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General Category => Unusual Microcar Discussion => Topic started by: Bob Purton on November 24, 2011, 02:04:14 PM
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HI all, fancy a laugh? I took a corner a little too fast for wet roads last sunday, caught on camara and now on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oa0HKiArW4k its about three quarters into the film.
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brilliant,glad to see the eacc doing well! reminds me ive got a raleigh runabout to collect soon ;D
not having a go but look how much fun these people have on their low power,low value old machines,wonderful stuff (nice ms50 Bob) ;)
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Well held Bob. More a slide than a crash. Still hung on whilst kicking legs in the air. Way-hay! Good job that telegraph pole wasn't nearer.
Back in 1963 I bought a new NSU Quickly F, the one with the rear suspension. I thought I would give it a quick run-in, so on a Saturday I left Eastbourne, Sussex with a friend on the back and rode the coast road to my Aunts in Southampton for tea and back home again, the same day. My backside and fingers were really tingling when we got back.
As they were only made in 1962-3 they are rather collectable. Lo and behold this week I met the guy that used to service my car and he mentioned buying two Quickly mopeds last week and one of them is a model F just like my old one, same colour and loads of new & old spares. Deep Joy, been looking years for one, now comes the negotiating, he doesn't know much about bikes. Don't want to pay too much do I?
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well done bob :D it was quite funny cos you got away with it . two years ago my bike slipped on cow **** opposite a farmyard . bike landed on top of me and i couldnt get up :) luckily i had a friend with me . I have a tear on the INSIDE of my ankle on my right boot - my foot was turned round to face the rear !! OWCH !
incidentally being into these weird things do know of Mike and Renate Hele , spares keepers Bond Club , great autocyclers . a month or two ago Renate slipped over on a manhole cover on a run . smashed leg , hip etc. she will be wheelchair bound for some months . good people ;)
KEEP THE BLACKSIDE DOWN MY OLD FRIEND ;)
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My nephew's Quickly is looking for a home! Contact me if interested.
Well held Bob! This time of year is treacherous for 2 wheelers, pedal or powered. Damp, leaf mush, mud and oil, combined with not enough hard rain to wash it away makes the roads almost as bad as ice. At least you know when to expect ice and cycle accordingly, but leaf mush is as slippery as banana peels.
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so's cow **** ;D
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Silly Old Moo, we don't get much of that here in Beautiful Downtown Bermondsey!
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It was slippery that morning, a thick fog had only just cleared leaving everything soaked. I think the problem was the back pedal braking that opperates the rear wheel, it has very little feel, its on or off and I think thats what caused the little slip up on the bend. Still, no damage done only a bruise in the back of my leg where the pedal whipped around and whacked me. It gave all the lads a laugh!!!
Sorry to hear about Renate and her accident. I think I will stick to dry days from now on.
Dan, I totally agree, more fun can be had on a shoe string budget than standing around a field saying "My TG 500 is better than yours!!"
The MS50 looks good in the film but up close you would see its been hand painted!
Rob, I thought you said Yippy!! No vehicles to worry about?
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do agree on all counts bob . but you do sound as if you are a man perhaps without a TG500 ;)
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Now thats what I call a run!
Here is the link to the precise moment it happens
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oa0HKiArW4k&t=6m36s
Reminds me of when one of my friends was over... We were racing on the mopeds, I had the slower one (Puch Maxi), and he had the faster one. I still managed to beat him. Right at the end of the drag, there is a bump. He didnt want to slow down. I still won, and he just flew off! He was fine, moped was. It even fixed it a bit! After that, the indicators and brake light worked...
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Rob, I thought you said Yippy!! No vehicles to worry about?
I've got withdrawal symptoms, started to eat chocolate again too.
Update: Forgot to say my Quickly F was my 2nd bike. First was a Paloma Paris I believe it was called.
1st micro was a Bond Mk C. Didn't you have something to do with it as well?
