Thread: Does anyone know the owner?

This raised a smile. My best friend was riding through the village on his way home on an S7.

Anther friend was in a Morris 1000 van waiting at the crossroads to cross, thought he would pull out in front as a joke. He miss timed it an my friend ran into the van just in front of the passenger door. My friend sailed over the van and landed on the road the other-side.

The impact somehow pushed the van engine into the radiator and bent the mudguard on the Sunbeam

We could never find the correct tire so we used a car tire on the back.

Cool bikes, I met Thai rider a while back who has one and rides it frequently.

I've never seen one up close.



Interesting Sunbeam site

When we lived in Phuket our neighbour was a 'Sunbeam man' he'd been restoring them in UK and selling to mainly USA and Canadian collectors. He always said the S7 was a better bike than th S8.
Now retired but he kept a few old bikes - these pics of some of his ones

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Max Corkill and his cat Rastus were well known on NZ roads, used in TV commercials for Bell tea, did so much work for charities, always on fund-raising rides and rallies, and most times on his Sunbeam S7. Max was a NZer who'd spent his working life in Canada, came back to NZ and restored and re-sold Sunbeams in NZ. Sadly Max, his partner, and Rastus here killed in a motorcycle accident - hit by a drugged unlicensed car driver.

Don't know who counted, but news reported over 1100 bikes in the funeral procession. I'm in there somewhere, a sad day.
RIP Max, Rastus and Gaynor.