Scott Newsletter 8 - Scott Technicalities

A subscriber profile 1.
Erik van Dongen
Part 2 of 2 parts
Right…left…right… very confusing
I promised you motorbikes earlier. Well, over
time a 1960 Panther M120 650cc single visited
my garage as well as a very nice 1974 Benelli
Tornado 650cc twin. But both bikes had the
same "defect"….right­hand­side gear­shifting! I
just could not get used to that strange British
layout (maybe the "defect" is in my head…).
My Benelli Tornado, Italian pur sang!
Concentrated riding was one thing but
emergency breaking always resulted in me kicking the gear­shifter down trying to brake… So,
sadly the bikes had to go. A shame as especially the Benelli was a very nice and fast bike!
Ready for the Ready
But, the direction was set… slowly but surely we started to shift from just scooters to
motorcycles. And especially the pre­war
bikes. So some scooters were sold and just
at
the right time a "fully restored" 1927 Ready
crossed my path. You could say we were
ready for the Ready! It's a 500cc sv JAP
powered bike and we thought it might be a
good entrance in the world of vintage
motoring….. wrong!
The bike looked nice but inside it was totally
worn out… "So take your time and fix it" you
would say. Well, time was the one thing we
did
not have because we had boldly entered in
(and payed for…) the 2005 Liege­Vienna­
Having dropped of my wife the Ready and I
finally made it to the top of the Gross
Edition 7 ­ 4 – Glockner pass! 2006