I believe even Harley Davidson once made a copy off this side valve twin, the XA.
And I must say I like these twins with their rather rough looks, although I am more a britbiker myself.

I have a theory that anyone who copies a BMW makes a worse bike...:laughing: The assorted Russian and Chinese BMW clones and the XA, which was inspired by the BMW but had some very crude design features, seem to confirm that...Ian

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Here is one of four Harley XA's that went through my hands. I only had a hand in their restoration. One of the main parts was finding a firm in Hull who could make new big end cage and rollers to replace the poor design of the knackered originals.

At least these had a four speed foot change and handlebar clutch, but I don't really want to see any more of them. Ron

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Well that certainly looks nice enough Ron!

/Simon

Cheers Simon. I imported the first "barn find" from Spokane, USA and it snowballed into about 8/9 of them mostly from USA. I only handled four of them, the last two I sold to a well known wealthy collector as basket cases who already owned 2 or 3 of the restored XA's. Some people are just plain greedy. :yum: Ron

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