had any problems with my carbs gumming up after sitting a long time. I run the gel cell batteries, and the Bonney and the Commando both have Boyer Ignitions. I have never had to charge any of the gel batteries. That said, I have had my troubles with gel batter- ies. When they first came out, they would last about a year, sometimes, and sometimes two weeks, one even failed right out of the box. When measured with a volt meter, I got a 12.5v reading. When I switched on the ignition, it went to zero. I guess the inside con- nections were faulty. I went through 7 of those things in a year’s time. My supplier made ‘em good though. Now I haven’t had a failure for quite a while. My Matchless G80CS is running again. Most of you remember it quit on me during the Wintergreen Ride last year, and had a loose intake seat which was not repairable. I searched high and low for a replacement cylinder head with no luck. Finally a fellow Clubman, David Hill, contacted me and offered to sell me a good cylinder head. To make a long story short, last week I picked it up at David’s residence near LAX. The cylin- der head proved to be just as good as he told me it would be. I stripped it, bead blasted it, and lapped in the valves and mating surface between the head and cylinder. Guides were in great shape, as were the valves. Thank You Much, David! I bolted on the head, torqued it down and tried to start it with no results. The Matchless has always been an easy starter unless you flood it. I wrestled with it quite a while and gave up in disgust, as it was dark thirty, and I was out of ideas. I returned the next morning, and removed the magneto cover, and saw the problem immediately: the points spring slipped its fastening, and was shorting out on the advance ring. I moved it with a small screwdriver to where it wasn’t touching anymore, and it fired right up, and ran just like it used to before the problem. Good ol’ Matchless! Barbs bike, Thunderbear, a 95 Thunderbird, needed a new battery, so I bought a replace- ment at A -1 and now it’s operational also. Now they all need to be washed. We have had quite a lot of rain (for Bako) and I have been hearing reports of lots of wildflowers in ar- ea. Maybe we can do a warm up ride this weekend, as temps are supposed to be in the 70's. The BSAOCNC Clubman’s Show is coming up at the end of the month, and we are plan- ning to attend. April brings the annual Mid -State ride, which starts in Monterey, and goes to Morro Bay. That’s always a good one, and we will attend that one too. Hope to see you there! Burt Barrett 3 Editors Page: - Oilyleaks by Clive Brooks Remaining Issues Under My Stewardship 18 My Fellow Enthusiasts… A great turn -out again for the 3rd An- nual Ortega Highway ride, 37 riders signed in and I believe there were a few more who forgot to sign in. Many thanks to Dave Za- miska who worked so hard soliciting donations from local busi- nesses to sponsor the ride, working on the ride maps etc. Those sponsors were : Classic Cycles, Moores Cycles, Montgomery Motorcycle Company, Century Motorcycles, The Wheel Works, and Raber’s. Thank you all for your generous donations. We also had the Cinder Cone, dualsport ride, with 19 riders and I was one of them, for my 1st dualsport ride. Many thanks to Mike Haney for doing such a great job in laying out the route. By the time you receive this issue we would have had the “Inland Empire” ride scheduled for March 22nd, and, of course, March 28th there is the BSAOCNC 28th Annual Clubmans Show. April is a busy month with the Mid -State Ride , The “Al Baker” Dualsport , and of course our big event of the year the “Barry Smith Memorial” All British Run. I urge you all to send me your British Bike stories, photos and “Tech Tips”, they don’t have to be about BSA’s, most of our club members own other makes and marques, so they will be of interest to our membership, for us all to share, after all this is your newsletter. Thanks again to those who have already contributed material to the Piled Arms, and I hope you continue to do so. I desperately need fresh articles to keep this going. Members please be aware that sometime in the next few months we will be publishing our current Membership Roster, containing your name, address, phone # and email address. If there is any info that you DON’T want published please , call or email me . Editor BSAOC / SC members, we are updating our e -mail list in order to contact you for any last minute changes in our calendar events, so please contact Steve Ortiz at ; [email protected]. CHECK YOUR MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL DATE (see front of envelope) MAIL CHECK OR MONEY ORDER FOR $25.00 U.S. ($40.00 Overseas) Make Checks Payable To: BSAOC/SC Mail To: BSAOC/SC, 11125 Westwood Blvd, Culver City, CA 90230 4 The “Ortega Highway” Ride by Larry Luce, Photos by Steve Ortiz and Randy Ressell Ortega, It’s Not Just a Chili, It’s Also a Pretty Fun Ride I spent most of my pre -adult years in Orange County California; fairly early on I be- came aware of Ortega Highway. It was spoken of not as a way to get somewhere but as a destination unto itself or a road to be avoided. The attraction was its long, uninterrupt- ed course of curving pavement and light traffic the threat was those individuals who would use said course to test their road racing prowess occasionally to tragic effect. Over the years I have traveled this road many times operating many different vehicles. Early on I learned I had no future as a serious road racer but it was always an enjoyable ride. I think the last time I made the trip was about ten years ago when I took a Velo- cette on one of the Norton club rides that used to start at British Marketing. Last year I finally got my CB Goldstar running (after only forty years of ownership) and was eager to make the run again on that machine. Rider’s meeting I live in Huntington Beach about forty miles north of Capistrano where the ride was set to start. The Goldstar had never been subjected to freeway travel prior to this (still less than 1000 miles on a fresh motor) but I elected to ride to the ride. The morning of the event dawned overcast and cool which seemed like ideal conditions. The trip south proved uneventful. The CB Goldstar is reasonably smooth at freeway speeds and proved easily up to the trip. I would estimate about fifty bikes were assem- bled at the starting venue. Maybe ten BSAs were among that crowd. I was surprised to note the volume of traffic heading up Ortega; it was obvious this would not be a good day to attempt to go fast. The good thing was the traffic seemed to be locals who knew this road and moved along at an acceptable pace.
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