[Hugh R]

I inherited from my Dad about 30 years ago. He bought it in 1935 from the guy that raced it for the factory. In 1930, Rudge placed 1st, 2nd, 6th and 7th at the World Cup at the Isle of Man, this is the sixth place bike. Its was my Dad's daily driver through the 30's and 40's. Since it didn't have a generator (or is that gererator?) he hooked a batter and a light onto it to drive at night. I still have the battery case and headlight which were none stock. It runs believe it or not. I took it up to the All British Bike Meet in San Jose in April of last year and it actually won "Best Road Racer" and "Oldest Bike". I put oil/gas and air in the tires and several guys pushed and it started right up. I new it would start because I made sure of that a few days before. In fact after several years of non-use (OK, ten years). I pushed it down my driveway and it actually fired up the second I dumped the compression release. It doesn't have a kick starter. Its a 500 cc single with a four valve head. As a Grand Prix Ulster, it came with a factory guarantee of 100 mph. If you look at the 2nd pic you can see the holes in the side of the tank where the factory converted it from hand-suicide shift to a foot shift. It sas a manual spark advance as one of the levers on the handlebars because they hadn't invented mechanical timing advance yet. The lower front fend support is actually a kickstand and I owned the bike for a number of years until I figured that out. The foot brake contols the front and rear brakes, and can be biased. Its a dry sump engine. There is an active club in England, of which I'm a member.