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SS50 resto

Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2017 12:49 pm
by SS50-5
Bike as bought, I think i paid about £180 for it

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Re: SS50 resto

Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2017 1:09 pm
by knapdog
I'm looking forward to this restoration, particularly since you've put up a pic of its current condition.

Re: SS50 resto

Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2017 1:26 pm
by SS50-5
Those pics are from 2008, it's all but done now except for getting it running right etc.
I did have a stack of step-by-step pics uploaded to a sports moped site. Stupidly I deleted them from my photobucket because I thought I could always get them off the moped site if I needed them any time....but the fooking site went bang so I've only got these 2 of the resto stage:
Seat re-covered

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Tank decal-ed and painted

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Re: SS50 resto

Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2017 4:48 pm
by Mick-H
£180 is what I paid for my SS50 5 speed back in 1977.
Got it a week before my 16th birthday after working as a milk boy in the mornings and on petrol pumps at night.
LTE 832P the only registration I've ever been able to remember.

Re: SS50 resto

Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2017 5:07 pm
by SS50-5
I had to make do with a lowly 4-speed, 2 years old for £150, Bank of Dad paid for it :D

Re: SS50 resto

Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2017 12:16 am
by Andrewwoey
Great machines. Its one of my bikes that i won't sell.

Re: SS50 resto

Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2017 7:36 am
by SS50-5
Mick-H wrote:£180 is what I paid for my SS50 5 speed back in 1977.
Got it a week before my 16th birthday after working as a milk boy in the mornings and on petrol pumps at night.
LTE 832P the only registration I've ever been able to remember.
P reg 5 speed, was it a drum brake model then :?:

Re: SS50 resto

Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2017 8:03 pm
by Mick-H
Thinks so but not 100% sure, almost forty years ago :o

Re: SS50 resto

Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2017 8:09 pm
by SS50-5
Pretty sure they only came in a red/orange colour.

Re: SS50 resto

Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2017 12:59 am
by Mick-H
Mine was orange :D