Maybe not classic, but...

Thanks Krusty. I have the requesite skills, as it happens. Just a little
rusty - er - just a little Rusty?

I'll post progress.

 

My onetime neighbour had four Reliant Scimitars and some spare engines.
When he was moving, he said that if he had an engine left unsold, I
could have it.

Greedy punters bought the lot. I have a 1959 SIIA SWB Lard Roller which
has an Essex engine in it - trouble is, the pistons must move as much
from side-to-side as they do in the correct direction.

 

it's not a CB250RS, that. Or not standard, anyway. I'd hazard a guess at
some subspecies of XL250, but no doubt TOG can advise./

 

Well spotted. Must be a bitsa of some sort - XL downpipes (& seat?),
but disc front brake. XL with CB front end maybe?

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'02 MV Senna '03 Tiger 955i '96 Tiger '79 Fantic Hiro 250

 

I think it may be a later CL250.

 

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RS 250, rebuilt out of bits - including Kawasaki brake and clutch
levers, a nicely made guard/shield/cover - that ooo-shiny! bit under the
Ducktape-covered seat.

Nemmind - one of my fiends has a similar jobbie, but with a Honda (?)
400cc engine in it. I'm beginning to get ideas above my wallet.

 

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Approximate year of first use 1980.

Whoever put it together made a tidy job of it, if you discount the seat
cover. It belonged to a boy who used it for offroad riding (hence the
knobbly on the back and the quasi-tractor tyre on the front), but he's
16 in a few months and was raising money to buy a 'moped'²²³

²²³My idea of what a moped is and what the kids/MoT think it is differ widely.

_I_ look at an NSU Quickly, a Victoria, a Mobylette, etc and think
'moped'. Everyone else these days refers to any small motorcycle or
scooter as a 'moped'.

Pah! Yoofertoday innit!

 

Is that a bungee waiting to snag the back wheel?