Post by DPNM on Nov 16, 2020 16:49:51 GMT -6
I grew up in a small town in SW Pa. named Finleyville. With a job I had previously there were security guard checkpoints that I had to pass through to gain access to where I needed to go. I had been doing it often enough that I knew most of the guards fairly well. A few years ago one female guard, who lives near Barnesville Ohio, invited me to a garage sale she was having. It is something that I normally would not do. I stopped anyway.
She had a barn full of clothes that would not fit me. Since I was there she said she had an old dirt bike she wanted me to look at to see if I could give her an idea of it's worth. I said OK. We went up the yard to an old, falling down, shed. Just inside was the bike. I looked at it and knew right away exactly what it was. I told her "it's an Ossa Six Days Replica". I used to have one back in the early 1980s". I had to buy it so I told her $400 without checking it over. She agreed. She said she thought she had the title.
We went back down to the barn to look for said title. When we got there she had a phone call and asked me to sift through the stack of titles she had while she talked on the phone. I found the Ossa title. It had the name of the person that I had sold it to, who lived in Columbus Ohio at the time, as the buyer and MY name as the seller/previous owner.
I found the bike I had sold about 35 years ago.
It turns out that the son of the person I sold it to and the security guards son were friends in the military. The security guards son bought the bike but they never completed the title transfer, that is why my name still showed on it.
Once I started tearing into it I've found that it doesn't have spark. That has been a big disappointment. My plan is to restore it, at least, to the point of being reliable to ride. I do plan to ride it.
Since then I found an old Ossa Pioneer for parts. The coil works so I will have spark. The SDR is disassembled as I try to get the funds together to have the frame and swing-arm sandblasted and powder coated. Seems every time I may have the cash something comes up. I’m hoping to start on it early this next spring and enjoy some riding time,again.
This is why it is in my signature line.
Pics are fresh from the shed I found it in.
I thought that I had posted this story here already. I did a site search and it didn't show up as a post. If it is here please delete one.
She had a barn full of clothes that would not fit me. Since I was there she said she had an old dirt bike she wanted me to look at to see if I could give her an idea of it's worth. I said OK. We went up the yard to an old, falling down, shed. Just inside was the bike. I looked at it and knew right away exactly what it was. I told her "it's an Ossa Six Days Replica". I used to have one back in the early 1980s". I had to buy it so I told her $400 without checking it over. She agreed. She said she thought she had the title.
We went back down to the barn to look for said title. When we got there she had a phone call and asked me to sift through the stack of titles she had while she talked on the phone. I found the Ossa title. It had the name of the person that I had sold it to, who lived in Columbus Ohio at the time, as the buyer and MY name as the seller/previous owner.
I found the bike I had sold about 35 years ago.
It turns out that the son of the person I sold it to and the security guards son were friends in the military. The security guards son bought the bike but they never completed the title transfer, that is why my name still showed on it.
Once I started tearing into it I've found that it doesn't have spark. That has been a big disappointment. My plan is to restore it, at least, to the point of being reliable to ride. I do plan to ride it.
Since then I found an old Ossa Pioneer for parts. The coil works so I will have spark. The SDR is disassembled as I try to get the funds together to have the frame and swing-arm sandblasted and powder coated. Seems every time I may have the cash something comes up. I’m hoping to start on it early this next spring and enjoy some riding time,again.
This is why it is in my signature line.
Pics are fresh from the shed I found it in.
I thought that I had posted this story here already. I did a site search and it didn't show up as a post. If it is here please delete one.