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Yes, I am without a TG500 and if I had the dosh to afford one it wouldnt even be on the shopping list. Sorry but they do nothing for me. An Itom Competitione? Now your talking!
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By the way the camera man who is in fits of laughter is our own Richard "Invacar 70" You see , the amount of micro enthusiasts that have a parallel interest in moped riding is on the increase!
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invacars and mopeds - says it all really :D :D :D
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Cannot beat cheap fun. A lot of micronauts can be found with East European stuff to. Bob your Bike appears to have an Oxford registration.
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Yes, I am without a TG500 and if I had the dosh to afford one it wouldnt even be on the shopping list. Sorry but they do nothing for me. An Itom Competitione? Now your talking!
Ifind there probably *the* nicest microcar if its restored as if it just came out of the dealers...
(http://somentecoisaslegais.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/TG-500-Messerschmitt-Tiger-foto-carros-620x420.jpg)
And yes, Mopeds are popular with a lot of us, probably because most of us had them as first vehicules!
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Yes, I am without a TG500 and if I had the dosh to afford one it wouldnt even be on the shopping list. Sorry but they do nothing for me. An Itom Competitione? Now your talking!
Ifind there probably *the* nicest microcar if its restored as if it just came out of the dealers...
(http://somentecoisaslegais.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/TG-500-Messerschmitt-Tiger-foto-carros-620x420.jpg)
And yes, Mopeds are popular with a lot of us, probably because most of us had them as first vehicules!
Helloo dere, Bluebottle! (You don't know about The Goon Show, in joke!)
I too love TGs, I don't care that they are flawed, I just love them.
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cor is the number worth anything - the rest isn't :D
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But you can get three Morgans for the same price!
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cor is the number worth anything - the rest isn't :D
One thing I have always wanted to do, is do like my dad did... Get a kr200 project, preferably a tiger nose one, and then turn it into a TG500 replica...
The hardest bit would be the engine. They may be bad quality, but for me the engine is the msot important bit, Trabby engines are great, but dont have the same whislte, and just doesnt look the same...
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can we go back to £300 mopeds please? lol
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crikey i had no idea they had reached such heights . that must be for an FS1E :o
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How about all of these. Bought and sold in 1964 to 1996 all less than £200, some only pence.
CORGI. 1949.
CYCLEMASTER. 1950.
CYCLEMASTER/HERCULES. 1952.
CYCLEMASTER/NORMAN. 1951.
EXCELSIOR AUTOCYCLE. 1949.
GARELLI. 1974.
GRIFFON. 1960.
HONDA 50. 1968.
MOBYLETTE AV33. 1953.
MOBYLETTE AV33. 1954.
MOBYLETTE UV32. 1953.
MOTOGRAZIELLA 'CHEEKY BOY' 1972.
NEW HUDSON AUTOCYCLE. 1949.
NSU QUICKLY 'F' 1963.
NSU QUICKLY S2. 1964.
PALOMA PARIS. 1961.
POWER PAK. 1950.
POWER PAK. 1951.
PHILLIPS MOPED. 1960.
RALEIGH MOPED. 1967.
RALEIGH MOPED. 1968.
VICTORIA VICKY. 1954.
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£300! Cor that is far to much.
Yep its a bit weird to have such expensive things on a site which is really aimed at stuff that probably has not huge values at all. Trouble is us middle of the road types high-jack it with tales of ordinary daft cars instead of the real weirdo stuff found in the pages of the RUMcar magazine. You can see why mopeds etc are popular.
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its not many RUM cars that have been worth much - until very recently ! schmitts , TGRs etc arent RUM really are they . peels, Friskys and scoots are racing away but what did the last Hazelcar sell for i ask you ?
