I love it !! My son had one for restoring but not sure if he's still got it, i'll find out when i visit next year. My best wishes to you from the Philippines ❤️👍💪😉😀😁🏁🏍️🛺🐑🇵🇭🏴⭐
Interesting vid', we need more like this. I started my motorcycling journey on it's grandaddy in 1962 at the age of 16, it was a 1952 Motobecane Mobylette.
Great vlog good to see that you have your childhood dream in your possession very interesting your history in finding and owning this bike and as a 1966 it looks so clean and the kind of bike for the living room to look at all the time - and I’m sure it’s a blast to ride Thanks for the show Regards from Florida 🦩🦩
This is what I really enjoy with your channel VB. Not only do you have interesting bikes but you know the history and stories behind them, as well as personal anecdotes that only come through lived experience. Well done mate, and cheers from downunder!
When i was 10 we had a 2 stroke yamaha 80.that thing refused to die.6 years later and untold abuse it was still going. I guess that was the beginning. I had bought a 305 Honda at 11 but it wouldn't stay running over a electric gremlin.
What a cracking little bike! Can’t recall ever seeing one, very interesting. My two wheeled life started on a Puch VS50D in 1972, three speed twistgrip gears…
A very nice little bike made even better by its' rarity. They made a lot of interesting & unusual motorbikes in the olde days, it's rather fun just to see them & occasionally the owners will take them for a spin down the road. We have nice enough bikes today but really they all have categories now & they all seem to look alike depending on the type you choose to own. Thanks for showing yours, a little blast from the past. Ric, ontario canada, once bikes are in your blood it can be an incurable addiction, the only relief is to ride as much as possible.
That's a nice little bike! Back in early '62 I owned a 1959 Raleigh RM1; no clutch and no gears meant that it stalled at every red light and most intersections. Heavy to pedal too, so it soon got traded for a far more practical Vespa 125. Still, it was the start of my (legal) biking; still riding at 79; have an '05 Guzzi 750 Breva.
Very interesting bike! I started my career on a 1979 Garelli VIP 3 (a 40km/h Mokick that you could ride without a license) in 1987 and switched in 1988 to a 1981 Zündapp KS 50 WC which was an unlimited 50cc bike, but needed a motorcycle licence in Austria. Rode the Zündapp in my summer holidays from Innsbruck up to Gothenburg in Sweden on my first vacation without my parents - unlimited freedom with 90km/h…❤😂
@SkysaxonDragonslayer At one point back in the day, I had a Zundapp Combinette. It was very similar to the NSU Quickly being two speed on the handlebar gearshift. It was rescued from a scrapyard by my Grandfather. The woodruff key had sheared in the flywheel and he made and fitted a new one and it was as good as new!
Intresting little bike i remember buzzin around the block with my elder brother on an NSU quickly tink i was about six years old lol ,can't beat a bit of history with a touch of nostalgia.
hi ardie here northern ireland, recently bought classic 500 reg 2021 450 miles be interested in your chain adjustment procedure, as i read people have problems with it, i will get steel rule out and go from swing arm axle and measure when time comes, what about you great channel
@arthurlynch1549 Hi there! The 500's have lines scribed on the rear adjusters, which is ok if you like counting lines! Best bet is a straight edge contacting the four points of both wheel rims. Thanks for the compliment!
Very cool looking classic moped I love small bikes you can have a lot of fun with them and at a low cost recently sold most of my moped collection already missing them all the best
@@Volcanicbrown1878 had to be done got too many too keep them all and down sizing to small bungalow with not enough storage as my storage bill every month is a nightmare
1966 is my era but I cannot remember seeing one of these mopeds. My favourite at this time was the NSU Quickly but I have never had one. Would I love to turn the clock back to those times, the modern retro is a tempter with their quality. A walk into your shed must be like stepping back in time. All the best John😊👍🏍
Hi...i owned a blue & black one up until just recently (sold it to make room for other projects) Danny from Mopedland / Icenicam took it to write an article on & road test for the online magazine along side a white bike which i presume is the one in this video...had mine up to an indicated 47mph on the wavy Huret speedometer but it would cruise along happily at all day at 40mph.
