That is one beautiful BSA.

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Here's another

Damn, I'm gonna look good on that!!

Jeff - Gorgeous BSA!!! (and thats coming from a Triumph guy... LOL!)

Jim, I may be able to help you out with T100 parts. I think I have all you need, and I'm lacking a few things for my next project bike. Maybe we can do a trade/swap? I'll take some pictures tonight and send you an email with pics of the parts. Primary cover, outer trans cover, and maybe loaded rocker boxes too... Is this a early or late motor? (squish-band or hemi head?)

My next project is a Bultaco framed Honda xl250 shorttracker. Nothing too fancy, but it looks to be a great runner. The motor may or may not have a few tricks up it's sleeve.

My infinite back-burner project is a T100 like Jim's, stock framed, motor not built too crazy. Just mildly hopped up, lightened vlave train and breathed on, hopefully for some shorttrack fun with the bigger twins. This one is "just because I always wanted to do it" more than to be really competitive, but you never know...

Cool thread Jeff!

Kyle#44x

The BSA being super cool and all, is the R12GS in the background going to be the next donor motor!? now that would be something.

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The BSA being super cool and all, is the R12GS in the background going to be the next donor motor!? now that would be something.

Wouldn't that be a crazy looking Dirt tracker! a R1200GS would look more like an antique aircraft engine stuffed into a frame with no propellor

I think I will stick to Dual sport riding with that one, but, I do have a Rocket III sitting around the corner out of view. I have been dieing to build a flattracker out of that, but i'm afraid no one would want to ride it.

Jeff

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The BSA being super cool and all, is the R12GS in the background going to be the next donor motor!? now that would be something.

Wouldn't that be a crazy looking Dirt tracker! a R1200GS would look more like an antique aircraft engine stuffed into a frame with no propellor:unsure:

I think I will stick to Dual sport riding with that one, but, I do have a Rocket III sitting around the corner out of view. I have been dieing to build a flattracker out of that, but i'm afraid no one would want to ride it.

Jeff

Jeff,

The Rocket 3 would make a good "Miler", back in the day no one attempted to ride them on half-miles, or at least no one that I knew of. Rice won sedalia on one in 69, I believe.

Kyle, we can definitly get together on some trade-off on those parts (that's what I was hoping for as my money is short).

Jim Henry

I was at the first, I believe, Nazareth mile and an eighth where the BSA Rocket three and brand T Trident were raced. The Rocket passed through the expert team ranks with no takers so they offered it to Aldana who was a amateur / junior that year and he rode it to a convincing win. Nixon was on a brand T but got beat by Nix who was still on his amazingly fast dual carb KR.

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I was at the first, I believe, Nazareth mile and an eighth where the BSA Rocket three and brand T Trident were raced. The Rocket passed through the expert team ranks with no takers so they offered it to Aldana who was a amateur / junior that year and he rode it to a convincing win. Nixon was on a brand T but got beat by Nix who was still on his amazingly fast dual carb KR.

Ted Hubbard kept telling me to send him the head off the ROCKET III so he could show me what to do like he did with the Twins. Ted's health went south and I never sent it, now no one may ever see how the head was prepped on Dick Mann's Rocket III at daytona. Ted already had given me written instructions on how to do the lower end, but the head work will forever be a mystery.

Jeff

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HPbyStan wrote:

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I was at the first, I believe, Nazareth mile and an eighth where the BSA Rocket three and brand T Trident were raced. The Rocket passed through the expert team ranks with no takers so they offered it to Aldana who was a amateur / junior that year and he rode it to a convincing win. Nixon was on a brand T but got beat by Nix who was still on his amazingly fast dual carb KR.

Ted Hubbard kept telling me to send him the head off the ROCKET III so he could show me what to do like he did with the Twins. Ted's health went south and I never sent it, now no one may ever see how the head was prepped on Dick Mann's Rocket III at daytona. Ted already had given me written instructions on how to do the lower end, but the head work will forever be a mystery.

Jeff

I can show you exactly what he did. When my friend "Moe" Syverson was running a long stroke A65 750 he bought cyl heads from several people. The CR Axtel head was slightly better than stock, the J Branch head was so shinny you could shave in it but flowed exactly the same as our stock example, a head from someplace called Oscolot (sp)that was way worse than stock, and one from a guy named Ted Hubbard, that I didn't know personally at that time yet. That head looked like it had been ported with a rotto rooter and we only tested it to make fun of the guy. The head turned out to out flow everything else by a bunch!! The flow bench only gives you answers and you have to figure out the questions for yourself. It was time for me to get a bunch smarter and I did figuring that out. I could have gone a long time, or maybe ever without learning that trick on my own had I not seen the result and had to figure why it worked that way. Ted had found a "band-aid" for a really bad port, which all the later BSA/Triumph (singles, twins, and triples) had. Teds "trick" works on any port with the port floor too low. He was definitely the teacher and I the student on that mod.

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Kyle, we can definitly get together on some trade-off on those parts (that's what I was hoping for as my money is short).

Jim Henry

Great Jim... I'll get some pictures together and send them your way.

