Desperate for a Fizzy
 

OMG

How desperate is this guy to buy one of these

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j1...sting/FS1E.jpg

Have a butchers, just thought if one of you has one you could get rich..
:p

http://bristol.gumtree.com/bristol/22/58406522.html

Re: Desperate for a Fizzy
 

They've become properly 'collectable' - I'm amazed at the price stuff like this is changing hands for recently.

See also SS50 Honda and AP50 Suzuki. neither seem quite as searched for but are still going for silly money.

Re: Desperate for a Fizzy
 

Its the rekindling of youth now the prospector has lost the kids and gained the beer gut.

And before you even suggest it, no.

Re: Desperate for a Fizzy
 

My old one, having been restored by my lil sister and her eldest son. It cost her £199 to buy in 1982, and £2500 to restore about 3 years ago

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3327/...e6a3e9dd_o.jpg

Re: Desperate for a Fizzy
 

Fizzies have been a favourite for a couple of years or three now. They always have a new wave of enthusiast every now and again. Its a bit like Elsies they never go out of fashion, and a non runner can really bring on the pennies, as I found out when the ex sold both of his.

Re: Desperate for a Fizzy
 

That's an amazing jb Loz.....wish my garden was that tidy ;-)

Nah, seriously, that's an immaculate bike.

Re: Desperate for a Fizzy
 

Her garden is only that well kept because I gave her my heyooge petrol mower with a drive gearbox, and she has an elderly neighbour who likes to do gardening.

When she bought that bike off my dad it was a wreck, having been under my abusive ar5e (and a few cars) for the best part of a year and 12000 miles. I'd kinda inherited it from my elder two sisters, each time dad bought it back off us for what we paid, £199, which is what it cost him new from Coburn and Hughes in 1972. She steadily got it looking reasonable and used it daily for about 2 years, then lobbed it in the back of her ex-husband's garage. It then got dragged out and shunted to different garages as they moved up the house chain but she refused to sell it. Eventually the boys took an interest and they restored it together - once it was finished the eldest decided it was too nice to ride and bought a shonky old trailie 50 and used that instead.

That photo was taken the day they finished it, and I saw it later in the day and declared it wrong in one respect. I'll bet no-one will guess what's glaringly obviously wrong about it (to me at least). It's got nothing to do with colour, or the wrong make of tyres... it's something a bit more obscure and only a true FS1E nut will be able to tell, but it sticks out like a sore thumb to me and has since been rectified.

Re: Desperate for a Fizzy
 

Someones painted your front number plate white?

Re: Desperate for a Fizzy
 

Nah, it's been obscured at my sister's request so no-one tries to come and nick it. The front No. plate is the original black and white one that I removed in 1978 and nailed to the garage door at my parent's house. That didn't escape the retoration techniques either.

Re: Desperate for a Fizzy
 

I think mine had reflectors on the forks