It never ceases to amaze me, the amount of different bikes and brand names this country used to produce, most of which fell by the wayside and every now and then something pops up that I’ve never seen before. I’ve never seen one of these before. The bike world is a constant education 😁
The bike looks very nice. You had taste even back then! Love then video and the story.. My childhood dream where the Puch mopeds, we spoke about them few months back that you use to race against one. Never had one later in life.
Great little bike,i know i'd have the urge to fill the hole in the middle with something ! I know its unlikely but i'd love to hear your opinions on the new RE Guerilla 450 , I havent ridden one personally but wonder if the over square engine would loose the engine character of these older models, just a thought. 👍
Cracker of a bike . I spotted the Nottinghamshire registration . AU . [ AL , RR , NN were others ] . It's a pity that there aren't more dealers like Aplins still around . As an aside ,Pidcocks in Derby have just gone bust . I remember when Roy Pidcock had a small shop in Derby , before the company went big and flashy . Boom and bust 😮. Sign of the times . Keep on mopedalling Mr Brown !
@dungspreader Odd looking for today's eyes! It is, as you say, a sign of the times. Why doesn't anything change for the better? I ask myself. Brian Aplin took over the business from his father in 1959. Ran the shop all those years and finally retired a few years back. (A very old man!)
@ruahinesrider It's fun going down to the local McDonald's on a Friday night, All the youngsters gather there on their modern mopeds, They all laugh at this one, so I challenge them to a race, knowing that all the modern mopeds are restricted to 30mph. After I have beaten them all, they are all over it like a rash!
@bigvinny333 Just went and checked and you are right! Now I know what it looks like, It shouldn't be too hard to make one! I have got all the books, parts and owners manual, had them since I was 16! I knew they would be useful one day!
It has the continuously variable gearing like the French Mobylette. I had a chap come and stay at my place as a Couchsurfer. He had such a Mobylette which he was using for long distance touring. He rebuilt the engine at my place and fitted new main bearings. I was fascinated by the way the engine moves as the gearing changes. I put a video of that on my channel.
@Phiyedough There are 3 ball bearings in the cheeks of the clutch pulley which fly outwards due to centrifugal force and close the pulley up, forcing the belt to run higher in the pulley. The centrifugal force is balanced by a spring that the engine pivots against. It's a very simple but clever design. If you want a good read about a guy on a Mobylette try this! mopedtrip.com/
Looks very similar to the Mobylette SP50 Sports Speciale of the era. The first super-mopeds tended to use stock moped frames and add a tank to give a motorbike appearance. I love them, and would have been all over your Super 50. They went on to make the SP93 and SP95 in a similar idiom. I think Raleigh mopeds were re-badged Mobylettes, at least for a time.
@borderlands6606 Yes, they were built under Motobecane license. The SP50's were a bit more chunkier to look at. Some of the early Raleigh's were badge engineered for sure, but Raleigh made quite a few changes as the years passed by to cater for the UK market,
Very interesting bike, quite a looker for the period and with that performance any idea why they weren’t more successful ? Are you saving letting us hear and see it run for another video ?
@stewy62 You know, i completely forgot about starting it up! I'l have to do a ride out with it! I don't think that many were sold because they were a good bit dearer than the other Raleigh's in the range, I know they were way out of my price range back then!
Raleigh made some good things back in the day. I ride 70's raleigh push bikes and they are really well made, beautifully finished lugwork and high-end reynolds steel tubing. My only complaint with the bikes is they used their own proprietary threads on a lot of the fasteners so you HAVE to use raleigh fittings, like 26tpi when industry standard was 24tpi. I wonder if their mopeds are similar? Take care not to misplace any cycle part fasteners just in case.
@twostroke350 I have a whole nest of Raleigh pushbikes, Superbe's, Dawn tourist's, I even built a path racer out of a Chilton! Moving onto threads, most stuff on the Mopeds are metric as they were built under Motobcane licence But, there are exceptions!
@grantbaker3336 Most Brit bikes from the 40's to the 70's were 26tpi cycle apart from 30's BSA's which used 20mm on the rear wheel spindles! Don't ask me why!
