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Another 'road racers' bike(or rather just the frame) has turned up 24TE353 despatched to Geoff Duke IoM 22/11/62 now owned by Bob Woof of Carnforth and for sale in this months OBM
Greeves trials frame 1962 24TE353 previously owned by the great Geoff Duke, £650 ono
Tel 01524 735039 , 07919 064123 Email bobwoof41@gmail.com
Bob also has a 250cc Griffon head barrel & piston vgc for £250 onoLast edited by John Wakefield; 03/05/2019, 07:25 PM.
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Originally posted by Dick F View PostYes I spoke with Bob Woof yesterday John, i still have my Duke TFS and TES for sale if anyone is intrested
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Originally posted by John Wakefield View PostBill BTR 51B now on eBay with a dealer V Winstanley of Wigan, have you sold the bike or is he selling it for you?
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Originally posted by scott151 View PostInteresting thread.
Phil Read did buy a TDS Scottish from kings of Luton..its in Colin's book..
What's interesting is Kings only ever sold 2 TDS Scottishs.. My Dads is one of these machines.. Shame nobody knows which one Phil Read had??
Personally I'd rather own a TFS ridden by DR or similar..
Scott
Kings of Luton did indeed only order two 24TDS models and they were dispatched within a week of each other in September 1960. They were 61/1342 and 61/1380.
It is of course possible I've missed one (theres a heck of a lot of them), and there are "Kings" elsewhere also ordering TDS'sColin Sparrow
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John, bike was sold at the beginning of April to a chap from Southport. Clearly no way he has had time to do much other than clean up and get it running. As such (you guys will know much better than me) the price looks way over the top. After 30 years in garage even with everything appearing to be in working order I would suggest it would still benefit from a proper strip down and rebuild. As you will know it's the wrong colour and does not have the original exhaust so a lot to do to make it concours which it is not. Can't believe even with the Phil Read provenance it's worth anything like the money being asked. Anyway good luck to them selling at that price. Dad was happy with price he got (I thought it was worth a bit more than he sold it for but not my call).
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Originally posted by Swanb View PostJohn, bike was sold at the beginning of April to a chap from Southport. Clearly no way he has had time to do much other than clean up and get it running. As such (you guys will know much better than me) the price looks way over the top. After 30 years in garage even with everything appearing to be in working order I would suggest it would still benefit from a proper strip down and rebuild. As you will know it's the wrong colour and does not have the original exhaust so a lot to do to make it concours which it is not. Can't believe even with the Phil Read provenance it's worth anything like the money being asked. Anyway good luck to them selling at that price. Dad was happy with price he got (I thought it was worth a bit more than he sold it for but not my call).
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John, thanks. That's pretty much exactly what I thought. Won't reveal what we sold it for but started with a 2, so I think ok money and left a bit of profit if someone selling on after doing some work on it. What was a bit disappointing was that the person said they were keeping the bike etc. etc. Which was clearly not the intention. Would have preferred to sell to a true enthusiast who would have kept it and looked after it but that's the way it goes sometimes. I guess it might end up with such a person but can't see a true enthusiast who knows about these bikes paying anywhere near that price.
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Quite so Bill it would not be so bad if the 'dealer' had added some value to the bike, tidied it up with a repaint to correct moorland blue, engine running and with a guarantee. But these are not the dealers of old who had show rooms on the high street with workshop back up, but back yard dealers trading from residential property who dont want to know when you have a problem with the bike. Hopefully many of them will get there fingers burnt and go out of business, they are parasites to the old bike movement.
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Geoff Duke 24TFS171 now on eBay by Dick Faggeter https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1964-TFS-...sAAOSwuTRc0yeV
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