We Are Back!!
but before we left there were a few things to do,
like buy some bait for when we got to Udon Thanni so we could do some fishing, but on the way we came across a shop selling old motorcycles, above a B.S.A.
and a Royal Enfield, now these have a bit of history, back in the 1950's the Indian government showed a interest in buying some of these 350 and 500 c.c. Bullets as they are called, so the factory made the parts and shipped them out to India for assembly, after a number of years the Indian government then bought all of the jigs and patents and continue to make them today making Royal Enfield's the oldest manufacturer of motorcycles in the world, and it all started in the good old UK!
like buy some bait for when we got to Udon Thanni so we could do some fishing, but on the way we came across a shop selling old motorcycles, above a B.S.A.
and a Royal Enfield, now these have a bit of history, back in the 1950's the Indian government showed a interest in buying some of these 350 and 500 c.c. Bullets as they are called, so the factory made the parts and shipped them out to India for assembly, after a number of years the Indian government then bought all of the jigs and patents and continue to make them today making Royal Enfield's the oldest manufacturer of motorcycles in the world, and it all started in the good old UK!
a B.S.A. twin in very poor condition, 
the 3 bikes in a line, all needed lots of work to bring them back to good health! the prices were from the top 70 ,60 and 80 thousand baht each,
also there was this neat little two stroke CZ, I forgot to ask the price, but it was an interesting time looking back on bikes I had ridden in my (mainly) miss spent youth!
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