Recently aquired a 2010 Fabia 1.9 tdi PD Estate. I am very old, live in south Kent, and am interested in old british motorcycles.

Briefly owned a Skoda 120 many years ago before passing it onto my son (to wreck). Only other similar car was a Seat Ibiza also with the PD engine.

 

Brad

Hi Graham.

Hi and welcome

2 hours ago, Rustynuts said:

Hi Graham.

Hi Rustynuts. I see I have been rumbled. You left the "e" off the end though.

57 minutes ago, challenger said:

Hi and welcome

20 minutes ago, Emaharg said:

Hi Rustynuts. I see I have been rumbled. You left the "e" off the end though.

I figured it would be Graham E***

A warm welcome to the Forum Brad !  Also old and used to ride bikes a few years ago.  The last was a Rocket Gold Star.  Worth serious money now.  Such a shame the British bike industry disappeared.

Hi Oldmansomerset.

Always fancied an RGS or even a Shooting Star. As you say, serious money now. I've seen an RGS at over £20,000 recently. Seems crazy to me, but clearly some people are able to afford that kind of money, or maybe they regard it as better than money in the bank.

I've got a 1955 Matchless G80S which I ride as often as the arthritis allows. It brings back great memories of one that I built from bits back in 1965. Also have a 1952 BSA M21 which started life as an AA patrol bike. A good friend bought it when the AA changed to mini vans and in 1964 and with wife on the pillion, (rigid frame) , they rode it from London to Australia then round Tasmania and New Zealand. No problems apart from a puncture in NZ. His wife gifted it to me when he died in 2015. Up an running and totally unrestored.

Happy days.

Yes the good old M21.  We had them in the Army in the early 60s, three speed box and had been issued in the 1940s.  I found them a bit of a handful after the RGS but adapted to them, although they were not generally loved.  Don't think I'll do bikes again, pre- war Morris are more my thing these days.  Just sold a lovely Morris Oxford 1930 and am wondering whether to get something else.  Too much scrambling about on the ground not good for my older bones