For you that don't know, it's quite a rare bike. It's an A65 Lightning, but it's a Clubman,
and the Clubman was only produced for a year and this is 19, I did say the other day, 64. This was
actually registered '65, so it's a short run. It's close ratio gearbox, twin monoblock carburetors,
quite sporty. It's what took over really from the RGS, the Rocket Gold Star. So I have turned the
fuel on, I have tickled the carbs. I'm going to give it choke, and I'm going to turn the ignition
on, and see if it'll go. It doesn't always start as easy as a single carb. But here we go.
We'll keep the choke on for a minute because it's quite cold.
We haven't got a side stand, we've only got a main stand on here.
I don't think the ground is very good so we can't put it on the main stand.
When it's warm it will tick over, but it's still a bit cold still.
If you notice we have what's called ace bars on here, we don't have clip-ons, they're ace bars which
gives it a low ride position. Also because it's a Clubman it has rear sets. So the gear lever,
is turned round the other way, and the footrest is put like a Goldie, an RGS. It's put further back. So when I put
that down, you obviously have to retract it to start it, you're sitting much further back. You get a nice
ride position, but it's not clip-ons because we've got the shrouds. We call these ace bars.
It should tick over now, because it's warmer now.
There she goes.
When that's really warm it'll tick over a little bit
faster. It's a little bit under what it should be at the moment.
Really nice bike.
I've got the A65 Thunderbolt
and I should imagine this is quite fun to ride. I've only ridden it around the yard here.