As a first-year student at college, I bought a dreadful BSA D1 Bantam, stood in lines for documents and insurance, and then rode it 285 miles home for the summer. A friend bought a Honda Super Hawk 305 and we took turns tearing around on that. Another friend had a heavy, noisy 650cc BSA. Next came building a lightweight 350 twin for racing, but only well-deserved frustration resulted. We knew nothing about carburetors and were trying to make the thing function with carburetors other than original (they
