1960 AJS 31 650cc - Just look at it!
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- čas přidán 6. 05. 2020
- AJS 31 - In what is a first my channel, this video features a classic motorbike built in 1960. This AJS is fitted with a 650cc engine and in my opinion the bike sounds as good as it looks! Thanks for watching, please remember to like comment and subscribe!
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Had the 500 version of this,lovely bike same colour, done many miles,cost 500 pounds in 62 .Great days.
So beautiful, it brings tears to my eyes....I had a model 31 when I was in high school, 1968. Only bike I really wish I'd kept. Oh, well cheers, and thanks for showing.
Thanks for watching!
My Grandad used to have a nice 1958 AJS 30 SCR, awesome bike I remember sitting on it in the shed. The shed despite not having a bike in it for almost 7 years now since he died still smells of old bike and engine oil.
I checked the reg on his old bike and it shows "SORN" so it's unlikely the bike is still in one piece somewhere.
Also your AJS sounds amazing
Very nice indeed video on the bsa would be nice cheers
Thank you, will get one done with it soon!
Sounds great!
It does!
bought one in 75, 60 quid, csr31, had alloy rims and siamese pipes
In 1976 I had a 61 matchless 600cc that was a chopper with 18"over springer front end on a rigid frame. I bought the bike in pieces for $175. Had no idea what I had at that time as I was still in high school and 16 years old
The first bike I owned .. awesome thing. It had the big mudguards front and rear, the wheel hubs with spokes from inside was a cool look but a pain if you broke one. It also had the rubber boots on the front fork suspension. It was probably a Heinz 57 rebuild version .. the gear change was on the right side (the correct side) .. so that the clutch and gears were crosslinked, left hand clutch, right hand gear foot. The right hand front brake and left foot rear brake. Perrrfect arrangement.
I could never understand why you would want to change gear with your left foot.... And brake with right hand right foot.
Next and last bike was a Norton Commando 750 majik machine. Right Gear change too (y)
Beautiful to hear it running .. thank you so much.
I've ridden bikes with left and right sided gear change. Gear change on the right just makes so much more sense.
How wrong can you be!! I came through my first biking years on Japanese bikes in 1975 which all had the gear change on the left, the same side as the clutch lever on the bars, and the rear brake foot lever on the right, the same side as the front brake on the handle bars. This meant that all your gear change controls and brake controls were on the same corresponding sides of the bike. If you were unlucky enough to have initiated your motorcycle experience on much older bikes you were forced to get used to the opposed system which as such seemed normal. Please don't knock the Japanese method as they paved the way forward for all future motorcycles in so many ways. I have classic British machines to this day, and despite having right hand shift I have had to get used to this change which is something I accept, without having a bigoted view like a lot of the older riders seem to have.
It does have CSR front forks! (Two lugs for mudguard stays)
I had one of these, bought with sidecar, which I trashed, but the bike was immaculate with metallic paint. Trust me, with 8 stone on one of those, 100mph was no problem. Traffic lights were, I kept falling off it, too heavy for me. :)
Hahaha the last bit of your comment made me laugh! Thanks for watching.
I have the AJS CSR31 must dig it out of the shed and tidy it up. I like the oil cut off.
Yes go for it! Thanks for watching.
Beautiful machine!! Your dad has excellent taste in bikes. Show us the BSA next!!!
Thanks for watching!
Looks like a CSR frame to me fork legs has front bracket lugesto take muggard stays and if the Web that takes the top of the shocker is solid its a CSR frame
The rear frame on the early 60’s did not have the large sidecar fitting lugs.
It seems to have the "Anti-Sump" tap on the oil return rather than the feed . . . Beautiful bike though . . .
The rear pipe is the FEED and the front one is the RETURN, I should know as I have a '59 31 deluxe .
CSR stands for Competition Springer Road
Interesting! Thanks for watching.
Not a bike fan by any stretch. But give me an old British bike over anything Japanese.