Rescued from skip.. Moulton :)

[bonk man]

Excellent find at the local recycle centre, I was chucking some bent frames in the metal skip and spotted a Moulton Standard buried under an old radiator and rusty car wheels, the skip master dragged it out, a bit rusty but straight and the wheels go round plus the Sturmey seems ok.
Will blow the tyres up tomorrow, set up the 4 speed and go for a pedal..
what a treat

 

[palinurus]

Oooh, lucky.

 

[bonk man]

Just been for a pedal on it, tyres stayed up and the gears work. It also boings up and down smoothly Unfortunately the saddle was full of water.....

 

[John the Monkey]

By gum that's very lucky indeed - photos in the gallery once you have chance...

 

[bonk man]

Pics can be found at this address [ if all goes to plan ]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/67774599@N00/sets/72157604848282595/detail/?deleted=2499037683

enjoy and don't get too envious

 

[PrettyboyTim]

Pics can be found at this address [ if all goes to plan ]enjoy and don't get too envious

Too late!

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Lucky bugger! Enjoy it, and let's see some more once you've restored it to its former glory!

 

[mickle]

A friend of mine spent an age and a fortune doing up a Moulton for his brother's 40th, took it for a test ride, rode gently off a kerb and the steerer failed. Worth checking before you go too far.

 

[Disgruntled Goat]

Isn't it nice when something like that happens?

 

[dodgy]

Beauty surely is in the eye of the beholder. But nice find, will be an interesting (though no doubt costly) project to restore it.

 

[bonk man]

A friend of mine spent an age and a fortune doing up a Moulton for his brother's 40th, took it for a test ride, rode gently off a kerb and the steerer failed. Worth checking before you go too far.

What part of the steering failed? Stem or forks and why? I had the steering go on a Chopper when I was a kid, 30 mph at the bottom of a hill, nasty, big elbow hurty

 

[mickle]

Water collects in the steerer and rots it from the inside. The crown falls off the steerer.

 

[bonk man]

A ha ,,, will have look at that before taking part in the xmas freewheel competition down the British Camp [ its big, its long and its 50 mph ]

 

[xpc316e]

I am so glad that this bike was saved at the last minute by someone who knew what it was.

 

[bonk man]

Actually it is not the first Moulton I have got from that tip, I had one about 15 years ago. It has been a bit of a gold mine of old bikes over the years, the best one possibly was a 40's New Hudson Racer in working order !

I have had a Viscount Aerospace, Peugeot 1960's tourer frame [ anyone fancy it it is for sale ] lots of granny bikes, the earliest going back to the 20's. Choppers, Grifters, 20's, and allsorts of odd folders, unicycles and numerous 531 framed bikes passed on to new homes. I only wish I could intercept all the treasure that goes to the scrappy...... my wife would blow her top, in a previous life I accumulated maybe 200 bikes and frames..... a mental illness but a harmless one

Current collection of odd stuff [complete bikes] not including "normal bikes"..
Moulton, 40's delivery bike, couple of 50's granny bikes, Fred Grubb tandem so fairly sane at the moment but I do have a 20'x12' shed so plenty of expanding room