Sprite-UK/American Eagle-USA /Alron-AUST

[Tossa]

Murray I thought it was the only one sold as a road registered endure bike

[VMX60]

Barry

That is the history as we know it,only one made , but the Alron is a strange story

Never say Never    what will be found

Cheers

[Tossa]

Yeah I know what you mean Murray, see you at the track this year.  Hopefully with a zundapp by June

[VMX60]

SDR motor fitted the resto is GO 

[Huskyviking]

This is the late Jan Boonen from Belgium himself on his BVM, note the left hand side exhaust pipe.
So he was probably experimenting there with a genuine Husqvarna cylinder or a complete Husky block in a BVM ( Sprite) frame.
It is a page from a program book from a Belgian amateur federation where he was competing at that time.
Before that he always rode Husqvarna 4speeds in his 2stroke carrier, after the BVM period he changed to KTM.

[VMX60]

Jan might have had the answer to BVM /EAGLE/ALRON 400CC gearbox problem, fit a real Husky 400cc  complete motor , that makes sence when you run out of Sprite gearbox parts, by all reports the rolling Sprite frame were a good handling bike

Did they sell many BVM . Huskyviking

[Huskyviking]

Personally I know only a handfull of riders in Belgium who owned a BVM at that time, and a few of them certainly got them at a reduced price to promote the bike each in their federation (there are several motorcross federations in Belgium)
On the left side of the page you see how they promoted the bike:
"Fast & reliable,  lightweight at 97 kg, powerfull BVM engine with 4 speed gearbox
400cc at 55.000 BF." ( is about 1400 Euro now without tax = 1900USD or 2100AUD)
I tried to contact some of those guys to get some more photo's, but no reply yet.

[VMX60]

Few parts arrived from the UK so getting closer to another Alron on the VMX track   

[VMX60]

A touch of SPRITE  DNA

Another winner 

[Huskyviking]

This is Johan Boonen from Belgium, son of Jan Boonen, with a restored BVM, probably coming from the F.Munsters collection.

[Huskyviking]

Jaak Vanvelthoven, from Boonen Vanvelthoven Motors in Lommel Belgium, confirmed that they built around 70 BVM bikes at the time.
The first 30 were assembled with original Sprite frames from the UK, the rest with frames made by Wilvo, a metal construction company in Holland.
On many bikes they fitted Husqvarna pistons and cilinders and consequently an adapted exhaust pipe to the left hand side.
One of the famous riders on BVM was Walter Baeten, brother of René Baeten who was the first Belgian World Champion motorcross in 1958.

[Michael Moore]

A touch of SPRITE  DNA

AFAIK the Tyran/Dalesman bikes were built by Jim Lee, not Hipkin.

cheers,
Michael

[ste2hip]

mitsubishi askd dad to build a 125 for the americain market.he  he had a meeting with his good friend ted wassall .if he wanted to have crack at the American market on the understanding that he used sprites front rear hubs forks  and stove enamelled  the frames blue hammer.ASO DAD supplied hubs n forks to various other people some times the are mistaken for REH HOPE THIS HELPS

                                                 YOURS STEVE HIPKIN

[VMX60]

Steve

Franks Sprite wheel sure were fitted to a lot of bikes, even now most are listed on UK Ebay as the other brands

Good news another Sprite/Alron is now running again 

Glad you still check the sprite forum

Cheers

[VMX60]

Well at long last the real made in Perth framed Alron / Ossa 250cc is off the bench and running, along side the Sprite /Alron/Ossa 250cc . A bloody hard project starting with a bare frame and rear wheel .

Two saved as a bit of Aussie History