T i m wrote:

Initially it was the interest of getting powered transport (I bought
the Honda P50 off my English teacher at Secondary school (for £5) with
a stripped plug thread) repaired it then rode it from my 16th birthday
till being given and collecting the NSU Quicky as a wheelbarrow full
of parts, put it together, got that road legal and carried on on that
... because it was Quicker than the P50. ;-)

I did spend time on rusty bits of the Quickly, which had been my
dad's. Its demise was rear wheel failure. The drum brake was only
half the width of the hub, so the housing was stepped. It failed
with a complete circumferential crack at the change of section.
Luckily I wasn't moving too fast at the moment the back end began
to feel very sloppy indeed.

A Honda 50 kept me mobile through my student years. Towards the
end it had a few problems - the timing seemed to need almost
weekly adjustment, the oil drain plug thread was worn, and needed
a cereal packet packing washer to seal properly.

There was an occasion, whilst plodding along the East Lancs Road,
when the slightly oscillating engine sound that I now know to be
the sign of a worn/ stretched chain was followed by the noise of
the chain wrapping itself around the sprocket.

I hitched into Warrington, bought a new chain and chain wheel (no
sprocket in stock), removed flash from the sprocket using the
kerbstone, and continued on my journey.

Eventually I upgraded to a Honda 175, but was no longer doing
long runs. Sadly, I managed to collide with a car when I was
turning right. Luckily it was the bike that went down, whilst I
ended up on the car bonnet. I mended, the bike didn't, so it was
back to a Honda 70, which lasted me until my first car.

Chris
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Chris J Dixon Nottingham UK
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