won this off the ebay last weekend - going to be cleaning it up as much as poss then presenting it to my lad for his 6th birthday in a couple of months!





its a bit worse condition than i'd hoped, first cleaning shows the paintwork is pretty ropey, needs respraying really. some of the stickers are in a pretty bad way also.  will be getting trough a fair bit of wirewool cleaning all the chrome!!  will be keeping a look out for an xl seat  

I was bidding on that! havent got the seat but have some wheels etc see you on saturday and you can take your pick!  

what seat does it need?

and pedals?

small quilted red and black seat and small Union pedals with reflectors

oh! they maybe hard to find mate. I only asked as i have a mk1 boxer or strika seat. I have some small pedals but im not sure what they are i will look tomorrow.  ;)

only just got it, my top bid was £25.69 and it went for £25.61! i've got the pedals - didn't put them on for the pic though, they seem in fairish nick, similar to the rest of the bike.  had a little go at cleaning the wheels, came out not too bad.  will put a bit more effort in this week.  cheers for the offer of bits guys!  reckon the seat will probably be pretty tricky to find...

shame its not an xl seat i have three!!! good luck john!  ;)

   i may be sticking my spare grifter xl seat on this for the time being!

it looks like it has the same forks as the tomo and budgie

ahh mate i had a good seat & post for one of those a few months ago, sold it for next to nothing on ebay  

dam it, dam it, dam it!!!!!!

   oh well - another one will turn up eventually, i hope.....

just spent a couple of hours on it, been going at the paint with some tcut, and a bit of wirewool on the chrome.  still looking pretty rough in alot of places though    will post up some pics when i get a chance

kooool   i'm going to get mine out and ride it round the village and get ridiculed  

Look at the size of the rear tyre!

is that a custom tyre on the back of your strika there nineteenseventyone?  not sure i trust myself to ride on the little bikes - broke my lads trike a couple of years ago by being too fat for it  

tyres the same size! i think its just another one of my optical illusion photography tricks, the rear of the bike is closer to the camera than the front