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damn!
micro collectors must be after old mopeds now:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/YAMAHA-FS1E-FIZZY-FISSY-1975-PURPLE-UNREGISTERED-FS1-E-/190602970877?pt=UK_Motorcycles&hash=item2c60d286fd
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/YAMAHA-FS1E-FS1-1972-SIXTEENER-SPECIAL-MUST-SEE-/190604038839?pt=UK_Motorcycles&hash=item2c60e2d2b7
another hobby to die with their owners :(
phew,there is hope:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Honda-PC50-PC-50-50cc-Mobylette-punch-/300625775162?pt=UK_Motorcycles&hash=item45feb14a3a
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MOBYLETTE-MOTOBECANE-MOPED-/110773711622?pt=UK_Motorcycles&hash=item19caa0b306
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can we go back to £300 mopeds please? lol
Yep, way too much!
My Puch Maxi was 25£ I think, and the yamaha QT50 was free...
Just a reminder. I am still accepting free vehicules. Offer will end soon! If you have one of those peel thingies, I will happily take it away ;)
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Now that would go down well, Peel Mopeds. Two wheels, a third off.
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my first road legal bike
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SUZUKI-AP-50-1976-BLUE-FS1E-/180759739801?pt=UK_Motorcycles&hash=item2a161ebd99
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I always fancied a Paloma Flash.
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OMG LOL you flash git :D it drew a blanca from me . do i like it -noscelot . if you raced it you could always cheet...
over to the others ;D
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I think some people did race them all stripped down in the 1960's 50cc races.
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Love the extra long front mudguard, very Itom! Just for the record, my Puch MS50 cost me £200, they are a bit dearer than some mopeds but the quality is very good, I have run it for two and a half years now with no probs what so ever, never let me down other than being strangley attracted to cabbage fields!
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its not many RUM cars that have been worth much - until very recently ! schmitts , TGRs etc arent RUM really are they . peels, Friskys and scoots are racing away but what did the last Hazelcar sell for i ask you ?
I will have to look up the price but I think I sold the last Hazelcar, Nobody wanted it and eventually I offerd it to Mr Weiner and it went stateside. Think it was about 2.5K Nt a desirable car as old electric cars have very short range and nearly always require the new owner buy a set of batteries which is often more expensive than the car. Think of a better example Mr Warren.
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Microcars can still be done on the cheap. I've just counted up what a decade in the Bubble Kingdom has cost me; fourteen diffrent vehicles in that time have entered the Ivory Towers, all costing a grand total of £3,920. That's but £392 per year, - cheaper in some places in fact than a half decent moped every year. ;) And before certain of you bemoan "but it was all invalid carriages" pause a moment & recall what I have had & do have. Anyone can moan it's a long way to the stars, but moaning doesn't get you TO those stars.... ;)
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Very true Stuart, the main diference is that I have never seen you having fun driving any of them.
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(In Lady Bracknell-type voice) DRIVE the cars?! You must be raving mad. They're far too valuable to DRIVE my dear fellow!
Apparently.
;)
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Love the extra long front mudguard, very Itom! Just for the record, my Puch MS50 cost me £200, they are a bit dearer than some mopeds but the quality is very good, I have run it for two and a half years now with no probs what so ever, never let me down other than being strangley attracted to cabbage fields!
Its the kale of the wild.
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its not many RUM cars that have been worth much - until very recently ! schmitts , TGRs etc arent RUM really are they . peels, Friskys and scoots are racing away but what did the last Hazelcar sell for i ask you ?
I will have to look up the price but I think I sold the last Hazelcar, Nobody wanted it and eventually I offerd it to Mr Weiner and it went stateside. Think it was about 2.5K Nt a desirable car as old electric cars have very short range and nearly always require the new owner buy a set of batteries which is often more expensive than the car. Think of a better example Mr Warren.
AP bought the one from - Bonhams? - at Beaulieu but that is some years ago now. Possibly 8 years ago. Cannot recall the price. I played with it and it would have been fun with an ICE in it. As near as I will get to a Russon.
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Actually I might. I could go for a mail order Russon wife. Long body, short legs and small feet. No perhaps I will give a Miss, nah ha!