Kyle#44x

HPbyStan wrote:

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JEFF COVERT wrote:

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HPbyStan wrote:

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I was at the first, I believe, Nazareth mile and an eighth where the BSA Rocket three and brand T Trident were raced. The Rocket passed through the expert team ranks with no takers so they offered it to Aldana who was a amateur / junior that year and he rode it to a convincing win. Nixon was on a brand T but got beat by Nix who was still on his amazingly fast dual carb KR.

Ted Hubbard kept telling me to send him the head off the ROCKET III so he could show me what to do like he did with the Twins. Ted's health went south and I never sent it, now no one may ever see how the head was prepped on Dick Mann's Rocket III at daytona. Ted already had given me written instructions on how to do the lower end, but the head work will forever be a mystery.

Jeff

I can show you exactly what he did. When my friend "Moe" Syverson was running a long stroke A65 750 he bought cyl heads from several people. The CR Axtel head was slightly better than stock, the J Branch head was so shinny you could shave in it but flowed exactly the same as our stock example, a head from someplace called Oscolot (sp)that was way worse than stock, and one from a guy named Ted Hubbard, that I didn't know personally at that time yet. That head looked like it had been ported with a rotto rooter and we only tested it to make fun of the guy. The head turned out to out flow everything else by a bunch!! The flow bench only gives you answers and you have to figure out the questions for yourself. It was time for me to get a bunch smarter and I did figuring that out. I could have gone a long time, or maybe ever without learning that trick on my own had I not seen the result and had to figure why it worked that way. Ted had found a "band-aid" for a really bad port, which all the later BSA/Triumph (singles, twins, and triples) had. Teds "trick" works on any port with the port floor too low. He was definitely the teacher and I the student on that mod.

So your telling me that its shaped the same as the Twin? Cool, I have that procedure down pat.

That "Roto Rooter" thing Cracked me up! I use the same tool to do my heads on the twins that Ted used, and no they aren't pretty but they damn well work! That's one trick that I guard closely, that guy taught me more in just a few short years than I could have learned in a life time on my own.

One day in his basement he was showing me how to do it and I asked "how do you know how deep to make the pockets"? he laughed and stuck his index finger in the port marked the spot with his thumb, pulled it out and said "oh about that deep" I just shook my head and laughed, but that's now how I do it, by the feel of my index finger.

He told me that they BSA put him in a warehouse in New Jersey with a Dyno a Motorcycle, a die grinder and a stack of heads and was told to "make it work" He did. Man I miss that guy.

Jeff

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HPbyStan wrote:

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JEFF COVERT wrote:

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HPbyStan wrote:

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I was at the first, I believe, Nazareth mile and an eighth where the BSA Rocket three and brand T Trident were raced. The Rocket passed through the expert team ranks with no takers so they offered it to Aldana who was a amateur / junior that year and he rode it to a convincing win. Nixon was on a brand T but got beat by Nix who was still on his amazingly fast dual carb KR.

Ted Hubbard kept telling me to send him the head off the ROCKET III so he could show me what to do like he did with the Twins. Ted's health went south and I never sent it, now no one may ever see how the head was prepped on Dick Mann's Rocket III at daytona. Ted already had given me written instructions on how to do the lower end, but the head work will forever be a mystery.

Jeff

I can show you exactly what he did. When my friend "Moe" Syverson was running a long stroke A65 750 he bought cyl heads from several people. The CR Axtel head was slightly better than stock, the J Branch head was so shinny you could shave in it but flowed exactly the same as our stock example, a head from someplace called Oscolot (sp)that was way worse than stock, and one from a guy named Ted Hubbard, that I didn't know personally at that time yet. That head looked like it had been ported with a rotto rooter and we only tested it to make fun of the guy. The head turned out to out flow everything else by a bunch!! The flow bench only gives you answers and you have to figure out the questions for yourself. It was time for me to get a bunch smarter and I did figuring that out. I could have gone a long time, or maybe ever without learning that trick on my own had I not seen the result and had to figure why it worked that way. Ted had found a "band-aid" for a really bad port, which all the later BSA/Triumph (singles, twins, and triples) had. Teds "trick" works on any port with the port floor too low. He was definitely the teacher and I the student on that mod.

So your telling me that its shaped the same as the Twin? Cool, I have that procedure down pat.

That "Roto Rooter" thing Cracked me up! I use the same tool to do my heads on the twins that Ted used, and no they aren't pretty but they damn well work! That's one trick that I guard closely, that guy taught me more in just a few short years than I could have learned in a life time on my own.

One day in his basement he was showing me how to do it and I asked "how do you know how deep to make the pockets"? he laughed and stuck his index finger in the port marked the spot with his thumb, pulled it out and said "oh about that deep" I just shook my head and laughed, but that's now how I do it, by the feel of my index finger.

He told me that they BSA put him in a warehouse in New Jersey with a Dyno a Motorcycle, a die grinder and a stack of heads and was told to "make it work" He did. Man I miss that guy.

Jeff

Cool Story Jeff! Thanks for sharing!

So there are only 4-5 of us on this forum with projects? and only one who owns a camera?! Hmm... I would have thought there were a few more...