And here some other 'results' that make me think 'where will it end?'

http://www.ebay.com/itm/291664558189?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

http://www.ebay.com/itm/321986922587?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

http://www.ebay.com/itm/221987541510?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

But if you feel left behind, here's your chance.....:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/131717122063?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

http://www.ebay.com/itm/222013439060?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

Regards, Sven

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Yep...It's not a poor mans hobby these days...

Like Sven I am frequently surprised at the prices some people are prepared to pay to get what they want and how the obsession to have an original part, even a battered one, will drive them on like lemmings...

I just can't see the sense with MT110 lights for example...The one featured has a start price that is over twice as much as the very good quality, Lucas marked, brass bodied replicas that are available and that you would be hard pushed to tell from an original when fitted...

Not only that, but if you live in the UK you're going to have to modify the original light to take a double filament bulb for a brake light...(an optional feature with the replica)...

For parts that are unavailable in replica I can see the idea more. However, personally I'm not prepared to go for originality at any cost...

That tends to take the pleasure of it away in my view...Perhaps that is why I mainly build specials...I can get some nice quality parts, such as AMAL competition handlebar levers, that don't break the bank....

Here are some, along with lots of other non standard parts on my 1951 B33...Ian

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OOPS!...Here it is... ...

email (option): ian@wright52.plus.com

Ian,

That's a truly lovely bike! I see nothing to complain about there!

On a philosophical note: I would consider that many supposedly "non standard" parts are actually acceptable because over the years owners may well have used whatever spares they could find that were of the period. So replacement levers of a time period roughly contemporaneous would be fine. We replace tyres with the closest match we can find, after all. I mention that because I have some genuine WD issued tyres dated from 1944, but I would not run my bike with them. They're way too hardened. They're in the shed as a momento.

Interestingly, in my experience even the VMCC seems to agree on this point of "originality", especially for older bikes where the spares are almost unobtainable, and have been for many years.

But then, I'm not a purist. Can't afford to be, these days....

Allan

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ian can you stop showing your lovely bikes I am still getting over the selling of my bikes had to have a lie down

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