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The Bonhams car is the same one I briefly owned, it passed through a couple of peoples hands after the auction before it came to me. As I recall it had some Austin Severn parts. In a way it was best it ended up in a museum thus safeguarding in from folk like us who might be temped to strip out the innards and fit an engine although agreed, it would have made it a nice usable car.
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The Bonhams car is the same one I briefly owned, it passed through a couple of peoples hands after the auction before it came to me. As I recall it had some Austin Severn parts. In a way it was best it ended up in a museum thus safeguarding in from folk like us who might be temped to strip out the innards and fit an engine although agreed, it would have made it a nice usable car.
Must be another as I am sure AP still has his. It was registered. I recall it being a nasty stale brown colour. If he sold it he did not tell me, which will be interesting, as I had nigh on all his Microcars before he started buying them again! I put him onto the TG500 and a KR200 at least.
Now I recall Ken Weger was after one and the guy who helped him buy, brain has gone - nice guy, moved to France - , got one and I think Ken decided against it or found another. I have it in mind that the two cars might be one and the same. I even have the Catalogue somewhere.
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The one I had was white and had no doors [was made that way for holiday camp use I think. The name you are grasping for is Tony Hilliard who bought it at the auction for Ken Weger who then didnt want to pay the shipping and so Tony sold it to me. Cant be the same car as the one bought by AP who ever AP is. Here is a pic.
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i thought AP was a term for the aged parent - but i fear , as i , al in bereft of same
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nice car
just realised the "paloma Flash " , get you, was running on its stand noticed the purple haze from the exhaust . apologies JH ;)
of course i too was tremendously impressed by the long itom like mudguard - but thought it too obvious to mention bob ( YAWN ) ;D
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Richard, its not compulsory to comment on every post, if you are not interested in sports mopeds just pass.
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He must get bored very easily. ;D
Itom 50s were the bee's knees in late '59 to early 60s. Won most races too.
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Thats right Rob, Mike Hailwood won his very first Trophy comimg third in the 50cc class on an Itom.
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It's not the Mopeds that bother me.
It's those callous swine who use them to destroy perfectly decent cabbage fields!
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sorry but my comment was lighthearted and followed by a ;D accordingly .
surely any topic none RUM may bore RUM enthusiasts - not that it it did actually i agreed with all the fun memories i have had my suzuki 50, trojan minimotor and still have my Trobike i was a keen member of EAMCC for ages .
sorry anyway
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I am interested in all transport machinery, and for me the odd departure from micros is fine in moderation.
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maybe the fact this thread is now 4 pages long after a day means people were bored with "which is the correct scootacar rear light lense" and other anal rivet counting stuff ;D
Kriedler Florett,now theres a moped i would like!
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The Register of Unusual Mopeds anyone?
Big smilie just so y'all know I'm kidding!
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haha,
well there are a fair few made by micro companies,Bond,Heinkel,NSU,etc etc,only chance i could afford something with those names on anyway ;D
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It's not the Mopeds that bother me.
It's those callous swine who use them to destroy perfectly decent cabbage fields!
Being a member of the Higgledy-Piggledy Club I can assure you that our piggy members do not ride mopeds in cabbage fields and we don't have a callous amongst us! ;D
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I have callouses from ukuleles and drums, but I am not a cabbage.
I'm a Mushroom.
Kept in the dark and fed a lot of bull sh[The rest of this post has been deleted due to bad language, Ed.]
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well there are a fair few made by micro companies,Bond,Heinkel
Did they make mopeds? I thought they made scooters.
Why is it that the modern scooters are called mopeds? A moped has pedals. The word moped was coined by Swedish journalist Harald Nielsen in 1952, as a portmanteau of motor and pedal. ;D
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I'm a Mushroom.
As long as you are not a toads tool. ( Sorry, a slip of the space bar) ;D
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;D
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i know heinkel made mopeds,bond small bikes and scooters yes
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Bond,Heinkel
Did they make mopeds? I thought they made scooters.
