I've just bought a Hawkstone! It's a bike known to some of you here, I bought it from Richard Aris, apparently it's the bike with which he won the Hawkstone class in the first ever Greeves championship.
It could do with a bit of tidying up, which I'll see to over the winter, but mechanically it seems good, and the engine sounds crisp.
It has an alloy square barrel so its more of a MCS replica than a Hawkstone per-se. Frame number is 25DCX 145, so evidently started life as a roadster. Engine number is 419F 30937, would that be a 34a? The plate where it says "Engine Type" is scratched and illegible just where the type designation would be.
The barrel doesn't look like the Greeves ones in Colin Sparrow's excellent book, out of interest can anyone identify it please?
Thanks, David
It could do with a bit of tidying up, which I'll see to over the winter, but mechanically it seems good, and the engine sounds crisp.
It has an alloy square barrel so its more of a MCS replica than a Hawkstone per-se. Frame number is 25DCX 145, so evidently started life as a roadster. Engine number is 419F 30937, would that be a 34a? The plate where it says "Engine Type" is scratched and illegible just where the type designation would be.
The barrel doesn't look like the Greeves ones in Colin Sparrow's excellent book, out of interest can anyone identify it please?
Thanks, David
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