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devon-tony
05-09-2007, 06:46 PM
as per the title

in amates breakers and trying to identify it

I thgouht it was one of these lil old italian things that I remember from when I was a kid, but buggered if I can remember what the make is?

http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i262/tony-devon/unknown_bike.jpg
krammer
05-09-2007, 07:05 PM
reminds me a bit of them old montessa's
bird
05-09-2007, 07:09 PM
It looks like one of those little NVT kiddy bikes that NVT made alongside the DT175 powered Rambler trailie in the late 70s as the British industry went down the toilet.

made them with a minarelli engine, later one they marketed them as BSAs.

So technically, what you have there is a British Classic!

I quite liked the Rambler, not a bad looking wee bikey
http://hpbimg.redrose-retrobikes.co.uk/Picture%20296b.jpg

Damn this aspergers!
chazz
05-09-2007, 07:24 PM
tomos,gilera ,casal, dont know :confused:
Bosun
05-09-2007, 08:38 PM
dusty?..... :D
bird
05-09-2007, 09:12 PM
S'an NVT Ranger - if you look at the pic of this NVT sales brochure for sale on evilbay on the top right, theres two of them...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/198-NVT-M-C-Range-Sales-Brochure_W0QQitemZ230168039715QQihZ013QQcategoryZ9 945QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
pyro
05-09-2007, 09:17 PM
Thats a Casal 49cc
shaggy696969
05-09-2007, 09:19 PM
Ahh NVT the company that closed Meridan.
devon-tony
05-09-2007, 09:32 PM
by jove I think your right, an nvt ranger
johnr
05-09-2007, 09:39 PM
engine looks very much like a puch maxi or puch magnum motor.
Friar Tuck
06-09-2007, 06:05 AM
A Garelli?
johnr
06-09-2007, 06:55 AM
that engine is definately a puch one, and the frame looks similar to the magnum childs bike, but ive never seen a monoshock one.
this is the maxi road going ped, but look at the engine, its the same one,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Puch_Maxi_.JPG
devon-tony
06-09-2007, 09:36 AM
hmm and that being identical to the NVT easyrider :)
Hillbilly Deluxe
06-09-2007, 03:58 PM
looks like landfill to me.
johnr
06-09-2007, 04:29 PM
well the nvt ones were only badge engineering anyway using bought in yam engines, so its possible they could have either bought in puch engines or, more likely bought in entire bikes and badged them as nvt. there are still some spares suppliers for the puch bikes about, so it might be a good buy if you can get it cheap.
Feel the Wind
06-09-2007, 08:42 PM
isn't it a Gilera....there was a Tiger or summat that looked like that!!
johnr
07-09-2007, 02:03 PM
isn't it a Gilera....there was a Tiger or summat that looked like that!!

gilera tiger cross was an off road style, but had a vertical cylinder rather than the horizontal cylinder on this engine.