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British Bikes / Re: Royal Enfield Model D
« on: January 24, 2018, 04:35:44 PM »
Quote from: TGR90B on January 24, 2018, 10:19:02 AM
You would know. Have you still got yours?

Yes.I love it a lot, so much that I thought I should log in to the C12 forum and see what good fellows I  could chat with there ;) ;) ;) ;) :o

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British Bikes / Re: Royal Enfield Model D
« on: January 24, 2018, 09:52:39 AM »
Yes those are BSA C12 forks from mid 50s to 1960 era

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European and Other Bikes / Re: Whats this engine in 1930's Monet Goyon
« on: January 21, 2018, 10:24:24 AM »


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All I wanted was a answer to what the engine may be
Answer is, no-one knows :o :o :o

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Anyway have a good one and take it easy.
        Cheers, Jon

 :D :D :D :D :D

I spent too many years in the bike trade you see, that and  what having to deal with some  of the biker types does to you.......

A very quick route to the nut house..... I have a fund of tales you would not believe, takes about 3 pints of Guinness to relate them all.

You are Frome area? not so far from me, so probably explains a lot ;)

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European and Other Bikes / Re: Whats this engine in 1930's Monet Goyon
« on: January 20, 2018, 08:58:18 PM »
The number is a replacement for when it was first registered; some years back they were less stringent than they are now. That is why its non transferable.

It did not have to be a lawn mower, villiers engines and their french knock offs were used in all sorts of machinery and yes I have seen a two exhaust lawn mower.
its got the stubby lever because its not its original box, its got a  K/s but it probably had cycle type pedals when it was made, its what the french classed as a BMA.That gear-change is so obviously home made.

I think you need to do a lot more research into old french utility bikes from the 1930s, you can talk it up as much as you like, its a lash up, never been on a track unless it was a cycle track.
It is what is and if you like it all well and good.

I've been in bikes dealing and import/exporting them and have seen so much of this.
Have a holiday in france and do the rounds of the Brocantes/Vide Greniers and Bourses[auto jumbles] and see lots like this.

Sorry to be harsh, thats my lot.

nearest I can find to your thing is this
http://motoensavoie.canalblog.com/archives/2013/05/30/27284801.html



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The Classic Biker Bar / Re: 1939 ISDT
« on: January 19, 2018, 01:39:11 PM »
Seen this?

https://speedtracktales.com/2014/01/04/isdt-1939-day-five-six-reports-as-published-in-das-motorrad-magazine/

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The Classic Biker Bar / Re: 1939 ISDT
« on: January 19, 2018, 11:03:21 AM »
As Ian says the 1939 ISDT has a great back story, whether bikes were abandoned I can't recall but quite a few competitors rode their bikes home.
What is overlooked is the real help the riders were given by the German organisers to leave Germany before hostilities started, fuel, visa's etc.
Somewhere I have the story in an old issue of either Motorcycle or Motorcycling and I'd suggest that would be a good start for background.
Then the BSA owners club, maybe the ACU.
A surprising number of ex ISDT bikes survive, your may well still be in a collection, even a museum, Sammy Miller might help if he's in a good mood.
Have you checked DVLA records to see if that reg is still on their books?

There has been quite lot written about that 1939 event over the years.


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European and Other Bikes / Re: Whats this engine in 1930's Monet Goyon
« on: January 19, 2018, 10:44:57 AM »
That original ad is full of BS, an upfront dealer would have been subject to prosecution, its a tissue of lies, assumptions and downright ignorance.
Its typical of the crap spouted in ebay ads by sellers of these imports, mostly opportunist "antique"  dealers doing the rounds of the french
 brocantes.

As for that reg its got to be fake, I cannot believe that was imported into this country in 1947. No way. 

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Obviously with nothing other than what this says and no real providence I took it with a pinch of salt. What do you think ? The V5 I have gives a date of something like 1947 ( I do not have it to hand and do not remember if the reg No is transferable or not ) Any idea where the reg No is from ?

.....Is that seller telling you he has found out he bought a pile of crap for an excessive price and now wishes to unload it. 

None of my  my V5s "give a something like date". ::)

"I took it with a pinch of salt" I'd need enough to grit the M1 to swallow that spiel.


I ought not to get wound up about crap bikes but I still remember the real trouble I had to sell  good honest  bikes years ago, I never sold a dud, and always stood by what I sold, only to see people buy scrappers from my rivals at bigger prices. Then they'd came moaning to me about it. >:( >:(

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European and Other Bikes / Re: Whats this engine in 1930's Monet Goyon
« on: January 16, 2018, 05:23:40 PM »
other side

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European and Other Bikes / Re: Whats this engine in 1930's Monet Goyon
« on: January 16, 2018, 05:17:37 PM »
Monet Goyon 1930 with Villiers Brooklands  engine.

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British Bikes / Re: What's It Worth - '63 Trophy TR6
« on: January 16, 2018, 03:23:36 PM »
4k start as its a mix of years, but still a very nice bike for someone.

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European and Other Bikes / Re: Whats this engine in 1930's Monet Goyon
« on: January 16, 2018, 10:08:58 AM »
http://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/threads/vintage-2-stroke-bike.56837/ :o :o :o ;) ;) ;)


A lot of French bikes used Villiers engines; Villiers engines were used in all sorts of industrial/agricultural uses.

  edit  I notice yours has a non detachable head, probably off a mower or the like.

France was a bit hard up in the 1930s, then there was that bit of embarrassment 1940-45 which did not help, the 50s were also hard economically. After 80 years its assuming a lot to believe all that iron belongs together, its probably a bitza, and looks to me as if the model number has been modified with a file.

I have seen some ingenious and appalling mods from the hard up or tight fisted to keep transport running from those eras. Somewhere I have a photo taken in Spain of a OHC Sq4 lashed up as a Harley look alike; you'd not believe such bodgery could be mobile.

The god of originality does not work everywhere there is an old bike.

Its a dog, but its yours to love.

PS that carb is not all Amac either,

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European and Other Bikes / Re: Whats this engine in 1930's Monet Goyon
« on: January 15, 2018, 09:05:23 PM »
Its a 250cc Ancre de Bateau.

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Identify these bikes! / Re: Old monstrosity form a scrap yard needs ID
« on: January 15, 2018, 11:49:48 AM »
It looks to me to be a Communist era lash up. That front wheel is nothing like a  Bohmerland front wheel, its an artillery wheel off a car, and the forks look as if they could be home made by the look of the welding which is rough even by Bulgarian commie standards.

Its a half and half jobbie.Scrap.

There is no deposit on gas bottles in Bulgaria if that pile is anything to go by.

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Identify these bikes! / Re: Barr and Stroud mystery bike
« on: January 15, 2018, 11:45:58 AM »
Of course there is no obligation for a Czech registered bike to have been made in Czechoslovakia?

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Identify these bikes! / Re: Barr and Stroud mystery bike
« on: January 14, 2018, 09:22:44 PM »
If only that photo was a bit clearer, the name on the tank is nearly readable till the pixels lose it.

Obviously a pillion rider in those shoes!

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