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NORTY40:
I picked up a very nice chrome Torker the other week , the lad's Dad had bought it new from Alan's in Wigan back in 83 . He told me all of the parts were original to the bike apart from the bar's which had been changed to some kneesaver type bars .

What is quite interesting is the Torker stamped parts .....

First up , 6 bolt stem in og Blue anno . I have seen these before so not much of a rarerity but i thought i would include it anyway ...







The next one is a seat , now im well aware of the Torker stamped Jaguar ariake seat stamped 'Torker' on the nose but this is different . It is stamped Torker on the side , it's actually stamped like a Kashi aero ie not a decal . No markings under the seat at all .  :-\  It is still attached to it's original post which still has an og Torker decal on .






The last item is a one piece crank ...... never seen one of these before ....







Im going to take all 3 items into Alan's in the near future to see if he can shed some light on them (mainly the seat and the OPC) .

Any Torker lads come across anything like these before ??

Cheers

Joff :)

glenboy:
cant help with info but you do find these sleepers joff  :daumenhoch:, never seen a torker stamped crank

NORTY40:

--- Quote from: glenboy on February 12, 2014, 11:07 PM ---cant help with info but you do find these sleepers joff  :daumenhoch:, never seen a torker stamped crank

--- End quote ---

I can't take the credit for finding these Glen . Darren (BADDH) knew the lad who had them , he got the lads brother's Torker MX complete bike  8) . They had them both from new and both were supplied by Alan's bitd .

I haven't seen another seat or crank like this before  :-\

CustardLips:
Nice bits Joff.  :daumenhoch:

GRAB ON KID:
Hi Joff,the stamped Torker stems were made in Asia when Marui brothers (TIOGA) bought the rights to Torker after the bankruptcy so would've been made after 85'.The Torker 2 frames were made by Akisu & the cranks look just like Tiogas,Takagi,etc as have the same Cro-mo font stamp on them..... so it would make sense that the seat was probably made by one of the many brands under Tioga around the same time.....Still I've never seen either those cranks or seat before so quite a find bud!

Is there any stamp on the seat guts?

Cheers,Mike  :daumenhoch:

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