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  • Greeves NSU Roadster

    Spotted outside the entrance to the VMCC Festival at Jurby on the IoM during the classic TT event, a Greeves/NSU. Anyone on here?

    A very pretty machine.
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  • #2
    I am bumping this thread back up, as it was rather swamped immediately after I posted it, by a whole series of posts about Tony's 325 East Coaster, which was very interesting. That seems to have died down now, so I thought this deserved resurrecting, because this too is a very interesting machine, possibly unique.

    Does anyone know of it?

    Ian

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    • #3
      Is it Vic Allan's?

      It looks very much like the one he built..

      The jacked up forks and blue seat look the same

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      • #4
        Registration number YYD888 non Greeves frame number 1268380 (presumably from the doner NSU). Its owned by Vic Allen see this previous thread http://www.greeves-riders.org.uk/for...ead.php?t=6337
        Last edited by John Wakefield; 03/10/2017, 08:12 PM.

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        • #5
          Ok gents, thanks. Obviously a known bike. My description of it as a roadster is not entirely accurate, but with full lighting and road equipment, and not a speck of mud in sight, it appears to be used as such.

          Given that on the headstock where the frame number would normally be, there is a raised land in the casting, it is perhaps one of Richard Deal's frames.

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          • #6
            Looks like the frame number may of been milled out ?

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            • #7
              Youtube clip of Vic riding the bike https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RweF-3V1r3I

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              • #8
                The Deal Millennium frames featured a raised land in the recognised place used to stamp frame numbers. The prefix letters and numbers (24TJSB) were cast in leaving a space for the 4 digit number which for the Anglian was in the 20## series.

                Various schools of thought as to how many Deal frame loops were cast. Clearly, there was a surplus hence the source of the Vic Allan machine. The cast in letters clearly machined off to avoid confusion.
                Last edited by Phil Hyde; 04/10/2017, 09:30 PM. Reason: More info

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