ondarider

The subject "Something for the collector" so for people interested in historic machines, nostalgia, collecting yes? There's an idiotic-moronic even comment that arrived in Oct 2015 therefore. I cannot begin to understand that sort of mentality OR what the person was doing wasting his time in a thread such as this? How effective this particular machine was for it's day and for how long is how relevant exactly? Verbal diarrhoea and frankly embarrassing.

I know some about these great little bikes. There were three in the SSTC at one point. Chris Sutton's modified Reg May special with TS185 engine,Bultaco plumbing and more poke than the Spanish 250's of the day-loads lighter too. This was the limited production Red with yellow side mouldings. Stephen Dudley had an original 120 purchased from Comerfords which was subsequently painted black with the yellow mouldings. Stephen's father John purchased a well used ex SSDT machine from McLaren/Heron so that would've been the Hemmingway steed. This was restored and painted blue and was later sold to Patrick Wills. This one had been over-bored to approximately 130cc(ish) but had far more additional performance than would've been produced by this op only. I expect it had been breathed upon by a Heron engineer. I rode all three and Chris's bike damn near pulled my arms out of their sockets-no really!