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Originally Posted by willtel
Nice. I can't say I've ever heard of a Rickman, off to Google now.
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very interesting bikes. two brothers from England sourced different parts for different manufactures to build their bikes. my pops noted this particular one had forks that were also OE on one of his old pursange bultacos. Chromalloy frames that were unheard of back then. my dad spent many an hour polishing the frame back close to it's original shine. went through the carb and upon fueling it gas poured from the petcock everywhere. he took the PC apart to find a piece of cork was used to seal in the off postion that was dust by now. he fashioned a copy out a piece of fuel line, reinstalled and it worked. would not start initially so he had to pull the flywheel and clean up the points. said after spark was present it started after like three kicks.
he lives an hour south of me so I won't be able to see it in person before the presentation this weekend, which kind bums me out. I look to see if ive still got any of the emails he sent with other photos.