Heinkel made the rather interesting Perle with cast ali framework. Not sure about Bond. The Mini Bike was 98cc wasn't it. Still its daft and should be of interest to anybody who likes odd machinery. Many a link to Microcars in the small bike arena.
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Just in case anyone is interested, the Youtube clip has had some amusing speach bubbles and captions added to the cabbage field incident.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oa0HKiArW4k
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Nice! However, you missed some obvious ones: "Oops, Inter the field". "Isetta cabbage field?" And as you extricate yourself and moped from the roadside pile of leaves "leave it out!"
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Very droll Marcus! :D It was not I that compose the speech bubbles, it was the laughing policemen on the camera bike.
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Looks good fun. The theory of letting go of the handlebars signifying the severity of the miscalculation is something similar to that odf what constitutes a breakdown at the more competitive end of 'Schmitting. Nothing changes just the value and performance of the machines and if folk will play with them.
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Nice footage! belinda bought me a helmet camera for Christmas so I hope to record my birthday rally on 15 January, maybe even get it on Youtube if I can figure out how to do it!
Last time I came off a bike was at the NACC National Rally in Shropshire a couple of years ago when the front tyre of my Moto Graziella suffered a blow-out and pitched me into a hedge, the bike landing on top of me. Apparently it was quite spectacular according to an eye-witness. I was too busy hoping there hadn't been any eye-witnesses to my embarrassing tumble. Mike Hele assisted with the puncture repair back at the camp site.
On a previous rally at Headcorn, I'd come to a halt at a junction on my Puch MS50D and got my trouser leg caught in the pedal. Being a back-pedal brake (never took to it) the pedal didn't turn and I toppled to the ground in an undignified heap. The bloke behind me, I hear you ask? Mike Hele. There's a theme developing here with Mike's involvement in my tumbles. Maybe he's getting me back for something!
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Hi Nick. NIce to hear from you, at the Cold Turkey run last week, I was encouraged to play to the camera and do something a little more spectacular, riding into a pond was one suggestion another was " how about some kind of explosion"!! NIce to know the guys have my best interests at heart isnt it!
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Hi Bob
Sounds like the EACC version of Jackass! I've got a morning free on Sunday so might get the PC50 fired up and run round my route to check for any mistakes. As if!
Nick D.
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Hi Bob
Sounds like the EACC version of Jackass! I've got a morning free on Sunday so might get the PC50 fired up and run round my route to check for any mistakes. As if!
Nick D.
I was trying to remember the name Jackass! that's exactly what I thought!
Anyone here watch Family Guy? I LOVE the one where Peter and his friends decide to play Jackass themselves, Peter rolls down a roof in a shopping trolley and breaks his neck in a horrifying way, even though it is just a cartoon.
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What ever happened to the rather wonderful Dangerous Sports Club, which pre-dated Jackass and was a much more British way of being an idiot. I particularly remember having hysterics as after putting pretty much anything you could think of down a ski run including a double bed they had about eight people attempt to ride a life-size inflatable elephant on skis down a pretty steep run. Brilliant!
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I did something far more stupid Alan. In the 90's I was offered a Nobel on "Eel Pie Island" on the Thames. In order to get the car to the mainland we ( the then owner, Steve Vine, my neighbour an myself ) had to push it onto a ralf not much bigger than the Nobel and paddle with oars to dry land. I was petrified as I can't swim and we were caught in the flow of the river and were gradually drifting out to the middle of the Thames. I had visions of "News at Ten" showing a Nobel sailing under Tower Bridge with four idiots paddling like crazy getting nowhere. In the end we managed to get back to where we started, very knackered as it was also getting dark. In the end the owner got a friend with a boat to tow us to the mainland. When we got the car to my house near Alton, my neighbour said "that'll never run". Well, that was like a red rag to a bull . I cleaned the petrol tap, put fresh fuel in it. put the battery in from my normal car with some jump leads, pumped up the tyres. On one wheel the inner tube was poking through the perished tyre like a bubble gum bubble. It started with a hell of a noise ( no silencer ), but I managed to coax it down the road to my neighbour who came outside to see what the din was and after the smoke screen cleared he saw me smiling in my new toy.