I've never ever seen one of these. I've seen NSU Quickly's and Raleigh mopeds but not this one. I started out on a 98cc Excelsior Consort. I don't think that would have seen 50. 40 with a tailwind and downhill maybe.. I'm surprised that I've never seen a New Hudson, with the numbers phutting around Liverpool in the 50s and 60s in the hands of insurance "clubmen".
@peter7624 I don't think many were sold as they were quite a bit dearer than the other Raleigh's in the range. The Excelsior Consort was a 98cc using the Villiers MK 4F two stroke engine. as did the New Hudson autocycles. There are still quite a few New Hudson's about still.
Id never seen one of these I well remember the Whisp and Runabout and have actually worked on a few during my time in the M/C trade. The photo of Aplins was interesting I remember going in there once or twice they have very sadly closed now just a little over two years ago I think, almost next door to Aplins was L&Ds who were the Royal Enfield and Velocette spares people for the Bristol area.
Nah, I find the old little bikes interesting, so you put vids up. 👍 To be honest I can’t understand why anyone would want one ,🤣, especially when some are not exactly cheap! 😱 But thank goodness someone does and I can watch videos about them. A friend had lots of desirable big bikes but when he finished with those he started collecting, mostly British under 200cc bikes. Some even you might never have heard of 🤣. At one point he had as many as 30 at least! But he’s now selling in batches on Old Bike Mart. As he’s sadly not too well. I started on the various Honda C50’ et al. I went all over on that and put the miles in when I was a student! If I had a big garage I might buy another just to go to the shops! But I don’t - so I won’t! 🙄🤣
Definitely quirky. I seem to remember my aunt had the standard Wisp. The only experience I had with that "power" train was the Mobylette. I seem to remember we couldn't get the ignition timing to stay put! My first bike was my dad's old Norman Nippy. That was quite fast. He fitted a larger carb on a long inlet pipe. Detuned it before he gave it to me! 😂 He had fitted a dual seat. Had to buy a new engine for it, from Pride and Clark I think. Probably wore the old one out! Had other mods, such as battery ignition, because the standard mag coil had burnt out. He rewound it to match the lighting coil and get double the power out. Obviously needed a new ignition coil, so fitted one from a 30s Rover. Oh, and it had a 7 inch headlamp. Blimey, having written this, I think it might have out quirked the Super 50!
@spamhead That's the sort of things we used to do back in the day! A 7 inch headlamp? Wow! It would nearly need another engine just to power the light!
Very interesting video, a rare beast indeed, must be fun to ride! thanks for sharing VB
@patrickgreenman8248 Thanks for watching!
I love it !! My son had one for restoring but not sure if he's still got it, i'll find out when i visit next year. My best wishes to you from the Philippines ❤️👍💪😉😀😁🏁🏍️🛺🐑🇵🇭🏴⭐
Interesting vid', we need more like this. I started my motorcycling journey on it's grandaddy in 1962 at the age of 16, it was a 1952 Motobecane Mobylette.
@arthurpendragon7224 I know the model you mean, most were painted grey if I recall,
Nice video
What a lovely little bike
@nickmonkey284 Thanks ✌️
What a futuristic little thing. Looks like it weighs very little and certainly faster than an FS1E.
Great vlog good to see that you have your childhood dream in your possession very interesting your history in finding and owning this bike and as a 1966 it looks so clean and the kind of bike for the living room to look at all the time - and I’m sure it’s a blast to ride
Thanks for the show
Regards from Florida 🦩🦩
@johnfountain8588 Thanks John! Scary at 50mph!!
It’s brilliant,at 15 I bought an NSU quickly and learnt so much from owning it.
@billabongoneill There seemed to be loads of Quickly's about back then!
What a fabulous bike, new to me so thank you. 👍👍
@Grahamvfr Your welcome!
Thank you for another interesting video, we don't see enough of this kind of content.
@kevinwykes5501 Not many people making moped video's, so perhaps it fills a gap!
Warms my heart
@kf-kr4tt You must be like me, a refugee from the 1960's!
