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 Topic: Nice Spring DayPosted: March 25 2023 at 11:52am |
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First ride of the 2023 season. A very nice spring day in the North Georgia mountains. A bit windy, especially on a light machine like the Velocette Thruxton.
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Posted: March 25 2023 at 12:20pm |
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Nice motorcycle!
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Posted: March 25 2023 at 6:01pm |
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agreed , beautiful scooter , miss my triumph days like this ,
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Posted: March 26 2023 at 4:00am |
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Very nice Geoff!
I'm guessing but was that named after the racing circuit at Thruxton? If so I shoot clays a few hundred yards from the circuit most Thursdays.
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Posted: March 26 2023 at 4:43am |
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Mick, yes, named after winning at the 1965 Thruxton 500 mile endurance race in the 500 cc (senior) class.
This is a 1967, which my Dad bought in 1969 with about 1200 miles on the clock, now has around 53,000 miles. He had several others he bought new, but kept this one. Approx 1100 were built from 1965 to 1971. Dad had the last machine made, he was the Canadian distributor when the factory closed. He had that machine still in the crate until the early 1980’s. I know who the current owner is and it still has not been ridden. It’s a great machine for these twisty mountain roads.  |
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Posted: March 26 2023 at 5:25am |
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Geoff in my photographic retailer days I ran a shop for the company in Bournemouth, one of the opposition shops in town was owned by a chap called Robert White who collected Brough Superiors motor cycles.
Whilst I knew Robert in a professional level we weren't friends as such but I was rather surprised to note that after his death from cancer in 2015 his friend, one Jay Leno bought some of his collection which unsurprisingly also consisted of Leica cameras. Robert kept a Brough at the bottom of his stairs in his house in Sandbanks Poole a friend noted who was one of his wedding guests.
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Posted: March 26 2023 at 6:16am |
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Jay Leno has quite a collection, including a Velo Thruxton very similar to this one, a 1971 assembled after the factory closed from parts. He did a short video on it. He mispronounced “Veloce”, and a few minor errors, but did a good review. Only 1400 miles on his machine.
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Posted: March 26 2023 at 10:52am |
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What store was that? I worked for "Reids Of Haslemere" for a while. Oh the "Mr Reid (Don)" stories I could tell! Raymond was the spun off Reids photo from Reids pharmacy.
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Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force)
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Posted: March 26 2023 at 11:02am |
Shamu, it was the London Camera Exchange, we had a branch in Guildford as did Raymond Reid. I worked in Salisbury, Bournemouth, Fareham and finally back to Salisbury with LCE. IIRC Raymond Reid was going to give the PDA (Photographic Dealers Association) a talk on running a successful business but shortly before he was going to do it he went bust!
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Posted: March 26 2023 at 6:35pm |
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Yeah, he took over that from another company that went T/U. "Cambridge Canmera", maybe? There were 3 stores, Guilford, Birmingham & another one I don't remember in the Home Counties, doubling Reids from 3 to 6. I forget who, they had a red iris diaphragm as the logo & imported Exa/Exakta into the U.K. Didn't LCE also have branch in Bristol? On Broad St maybe? Our Assistant Manager jumped ship & went to them "Before The Fall". Raymond wanted an "American Business Model", that was one reason why Don kept the pharmacy totally separate because he doubted it would work in England. I subbed for the manager in Haslemere after his skiing accident put him in hospital for several months. Beautiful area & way closer to Bisley too! Did you have an Agfa rep called "Terry" who was a target shooter there? He was my Bisley Guru! |
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Posted: March 27 2023 at 2:37am |
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We had two branches in Bristol back then, and yes one of them was in Broadmead and very small.
I'm intrigued by "Terry" being a TR shooter, I suspect he didn't do our area as our guy (John Kirby) would have lunch with us on early closing Wednesday's which his visits always (deliberately) coincided with. Casting my mind back I can remember being told of a photographic dealers shooting club in the early 1970's but believed it was just a group of enthusiast's who got together for just a plink. Back then the comedian Michael Bentine would stop at LCE Guildford with his pistols after shooting at Bisley and was happy to show them to the staff when they asked to see them, how times have changed in the UK! The M3 motorway has opened this part of the world up to make it far easier to get to Bisley than it was in the 1970's. |
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Posted: March 27 2023 at 11:15am |
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I think Terry had the South West as his area. I'd forgotten Bentine was a shooter! You're right times have changed & How! Even here in the U.S. I remember buying a No4Mk1(T) at a gun show in Allentown, PA in the mis 80's. I got the rifle, some ammo a few chargers & a sling & was leaving the show with the slung rifle over my shoulder as I didn't find a case. The cop doing security asked to see it & I showed him. When he asked why I was so nervous I said "Because if I did this in the U.K. I'd be under arrest by now"! His reply was "Welcome to the land of the Brave & the home of the free"! Do you know where the local range is?  I went back to the same show a couple of years back & got the whole "fish eye thing" because I exited the building to go for a smoke!  |
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Posted: March 27 2023 at 1:55pm |
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Back in the early 90's I took my two oldest (eight and six) children to a small VFW show on a Saturday Morning.
Walked out with a cut down Enfield and a Carcano carbine with my children holding my hands. Two rifles on one of my shoulder, the Carcano slipped off and my oldest just put it on her shoulder and out the door we went.
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Always looking for military manuals, Dodge M37 items,books on Berlin Germany, old atlases ( before 1946) , military maps of Scotland. English and Canadian gun parts.
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Posted: March 27 2023 at 2:03pm |
Paddy, I've been told adoption agency's in the UK wont even talk to you if you own a gun of any type. This whole thread demonstrates just how small the world really is!
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Posted: March 27 2023 at 2:06pm |
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When we were 11 and 12, we would walk down the street with our .22 Cooeys on our shoulders to a farmers field just on the outskirts of town to shoot gophers. Around the same era in Grade 6 (1972'ish?), on "Show and Tell Day" a buddy brought his pump action 12 gauge Wingmaster to school. No one blinked an eye... man, I miss those days.
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Posted: March 27 2023 at 4:00pm |
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