@@andrewm514 Thank you Andrew and thanks for your appreciation. I am blessed where I live, lots of great BSA runs.

Mike go for it. The C15 is nice and light. No one says this but I find it a nice handling little bike. Brakes aren't great but it corners well. Be prepared for buying plenty oil! Thanks for commenting.

Thanks for taking time to comment. I'm glad you liked my wee film despite the embarrassment. I didn't feel too calm then!

Good for you Jamie watching a BSA film. I know you like my scooter ones. I'm feeling good and enjoying being back out on the wee bike. Thanks for commenting.

Clare you are always so kind with your comments. I'm glad you found it interesting despite my humiliation! Thanks again for commenting.

Thank you for that. That is wonderful and dedicated to own a C15 for that long. I would have lost patience. Respect!

I wish I'd kept mine which i sold for £68 in 1973. Come to that, I wish I'd also kept the M20. Sold for £15!! It would be worth five thousand now. It was all done up in WD paint scheme with white numbers on it.

Oh the wisdom of hindsight! But you do have a yearning for the bikes of the past. It would be lovely to go back in time just to have one more run on them!

@@hughferrier5837 sadly life gets in the way and it has only been randomly on the road for about five of those years. But it is complete maybe one day I'll fix her up.

@@Tonyv1951 bikes and spares were so cheap in the 70s I wish I'd got a shed full back then. Would be worth a few bob now.

Your absolutely right. It's as if it was designed for them. Thanks for the comment.

Oh Sol, I could have crawled away. Don't worry about the way you left my driveway! At least it was just me and Anne watching and we are friends. Though maybe strangers might be better, at least your not likely to see them again. Thanks for commenting.

Frank, thank you for that. Despite my PSA level not dropping to zero I feel really well after my surgery. Really appreciate the comment.

Thank you Tom. We chug along together and we both have our little problems.

Peter, thank you for that. Glad you enjoyed it.

William thanks again for taking the time to comment and you are always so positive. The weather has not been good here at all. I saw the forecast for the that Saturday was good and grabbed the chance. I just cannot stop my gearbox leaking and I have tried.

@@hughferrier5837 My pleasure. Is the gearbox leaking very much? I'm busy cleaning my carburettor at the moment.

Hello William a carburetor is a nice job, its small and manageable! My gearbox loses quite a bit of oil and I don't know where. Oil leaked along the kickstart shaft. I got a local precision engineer to machine the inner timing cover to take an O-ring. No oil from the shaft. If I ran the engine without the outer timing cover I could see oil coming from the mainshaft bush so fitted a new bush. I have put Blue Hylomar over the gasket for the selector cover. On the other side there is a new oil seal at the sprocket. I also stopped a big leak at the sprocket that came along the output shaft with Hylomar. Still the level drops and has to be topped up. I haven't checked but after that 75 mile run I am sure the level will have dropped quite a bit. If I got on top of that I would really love the wee bike.

@@hughferrier5837 That's really irritating. Hard to see what more you could have done but I wouldn't bet against you fixing it. The rate of loss suggests somewhere low down but I'm sure you've covered that. No chance of a crack somewhere, I suppose.

I don't think so but a possibility, anything is possible with this bike!

David how sad for you. Even in '83 it was an old bike. Mine is a '59 but whether any part of it dates from then I don't know. It does not have the original engine. It does not even have the original frame. You could do that back then! The engine I have does not even have matching crank-case numbers. It's just a bits and pieces but it's fun when not leaking too much oil.

Thank you for that. I am blessed where I love and owning the wee C15. Glad you enjoyed it.

Hello Stuart and I agree. A film that is all just from a helmet camera gets really quite tedious. Churchyards are quiet peaceful places. I love Suddie where I had my lunch. Thanks for taking the time.

I really enjoyed the day. And the bike chugged along reliably apart from left turns! Thanks for commenting.

Gary thanks for letting me know you enjoyed my wee adventure!

A good Scottish name! Cromarty is lovely but is mostly occupied now by white settlers. I remember the Kessock Ferry well. Old Charlie Hinds used to guide you on and take your fare. Better times.

@@hughferrier5837 So true, but if it keeps the place alive..... I well recall all the fishing nets drying along the fences/walls. My Grandmother was at a dressmakers when she saw HMS Natal explode. Apparently some want a community buy out of The Royal Hotel.

To a certain extent I agree but locals are priced out of buying. My granny heard the explosion when the Natal went down. She lived at Newhall Mains not too far from Balblair.

@@hughferrier5837 It is the same, across the country, both rural and urban. Locals priced out of the market, bought either as a second home or for retirement. Neither of which lead to a vibrant community

Amazing to have someone watch from Ontario. Out Kinloss way is lovely too especially out to Findhorn. That engine really humiliated me. Thank you.

Thank you Alan, I did enjoy the day. Yes the throttle cable and of course leaking most of my gearbox oil!

Bikes do have personality. My C15 deliberately waits to catch me out. The accelerating engine on turning the bars to the left is awful. I must do something about it before my next trip. Thanks for taking the time to comment.

Thank you for the advice. I do, when I remember, apply Saddlers Original Leather Dressing. Maybe I should try your Hydrophane stuff. The squeeking is aggravating.

John, as always you encourage. Thank you.

I feel like a magician. I can fill that gearbox up with oil and it just disappears. Thanks for the advice and nice comment. The manual I have recommends the same oil in the engine, primary case and gearbox. I think it would take grease in the gearbox to stop it leaking. Now there's an idea!

Now there's a thing.... I note though that Volcanic Brown (of this parish) www.youtube.com/@Volcanicbrown1878/videos experienced a disaster with his old Enfield Bullet in the deep mid-winter when the grease filled gearbox ate its cogs because the grease, being cold, had been hollowed out and the cogs ran dry as a bone and wrecked themselves. Pure grease in the box works in India - those old bullets were produced there like that and even had a grease nipple (some of them). Here though, maybe a mixture of mostly grease with some gear oil would work better in our cooler weather. There are hundred of old Indian made bullets in this country whose Albion gear boxes are running in grease though. It will probably solve your problem. On the other hand - a few ml of 20/50 every few miles is not the end of the world as long as it isn't pouring out on the garage floor, or as my old beezers used to do; pouring out on my feet as I rode. My 1970s suede desert boots had a horrible film of old engine oil all over them. @@hughferrier5837

Thank you for the lovely comment and for the advice for my jacket. It is wonderful to be back out on the wee bike. Oh how I wish I was trying to impress and could use that excuse. It was pure shame!

This has come up on my channel before. I have not worn Levis or Wranglers for many a year. When you are an old man and you have been bothered with prostate troubles for a while the last thing you want is tight stiff denim trousers! So now I go online to www.chums.co.uk where I can get nice loose trousers with growing room! The years catch up with you.

Yes! The engine has not been racing on hard left turns since doing that! C15s!

Hello Michael and thanks again for bothering to comment. My health stopped me getting out on the bike for a while but it has really been the miserable summer we have had that is the main problem. I hope I might get another film made before autumn makes it impossible.

Hi Hugh, It’s great to see people like you and me still enjoying our love for bikes. I watch the problems you have with the C15 and it reminds me of the same trouble I had way back in 1971. But we still carry on ,once you’ve been bit by the bike bug that’s it. You keep well my friend,and keep those videos coming.

Thank you Michael. I was actually out for a run on the C15 today. It was cold. My speedo stopped working again. The adjuster on the throttle cable worked itself loose and caused all sorts of problems that I thought was due to the carb, oh, and it leaked a lot of oil. Why do I love it? I will make a wee film of it. Takes time.