Ha ha yes I purposely didn’t mention the oil leaks Phil
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The Japs took was it the 500cc Triumph twin engine and copied it with horizontally split crank cases and much finer tolerances and it came out first I think as the XS500. Wonderful reliable machine and it didn’t leak lol
I did move to 4 strokes and really loved triples had a triple 2 stroke and at least 3 triple 4 strokes. Had lots of mates with Brit stuff and Harley’s and it was always just banter
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I had a favourite saying about sooner rather worms than ridea Honda as my mate had a 750 Phil Read replica, almost came to grief in a boozer on the island as a huge bruiser behind me heard it and he was resplendent in Honda leathers lol