Just ran across a page talking about B&J transmissions and it brought back lots of childhood memories. When I was going to Porterville JR College in Porterville CA. in about 1968, I had a school job of janitor for the machine/mechanic/welding shops and drafting room. Went in every afternoon and cleaned off all the machinery and swept up. One time someone in the shop was turning a wooden piece on the metal lathe and making a HUGE mess. He worked on it a week or so. Turned out the guy was with B&J transmission shop in Porterville and he was building the wood pattern for casting their first 2spd racing tranny. I talked to the guys @ B&J when I found out what was going on and they designed it to operate with one planetary from an Olds Hydramatic tranny. Speaks well for the strength of that grand old machine! Anyway B&J now works out of Utah, got out of Calif, and has several versions of their shifter for fuel bikes up to nostalgia top fuelers, anything up to 4000hp.
When Ì was a machinist, one of the engineers got kind of chummy when he found out I was a racer/hot rodder type, he said he was in the process of putting a B&J transmission on a bike, I got the feeling he was gonna be in need of having something machined. I really wasn't into bikes so dont recall what it was, never saw the B&J installed but one day he went on a blast through the machine shop with it (I think he was a bit of a loose cannon). Must have either just quit or got canned because we never saw him again.
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