Albury Wodonga NewsWeekly, Issue #157, Friday, 26 October, 2012

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Friday, 26 October, 2012 Page 17

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Border history reborn IT has been at a Border Bike Fest, but it’s coming back better than ever. TREVOR JACKSON reports on a 100-year-old bike that has an amazing history. “If this is not the bike in the photo, it’s one of probably 10 they made. “It allowed me to follow how the bike is supposed to be. Up until I found this photo, I didn’t know how many spokes were meant to be in the wheels. Now I do.

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That’s where knowing the history, including old images, is important to David.

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“I can make all the controls to suit and I can get the shape of the handle bars and forks right.�

“I’ve done other restorations, and I was probably going to put this together so it would work,� he said.

Sundays Sessions in The Rooftop Bier Garden and live bands from 4pm till late Every Sunday the live music is always free!

“But then there’d be plenty of critics who’d say “that’s not right, this is not right�, and that would have annoyed me.

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“Now the critics can say what they like, and all I have to do is bring this photo out.

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“As long as I have it the same as the photo, it’s pretty right, and to prove the person sitting on the bike is the maker, that means it must be his bike.�

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ORIGINALITY can mean everything in a motorcycle restoration project. According to David Arnold, it’s all about how fussy you are - and he’s proving to be just that when it comes to restoring his 1904 Relay. The bike was made by Blacklock and Fuller in Albury, as David discovered after receiving the bike as nothing more than a motor and part of the frame. He began to dig into the archives and found a photo that represented the bike, with Al Fuller, the original builder, aboard. The photo showed a small tag on the front of the frame, which was also present on the bike, and proved the bike was made in Albury. As an ex-employee of Blacklocks, this made the project much more worthwhile for David. He said this style of bike was relatively common in Australia, sold to dealers as kits, but many weren’t able to be identified. “There are a lot of these bikes up and running, but the owners don’t know who made them,� David explained. “But this one had the tag on it - without the tag it could have been any number of veteran bikes.� And then the work began. Finding parts proved impossible, so it was a matter of handmaking whatever was needed, us-

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