Hi all, To introduce myself, I'm from Canada and my passion is a particularly obscure British bike, the Cotton. OK, I know this is mainly a Norton forum (I guess my closest connection would be pre-NVT with my Villiers engined Cottons and TR6R), but hopefully someone can help me with a totally obscure request. I stumbled across an archived 1997 posting on another site where a Ben English from Albany NY introduced himself as a regular contributor to this Brit-Iron site and also a Norton Owner's Club Member. In his post, he describes a Suzuki Hustler X6 he used to race in Aspen CO that had a "gorgeous Mitchenall Brothers fiberglass tank and seat from a Cotton Telstar". I am researching one of the earliest known Telstars that co-incidentally was raced at Aspen in 1964 before being converted to a dirt bike (losing its tank/seat/fairing in the process) and would like to track down Ben if he is still around and learn about his fairing/tank/seat. One in a zillion chance I know after all these years, but perhaps someone can point me in the right direction. Thanks Cheers, Barry

Welcome Barry. The forum is read worldwide so if any Cotton guys are out there give Barry a hello and keep an eye out for Cotton stuff.

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Ben is an acquaintance of mine, but lives 150 miles away. He was totally off forums for a few years, but is back occasionally on the INOA forum, as occasionally am I. https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/INOALIST/info You would find him there. I can't help you with cotton, I'm BSA, Norton and Ducati.

Contact made. Thanks guys. PS. Don't know if you did that for me, but great to see the picture of the pre-war Cotton tank flash by with all the other tank badge photos. Barry :-)