The funds were to provide off road p-arks in areas where there wasn't adequate off road oportunities.
It was about the green stickies the state required you to place on your off road vehicle. I did an article for Dirt Bike Magazine once. I had a subscription to "Dirt Bike Magazine" back then (loved Super Hunky) and they did a test on the SDR. Pics are from when I first took it out of the shed.
I’m hoping to start on it early this spring and enjoy some riding time this year,again. Seems every time I may have the cash something comes up. The SDR is disassembled as I try to get the funds together to have the frame and swing-arm sandblasted and powder coated. Since then I found an old Ossa Pioneer for parts. My plan is to restore it, at least, to the point of being reliable to ride. Once I started tearing into it I've found that it doesn't have spark. The security guards son bought the bike but they never completed the title transfer, that is why my name still showed on it. It turns out that the son of the person I sold it to and the security guards son were friends in the military. I found the bike I had sold about 35 years ago. It had the name of the person that I had sold it to, who lived in Columbus Ohio at the time, as the buyer and MY name as the seller/previous owner. When we got there she had a phone call and asked me to sift through the stack of titles she had while she talked on the phone. We went back down to the barn to look for said title. I had to buy it so I told her $400 without checking it over. I used to have one back in the early 1980s". I told her "it's an Ossa Six Days Replica. I looked at it and knew right away exactly what it was. We went up the yard to an old, falling down, shed. Since I was there she said she had an old dirt bike she wanted me to look at to see if I could give her an idea of it's worth.
#OSSA MOTORCYCLE RESTORATION FULL#
She had a barn full of clothes that would not fit me. It is something that I normally would not do. A couple years ago one female guard, who lives near Barnesville Ohio, invited me to a garage sale she was having. I had been doing it often enough that I knew most of the guards fairly well. With a job I had previously there were security guard checkpoints that I had to pass through to gain access to where I needed to go. Working on a bike that's this old is way out of my experience, so any advice/suggestions from those who've done it before will be most welcome.I grew up in a small town in SW Pa. I think there's too probably too much work involved in restoring the wheels so I'm investigating getting new rims/spokes and probably having the latter re-laced by a professional.īrake drums have been dismantled and cleaned up.Ī bit of a spruce up of the engine casing. Under the rust there's some good metal left to work with and so therefore less to replace or fabricate. It's a 1956 OSSA 125B, - or as my wife refers to it 'that bloody heap of rust'.Ĭlickable images (if you're keen to see the gory details):ĭuring the strip-down I discovered that, in the main, it's not as bad overall as I first thought. My intention was to start this toward the end of the year as a winter project, but I decided to at least get it stripped down earlier to see just how much work will be needed to rebuild.
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