eBay bike from your birth year?

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I've got a 65 and a 69 bike in the garage...so far none of you lot are eligible.
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I used to race a 1976 RD250... which was two years older than me.
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Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: Wed Feb 10, 2021 9:30 pm Nothing, everything on eBay from 1967 was horrible
I'll buy you this then. :thumbup:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1967-SUZUKI- ... SwACRfP9FL


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Wscad wrote: Wed Feb 10, 2021 8:37 pm I thought most of these bikes should have numberplate on the front mudguard. My 1973 Suzuki 250gt had one on.
gov.uk website says

Motorcycles and motor tricycles registered on or after 1 September 2001 must only display a number plate at the rear of the vehicle.

If you ride a motorbike or motor tricycle registered before 1 September 2001 you can also display a number plate at the front, but you do not have to.


Front number plates were compulsory before 1975
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I was struggling to find anything at all :thumbdown:
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Still a bit too young
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G.P wrote: Thu Feb 11, 2021 1:51 pm This or a T100 with bathtub
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1960-Triumph ... SwdGtgJCLL

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That's bloody clean :)

But you'll need thick soled boots with that weedy front brake :mrgreen:
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Yorick wrote: Thu Feb 11, 2021 2:14 pm
G.P wrote: Thu Feb 11, 2021 1:51 pm This or a T100 with bathtub
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1960-Triumph ... SwdGtgJCLL

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That's bloody clean :)

But you'll need thick soled boots with that weedy front brake :mrgreen:
Its virtually non existent :wtf:

Just stamp on the rear and slide it about!
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First result for 1957 Motorcycle:

The notoriously unsaleable Douglas Dragonfly.

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^^^^ love the colour scheme though, would go lovely with your tweeds :)
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G.P wrote: Thu Feb 11, 2021 4:13 pm ^^^^ love the colour scheme though, would go lovely with your tweeds :)
I’d be practically invisible.

Wouldn’t have it any other way, frankly!
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If I had the moolah.....

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1973-Laverda ... SwvqVb~BBV

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Although: either the photos are shite, or the respray needs redoing.
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Rockburner wrote: Thu Feb 11, 2021 4:57 pm If I had the moolah.....

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1973-Laverda ... SwvqVb~BBV

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Although: either the photos are shite, or the respray needs redoing.
OK so Rockburner wins the thread, that's what an orange coloured bike should look like :twisted:
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I'm changing my answer.

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Mr. Dazzle wrote: Thu Feb 11, 2021 8:24 pm I'm changing my answer.

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Leg shields but no mudguards?
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Ya dinna need both!