Right v-twin dreamers, it's time to see yer cash!

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Right v-twin dreamers, it's time to see yer cash!#45721

By Scalyback - Tue Mar 17, 2015 1:23 am

- Tue Mar 17, 2015 1:23 am #45721

Thanks for the vids and comments everyone, beautiful super meteor, and that 60 special interceptor looked interesting too, but I really like the super meteor.

Somewhere, mine is waiting for me, I just need to find out who owns it at the moment!

REOC 15084
Tabellarius de verbis. Ostensor gaudium

Right v-twin dreamers, it's time to see yer cash!#45724

By simon - Tue Mar 17, 2015 9:17 am

- Tue Mar 17, 2015 9:17 am #45724

I had a long ride on a lovely 1956 or 57 Meteor that a chap promised me first refusal on when he was ready to sell. A few weeks later he told me someone turned up and bought it off him. I was gutted. It was a lovely bike, not nearly as fierce sounding as the Super Meteor but a lovely and unusually smooth parallel twin. He sold it for less than I was prepared to pay. Plonker!

Right v-twin dreamers, it's time to see yer cash!#45725

By Norm - Tue Mar 17, 2015 9:27 am

- Tue Mar 17, 2015 9:27 am #45725

Simon 700 Meteors finished in 55 so it was either earlier than you thought or it was a Super Meteor. Super Meteor had the later frame and an alternator. Then again it could have been a 500 Meteor Minor,they had the later frame, at least I think that is how it goes. From memory the early 500 twins were called that, 500 twin, I don't think they were called a 500 Meteor

Right v-twin dreamers, it's time to see yer cash!#45740

By simon - Tue Mar 17, 2015 7:45 pm

- Tue Mar 17, 2015 7:45 pm #45740

Very scratchy on the date but very sure it was a Meteor much like the ones in Scaly's latest post.

Right v-twin dreamers, it's time to see yer cash!#45744

By Norm - Tue Mar 17, 2015 10:33 pm

- Tue Mar 17, 2015 10:33 pm #45744

Simon the ones Scaly has posted are Meteors, not Super Meteors, great bike but with a 6 volt generator, I have fitted an alternator to one but not a path I would recomend because I made a new inner primary to mount the stator. I have a feeling that you could possibly use a later inner primary and that would get you out of trouble but I have never tried it. Dam, I just thought about it, I only put the inner primary back on this Meteor yesterday and I have an Inter motor sitting here with an inner primary on it, would have only taken me 10 mins to see if it would fit, but I'm not pulling it to bits again

Right v-twin dreamers, it's time to see yer cash!#45752

By simon - Wed Mar 18, 2015 10:55 am

- Wed Mar 18, 2015 10:55 am #45752

Yes it was a six volt bike. The generator was duff but all there so it was only a case of a rewind at worst. I don't mind a six volt system. The alternator one on my bullet works fine (apart of course from the occasional explosion) with a a modern solid state reg/rec.

Right v-twin dreamers, it's time to see yer cash!#45774

By Mr Grumpy - Thu Mar 19, 2015 11:49 pm

- Thu Mar 19, 2015 11:49 pm #45774

As a change from a bullet engine a mate at the bike club has an Indian Royal Enfield with a DR800 single cylinder engine that looks the bee knees I must try to get a photo of it next time he brings it out to the pub!It of course has no kick start but he has had no problems with it And has been happy to take it from Derbyshire to the Tenten Treffen in Belgium.