The Panther has gone.

Normal service is resumed following a holiday in Ayr. Tonight the Panther is on its way to its new home near Nottingham. Not quite as far as Hungary. It will be in the company of several other Brit bikes.Need to work on getting rid of the remaining bikes. There are 8 left. The 150 Trophy and the MZ 150 Trail are lovely bikes, come on someone :-)

Its Hungarian and its gone !!!

I got a phone call today at 5pm from a Hungarian Lady called Andrea, she was in Cambridge. She and her husband had set off from Hungary on Sunday evening to travel 2000km's to Milnsbridge to pick up Mark's Pannonia. I wasn't really expecting it until Wednesday but it was the way it turned out. Nigel and Neil had no problem with change of plan. As the pair travelling back to Hungary are catching the ferry Friday I hope they get a chance to rest and take in some of Britain (probably the South Coast). So it was that they arrived at 8:30 ish and we loaded the Pannonia onto the bike trailer and we saw them on their way. Safe trip to them and the bike.

The thing is, it was not even their bike. A collector of Pannonias from Hungary called Roland will be the proud owner of the motorcycle. By all accounts he has eight already and very nicely restored. One of which is of only 30 that were ever made. I hope he would be able to explain to the appreciative audience of this blog. All this is the sort of eccentric lunacy that Mark would approve of. Below are a few pictures to record the event.

More close up pictures of the ES 150 Trophy Hybrid

A mentioned in the last posting about this bike it has a TS150 back end and seat. The original rear casting and seat are with the bike. The original seat has real springs and would seem to be of a better quaslity than the 70's TS seats.