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For more photos be sure to visit Bermuda Classic Bikes at Glen Cuoco's Bermuda Shorts website:

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Thanks to Glen and everyone else who submitted photos for this page.

 If you have a bike you want posted here please email me at: jdorrough@cox.net

(You can either email me a .JPG photo or snail mail me the photo and I will scan it in myself and return the photo to you.)

 

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The Cyrus

2

Susan Johnson on a borrowed bike. ( who's?)

3

Janet Carney

4

Susan Johnson and her trusty steed

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Photos 5-8 are borrowed from Glen Cuoco's website.

This Classic Cyrus looks a lot like Susan Johnson's bike in Photo #4 don't you think? Wonder if its the same one??

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Cyrus Engine

7

Cyrus Engine - another view

8

Cyrus Gas Tank

9

Susan Johnnson's bike (on right) at Mike Galloway's house

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Mobilette

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Velo Solex

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Velo Solex Made in France

13

1961 50cc German Zundapp

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Zundap- owned by Bob Olander

15

Cyrus - Owned by Bob Olander

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Motom - Bob Olander. He had three of these Italian Motorbikes, two he kept for spare parts.

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Motom - owned by Bob Olander

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1958 Motom. Mfg'd in Milano Italy from 1947 to 1965

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1963 Motom

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1965 Motom

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Mfg's photo of Motom

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Mfg photo of Motom

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another view of the Motom Italian motorbike

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Left side engine view

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right side engine view

26

Motom - tank and handlebar view

27

This is Kim Willits 1956 Zundapp as it looked when he bought from a cousin of Stanley Burrows when he was attending Mt St Agnes.. Photos. #29-32 show the bike "after" being highly modified.

 

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Before the front end was redone and before getting final paint and other modifications.

29

These next four are how Kim Willits' 1956 Zundapp looked after modification. He owned this bike from 1960-62. It has a 14 tooth sprocket at the engine and a 28 on the rear wheel - (originally a 56 on the rear)

30

The seat pan was fabricated and the seat cover was made by Paul Beech's mother. Paul painted the Mr. Lucky symbol on it (the cat with the long neck). It had 3 coats of a really cool metallic blue paint. The downpipe and muffler came from some other bike as the original was a stubby all-in-one thing.

31

The bars were purchased in a shop on St John's Road and bent in the base hobby shop

32

It now has a Cyrus tank and front forks - done in the basement of Bud Barnes' house in St. George. Also notice an extreme bobbed Cyrus front fender and a cutout rear . Doubt there was another Zundapp on the Island to match this one!

33

Classic and "rusty" Zundapp.

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Dennis Wright used his digital camera to capture this slightly blurry photo from a 8mm movie of his highly modified Zundapp. Hopefully he will be able to solve the technical issue and get us a better copy soon.

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Lou Costello on his Cyrus

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Lou Costello's Zundapp

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Gene Biddel on his Zundapp

38

From Robert Raynor

Ray's from Montana C-130 cyrus.

39

From Robert Raynor

Famous Upswept Muffler System

40 Sandy Thiessen's 1966 Moby

See note from Sandy below

41 Fred Smith's Zundapp

Fred Popham Smith with Cindy (anyone know her last name?) June 1967. Fred still lives in Bermuda His Zundapp was a 1965 3 gear model with 1961 front forks. The wheels are smaller with bigger drum brakes than most of the Zundapps shown on this page.The seat was less than a quater an inch above the tire. Cool.

 

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Fred Smith's Zundapp

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Fred Smith on his Zundapp

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Fred Smith's Zundapp with Triumph Bars and dual shocks. He uses 17 inch rims on all his Zundapps

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Joost Dane, Rotterdam, Holland sent these next two photos to me after finding our site. It's a 1967 Kaptein Mobylette EEG 10 (Under license of Motobecane, France), 49,9 cc, about 1/2 a horsepower (originally).

He got it 26 years ago, and drove it through southern England on holiday and afterwards back in Holland.

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He drove it ten years and wore it down but couldn't part with it, so he decided to "do it up". It took 4 months of work, but 16 years later she still goes like a rocket. 47 mph on a good day. Joost says he uses her daily and gets a lot of admiring looks and reactions. He is rightly proud.

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Owned by Ron Garrow,'70. Reconstructed 1968 by Ron with the help from Tom Smith '69 after salvaging it from the Navy Base security compound.

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Owned by Ron Garrow, Class of '70. Reconstructed 1968 by Ron with help from Tom Smith '69 after salvaging it from the Navy Base security compound.

 

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Cyrus

Belonged to Garland Foushee US Navy Bermuda 64-66, Currently resides in Bahama NC, email: foushee11@verizon.com

50

Dennis Wright's Moped

Message from Sandy Thiessen '65 regarding Photo #40

Moby's were the really cool ride by 1966-67. Henry Bales used to occasionally swap me out his 2 speed Zundapp, as he enjoyed this ride. I bought it new, had the paint stripped, and then painted with a quart of Mercedes Benz silver grey, and pin striped. The motor had numerous 2 cycle mods - the head was milled, all internal passages were dremal polished, and bearings were upgraded. Back then, we didn't know about stinger style 2 cycle exhausts, but that would have been VERY noisy! The key to a 2 cycle engine is RPM's - the higher they go, the faster you can wring it out. In this photo, I was running a single rear shock - empty, solid shell only, and the bike - like Cyruses - had seating as low as the top of the wheel. At one time I had 2 shocks on each side - looked pretty cool too. I had a real fit when the Navy Base made me put that damned sticker on the fender, but it was better than adding a plate. That little light on the front was blue - I don't recall why, but it was "cool" at the time. "

 

 

 

 

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