Funny that you mention that, I believe I was looking some what like a dried up Sultana, speaking something like Russian and walking with a slight list to Starboard about 2am last Saturday, must have been the Castrol R, I was drinking.

Bloody Marvelous I reckon, what would have happend if a Ural was my first bike.

Thanks David for your kind words.

What can I say long live the TY and never under estimate the importance it has to many past and present and all going well, long into the future while people like those who exist on this site take the time to use, enjoy and or restore these great old scooters ...

Hi, my name is Murray, 45, married, 2 kids and live in Townsville.
I grew up on Magnetic Island off Townsville, we moved to a farm in NSW in 77 and I worked on our farm and a friends and made enough money to buy my first bike, a late 60's Suzuki A 100 road bike, I fitted knobby tires and a small ...

Hi David,
thanks for the positive id. Aside from the road parts that have long since been removed and the missing end piece of exhaust, everything else is as you say it should be. (all of the rubber pieces are still in the barrel and head fins)
Murray

Thanks David,
Max has cleaned it with in an inch of his life, has bought a tube of Autosol and has been hard at making the most of what he has got, he is busting a gut to ride it on the Easter weekend.
I am going to set him up a course to practise slow figure 8's and a bit of a see saw so that he ...

Hi,
my son has just bought his first TY175 (first bike for that matter)
It was bought with 3 years of lawn mowing money, so it will be while till it changes, but it does run well as it is.
It is Portugese Orange and has been parked up for more than 25 years, but runs crisp.
Front and rear gaurds ...

Lucas,
do you still have the tank?

Hi,
my son has just bought his first TY175 (first bike for that matter)
It is Portugese Orange and has been parked up for more than 25 years, but runs crisp. Front and rear gaurds are dust, but this is to learn on, not a resto (yet) so he will have to find some S/H gaurds.

It has a Compliance plate ...