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British Bikes / Re: Tandon Motorcycles
« on: April 25, 2012, 05:29:36 PM »
Yes raced at Rye House fom 1952/3 onwards, but if my memory serves me right they lost the couse by 1960.....If your Dad raced there he would have also raced at Friars Walsh (its now under the M1)....mall world....ohn

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British Bikes / Re: Tandon Motorcycles
« on: April 21, 2012, 12:22:42 PM »
I raced all over the south of England up to Leeds and Manchester and abroad in this period, certainly I raced at all the events around London including The Alley Pally and Royston, what was your dads name?....Currently away on hols so may not aswer quickly....John

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British Bikes / Re: Tandon Motorcycles
« on: April 16, 2012, 07:58:20 PM »
Hi Again....I would have put it about the same year as stickinthemud but he would have probably scrambled it say around 1955/6 as I would doubt that your dad brought it new and converted it and also in approx 1952 Tandon brought out a very pretty swinging arm earls fork scambles bike of 197 c.c. made for the job.....I would say your Dad brought a rough road bike and converted it and went out and had some fun, scrambling in those days was made up of lots of bikes like that, I started on a converted B31 BSA 350 road bike which I tuned up and had some success with before getting a full  350 Scambles Matchless......By the way it would not have had indicators they were a thing of the future and you did'nt have to have lights and of course there were no such things as MOT's but even today your can get a daylight MOT without lights and in those days your either rode it to the meeting or if you were lucky enough to have a motorbike and side car chassis as transport, there were not to many vans about....Norton has never been my mark but if your Dad had an Inter in 1946 most people would have only dreamed about owning such a bike even today....Matchless well thats a different matter I still own several in various guises but there is a very good Owners Club Site.....Don't know to much about Tandon road bikes really other than what I have picked up recently but I was given a ride on a 1952 197 c.c. Tandon Scrambler on several occassions by Andrea Baldet a Motor Cycle dealer in  Northampton back in those days and recently came across and brought the only official works Tandon Scrambler which John Babb rode which I am now restoring and the only thing I now need to know is the true BEIGE COLOUR that Tandon painted there bikes.....With modern paints there are so many shades.....I also have a Trials 197 Tandon which I shall rebuild at the same time once I know the colour......Is there any clue to the name of the meeting in the photographs where your Dad rode.I woukd love to know could have ridden against him....John

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British Bikes / Re: Tandon Motorcycles
« on: April 15, 2012, 09:01:15 PM »
What super photographs , I would say from the early 50's....In those days scrambles riders just converted road bikes for Scrambling and this would appear to be what your father did and he probably rode to the meeting and home afterwards.....I rode in this period but do not recollect seeing this bike.....As you say it is a Kangaroo with a 125 c.c villiers engine with an sporty  head which had a very unusal rear suspension.....Scrambling was done on a budget in those days as you know doubt have noticed your dads bike has a knobbly back tyre but a road going front that was not done on purpose but purily what he could afford, but I bet he really enjoyed himself....Love to know where the meeting was ?.....John Willis

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British Bikes / Re: Tandon Motorcycles
« on: April 07, 2012, 08:52:50 PM »
Hi.....Just returned from the Far East to your message.....Would love to speak to your Dad for old times sake but I doubt wether he would remember me.....I live near Banbury and my email address is "fastaweigh@aol.com".....Somebody told me your Dad lives near Alicante in Spain, I go down near there on accasions to visit a cousin, is he up to visitors....Will give him a rind anyway......John Willis

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British Bikes / Re: Tandon Motorcycles
« on: March 07, 2012, 10:38:00 PM »
It is quite easy I have done a couple recently to 8e engines and I think a 6e is  the same casings you do have to make a few alterations but they are quite easy.....Are you doing it on A TANDON as there may not be quite enough room in the frame, that is my next project.....If you want to contact me direct my email address is on a comment to bomber above.....John

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British Bikes / Re: Tandon Motorcycles
« on: March 06, 2012, 04:26:29 PM »
Hi Bomber.....The thing that I have a doubt about is the exact colour of BEIGE that Tandon used if you have any idea or know someone who has I would love to know......With modern paints you can get every shade imagineable and I would like to get it right.......fastaweigh@aol.com......John Willis

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British Bikes / Re: Tandon Motorcycles
« on: March 04, 2012, 10:36:35 AM »
Hi anyone with a Tandon or an interest......I recently brought the only official works Tandon which was ridden by John Babb quite successfully, on a good day he could get the better of Brian Stonebridge......I am certain that it is the correct bike as I had a photograph of myself riding at ARRINGTON in Cambridgeshire with John Babb leading Brian Stonebridge and myself....The Tandon is clearly shown in the picture with its distinctive differences that John made to this works bike, I remember John saying on one occasion when he rode, he was not a regular competitor, that the weight was to far forward so he moved the engine back in the frame.....The standard of the shelf scrambler was a very pretty little bike as ridden by Andrea Baldet and John Grose very competitively in the South Midland Centre and scored many success, as a young lad I had the chance to ride Andrea's bike on severial occasions but brought a DOT instead, on Andrea's advise,  which looked somewhat simular......Going back to John Babb, he was a very forceful rider and I remember spent a lot of his time in the air so the Tandon had to stand up to some heavy welly.....I am now looking forward to completing the restoration of John's bike and riding it this coming summer, you never know a Tandon might appear in the propgramme at a pre 65 meeting some 60 years after its birth......John Willis

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