MooN Posted October 24, 2020 Share Posted October 24, 2020 Had a serious session with the physio this morning which did my arm some good so I thought I'd better cancel that out straight away by going riding this afternoon out towards Chablis and Tonnerre first leaft home about 3 ish. Almost caught the curvature of the earth here, or what would be the curvature if it wasn't actually flat of course... 9/10ths cloud cover but not cold, about 16c I think. Chablis Vinyards going golden, shame the light was so poor a horsey farm for Pete and in a small village "Massangis" I nearly missed this but Tigger said "Oh! Tymmeh's Tomos!" But it wasn't, it's Motobecane from 1974 ( i think) and there's another one the other side I spent an hour or so here, this guy doesn't really sell them, he does them up. the motobecane will do about 70kph he reckons and last year he rode it down to the Millau viaduct and back with some mates on similar machines, that would be a hoot! in the vice in his workshop/ front room was the motor from a 1959 Solex his whole workshop looked like it had slipped out of the 60,s and today; The light was fading fast but when he said he used to ride big bikes and still had a Thruxton and a Velocette in the garage out the back I just had to have a peek and was confused to find only one bike... 'turns out to be a Velocette Venom Thruxton (which I didn't know even existed, I thought only triumph did a "thruxton") from 1967 if I remember right. gorgeous machine... but he rather i didn't take pics of it as it's worth quite a lot of money apparently. I still had an hour or so to ride home and it was nearly dark so I didn't take any more pics and got home around 7. My arm now hurts like hell, but it was worth it. 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTreme Posted October 24, 2020 Share Posted October 24, 2020 Brilliant Chris! I love old school bike places like that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grasshopper Posted October 24, 2020 Share Posted October 24, 2020 What a nice place to ride, some great photos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedro Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 That’s so french, and what a cool place you found. Motobecane and Peugeot make the coolest mopeds! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boboneleg Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 Brilliant, what a find that old workshop was Chris Apparently my Tenere was assembled in the Motobecane (MBK) factory in France. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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