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I did something far more stupid Alan. In the 90's I was offered a Nobel on "Eel Pie Island" on the Thames. In order to get the car to the mainland we ( the then owner, Steve Vine, my neighbour an myself ) had to push it onto a ralf not much bigger than the Nobel and paddle with oars to dry land. I was petrified as I can't swim and we were caught in the flow of the river and were gradually drifting out to the middle of the Thames. I had visions of "News at Ten" showing a Nobel sailing under Tower Bridge with four idiots paddling like crazy getting nowhere. In the end we managed to get back to where we started, very knackered as it was also getting dark. In the end the owner got a friend with a boat to tow us to the mainland. When we got the car to my house near Alton, my neighbour said "that'll never run". Well, that was like a red rag to a bull . I cleaned the petrol tap, put fresh fuel in it. put the battery in from my normal car with some jump leads, pumped up the tyres. On one wheel the inner tube was poking through the perished tyre like a bubble gum bubble. It started with a hell of a noise ( no silencer ), but I managed to coax it down the road to my neighbour who came outside to see what the din was and after the smoke screen cleared he saw me smiling in my new toy.
Ralf Horris?! Ralf Schumacker?!
Reminds me of the Dad's Army episode when the horse and Major float down the river on a "Richardson".
Have no memory of Dangerous Sports Club, was it a TV show? I had no TV for years so perhaps I missed it.
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How long will it be before a RUMCars/EACC/NACC member qualifies for a Darwin Award - given to an individual who has removed himself from the gene pool (permanently!) in the most stupid way?
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Lets hope that never happens! :(
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Lets hope that never happens! :(
Aye to that!
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Dear Nick
When You say Jean Pool, do you mean the big fish pond at School house farm?
Are you thinking of setting the bench mark at the next open day?
Chris Thomas
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At the time I was making my Drum Car I did wonder about making a water-borne version, a Drum Yacht perhaps. These jackass comments are giving me an idea...
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I think the Dangerous Sports Club was a product of Oxbridge excess. Nothing to do with the TV.
I dimly remember the great Eel Pie adventure. Steve ate all the pies! It certainly would have made a great news item.
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Dear Nick
When You say Jean Pool, do you mean the big fish pond at School house farm?
Are you thinking of setting the bench mark at the next open day?
Chris Thomas
I think if Nick wore his customs officer uniform we would have no shortage of volunteers to throw him in!
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Oh Bob, that's mean! Every time I bring my juggernaut into UK, packed to the gunwhales with booze, drugs, fake Rolexes, pirate DVDs, Russian and Phillipino Brides etc Nick always waves me through!
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Is he on 10%?
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Suggestion for Bobs next set of Puch wheels.
It will either go round the corner or reach half way across the field next time (if he isn't sucked into the carb first).
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Are those racing mopeds? They look fun.
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When I was sixteen, I had a Honda SS50. It was fine, but my mate had a Puch Grand Prix. It was brilliant. It looked like a proper motorbike, had a rev counter and the speedo needle just about touched 60 ! I was dead jealous. Then I bought a KTM for 50p. All I had to do to get in running was make a woodruf key for the flywheel. A new front exhaust down pipe was £7 though. I used it a lot, including three trips to Bournemouth to strip an Isetta that had been dumped in a car park. I've always had a soft spot for sports mopeds of the late 70's. One I fancied but never got was a Garelli Tiger Cross or Rekord.
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As Bob has said in the past, there is a lot of common ground between the Microcar enthusiasts and the moped brigade. We all have a screw loose.
One definite connection is the use of moped engines in Sans Permis 50cc cars
They seem to do much tuning in Canada on mopeds (Tomas and others) and this link could be the answer to getting sans permis cars up to perhaps 40mph for (just about) practical use on UK side roads.
