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Post by bluedreamer on Sept 15, 2016 17:39:27 GMT
I fancied getting one of these for a while, now I have found the right one, 45 years old, 4800 miles on the clock and totally original and unrestored  |
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Post by stevegbr on Sept 15, 2016 17:52:22 GMT
looks very nice for its age, enjoy.
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Post by wazzbo on Sept 15, 2016 18:00:10 GMT
A very tidy example Irene, a good find.
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Post by bugsy on Sept 15, 2016 18:56:46 GMT
That is a very good find, good as new frankly. My first bike, bought to commute but it sowed the seeds of a life long enthusiasm. Like you bluedreamer, I wouldn't mind one especially for those local trips.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2016 22:41:57 GMT
Very nice - elephant grey? A classic.
I had a green one that I rode to school.......TMW 91J.
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Post by marktrower on Sept 16, 2016 13:48:51 GMT
A true classic 60 million people can't be wrong if they drained the slush ponds on the pit tip on the outer side of the woods from me they would find loads.3 that I know off, great little bike Irene enjoy they were a big part of my youth the pitman as they were called my way
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2016 3:41:35 GMT
The old man also had two......both red although one a 50 and one a 90. OBW 630P (rough) and UJB 29N (nice) respectively.  |
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Post by BritPete on Sept 17, 2016 20:19:08 GMT
Very nice had a 90 myself
It was also the first bike I ever tried to ride (WNL 12J) my dads, started it up and round the garden when he was out, must have been about 12 |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2016 21:08:15 GMT
After TMW gave up the ghost (frame rot around the rear shocks), a motorcycle mechanic friend of my dad's got me another - a really nice 8k mile red one for 60 notes!!!. But it was a later one on a W reg - LWF 976W in fact - with an extra little square side light below the main headlamp. Equally as good to ride but I loved the earlier ones more with the two tone white and black dual seat and white side panels.
What year is that one you have Irene? It'll be a '68 to '77 I reckon.
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Post by Fordy on Sept 17, 2016 21:13:52 GMT
Very nice had a 90 myself
It was also the first bike I ever tried to ride (WNL 12J) my dads, started it up and round the garden when he was out, must have been about 12 [ Is that you on the back FB? |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2016 21:16:12 GMT
Yes mate on the red one - taken by my grandfather around 1982.
Just realised Irene said hers was 45 years old - making it a 1971 - so J or K reg.
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Post by BritPete on Sept 17, 2016 21:26:54 GMT
Yes mate on the red one - taken by my grandfather around 1982. Just realised Irene said hers was 45 years old - making it a 1971 - so J or K reg. Cant see any holes in the front mudguard where the number plate would have been |
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Post by Fordy on Sept 17, 2016 22:09:16 GMT
Yes mate on the red one - taken by my grandfather around 1982. Just realised Irene said hers was 45 years old - making it a 1971 - so J or K reg. Cant see any holes in the front mudguard where the number plate would have been You look like your Dad don't you? |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2016 22:32:23 GMT
In 1982 I did I guess......but he reckons I'm a Mills......not a Jones.......
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2016 22:35:28 GMT
Anyway....back to the C50.
I used to ride mine to a VAG apprenticeship I got after I left school - July 1990.....the mechanics took the piss out of my C50. Called it a chicken chaser. Bastards!!!
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