magicjuan

Hi Looking for some links or advice on where to get parts / services etc for restoring my old man's BSA. It was parked in this spot back in '66 and hasn't moved since. Although i've been around and raced bikes since i was 5, i've never had or ridden a trials bike let alone a 45 year old british one! I have to confess right now i've always been more interested in Motocross. However, the more i see his C15 sitting there at rest the more i'm compelled to restore it. I want to re-build this one just as it it is, the objective isn't to make it into some lightweight special, so no replacement forks with modern internals or cheater mods. Just looking to strip it, paint / powder coat / polish all metal work, renew the shocks, re-build forks, re-build the motor, brakes etc Want to get it looking good and riding like it did when auld willie road it in trials north of Glasgow and down in Ayrshire as a kid. Only modern thing i'd like to do is utilise a PVL or Boyer Brandsen. Can anyone reccomend: The best trials specific ignition system for a C15 and where to buy it? Where to get forks serviced or are the standard internals straight forward to service? Where to buy Motor service parts? Any good websites to look at BSA / classic trial bike restoration? Sorry for all the questions and souding like such a noobie - i'm sure i'll bother you lot even more once the resto is under way! Here's some more pics as she stands just now. 354 miles from new! You'd never guess from the state of it! Cheers Ewan

Apparantly the tricker has been released in europe http://www.yamaha-motor-europe.com/product...p?view=TECHINFO this summer albeit minus the gyro headset - thats reserved for the tricker pro - which i'm not even sure has been released in japan - can only find exhibition pics of that. If you want to play in bmx/skateparks check this out Looks a lot lighter (and probably way more fragile) than the tricker but could imagine flinging it about cool tricker i want! anymore cool tricker stuff - post it up! Anybody know of any good jap import sites? Ewan

Cheers for the welcome Slapshot had a look at the LMCC website, are the contacts you have for the Ayrshire Clubs the Secretary's that can be found on the reverse of the SACU calender? If so i have this in the house as i'm still racing MX. Any memebers of those lanarkshire or ayrshire clubs on here? Will go and spectate at the SCRMC's Abington trial at the weekend or Dalmelington's trial at New Cumnock on the 19th and see what this feet up stuffs all about. My dad actually rode both trials and motocross during the 60's, trialing BSA C15s and actually still has three of them and a B40 scrambler gathering dust, but when i got into bikes at 12 i wanted to race and nothing other Kawasaki KX's interested me. Now at 27 and starting to mellow in my old age i fancy trying trials! Ewan

Hey Barry, I'd be interested to hear your findings with places to ride. I too am from lanarkshire, just 15 mins up the road from you in a wee village outside Lanark. I've been riding Motocross with Irvine MXC since 1993 way back in the Riverside Industrial Estate, Irvine days before we got Drumclog (i was one of the original trackbuilding committee for Drumclog). Seen a few gatherings of trials bikes on the backroad to drumclog/muirkirk from strathaven and wondered if they were properly observed trials or just a group of pals mucking about? I've been looking into trying Trials for a while and just wondered whether there were active clubs in our area or plenty places to ride? Do clubs run beginner classes and how severe are the routes? Ewan