@@Volcanicbrown1878 nailed it
This is what I really enjoy with your channel VB. Not only do you have interesting bikes but you know the history and stories behind them, as well as personal anecdotes that only come through lived experience. Well done mate, and cheers from downunder!
@russparker71 That's Darned good of you. Thankyou!
What a lovely little machine.Never seen one before.
@richardjones3112 They were very rare.
When i was 10 we had a 2 stroke yamaha 80.that thing refused to die.6 years later and untold abuse it was still going. I guess that was the beginning. I had bought a 305 Honda at 11 but it wouldn't stay running over a electric gremlin.
What a cracking little bike! Can’t recall ever seeing one, very interesting. My two wheeled life started on a Puch VS50D in 1972, three speed twistgrip gears…
@SteveBernard42 I don't think Raleigh made many!
What a great little bike, very cool ! Thank you 😀
@felixVanDiemen Your welcome!
Thanks for showing! I skipped the moped phase as my mum would not let me have one 😁😁.
@GapBahnDirk Mum's were good at that! Mine didn't worry too much!
What a smashing little bike and you're right, I'd never heard of one before. My first 50cc was a Fantic Motor back in 1975. Good days. Thanks.
@cousinjack2841 Those Fantic's were a quick little bike back then but the engines didn't live very long!
A very nice little bike made even better by its' rarity. They made a lot of interesting & unusual motorbikes in the olde days, it's rather fun just to see them & occasionally the owners will take them for a spin down the road. We have nice enough bikes today but really they all have categories now & they all seem to look alike depending on the type you choose to own. Thanks for showing yours, a little blast from the past. Ric, ontario canada, once bikes are in your blood it can be an incurable addiction, the only relief is to ride as much as possible.
@ricbarnes6272 What a great comment, Thankyou!
That's a nice little bike! Back in early '62 I owned a 1959 Raleigh RM1; no clutch and no gears meant that it stalled at every red light and most intersections. Heavy to pedal too, so it soon got traded for a far more practical Vespa 125. Still, it was the start of my (legal) biking; still riding at 79; have an '05 Guzzi 750 Breva.
@chrisweeks6973 Ah, the dreaded RM1's with the dreadful Sturmey Archer engine! Not their best effort by a big margin!
Never seen or heard of one, so an interesting video of a bike with an interesting history!
@RockerMark The only time I ever saw one was when I went to buy this one!
Very interesting bike!
I started my career on a 1979 Garelli VIP 3 (a 40km/h Mokick that you could ride without a license) in 1987 and switched in 1988 to a 1981 Zündapp KS 50 WC which was an unlimited 50cc bike, but needed a motorcycle licence in Austria.
Rode the Zündapp in my summer holidays from Innsbruck up to Gothenburg in Sweden on my first vacation without my parents - unlimited freedom with 90km/h…❤😂
@SkysaxonDragonslayer At one point back in the day, I had a Zundapp Combinette. It was very similar to the NSU Quickly being two speed on the handlebar gearshift. It was rescued from a scrapyard by my Grandfather. The woodruff key had sheared in the flywheel and he made and fitted a new one and it was as good as new!
Intresting little bike i remember buzzin around the block with my elder brother on an NSU quickly tink i was about six years old lol ,can't beat a bit of history with a touch of nostalgia.
@kevbaldwin9552 My very first bike was a Raleigh Runabout (Which I still have) so my roots are in Raleigh!
Lovely bike and great story behind it👍
@Colin399 Thanks!
Very interesting little moped.
@davidgriffiths4234 I think so too!
I.ve never seen one till this video. Interesting. 👍
@zedcharlie They are very rare!
Great looking little bike.
@simonchilli2088 Thanks!
Great story! Well worth telling. I had no idea about these, beyond a rumour I heard many years ago.
@williamnethercott4364 According to Brian Aplin, he only ever sold one!
hi ardie here northern ireland, recently bought classic 500 reg 2021 450 miles be interested in your chain adjustment procedure, as i read people have problems with it, i will get steel rule out and go from swing arm axle and measure when time comes, what about you great channel
@arthurlynch1549 Hi there! The 500's have lines scribed on the rear adjusters, which is ok if you like counting lines! Best bet is a straight edge contacting the four points of both wheel rims. Thanks for the compliment!
