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Originally Posted by BobClay
The Arrow and the Leader were quite revolutionary bikes in their day (well, for British Manufacturers anyway.) I've just never been a two stroke fan, but they did have a rep for being hotted up.
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I did have a two strokes, besides the Scottish Greeves I bought a new one of these, wish I had not but it looked better than the tinny Arrow and they were raced at one time.
A Norman B4 Sports 250 Villiers Twin, single carb. Went down to one cylinder when it rained, then it seized up on me and like yourself I got catapulted off it, in my case by a Doctor in his Jag doing a U turn which put me in Hospital for three months with a plaster jacket.
Had to buy Lodge R47 plugs for it at 15 shillings each.