My very first form of transport was an NSU QUICKLY two-speed moped, and Bert Fruin’s shop was our local bicycle shop, and when it was sold it later became ABBEY GARAGE where I purchased my BONNEVILLE T140D in 1979😇
Good to see and hear that you're still working on those engines, John. Pulling those Bantams apart in mum's back garden all those years ago was a good training ground - if a bit muddy. 😂 A passion that keeps you young. Peter S
as a kid I had a Raleigh runabout and someone I knew had a NSU quickly, I never knew about the barrel lining being the first nikasil coated sleeve, the NSU could bump backwards and run backwards, I wonder how many engines companies like NSU, Raleigh, Villiers made and where are they all now, smelted. every wash house, coal shed had one in under an old carpet or tarpalin,
I saw that bike at a CRMC race meeting I went to at Snetterton with Mark Wellings, a Moto Guzzi racer, back in the '80s. And seeing the comment below about them being in Benson, coincidentally I was stationed at RAF Benson a little later on.
Met a Dutch couple touring the UK on NSU Quicklies in the 70s they had done thousands of trouble free miles all over Europe . Mind you riding with your feet constantly for hours on bike pedals must be uncomfortable
I would have an infrared temp gun at the ready as soon as it fired up, pointing at the header pipes to see if it was firing on all four because it certainly didn't sound like it at first