Very cool looking classic moped I love small bikes you can have a lot of fun with them and at a low cost recently sold most of my moped collection already missing them all the best
@billyking722 I have managed to keep my little collection for many years! once they have gone, they are gone for good!
@@Volcanicbrown1878 had to be done got too many too keep them all and down sizing to small bungalow with not enough storage as my storage bill every month is a nightmare
@@billyking722 I'm just so lucky to have somewhere secure to keep all my bikes.
@@Volcanicbrown1878 very lucky man
This is interesting. As a lad in the 60s I can remember a variety of different motorbikes and scooters around then. Thanks.
@dezmondwhitney1208 So can I!
@@Volcanicbrown1878 Yes, VB, you have quite a number . It is great to see them all. Cheers.
1966 is my era but I cannot remember seeing one of these mopeds. My favourite at this time was the NSU Quickly but I have never had one. Would I love to turn the clock back to those times, the modern retro is a tempter with their quality. A walk into your shed must be like stepping back in time. All the best John😊👍🏍
@johnimmins7302 I think my whole life is like stepping back in time!
Hi...i owned a blue & black one up until just recently (sold it to make room for other projects) Danny from Mopedland / Icenicam took it to write an article on & road test for the online magazine along side a white bike which i presume is the one in this video...had mine up to an indicated 47mph on the wavy Huret speedometer but it would cruise along happily at all day at 40mph.
@antonyaustin8779 It was indeed my bike! Danny is only 10 mins away from me, The Huret speedo's! I have a box full of them and not two read the same!!
Lovely bike 👍👍
@paulwatts905 Thanks! ✌️
It never ceases to amaze me, the amount of different bikes and brand names this country used to produce, most of which fell by the wayside and every now and then something pops up that I’ve never seen before. I’ve never seen one of these before. The bike world is a constant education 😁
@thewanderin_rider I keep finding out new things everyday!
The bike looks very nice. You had taste even back then! Love then video and the story.. My childhood dream where the Puch mopeds, we spoke about them few months back that you use to race against one. Never had one later in life.
@Stefan_trekkie Yes, I remember our conversation about Puch. I am not so sure about me having taste back then!
Amazing stuff!
@54macdog Glad you enjoyed it
Where in Derbyshire were you born? From Derbyshire myself.
@JIMWSMITH A little (then!) place called Spondon
@@Volcanicbrown1878 just up the road from me in heanor / Eastwood.
@@JIMWSMITH I wish I was back there.
A wonderful little bike and a great back story. 👌
@iantownsend17 It's a funny looking thing by modern standards!
Great little bike,i know i'd have the urge to fill the hole in the middle with something ! I know its unlikely but i'd love to hear your opinions on the new RE Guerilla 450 , I havent ridden one personally but wonder if the over square engine would loose the engine character of these older models, just a thought. 👍
@aladinfox4098 I don't know anything about the Guerilla, never seen one in the flesh, so can't really say.
Cracker of a bike .
I spotted the Nottinghamshire registration . AU .
[ AL , RR , NN were others ] .
It's a pity that there aren't more dealers like Aplins still around . As an aside ,Pidcocks in Derby have just gone bust . I remember when Roy Pidcock had a small shop in Derby , before the company went big and flashy .
Boom and bust 😮.
Sign of the times .
Keep on mopedalling Mr Brown !
@dungspreader Odd looking for today's eyes! It is, as you say, a sign of the times. Why doesn't anything change for the better? I ask myself. Brian Aplin took over the business from his father in 1959. Ran the shop all those years and finally retired a few years back. (A very old man!)
Wow love it.Very 60's looking bike.50mph Wow 😲 amazing a pocket rocket 🚀 imagine the looks passing a car on it doing 45-50mph.
Probably worth a pretty penny nowadays.
@ruahinesrider It's fun going down to the local McDonald's on a Friday night, All the youngsters gather there on their modern mopeds, They all laugh at this one, so I challenge them to a race, knowing that all the modern mopeds are restricted to 30mph. After I have beaten them all, they are all over it like a rash!
