There`s Money In Old Bikes

I assume that the only only people bidding are conceptual artists.

 

I can't quite believe that

 

maybe if it was a rare brough or something but to even bid £1 for those is crazy.

 

Well I've lost! it's on £265 as of this morning.

 

Seen better condition ones on the Thistlegorm ..... 28mtr under water

 

Was that a Guzzi?

 

The cargo was a mixture of BSA and Nortons. Could not tell you which this is.

 

Staggering! I guess it may well be an M21 - it certaninly isn't anything desirable like a Gold Star or Rocket 3 !

Back in the 70s when I was looking for my first bike I went to see a CZ175, for sale cheap by a small dealer in East Malling I think - they specialised in Velocettes but had somehow acquired the specimen I was interested in (a mistake - fortunately I realised this and walked away). I was also offered an old M21 which I think they described as "rough, would make good field bike" - in much better condition than this ebay item, but even with 40 years less age it looked to me like scrap iron!

 

I've MOT'd worse....
Bit of Tcut it'll look showroom...
I wonder if the buyer is after the numberplate perhaps? A 'optimistic' MOT and a form or two from the DVLA?

 

Rigid frame and sidevalve engine by the look of it. I'm guessing Norton ES2.

 

The cargo was a mixture of BSA and Nortons. Could not tell you which this is.

 

Yep, Norton 16H. I never was any good with brit bikes.

 

And more to the point, who cares..?

 

The ES2 was not a sidevalve, so no.

 

I know, I meant 16H.

 

Well, it's not like there was a lone lunatic bidding on it, over £700 with 26 bids :-o