toolkit

Ahh, another model 19 R owner. I can't help you with the tool kit, bit did you know there was only 143 model 19Rs made. The story is that at the factory they found 143 old forgotten model18 frames. Rather than just put them in the skip they fitted the engine and lay down gearbox, long road holders from the then current 19S and created for one model year the 19rigid. So it's a rare bike.

Iv had mine for 10 years and really like it. The photo above is mine at Lake Garda, Italy. 

Hello Pete

This spare parts list from 1955 should be relevant to your machine.

I have a better pdf copy of this but it is too large to be an attachment. I could email it directly to you if you wish.

Regards, Nick 

I know of two others in the NOC, and now yours. So that is four definate survivers, and I think there is one in Norway, which is a pretty good number for what was marketed as a cheap sidecar puller. 

Iv had mine for 8 years, but paid a fair bit more for it than you did. Its really my favorite bike now and I use it far more than my Commando. Mine isn't a show queen and looks a bit tatty and oily close up, but in the time iv had it its been island hopping in the Outer Hebredies, in the Italian Dolomites, the Alps (though it got there in a van), rode to Ireland and back, to Holland Belgium and France. This year its been to Northumberland and Cornwall (again in the van) but did plenty of miles while there. In all those miles all it has needed was a few spark plugs, a new exaust valve guide and the bronze washer in the gearbox replacing. At the end of long lay ups it always starts within a couple of kicks. Who needs a Japanese bike when these things just keep going?

The previous owner fitted a Commando clutch and belt drive, so I had a 21 tooth gearbox sprocket made for it, which the torquey engine pulls fine.

Sorry to bleat on so long, but it's good to hear from another owner of these rare and underestimated bikes.