SPIKE AND BOB’S BIG SWEDISH ADVENTURE: PART 5

In 1979 Hasse took Caprice to the Norrtälje show for the first time, but he had changes for the bike in mind and, during the winter, he picked up a jammer frame and a set of 20-inch tubes.

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This was the beginning of his trouble with the Swedish police. They pulled him on his way back to Sweden from Denmark and declared that the bike was unfit to ride due to what they decided was too much trail! They were actually right—Hasse knew 100mm of trail was best and his 20-inch overs were sitting at a rake that went way beyond this, but she looked really cool! Even in Sweden 20-inch overs were not common then and that’s what drove Tolle to develop a working long fork, complete with the correct trail. Famously, Tolle challenged cops to compete on a designated track on their best police bike against him riding his long forked BSA—and he won! (That old BSA still exists by the way.) Hasse deraked his frame and…

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