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My first bike was also a non runner parts bike. Had a 125cc BSA engine & gear box with hand change in a mongrel home spun frame rigid suspension. I think I paid about 5 pounds little or no paint, really ugly! Kept it for a couple of months, to call it unreliable was too kind and try as I did (and friends) could not get it right!
Yes but look at the memories you have now. Don't suppose you got any pics
 
I had so much fun learning about bikes. No internet to cheat with lol. And 2nd hand parts were so easy to get hold of ( r&g spares). Bike shops of today do take away some of the fun. Most shop workers haven't a clue about bikes. They just look for a part number on the screen and show no interest.
After a bad bike accident in 1994 I decided to build the chop I have now. I popped into r&g spares and the guy sold me a frame and log book for £25. A few years later I was riding a gp100 hardtail chop with a gsxr1100 engine.
 
lowrider we built bikes/ trikes out of bits of bikes and piggies. put a1600 ford escort engine in a bike frame. a bike with a invalid car engine. when it started it went backwards or forwards. no one walks around nowin m/c shops with a cigar or fag in the corner of there mouth coughing while looking for bits for you.like v/onslow and c&d did. HAPPY DAYS:grinning:R&G.png
 
lowrider we built bikes/ trikes out of bits of bikes and piggies. put a1600 ford escort engine in a bike frame. a bike with a invalid car engine. when it started it went backwards or forwards. no one walks around nowin m/c shops with a cigar or fag in the corner of there mouth coughing while looking for bits for you.like v/onslow and c&d did. HAPPY DAYS:grinning:View attachment 175643
I'm sat in the dentist and the only person with a big grin lol. Did you ever go up the breedon. I bet the escort bike was a beast. The old days were the best. What neck of the woods was you from.
 
I'm sat in the dentist and the only person with a big grin lol. Did you ever go up the breedon. I bet the escort bike was a beast. The old days were the best. What neck of the woods was you from.
castle brom . it sure was. the red house was a good shop as well1669891782389.png
 
pure nostalgia:grinning:
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Triumph Tigress/BSA Sunbeam scooters.
i had 2 of them from garretts one was a 175. the other a combo i pimped them by taking all the tin off it what fast machines.

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Cope's of Hagley Rd (Chas E Cope & Sons Ltd) had another shop 'somewhere in the black country' as I recall. Anyone remember where?
 
Hi all.Got a new DT 125mx from King's on Bristol Street in 1982.Cost £680.00.Got one in my garage now as an investment as anyone who knows these bikes knows how good they are.Used to love going round the bike shops in the early 80s.Copes,Vale Onslow,Chas Mann,Birmingham Motorcycles,Bastables,Hailwoods and others were my usual haunts on a Saturday and Sunday with my mates.Happy days.
 
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