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A couple of pictures, taken the day I picked it up. The homemade fenders have to go. I'll mount up a pair of period correct Bultaco M199 units on Sammy Miller brackets. The tank is heavily varnished inside and dented outside, work needed here. Wheels will be rebuilt and torn seat will be replaced. | ||||||
Work in progress: (L) Down to bare frame, engine out, lots of polishing done, (M) engine and suspension back together, (R) nearing completion. | ||||||
The finished project, seen here at its first
outing, Riding Into History May, 2015, where it won the Competition Off
Road Class.
In 2015 I wrote an article for SMOG's La Voz newsletter, but the newsletter vanished before publishing it. I subsequently offered it to Britain's Classic Dirt Bike. After a couple of years lost in the mail stacks, it was finally published in the January, 2022 issue with some new photos. You can read it here. |
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Spurred on by the recent restorations of
vintage dirt bikes by the usual suspects, we refreshed the Sammy Miller
with newly painted fenders (and an autographed Sammy Miller hat).
We then entered it in the 2023 2-Stroke Show in Fort Myers. It is such an unusual motorcycle, we displayed it with a copy of the Classic Dirt Bike article which helped to explain the what, where and why. We were pleased to win the Competition Class over a strong group of MX and road racing machines. |