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  • CHI-Greeves???

    It had to happen! One owner has fitted one of the Chinese 125cc engines into a Greeves frame. It looks quite good and can be reversed as no cutting or drilling has been done to it. Reactions are varied, with some saying it's sacrilege, while others are saying that it's his bike and his choice. Click image for larger version

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  • #2
    The reason he has done that is because he is a learner, and as such you can only ride an up to 125cc bike on a provisional licence. Crazy rule as most other classes of licence are set by the bhp of the engine. Ironically the Chinese 125 engine gives out more bhp than the Villiers 9E it replaces.

    The frame beam with a 60/25** number is apparently from a 24DB Sports Single although it looks like fork loop is trials/scrambles
    Last edited by John Wakefield; 26/05/2021, 11:32 PM.

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    • #3
      Basically a Honda engine built under licence. Nothing wrong with that. Does the bike have a name? Marmite perhaps?

      Ian C

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      • #4
        Marmite!!
        brilliant comment

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        • #5
          Not the first 125cc engine fitted to a Greeves this 1960 125cc Greeves 24TCS/Puch hybrid Reg. No. OVE 2M, frame No. 60/1748, originally registered YVE 247 and sold by Claude Scott of Cambridge with the original 250cc Villiers engine to Clem Birmingham living locally near Cambridge. In 1973 it was acquired by a Cambridgeshire GRA member Roger Neal as a rolling chassis with no engine, he fitted the 125 Puch engine from a road bike it was re-registered OVE 2M due to lost paperwork. Some years later it surfaced with Dave Scotney another GRA member from Huntingdon still with 125 Puch engine. On his death it was sold as a restoration project at Cheffins Auction 19/10/13 for £720. The bike has never surfaced since. The 125 Puch engine has also been fitted to Pathfinders as a replacement for the 170cc unit
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          Last edited by John Wakefield; 27/05/2021, 10:48 AM.

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          • #6
            Lexmoto engines availble on eBay for less than £400 you cant get a good 9E for that. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/184510848...0aAj_JEALw_wcB

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