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[Scalyback]

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A little Scaley-sense (or lack of) Plus the love of a mystery, turns up the following.












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AT 5:25, He turns right out of Alexandra Avenue into Rayner's Lane












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Luckily at 5:44, he can still get his newspaper at 212 Alexandra Avenue.













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at 6:40, not much change to theturning from Alexandra Avenue into Warden Avenue.












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at 7:09, Work in Alperton is going to be a bit of a bastard though! Carriers went in 1970 and most of the site has been modernised This is one of the remaining parts (Sound like another factory we know???). Carrier corporation, the parent company, still manufacture air conditioning in the USA.











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Still, at least his girl would still recognise Wyld Way in Alperton!.

[RoSy]

So how did Tom manage to pull away and accelerate while giving a right hand signal I wonder?

[Scalyback]

Same as Tornado I guess,



anything past a quarter turn of the throttle, and it stays there until twisted back!

[Scalyback]

5:33, Oh dear, He was busy sticking to the script I guess. Poor old lady!

[Scalyback]

The aspect ration is somewhat screwed. Everybody looks rather fat! If you want a copy of this film with the aspect corrected, click on the link below. There is an option to download it.



Great film 1965

[Les]

On the Matchless G2 I had the throttle twist grip had an adjusting screw that allowed you to add resistance to the return so you could set it so it would stay open when you let go of the twist grip

[Les]

This is my Matchless it was a 1962 fitted with alloy mudguards and drop handlebars I think this picture was in 1968

[Scalyback]

On the youtube comments for this video, somebody else had mentioned about a throttle adjusting screw, but I took that with a pinch of salt. Obviously I was wrong!



Les, that looks a beautiful bike. What is up with the front mudguard, and did you have a front plate then?

[Les]

It does look nice but looks can be deceptive the scruffy bit at the end of the front mudguard is a tatty stick on L plate, I also pulled up behind a small lorry which promptly reversed into me riding up on the front wheel folding up the mudguard but no wheel or fork damage if I remember correctly it just needed straightening out I did replace it at some stage but can not remember why I think at the time you could get a basic alloy mudguard for about seven and sixpence, I can not remember the front number plate but when I first bought it fore £25 petrol was four and ten pence a gallon (about 23p for 4.5 litre)

[Les]

I also forgot to mention I used to sometimes ride without a crash helmet just wearing a pair of Stadium goggles there was a lot of controversy when compulsory wearing of crash helmets was introduced but I was in agreement with it and thought it was a good thing