Two wheels are better* than four

[DodgeRover]

How much is that without papers then? If they are still in the £50 price range and you can get it out of the country I'm pretty sure some hipster here would give strong money for it, aren't there some weird rules about what you can ride as a bicycle or something in Spain? I remember a friend out there in the early 90s telling me the only Bultacos he had seen were 50cc versions being ridden without plates

€150, so little bit more than I think its worth, the seller says it ran when it was put into his garage, so won't take much to get running again. Yeah, OK, if you say so.

Not sure on the NOVA situation in the UK now, but it would be easy enough to dismantle to get it into a car boot. Would it be worth the effort though? I don't know what it would fetch
on the UK hipster market.

It was easy to get the NOVA and registration for my Monet Goyon that I bought in France. That's back in the UK in the safehands of my brother, and not sure if I can import it into Spain as painlessly.

FOAD seems to be getting decent money, would have thought running but unregistered here is got to be worth £4-500?

[angrydicky]

I got this in the early 80s.
I'll maybe try and put it back on the road this year.
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That’s just like the one my dad owned in the late 80s.
FGU 54J. Had the V5 for it until recently, haven’t seen it for a couple of house moves though.
He used it to ride to the station, then he shoved it in the bike rack and hopped on a train to Fenchurch St.
Sadly it got stolen and never recovered.
He replaced it with a gold T reg example, which also got stolen out of the bike rack. The police stopped a 14 year old riding it with no helmet, and he got it back.
I don’t think they had any real security on them. Just a steering lock I believe?

[bub2006]

I got this in the early 80s.
I'll maybe try and put it back on the road this year.
DSC_0022.JPG

That’s just like the one my dad owned in the late 80s.
FGU 54J. Had the V5 for it until recently, haven’t seen it for a couple of house moves though.
He used it to ride to the station, then he shoved it in the bike rack and hopped on a train to Fenchurch St.
Sadly it got stolen and never recovered.
He replaced it with a gold T reg example, which also got stolen out of the bike rack. The police stopped a 14 year old riding it with no helmet, and he got it back.
I don’t think they had any real security on them. Just a steering lock I believe?

A steering lock if you were lucky. A few mopeds didn't even have an ignition key like the Puch maxi. Kick start and hit the stop button to kill it. Had a couple of 80s tomos mopeds the same setup.

[angrydicky]

Yes, I'm sure he said it didn't have a key. Pedal and go!
The Raleigh RM1 is the same. I think you have to twist the throttle forward from its stop to open the decompressor, and that's how you stop it.

[Reb]

The PC50 doesn't have a key, I presume you stop it by switching off the fuel valve.

[bub2006]

The tomos I had both of them had a kill button on bars,Puch were the same. I think the tomos you rolled throttle forward for choke.

[angrydicky]

My mate collected the RM1 from his mate today.
What a beautiful little thing it is, it’s incredible original and unmolested and as you can see, he’s cleaned it all up and replaced the handlebar grips since the original pictures were taken.
Dave is very impressed with it. The engine is out but all the bits have been carefully bagged and labelled. The original engine still kicks over. It looks very good inside the bore with no obvious issues. The original petrol tank is quite rusty inside but the replacement is in much better condition. It also came with two carbs, one which is incomplete. Apparently, the only reason the other engine was bought is because the carb was missing from the original, and this one came with a complete carb. The story is it was sent somewhere for repair and they lost it, or lost a bit of it, or something like that.
The clutch works, the brakes work, when he got there he said his mate was pedalling it around the car park!
All the chrome brackets that hold the tank on are in perfect condition, so is the little Lucas buzzer/horn.
Lights are also in perfect condition, as is the wiring.
So far the only thing he said it needs is a pair of new tyres as the old ones are ancient and have some nasty splits. I thought for an extra tenner, it was worth getting him a pair of new inner tubes to fit at the same time. The wheels are in near-perfect condition.
The tyres seem quite an unusual size (26x2.00) the only ones that had the right sort of tread pattern, I.E. not for a mountain bike, were whitewall tyres from a company in Germany. I’m not a massive fan of whitewalls but I thought they would look good on here, as they would match the white stripes around the petrol tank and the mudguards.
So overall I’m very pleased. I spoke to my mate for 20 mins on the phone earlier where he was talking enthusiastically about the condition and originality of it.
The plan is to reassemble it, overhaul the carb and see if it will run.
He also couldn’t resist removing the tax disc holder to see if there were any others in there, and there was, from 1962.

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[cros]

That's an absolute corker, horn horn and more horn.

[Reb]

I slung some E5 in the PC50 and hoped for the best.

I have now done several WOT runs along my long drive and back.

What fun!

[Reb]

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