SS50 resto

[SS50-5]

Bike as bought, I think i paid about £180 for it

[knapdog]

I'm looking forward to this restoration, particularly since you've put up a pic of its current condition.

[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



Tank decal-ed and painted

[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.

[SS50-5]

I had to make do with a lowly 4-speed, 2 years old for £150, Bank of Dad paid for it

[Andrewwoey]

Great machines. Its one of my bikes that i won't sell.

[SS50-5]

£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

[Mick-H]

Thinks so but not 100% sure, almost forty years ago

[SS50-5]

Pretty sure they only came in a red/orange colour.

[Mick-H]

Mine was orange