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Title: Split personality?
Post by: Tomb on May 04, 2020, 03:38:40 PM: Lovely C70 on ebay. I wonder if the headstock number matches the plate ;D

(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/REMAAOSw0nlery5j/s-l1600.jpg)
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HONDA-C70-BARN-FIND-PROJECT-SPARES-OR-REPAIRS-VINTAGE-CLASSIC-1970S/333590463937?_trkparms=aid%3D1110001%26algo%3DSPLICE.SIM%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20190212102350%26meid%3Dd71e614dd80c4c3e8f186a5306e0522a%26pid%3D100012%26rk%3D6%26rkt%3D12%26sd%3D174261718727%26itm%3D333590463937%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2047675&_trksid=p2047675.c100012.m1985
Title: Re: Split personality?
Post by: JamesH on May 04, 2020, 04:08:36 PM: Quote from: Tomb on May 04, 2020, 03:38:40 PM
Lovely C70 on ebay. I wonder if the headstock number matches the plate ;D

(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/REMAAOSw0nlery5j/s-l1600.jpg)
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HONDA-C70-BARN-FIND-PROJECT-SPARES-OR-REPAIRS-VINTAGE-CLASSIC-1970S/333590463937?_trkparms=aid%3D1110001%26algo%3DSPLICE.SIM%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20190212102350%26meid%3Dd71e614dd80c4c3e8f186a5306e0522a%26pid%3D100012%26rk%3D6%26rkt%3D12%26sd%3D174261718727%26itm%3D333590463937%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2047675&_trksid=p2047675.c100012.m1985
Title: Re: Split personality?
Post by: SumpMagnet on May 04, 2020, 04:40:57 PM: I want it!

Just...NOT to ride, but to hang on the wall as art. It IS art. Bodging like that takes dedication and vision.

I don;t know if it's the front mudguard off a bike with much larger wheels....the fact that the blue bikes shocks have been bodged on the front after the suspension collapsed, and the red bikes suspension popped on the back.....or the lovely way the 2 bikes were sawn up and welded together. Or the ripped seat, siezed engine, grotty wheels.....

Still make a great bike for spares. If you need a spare boat anchor that is.

Found in a shed in Ilford....and should have been left there.
Title: Re: Split personality?
Post by: hairygit on May 04, 2020, 05:47:27 PM: The frame number on those is on the left side of the frame as you sit on it, above the engine, not on the headstock. The front shock conversion is actually quite popular with the nutters that race them (yes, they really do, it's called plop racing!) A very easy job to fit a different headstock to one, just a tube tacked inside the main backbone, slide the headstock part over it, check alignment, then weld securely, job done!

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