@ruahinesrider Well, I will admit that even 15 years ago, I had to give just into 4 figures for it! That's what rarity does to things!!
Interesting stuff. I have never seen one of these before.
@ianbishop5951 No, not many people have!
It looks similar to a 72 sp 93 mobylette.
@marktiller1383 Similar, but the Sp was a bit more chunky to look at.
great vid, looks like a nsu quickly a bit, i had a 3 speed back in the day with the same type of seat, lucky to get 30!
You must have a bad example. I have a 3 speed quickly which will do 40 on the flat, mind you it takes a while to get there !
i like the look of that little raleigh, the smallest machine i had years ago was a james commet
@paultaylor961 It's an interesting bike for sure! lots of folk skipped the moped phase and went straight onto bigger bikes.
@@Volcanicbrown1878 like you said in the vid the tank looks like its almost floating.
There are a couple of images of RM12 bikes with the fly screen on Google images. There are some spare parts, manuals and parts lists on eBay.
There's a Raleigh RM12 video by Phil Cousins on YT with a Rickman flyscreen.
@bigvinny333 Just went and checked and you are right! Now I know what it looks like, It shouldn't be too hard to make one! I have got all the books, parts and owners manual, had them since I was 16! I knew they would be useful one day!
Search Moped Army RM12 Super 50 / Moped Wiki and there is an image of a bike with the screen showing the fixings as well
Looking at the moped army RM12 super 50 site, they have a good picture of bike with the screen showing the fittings.
@bigvinny333 Brilliant! Thankyou!
It has the continuously variable gearing like the French Mobylette. I had a chap come and stay at my place as a Couchsurfer. He had such a Mobylette which he was using for long distance touring. He rebuilt the engine at my place and fitted new main bearings. I was fascinated by the way the engine moves as the gearing changes. I put a video of that on my channel.
@Phiyedough There are 3 ball bearings in the cheeks of the clutch pulley which fly outwards due to centrifugal force and close the pulley up, forcing the belt to run higher in the pulley. The centrifugal force is balanced by a spring that the engine pivots against. It's a very simple but clever design. If you want a good read about a guy on a Mobylette try this! mopedtrip.com/
Looks very similar to the Mobylette SP50 Sports Speciale of the era. The first super-mopeds tended to use stock moped frames and add a tank to give a motorbike appearance. I love them, and would have been all over your Super 50. They went on to make the SP93 and SP95 in a similar idiom. I think Raleigh mopeds were re-badged Mobylettes, at least for a time.
@borderlands6606 Yes, they were built under Motobecane license. The SP50's were a bit more chunkier to look at. Some of the early Raleigh's were badge engineered for sure, but Raleigh made quite a few changes as the years passed by to cater for the UK market,
oooh! upside down forks. A lovely thing - thanks for showing it to us.
@brockett I never really noticed that before!!
Fairly standard on mopeds.
Very interesting bike, quite a looker for the period and with that performance any idea why they weren’t more successful ? Are you saving letting us hear and see it run for another video ?
@stewy62 You know, i completely forgot about starting it up! I'l have to do a ride out with it! I don't think that many were sold because they were a good bit dearer than the other Raleigh's in the range, I know they were way out of my price range back then!
Very nice started with may quikles bought for about 2 quid
@rodneygunn788 They were the days!
I Didn't know that Raleigh Made Mopeds? 4:46
@jamesgudgeon4868 Raleigh were also a big player in the motorcycle world too, back in the 1930's
Raleigh made some good things back in the day. I ride 70's raleigh push bikes and they are really well made, beautifully finished lugwork and high-end reynolds steel tubing. My only complaint with the bikes is they used their own proprietary threads on a lot of the fasteners so you HAVE to use raleigh fittings, like 26tpi when industry standard was 24tpi. I wonder if their mopeds are similar? Take care not to misplace any cycle part fasteners just in case.
