Have started a new thread as this looked to be getting off subject and out of hand. Could be fun.
You just HAVE to be joking Dunc. My first bike, until passing test, was a 200 Zundapp with strange trailing link front forks. All bounce and blue smoke. My geog teacher had a bella scooter. Weird man.

Not Joking Ba..... Blimey. That is bizarre in the extreem. Come to think of it, my ZW was probably a 200, just couldn't remember the cube this morning. Weird. The ZW had a black agricultural frame the seat was mounted in a cage like construction welded to the frame with springs at each corner, like an old fashioned pram. Cant remember how the rear shockers went. The 3 gears were foot operated with a pedal on the right near the crank case. The clutch cable was on the wrong side. Mine had a cracked ally crank case that I fixed with plane makers epoxy resin from Vickers Armstrong. A wallowing bone shaker.

If your saw a weird looking git on a Zundapp on Kingston hill or by the river near Hamton in 66 early 67 . I use to get there by going down all the lanes via Colnbrook, Egham and stuff, south of small airfields called Heathrow - loads of small prop planes - No motoways. Yeah, proper woods and country all along the south of the river for years.

That must be it ......TMI

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Duncan

If you google zudapp 200 there are pics, spare parts and more. I think yours is a bit older than mine. I had a settee for a saddle.

OMG, its last of the summer whine.

Yeah, this is the style of frame I had. the seat was extended, probably with a mod to carry someone on pillion, back of the seat had two support bars welded down onto the rear wheel sprocket - You can see from the pic how it would hve been fiixed, same sort of springs. I now think the cage thing below the sewat was for an old fashioned saddle bag on the right side.

The engine in mine was a single pipe on the left side, and the front and rear mudguards were a bit deeper, so they nearly covered the tyre sidewalls - this one looks like it has modern guards fitted.



There you go GK - more whining for you

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Duncan

How the **** did you upload that picture? I tried for ages to post a pic of my model. Is that a twin perchance? Looks as if it needs Steve McQueen on it. Mine was somewhat later.

Having googled, I have a rush of blood to the brain for my old girl, that was rusty and knocked to hell outside, kept under an old tarp. That Ba, is a Zundapp 200 engine, older, perhaps the speedster (the 198s). It looks as if it is single pot. probably has 2 inlet (see carb at the back of the engine, like a bigger version of GK's lawn mower that allegedly runs on Blossom Hill) and 2 exhaust valves, hence double pipe. I had the boggy standard blue smoker, a sort of post war run-about, converted from pre-war designs, hence the pillion.

Ba - Use the Img tab, before pasting the image properties and afterwards - no spaces between the brackets - Ok

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Well done Dunc, that cracked it. Now we need a shot of the Marlboro GK lawnmower going into Paddock Hill Bend.

When I lived in London I used to bomb around on one of these, a Honda CG125.


It cost me £7 a month in petrol to commute. I loved it. That was 10 years ago, I havent sat on a motorbike since.

Ah but yours didn't have weird trailing-link suspension, and my mudguards are MUCH bigger than yours. Na, na, na, na naaaah na.

I had one of these. Mine was yellow and it did 3 miles a fortnight.

I can sense the jealousy..

I had a chopper too, I put fur on the handlebars and seat, it looked great. It was my older brothers hand-me-down bike, first gear didnt work so I had to start off in second. I was eight years old with calf muscles the size of Telford.

Ba, so that's your dominatrix

I only knew the Commander on the featherbed frame. A mate had one, and nearly threw me off the back when he 1st got it. Back then, I had no idea how many G's you could get out of a 750. The heavier clutches then, were pretty damn fierce.

After the AJS 500, I didn't revisit bikes, I liked the AJS cos of the gentle thunder it made, anyway it was a hand me down, and the neighbours dissaproved. A serious bike was loads of dosh, and my folks were heavily against it.

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A school pal's brother had a 600 single Panther, now there was an ankle breaker for you.
Oh! and how we laughed when a lad turned up on one of the first 250 Honda twins...Jap Crap sewing m/c we called it...for a while...

Do you know? Maybe next summer? Maybe, juuuuuust maybe. I must stop looking at that Norton, it's calling me...