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Motorcycle Discussions => Identify these bikes! => Topic started by: jshearman on November 01, 2007, 09:09:29 PM

Title: Old mopeds
Post by: jshearman on November 01, 2007, 09:09:29 PM

I found two old moped / scooters in a back alley in Crete this summer and wondered whether they might be rare.  Can anybody identify them please?  Pictures at http://picasaweb.google.com/john.shearman/WhatAreTheseOldBikes

Title: Re: Old mopeds
Post by: tempo54 on November 04, 2007, 11:42:06 PM

The inner one(at the wall)seems to be a Japanese Bridgestone "50" form the mid/late -60´s.
The outer one with the Sachs engine,might be anything of
german origin,as a lot of companies used the Sachs.Most
probably it is a Miele of - 54 to 59.

Title: Re: Old mopeds
Post by: jshearman on November 05, 2007, 04:56:53 PM

Sachs! Of course, why didn't I think of that? But the bike near the wall (the one with "Bridgestone 7" on the headlamp body) also has a Sachs engine so I doubt if it is actually a Bridgestone from Japan, though that is what I thought before.