great website for mopeds

[wilchatron]

http://www.icenicam.ukfsn.org/market.html

This is a good site with some old cyclemotors and mopeds, a nice looking honda 50 at the top, for example. I don't know if anyone agrees with me but i really like the old pedal and pop mopeds

Will

[maverick]

My dad has just restored a raliegh runabout, I must say it is a decent job but it still looks like a push bike haha

[Black Sheep Radical]

I must get my Batavus Batavette on the road. All it needs is rear wheel bearings, a bulb horn and for the carb to not widdle fuel all over the floor. One day...

[davebike]

Batavus Batavette!!

I haven't seen one of those since I left the first dealer I worked for in 1979 we used to service a couple of them

Dave

[Harry Notts]

I've got a rough and ready Mobylette AV79.

[wilchatron]

funny you mentioned the batavus with a dodgy carb, before i had my cub i had a '74 Batavus Go-Go, which was nowehere near powerful enough for someone my size in yorkshire. No variator, single speed so very slow. It also piddled petrol ALL the time. Complete waste of money but hey i'm a stupid teenager. I'm thinking of buying a variated mobylette to do up but i am paying off a land rover defender and its (relatively cheap) insurance atm so it'll be a while til i can afford an extra bike

[Dogsbody]

Worked on Raleigh Runabout, NSU Quickly, Phillips Gadabout, Norman Nippy, Raleigh Wisp,RAP and fastest of the lot ,Itom. In the 60s it was surprising how many there were, get to work machines no fuss, no frills. Even sold Honda 50s- they were brought in by Bill Hannah from Liverpool, reconditioned in Japan, identical to a brand new Honda but were only £66. The wiring loom on one I sold was dated 1959- I sold it as a new bike in 1967 Dogsbody

[Black Sheep Radical]

...Batavus ... nowehere near powerful enough ... very slow ... piddled petrol ALL the time ... Complete waste of money...

This sounds all too familiar It was cheap, though, and there was this Buy It Now button y'see It's still got the original paint & Dutch dealer sticker (it was only imported to the UK in 1975) and the previous owner was a man of the cloth!



It runs, the lights work and everything! I even bought it a pair of Michelins so I don't fall off cornering at 8mph. One day... once the CT is finished, once the Elite is done etc etc

[Harry Notts]

What is there to do to it BSR?It looks excellent. Book an Mot and get it out and about.There's a pedal and pop run at Tadcaster next weekend.

[Black Sheep Radical]

What is there to do to it BSR?It looks excellent. Book an Mot and get it out and about.There's a pedal and pop run at Tadcaster next weekend.

There's play in the rear wheel bearings, no horn (a bulb one will do for this age though) and I can't get the front brake to lock the wheel. It runs well, but the carb has been messed with (choke mechanism removed - why ) and needs rebuilding because it leaks badly. Oh, and the centre-stand is missing, so you have to do a racing-style flying start