OzVMX Forum
Marque Remarks => British (BSA, Greeves, Triumph etc) => Topic started by: VMX247 on May 18, 2010, 06:22:02 pm
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Greeves Hawkstone one of only 87 made!! Note the twin carbies and it still has the original 46 year old front tyre on it.
A Greeves with a Starmaker motor attached is as good as it gets in Pre ’65.
What are mates for,but to show you what they get when going shopping ;D
(http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r259/vmx247/SDC10256.jpg)
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(http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r259/vmx247/SDC10257.jpg)
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Found over here in the West or another import
Local greeves numbers are on the up for Wandering ;D
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Found over here in the West or another import
Local greeves numbers are on the up for Wandering ;D
Its a WA born and breed-well for the last 40 odd years 8) beauty ain't she :P
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Factory twin Amals that is a very rare Greeves
The amount of older VMX treasure here in the West is AMAZING :D
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Very nice machine.
It is classified as a 24MDS (or possibly a 24ME) Greeves, not a Hawkstone.
There is one in Victoria in use, and one in bits in my shed.
A really good pre 1965 machine.
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And another will be making it's comback at CD7 . This one's a bit 'improved' by the fitting of an NSU Sportmax engine to produce a pretty good replica of the bike Brian Stonebridge rode in GPs in 1959. The bike's being built by one of our sports forgotten legends, Frank Stanborough who amongst other things ran the Honda race shop in the 70's and was Graeme Smythes mechanic on the legendary SR works bikes when he rode for Kawasaki.
Check it out in the Kevlar Kompound, it's a work of art.
(http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-8/1062154/ebay%20086.jpg)
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for some reason I like that better than the original. My ideal image of a pommy bike is at least 500cc and 4 stroke.
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I'm relying on your help Firko, for support and informing your mates about the pre65 class at Cyrstal Brook Nationals in September 2011 ;D :P
cheers
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My brother raced a twin carb cotton scrambler for years, and it was about 10 years ago l gave the junction box away to a member of ours thinking that he may use it on one of his greeves.
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Very nice machine.
It is classified as a 24MDS (or possibly a 24ME) Greeves, not a Hawkstone.
There is one in Victoria in use, and one in bits in my shed.
A really good pre 1965 machine.
It is definitely an MES, it will be the first part of the frame number, I have been racing one for 7 or 8 years now and when I get it all together (rarely) it is the match for any 250 out there ;D