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Title: Anyone looking for a 500 project ?
Post by: McCabe-Thiele (Ted) on January 20, 2023, 04:15:57 AM: Spotted this at DK for sale.

.https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/354484582597?hash=item5288ed78c5:g:YR0AAOSw5-JjrZHb
Title: Re: Anyone looking for a 500 project ?
Post by: Johnny4428 on January 20, 2023, 07:21:02 AM: Yes Ted, project potential. Typical yank bike with that bloody carbuncle of a seat!🤣🤣
Title: Re: Anyone looking for a 500 project ?
Post by: McCabe-Thiele (Ted) on January 20, 2023, 01:22:04 PM: I like the idea/theory of that type of seat - with my badly designed torso/leg length ratio the best riding position would probably be me sat on the middle hump!
Title: Re: Anyone looking for a 500 project ?
Post by: Johnny4428 on January 20, 2023, 07:24:02 PM: Quote from: McCabe-Thiele (Ted) on January 20, 2023, 01:22:04 PM
I like the idea/theory of that type of seat - with my badly designed torso/leg length ratio the best riding position would probably be me sat on the middle hump!

Ouch!🤣🤣🤣
Title: Re: Anyone looking for a 500 project ?
Post by: Sesman on January 20, 2023, 08:49:22 PM: What you need Ted is a single spike. Two spikes would be an indulgenceâ€¦..
Title: Re: Anyone looking for a 500 project ?
Post by: Johnny4428 on January 20, 2023, 09:19:46 PM: Quote from: Sesman on January 20, 2023, 08:49:22 PM
What you need Ted is a single spike. Two spikes would be an indulgenceâ€¦..

Stop you sliding off the seat!🤭
Title: Re: Anyone looking for a 500 project ?
Post by: Laverdaroo on January 20, 2023, 10:57:02 PM: Quote from: Sesman on January 20, 2023, 08:49:22 PM
What you need Ted is a single spike. Two spikes would be an indulgenceâ€¦..

;D
Title: Re: Anyone looking for a 500 project ?
Post by: Davelu88 on January 21, 2023, 04:31:35 PM: If anyone member on here had a 500/550 I could very well be interested. :)
Title: Re: Anyone looking for a 500 project ?
Post by: McCabe-Thiele (Ted) on January 21, 2023, 06:06:27 PM: Oddjob & Bryanj have most of the parts to make one in their stash.😁😁😁
Title: Re: Anyone looking for a 500 project ?
Post by: Bryanj on January 21, 2023, 07:02:09 PM: What do you want to know?
Title: Re: Anyone looking for a 500 project ?
Post by: Seabeowner on January 21, 2023, 07:10:05 PM: When I started getting bikes from DK six years ago that would have been Â£1199 with no reserve.
Title: Re: Anyone looking for a 500 project ?
Post by: Sesman on January 21, 2023, 07:36:33 PM: Yep, around Â£1500 today. At the price and following a full restoration I think the total turn out cost would be about Â£6500 to Â£7000.

You pays your moneyâ€¦..
Title: Re: Anyone looking for a 500 project ?
Post by: Oddjob on January 21, 2023, 11:59:37 PM: The trouble with the bike is that it needs so many unobtainable parts, new seat, tanks got a huge crease in it, who knows whatâ€™s wrong with the engine, the list goes on.

My stash is slowly but surely becoming smaller, sure I have a NOS seat, stacks of engine parts but sometimes itâ€™s the smaller stuff that stops a build, until some manufacturer decides to retool and make some more parts the ability to restore these bikes will become harder and harder and more and more expensive by the year.
Title: Re: Anyone looking for a 500 project ?
Post by: Laverdaroo on January 22, 2023, 05:52:28 PM: I second that, its been all the little stuff that make other stuff work thats stalled me so much. That and cost a small fortune!

That one's a 50 feet bike isnt it, you getcloser than 50 feet towards it abd it starts tio show its issues after looking not bad with a squint.
Title: Re: Anyone looking for a 500 project ?
Post by: Laverdaroo on January 22, 2023, 05:54:47 PM: And it's Brown!!! :-[
Title: Re: Anyone looking for a 500 project ?
Post by: gary123 on January 23, 2023, 06:21:27 PM: Quote from: Laverdaroo on January 22, 2023, 05:54:47 PM
And it's Brown!!! :-[

Cheeky bugger, nowt wrong wi brown.
Title: Re: Anyone looking for a 500 project ?
Post by: Oddjob on January 23, 2023, 09:52:49 PM: There's a reason why crap is brown ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Anyone looking for a 500 project ?
Post by: McCabe-Thiele (Ted) on January 23, 2023, 10:08:05 PM: Quote from: gary123 on January 23, 2023, 06:21:27 PM
Quote from: Laverdaroo on January 22, 2023, 05:54:47 PM
And it's Brown!!! :-[

Cheeky bugger, nowt wrong wi brown.

I agree though I was a Cub not a Brownie.😁😁😁
Title: Re: Anyone looking for a 500 project ?
Post by: Laverdaroo on January 24, 2023, 08:30:36 AM: Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk