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By the powers of Osmosis, certain handshakes and the involvement of a small novelty trumpet, I am now the proud owner of a genuine Overbury's.
A BIG thanks to keitht and also his new addiction to Klein which freed this up.
I originally collected the bike from the second owner who looked as if he was about to burst into tears as I loaded it up into the car. He had had it 2nd hand from about 1990 when he bought this for about £800. It had then been in his ownership ever since. Unfortunately it had become a garage ornament getting covered in household paint and other nasty stuff. He decided to clean it up and sell it so somebody could make good use of it.
I collected this for Keith, grew rather attached to it after stripping it for the courier. Low and behold a few weeks later a PM drops in my box asking if I wanted it.
Hell yeah, since joining this site my knowledge of early UK steel has expanded ten fold so to be able to actually own what is now quite a rare beast was not to be turned down.
Its not perfect, theres gunk on the rear stays to protect them, a strange choice of rustless spokes and rust has pitted the stem but aside from that, it was like stepping back to 1989....
A BIG thanks to keitht and also his new addiction to Klein which freed this up.
I originally collected the bike from the second owner who looked as if he was about to burst into tears as I loaded it up into the car. He had had it 2nd hand from about 1990 when he bought this for about £800. It had then been in his ownership ever since. Unfortunately it had become a garage ornament getting covered in household paint and other nasty stuff. He decided to clean it up and sell it so somebody could make good use of it.
I collected this for Keith, grew rather attached to it after stripping it for the courier. Low and behold a few weeks later a PM drops in my box asking if I wanted it.
Hell yeah, since joining this site my knowledge of early UK steel has expanded ten fold so to be able to actually own what is now quite a rare beast was not to be turned down.
Its not perfect, theres gunk on the rear stays to protect them, a strange choice of rustless spokes and rust has pitted the stem but aside from that, it was like stepping back to 1989....
