Watching it again made me ask why he is so enchanted with the A10 SR and I find it so ho hum.
I suspect it might be because he rides a lot of low power bikes, Tiger Cubs, B33, RE 500 etc. The Super Rocket would be a Rocket in comparison to those.
The 350 Goldstar he rode recently would only manage about 70 mph after a full rebuild. He figured it might do 75 if really flogged.
I flogged the Super Rocket once and it managed 92 mph on GPS speedo.
I didn't think that was very good at the time, but in perspective it's maybe not bad at all, large rider and all.
The other difference is the type of road that we have a lot of vs the UK roads. The Super Rocket with standard gearing would be well suited to the A & B roads Paul rides on.
Most of our roads here are bigger and faster, even the twisty ones. You need quite a bit of speed. To deal with that and to keep the buzziness at bay I changed the engine sprocket from standard 21 teeth up to 23 teeth. The engine can cope, but it definitely feels less lively thru the gears than it was with the standard gearing.
I might change it back and look for some lower speed roads.
Glen
