#QUASAR BIKE UPDATE#
#QUASAR BIKE SERIES#

#QUASAR BIKE UPDATE#

It was so tempting to update some parts, such as the ridiculously heavy fuel tank but I kept to the brief and I’m so glad I did.” “My brief to myself was to build it as Malcolm intended.

I don’t think he’d have sold it to just anybody, but because I had this connection with the brochure and a history of building wacky vehicles I guess I passed the test.” “John was Malcolm’s best mate, he knew the bike intimately and told me it was the last one. Built by Quasar creator Malcolm Newell himself, it was never actually finished and, following Malcolm’s death in 1994, remained dismantled and in primer ever since. Then, last year, Mike posted on the ‘Feet first’ Facebook group, received a reply from John Bruce and acquired this example. “So I’d long had thoughts about getting one – but they’re incredibly rare.” “My dad was a photographer in the 1970s and did the original Quasar brochure shots in his studio at our house,” remembers Mike.

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He completed the rebuild in February and now, after finding he can’t comfortably ride it due to a back injury, is offering it for sale.

#QUASAR BIKE SERIES#

It was bought as a dismantled project last year by engineer and fabricator Mike Ryan, best known for a series of amphibious vehicles featured on TV’s Top Gear.

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