what are your home town bikes?

[guest40]

http://www.ozebook.com/ausmc/australia.htm

There are a couple or so of Perth bikes here  eg Alchemy and Alron.

[guest40]

This is probably more use to you over there. it covers nearly everything. You may even be able to supply Murray with info too.  Interesting site, check out the Ugly Fat Old Bastards Motorcycle Club!  

http://www.ozebook.com/a-z.htm

[themoudie]

Still on the go!

Perthshire manufacturer!

[guest1166]

I am from Nottingham,home of the Brough Superior

Also from Nottingham and still working on the fund towards a Brough

Don't forget that Nottingham was also the home of Raleigh who built horrid little mopeds right up to the 70's but also made proper motorcycles in the 20's and 30's.
Campion (originally a cycle company aswell) made motorcyles in Nottingham in the early days too.

Kinda makes you wish this country still had an industry doesn't it 

[Dogbad]

I did actually work on the street that the Panthers were made on. I was there in the mid '80's and my brother had a 650 sloper at the time so he told me about the place.

[Ian]

I am from Nottingham,home of the Brough Superior

Also from Nottingham and still working on the fund towards a Brough

Don't forget that Nottingham was also the home of Raleigh who built horrid little mopeds right up to the 70's but also made proper motorcycles in the 20's and 30's.
Campion (originally a cycle company aswell) made motorcyles in Nottingham in the early days too.

Kinda makes you wish this country still had an industry doesn't it 

[/quote]Raleigh mopeds were made by a french company called Motobecane....this company is now part of the Yamaha empire and go under the name of MBK (so Im reliably informed)

[Andy M]

This thread sent me looking for the Spagthorpe page. Looks to have gone 

Andy

[johnr]

Not quite Bike builders, but Queen's University, Belfast had an engineering professor who worked on 2-stroke design. Was there a Greeves with a QUB developed Villiers motor?

indeed jeremy mcwilliams raced a qub 250 in gp's for a couple of seasons. iirc qub (queens university belfast) were front runners in two stroke development, i even saw pictures of a ford fiesta fitted with a qub developed 2 stroke that was claimed to be more powerful than the fiesta petrol motor and more frugal than the diesel.

[johnr]

i started by googling  'bike manufacturers lancashire' and 'bike manufacturers preston' and just scrolled through them till i found the flickr link. im told there was another bike maker in town but ive not got the name yet.

[guest564]

Not quite Bike builders, but Queen's University, Belfast had an engineering professor who worked on 2-stroke design. Was there a Greeves with a QUB developed Villiers motor?

indeed jeremy mcwilliams raced a qub 250 in gp's for a couple of seasons. iirc qub (queens university belfast) were front runners in two stroke development, i even saw pictures of a ford fiesta fitted with a qub developed 2 stroke that was claimed to be more powerful than the fiesta petrol motor and more frugal than the diesel.

IIRC QUB were also heavily involved with Dr Joe Ehrlich and EMC.