@twostroke350 I have a whole nest of Raleigh pushbikes, Superbe's, Dawn tourist's, I even built a path racer out of a Chilton! Moving onto threads, most stuff on the Mopeds are metric as they were built under Motobcane licence But, there are exceptions!
26 tpi is cycle thread and was and in many cases still is the cycle industry standard.
@grantbaker3336 Most Brit bikes from the 40's to the 70's were 26tpi cycle apart from 30's BSA's which used 20mm on the rear wheel spindles! Don't ask me why!
Why didn't you start it ?
@Charlie-oj4wj I forgot!!
I'd guess 50mph on that is much more exiting than on a bigger bike. thanks for showing us it mate it's a minter!
@junglie 50mph on that is like 180+ on a modern bike!
@@Volcanicbrown1878 Lol yeah thought so matte.
I've never ever seen one of these. I've seen NSU Quickly's and Raleigh mopeds but not this one. I started out on a 98cc Excelsior Consort. I don't think that would have seen 50. 40 with a tailwind and downhill maybe.. I'm surprised that I've never seen a New Hudson, with the numbers phutting around Liverpool in the 50s and 60s in the hands of insurance "clubmen".
@peter7624 I don't think many were sold as they were quite a bit dearer than the other Raleigh's in the range. The Excelsior Consort was a 98cc using the Villiers MK 4F two stroke engine. as did the New Hudson autocycles. There are still quite a few New Hudson's about still.
Id never seen one of these I well remember the Whisp and Runabout and have actually worked on a few during my time in the M/C trade.
The photo of Aplins was interesting I remember going in there once or twice they have very sadly closed now just a little over two years ago I think, almost next door to Aplins was L&Ds who were the Royal Enfield and Velocette spares people for the Bristol area.
@grantbaker3336 Yes, Brian Aplin finally retired after taking over from his father in 1959. He will be missed but all good things come to an end!
Never seen one - remember the Runabouts though . . . Raleigh's practically all history now; just a whare house for Far Eastern goods.
@1 hour ago Yes, I still have my original Raleigh Runabout! All gone now, just like nearly all British makes.
new cover picture noel b pope on a norton at brooklands 1939.
@madge6593 The man was a legend!
Nah, I find the old little bikes interesting, so you put vids up. 👍 To be honest I can’t understand why anyone would want one ,🤣, especially when some are not exactly cheap! 😱 But thank goodness someone does and I can watch videos about them. A friend had lots of desirable big bikes but when he finished with those he started collecting, mostly British under 200cc bikes. Some even you might never have heard of 🤣. At one point he had as many as 30 at least! But he’s now selling in batches on Old Bike Mart. As he’s sadly not too well. I started on the various Honda C50’ et al. I went all over on that and put the miles in when I was a student! If I had a big garage I might buy another just to go to the shops! But I don’t - so I won’t! 🙄🤣
@daviddavies5347 Fair enough!!
@daviddavies5347 I think is called re capturing your youth!
50 M.P.H. ? Ah......this was before the Trade Descripyion act, wasn't it ?!
@haroldhorseposture9435 It will do 50, I have been clocked at 50. No false description there!
Definitely quirky. I seem to remember my aunt had the standard Wisp. The only experience I had with that "power" train was the Mobylette. I seem to remember we couldn't get the ignition timing to stay put! My first bike was my dad's old Norman Nippy. That was quite fast. He fitted a larger carb on a long inlet pipe. Detuned it before he gave it to me! 😂 He had fitted a dual seat. Had to buy a new engine for it, from Pride and Clark I think. Probably wore the old one out! Had other mods, such as battery ignition, because the standard mag coil had burnt out. He rewound it to match the lighting coil and get double the power out. Obviously needed a new ignition coil, so fitted one from a 30s Rover. Oh, and it had a 7 inch headlamp. Blimey, having written this, I think it might have out quirked the Super 50!
@spamhead That's the sort of things we used to do back in the day! A 7 inch headlamp? Wow! It would nearly need another engine just to power the light!
Pride and Clark, there's one for the teenagers.
@@Volcanicbrown1878 Yep, those 24 watt bulbs would sap the power!
@@johnpoile1451 Stockwell road! A good old name from the past