Do you recognise this? ;)

[elioti]

First can someone please tell me how to upload a picture from my laptop. Click the insert image icon and all i get is this :. Thanks:)

[elioti]

link for pic here on photobucket

[R]

We have seen this before, and had this discussion before ?

That engine is shown in "British 250cc Racing Motorcycles" book as the
Ronald Peck Special.  A draughtsman from Redbourne in Herts.
Construction of the engine was finished in 1953, just for interest it was said,
and it was initially assembled into an old New Imperial frame.
Syd Mularney acquired it in 1958, and Brian Setchell raced it at Silverstone.
A lot of time was spent trying to develop it, but was sold in 1965.
There is a pic of Peck on it as it was in 1958, will scan and post.

Last time we saw it, you were doing something to it - valve guides perhaps ?

[R]

will scan and post.

Don't need to

https://www.flickr.com/photos/veloce/846290612/in/set-72157600883373438

[cardan]

Previous thread:

http://www.classicmotorcycleforum.com/index.php?topic=4015.0

[elioti]

Thank you for the reply. And for the picture and info. My father says thats not his engine. Got to say it looks similar though! The frame he has is completely different. He`s not  too happy with me putting much on here hence removed the pic, sorry, and wants to get it running first before anyone knows much about it. He said a few people at that time were playing with different projects, and said he made his himself. I do recall a newspaper cutting he has somewhere that was all about him in a popular publication, the heading was ` ahead of honda by years`. And think it may have been about that engine not sure, so tend to believe him! Its odd it looks a bit similar got to say. He doesnt like attention, but its close to being fired up, so all being well will post some pics on here.

[R]

Its only the change from leading link forks to tele forks that makes the frames look different ?
Something is not what it seems here, if there were 2 of these so similar, someone would have noticed. ?

[L.A.B.]

http://www.classicbikersclub.com/gallery-image/2011-10/wd295063classiccamerajpg

[elioti]

Interesting photo. No the frame is completely different. And the wheels, have looked. Does anyone know the names of the people in the picture?

[elioti]

Out of interest, say it was the same, what would its value be?

[R]

Value - whatever someone is prepared to pay.
As the RPS, in GOOD running condition, probably a fairly large sum.

Those wheels look identical, from what I can see.
The hole where the brake cable for the front brake has been relocated from is visible there.
Air scoops have been added ?

[L.A.B.]

Interesting photo. No the frame is completely different.

I thought it looked remarkably similar so how about a few more photos?

Does anyone know the names of the people in the picture?

Didn't you read the caption?

A special day May 1958
Brian Setchell waits on the Silverstone start grid, astride the RP Special, a machine created by Ronald Peck, a draughtsman based in Redbourne, Herts. The four-cylinder twin-overhead camshaft 249cc engine was made entirely by Peck, including the crankshaft machined from a solid billet of Nitralloy steel and the separate cylinder barrels, pistons, cylinder heads and cam boxes machined from solid blocks of light alloy – to avoid the cost of having patterns made.