A Blast From The Past......

roadrunner · Post by **roadrunner** » Sun Mar 23, 2014 9:34 am

Just found this picture I took recently of another "Goldie" belonging to a friend. This one has the original steel tank fitted. The quality of this picture against my other photos is startling!

banner001 · Post by **banner001** » Sun Mar 23, 2014 8:42 pm

"new" photos of an old bike, my mates 1966 Triumph 6T rebuild is here, its his ride for out inverness trip last year
http://www.coventrybikers.co.uk/phpBB2/ ... =25&t=6821

Teego · Post by **Teego** » Tue Mar 25, 2014 9:51 pm

Interesting pair of flares in photo 3. Whose the old guy losing his lunch in the last one? Bikes are good tho.

dangerousdave · Post by **dangerousdave** » Tue Mar 25, 2014 10:44 pm

My dad has got 3 velocettes now and his mate has gold star all absolutely mint I'll take some pics and get them on here, had a lot to do with two of them when restoring them from powder coating all the bits to making engine plates and respoking the wheels, been out on them a few times and I can honestly say they are great to ride.

roadrunner · Post by **roadrunner** » Thu Mar 27, 2014 9:04 am

banner001 wrote:"new" photos of an old bike, my mates 1966 Triumph 6T rebuild is here, its his ride for out inverness trip last year
http://www.coventrybikers.co.uk/phpBB2/ ... =25&t=6821

Interesting that John. Reminds me of how we all did that sort of thing then. Not had to do any of that since I started riding modern Japanese bikes. The trick is to buy a good example and then look after it I suppose. Back in those days I never had the money to do that so a strip and rebuild was the only way to end up with a good bike

roadrunner · Post by **roadrunner** » Thu Mar 27, 2014 9:12 am

dangerousdave wrote:My dad has got 3 velocettes now and his mate has gold star all absolutely mint I'll take some pics and get them on here, had a lot to do with two of them when restoring them from powder coating all the bits to making engine plates and respoking the wheels, been out on them a few times and I can honestly say they are great to ride.

Can't wait to see the pics Dave.

Anyone else out there with any?

roadrunner · Post by **roadrunner** » Thu Mar 27, 2014 9:28 am

Teego wrote:Interesting pair of flares in photo 3. Whose the old guy losing his lunch in the last one? Bikes are good tho.

That "old guy" ( I'm older than him

) is my mate Les from way back. It was him that took the photos of my bike at Oliver's Mount. A very clever bloke is Les, currently building 3 bikes at the moment. One an original 500 "Goldie", hence his close scrutiny of the bike in the picture. Two, a Seely 500 Gold Star and three, a Manx Triton.

I'll try to find some more pictures and put them up if I can.

I wondered how long it would be before someone mentioned "the flairs"

roadrunner · Post by **roadrunner** » Thu Mar 27, 2014 1:31 pm

Just dug out these.......

Another Gold Star with that "old guy" again....

A beautiful Manx Norton.... Both these bikes live in the dining room. Where else?

A home made Honda 250cc 4 cylinder. All fabricated and made by the chap who owns the above bikes. It uses an imported 250 4 engine.

The same bike but with that same "old guy" yet again.

A Seely Gold Star

Another Gold Star. You can probably tell by now that I have a bit of a thing about older bikes and "Goldies" in particular

dangerousdave · Post by **dangerousdave** » Thu Mar 27, 2014 8:33 pm

Now them there fella are some nice bikes, shown me old man he was getting moist

roadrunner · Post by **roadrunner** » Thu Mar 27, 2014 8:36 pm

dangerousdave wrote:Now them there fella are some nice bikes, shown me old man he was getting moist

Too much information Dave

dangerousdave · Post by **dangerousdave** » Thu Mar 27, 2014 8:40 pm

Gonna upload some pics in a sec ....

dangerousdave · Post by **dangerousdave** » Thu Mar 27, 2014 8:43 pm

The venom clubman.

dangerousdave · Post by **dangerousdave** » Thu Mar 27, 2014 8:46 pm

And the correct tank for it , just had it sprayed..

dangerousdave · Post by **dangerousdave** » Thu Mar 27, 2014 8:48 pm

The thruxton , he's had this since he was a lad

dangerousdave · Post by **dangerousdave** » Thu Mar 27, 2014 8:51 pm

And the MSS he's halfway through.