Have a look at 1977mopeds and Britton Bees for all sorts of engine and style info.
www.1977mopeds.com
www.britonbees.com (Good gallery of modified 50cc from cheap to very expensive)
You will all like these photos
http://www.piccolibastardi.it/galleria_foto.htm
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~pattle/nacc/gallery/pfan.html
(I had a Tiger Cross for about 1/2 an hour!)
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OH it was you then!! ??? I only popped out to buy a paper, went back to the car park and someone had striped my Isetta!!! :D :D :D
My two best mates both rode Garelli Tigercross's in the early seventies, people rave about fizzies but those Garelli's were great little bikes!
I have always fancied a Puch Grandprix too but as an anti smoker would find it hard to justify owning a bike with John Player special on the side!
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How can you be an anti smoker when you own all those two-strokes? ;D
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Bob "Bill Clinton" Purton: He smokes, but he does not inhale!"
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See 'In Hail Mary and the two stroke Catholic incense burner of Doom' by Enid Blyton and Edger Allen Yingtong Idle I Poe and featuring Beep Beeney, which might be a MIcrocar and a Edwardian Moped called Huffy.
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How can you be an anti smoker when you own all those two-strokes? ;D
I just knew that would get a reaction! For the same reason that I'm vegitarian and still wear leather motorcycle boots!
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I thought guys on mopeds wear motorcycle boots to look butch. :-*
And there's nothing wrong in cuddling a large marrow, I love doing it! ;D
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i wonder if al's anti tobacco , he cant be anti smoking after his last post ;) what's your source hey al ?
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When I was sixteen, I had a Honda SS50. It was fine, but my mate had a Puch Grand Prix. It was brilliant. It looked like a proper motorbike, had a rev counter and the speedo needle just about touched 60 ! I was dead jealous. Then I bought a KTM for 50p. All I had to do to get in running was make a woodruf key for the flywheel. A new front exhaust down pipe was £7 though. I used it a lot, including three trips to Bournemouth to strip an Isetta that had been dumped in a car park. I've always had a soft spot for sports mopeds of the late 70's. One I fancied but never got was a Garelli Tiger Cross or Rekord.
Dad, I think you have enough toys... You filled up the garage and the main barn, so much you had to put the cars that didnt fit in front of my Nobel body, next to my chassis, next to the biody on the trailer, behind my mower, etc...
I think I should get a few more toys though!
There are a load of cars I will want to hahe at some point in my life: Panhard Dyna Z (as soon as possible, to do up after my schitt(oops, did I mispell it???)), TG500 (obviously, but only if I'm lucky to find one! If I ever get a really bad KR project I will make a TG replica, maybe fit a 500cc exelcsior enginge in or something, like the Frisky Sprint), Isetta, Mochet (the newer models, always loved them, but if I ever get a project I would "tune it up" with a bigger engine etc), maybe a Vespa 400, wouldnt mind another Nobel (either if I'm lucky try and find one of the different pickup models, otherwise have an unusual colour like dark green and white, normal model), KR175, and a couple more cars.
YEs, I have taste, and yes, I hope to own at least one of each in my life, but first I have to get a job on Computer Programming that should pay for them with extra pocket money to spend on a nice garage ;)
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i wonder if al's anti tobacco , he cant be anti smoking after his last post ;) what's your source hey al ?
Boredom and the dope they give me for an infected leg.
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I thought guys on mopeds wear motorcycle boots to look butch. :-*
And there's nothing wrong in cuddling a large marrow, I love doing it! ;D
What you do in the privacy of your own home is of no concern to us Rob! ;D ;D
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i wonder if al's anti tobacco , he cant be anti smoking after his last post ;) what's your source hey al ?
There have been some amazing compositions under the influence of illegal substances though, Dylans "A hard rain is gonna fall" MR Tambourine man" and now Big Als '"A little moped called Huffy" ;D ;D
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funky moped even :)