Exciting pictures Ian! I see the dampers have cause some rust in the same place as mine. Generally, mine’s in pretty good nick really. I’ve sprayed an epoxy etch, then applied a filler primer which I’ve rubbed back so it’s all nice and smooth. Hope to get another, thin, coat of primer on this weekend along with the yellow (my girlfriend is away at the moment so I can lavish lots of time playing).
Hope mine ends up looking as nice as the blue one, I prefer the blue but in the name of authenticity I’ve gone for the yellow (plus I know I can get an accurate colour match).
For what it’s worth the web address of my renovation is https://sites.google.com/site/bodsbikes/moulton-speedsix I’ll be updating it as I get time.
Matt

Here you can see the same filling of the holes and the shadow from the speedsix decal. Also note how you can see the lines from where previous owner tried to repaint that area above the decal. Clearly defined masking lines to prevent spraying over the decal.

I have a later “transverse seat tube” speedsix but that has been painted black long before I got the bike. It had also been fitted with a 7 speed hub gear! I intend to return it to more or less standard spec. I have had an earlier speedsix and I thought it was a stock kirkby bike that had been modified. Above the stick on headbadge there was a hole visible where the metal head badges of lesser moultons are riveted. My next project is to turn a major frame set into a john benjamin type speedsix alike (my ample bulk needs all the seat tube support it can get). This is a standard frame I played with last year.

and this is the black beastie

jb

That is lovely. With the value of originals it makes sense to ride around on a replica. When I was into large wheel bikes I had Tom Board build me a replica Paris Galibier. Tom built the originals and the old guy who cut the original lugs cut those for my bike….it was still a replica though.
jb

That’s a picture to make anyone jealous John! I Noticed the black one has a mk1 rear fork, didn’t realise Speedsixes had them.
The dock tailed yellow beast looks great; looking at the frame it’s got the same rack strut mount as my Speedsix but the mk1s I’ve worked on have two holes in the side of the main beam. Strange.

Matt, I brazed on the rack strut mounts, the frame was a 1965 deluxe. I cut off the tailbeam and fixed a seat collar from a dead moulton frame to act as a clamp. A steel seat pin squashed in a vice was brazed into the tailbeam. The black one came with the original speedsix rear forks but the gear hanger had been removed and slots filed in the dropouts for chain tensioning. I put the series one forks on till I could source speedsix type rear forks (thanks Paul for the excellent replicas)). I am going to use stronglight 49d cranks, campag alloy rear mech and a campag bar end shifter. Back garden bike mechanics is good fun.
Before painting the yellow one looked like this

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jb

Matt,

My background is totally all over the map. I started my early career life as a special machine and robotics builder and when the company I worked for went out of business I changed over to IT. I’m now an analyst working in a large hospital system in the Cincinnati Ohio area. My background in machine building and tool making really helps me with my hobby life. I started restoring cars at the age of 15 after I bought a Triumph Spitfire. I couldn’t afford to pay people to do the work, so I learned how to do it myself. The rest is history I guess. 30 years later I’ve owned a little bit of everything and completed some major restoration projects along the way. My favorite being a 1961 Harrington Sunbeam Alpine. (http://bringatrailer.com/2007/10/17/restored-1961-sunbeam-alpine-harrington-hardtop/)… boy, I really hated selling that car! Alas, the US economic problelms got me! That car is now in Australia.

My interest in Moultons come from my grandfather really. He was a Huffy distributor, and managed to get a bike for himself. I grew up with that bike and after he died it became mine. It’s such a good original bike that I really can’t ride it, so I started buying other bikes to ride. Wasn’t long before I was bit by the bug… so to speak!

My wife is totally tolerant. I told her day one that I would be loyal as long as I had a garage with projects to work on. lol! Honestly, she can’t keep track of it all. I have stuff stashed in 2 different buildings, one on my home property and another owned by my father. So much of what I have was acquired before we were married, so she wouldn’t know if I brought something new in anyway. She says that allowing me to do this stuff keeps me out of the bars at night… guess she hasn’t seen the refrigerator in the garage yet!