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I rode my 1970 BSA 250 on a 100km ride to the Biggar SK British Bike Rally. It was the first time I'd ridden a solo machine any distance for years. I don't like to ride that little machine wide open as one would have to in order to keep up with traffic so I just kept pop-pop-popping along at ~75kph and watched the scenery go by. There's only light traffic on Hwy 14 to Biggar and I pulled onto the hard shoulder any time a vehicle showed up in the mirror. I met with old and new friends, the food and the weather were great and the Biggar Rally always shows a motorcycle-themed movie at the community owned theatre. We've had Motorcycle Diaries, Wild Hogs, World's Fastest Indian, but this year there was a serious blunder.
Some genius thought that James Dean's Rebel Without a Cause was a bike movie rather than a study of teenage angst. Guess you can't win every time, eh?
But anyway, comes the awards time I won a nice plaque with half a piston on it for having the smallest displacement motorcycle. I won on a technicality, there were other 250cc machines at the rally but they had been trailered in. And so home again at 75kph in the sunshine.
Got a bee strike in the neck on the way home, how can those little bastards find that half-inch gap between your helmet and your collar? One last great thing about riding a 250, it's been a long time since I've been able to buy the gas for a 200km trip for less than $10.
Some genius thought that James Dean's Rebel Without a Cause was a bike movie rather than a study of teenage angst. Guess you can't win every time, eh?
But anyway, comes the awards time I won a nice plaque with half a piston on it for having the smallest displacement motorcycle. I won on a technicality, there were other 250cc machines at the rally but they had been trailered in. And so home again at 75kph in the sunshine.
Got a bee strike in the neck on the way home, how can those little bastards find that half-inch gap between your helmet and your collar? One last great thing about riding a 250, it's been a long time since I've been able to buy the gas for a 200km trip for less than $10.
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