Rickman Metisse mid 60

[VMX247]

Eso - but i think fitted into BSA frame ??

would also like to know what frame !   
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[firko]

It's hard to tell on such a little photo but it looks like a BSA frame. However the engine looks as if it's a speedway version going by the oil pump on the primary cover and what looks like alloy engine plates in there housing a separate gearbox. My eyesight ain't what it used to be so it might well be a unit motor.

[VMX247]

Really sweet example and much info/history in VMX Magazine #19 .Interesting modifications done by Bill Nilsson on page 12.
Eso means Ace in Czech-a winning card in every sense 

Quote from: firko on Today at 12:58:37 PM
However the engine looks as if it's a speedway version going by the oil pump on the primary cover and what looks like alloy engine plates in there housing a separate gearbox.

You just jogged my memory ..yes it is a speedway converstion/version  ..thanks
photo 41 shows a better shot 

[firko]

It's a nice bike anyway.....another engine swap bike that should be over on the 'Wacky Engine Swaps' thread.

[firko]

Here's an early, mid fifties ESO MX. It makes an interesting contrast to the mid sixties version shown previously.


What emerges from showing these ESOs is that it debunks the common misconception that the scrambler motor evolved from the speedway engine. In fact, the reverse is what happened, the ESO unit MX engine preceded the speedway motor by nearly 10 years.

[stormer 254]

It's hard to tell on such a little photo but it looks like a BSA frame. However the engine looks as if it's a speedway version going by the oil pump on the primary cover and what looks like alloy engine plates in there housing a separate gearbox. My eyesight ain't what it used to be so it might well be a unit motor.

It has a pre unit BSA gearbox with foot rest bolted on through the cover studs.

[VMX60]

Great Metisse action shoot

   


Follow up on the Eso/Bsa this is a Cheney frame not a Bsa and a pre unit not the Unit ESO that is in a shed near Perth