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Title: Tidy up please - Dads motorbike.
Post by: ev on Wednesday 17 May 17 10:51 BST (UK)
Hi all  :)

Could someone do a clean up on the edges of this photo of my late father , thank you.



ev
Title: Re: Tidy up please - Dads motorbike.
Post by: dafydd46 on Wednesday 17 May 17 12:11 BST (UK)
I've cleaned up the worst of the damage and also slightly lightened the darkest areas with a luminosity mask.

dafydd46.
Title: Re: Tidy up please - Dads motorbike.
Post by: ev on Wednesday 17 May 17 13:17 BST (UK)
Hi dafydd46 ,

Thank you so much , that does look better  :)



ev
Title: Re: Tidy up please - Dads motorbike.
Post by: Trishanne on Wednesday 17 May 17 15:48 BST (UK)
One from me
Pat
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Post by: Mike in Cumbria on Wednesday 17 May 17 15:51 BST (UK)
What is the leaning object in the background on the right hand side?
Title: Re: Tidy up please - Dads motorbike.
Post by: Trishanne on Wednesday 17 May 17 16:04 BST (UK)
I presumed it was a tree trunk, but of course I could be wrong. ;D
Pat
Title: Re: Tidy up please - Dads motorbike.
Post by: ev on Wednesday 17 May 17 16:06 BST (UK)
Thanks Pat  :)

Mike , I think it's a tree but that corner of the original is missing  :-\



ev
Title: Re: Tidy up please - Dads motorbike.
Post by: Mike in Cumbria on Wednesday 17 May 17 16:08 BST (UK)
I think it can only be a tree but it is curved over at a very odd angle.
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Post by: hoobaloo on Wednesday 17 May 17 16:10 BST (UK)
A try from me, regards, John.
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Post by: japeflakes on Wednesday 17 May 17 16:46 BST (UK)
And another:
Title: Re: Tidy up please - Dads motorbike.
Post by: Mike Morrell (NL) on Wednesday 17 May 17 16:49 BST (UK)
Just posted the wrong version! Wil post the right one later :(


Mike
Title: Re: Tidy up please - Dads motorbike.
Post by: japeflakes on Wednesday 17 May 17 17:50 BST (UK)
Without "tree" and for a bit of fun.
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Post by: jloy326 on Wednesday 17 May 17 17:59 BST (UK)
Another. A very consistent community, all versions of this photo are nearly identical to the others.
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Post by: ymfoster on Wednesday 17 May 17 20:50 BST (UK)
My effort,  :)

Yvonne
Title: Re: Tidy up please - Dads motorbike.
Post by: Mike Morrell (NL) on Wednesday 17 May 17 23:30 BST (UK)
This is version I wanted to post earlier. I made mistakes along the way and I had to redo some work I'd already done. Frustrating but I learned a lot from them :)

Mike
Title: Re: Tidy up please - Dads motorbike.
Post by: Joyful on Thursday 18 May 17 00:40 BST (UK)
Good work by everyone ;)

Mike your work is improving with every restore 8)

Joy
Title: Re: Tidy up please - Dads motorbike.
Post by: ev on Thursday 18 May 17 07:46 BST (UK)
Thank you to everyone for all the different versions  :)



ev
Title: Re: Tidy up please - Dads motorbike.
Post by: Handypandy on Thursday 18 May 17 08:16 BST (UK)
One from me..
Title: Re: Tidy up please - Dads motorbike.
Post by: Mike Morrell (NL) on Thursday 18 May 17 08:45 BST (UK)
Quote from: Joyful on Thursday 18 May 17 00:40 BST (UK)
Good work by everyone ;)

Mike your work is improving with every restore 8)

Joy

Thanks, Joy!
Title: Re: Tidy up please - Dads motorbike.
Post by: brigidmac on Wednesday 31 May 17 18:04 BST (UK)
By the way do you know what make and cc the bike is ...

I have a photo of me on an antique British motorbike which looks similar .. from memory
Title: Re: Tidy up please - Dads motorbike.
Post by: youngtug on Wednesday 31 May 17 22:57 BST (UK)
Looks like a beezer to me. Might be a 250cc. or even a 500cc
Title: Re: Tidy up please - Dads motorbike.
Post by: ev on Thursday 01 June 17 08:46 BST (UK)
Sorry , we don;t know.
It wasn't ex-army or a Triumph.

The photo was taken before 1956 , we think it was new when bought.


ev
Title: Re: Tidy up please - Dads motorbike.
Post by: Handypandy on Thursday 01 June 17 10:33 BST (UK)
The registration number is Govan, pre 1935.
Title: Re: Tidy up please - Dads motorbike.
Post by: ev on Thursday 01 June 17 11:22 BST (UK)
Well I did wonder where my father would have got the money for a new one  :)
He was born 1928 , The photo would be about 1953 after he left the Army.



ev
Title: Re: Tidy up please - Dads motorbike.
Post by: Handypandy on Thursday 01 June 17 12:34 BST (UK)
Afraid I can't help with the bike. To the uninitiated, one looks much like another ;D

My dad had the one pictured below in the mid 50s and I know that was a 1949 Norton 500. It must have been those years '54-'57, with my brother and I as snug as  bugs in the sidecar, whilst mom and dad were dressed in the obligatory huge 'leathers', dad with the gauntlets but still soaked in the rain, that determined that I would always want four wheels with a roof!!!

Many happy times were had however, with occasional trips to the coast and most Sundays spent in the Peak district. One memory springs to mind of a rear tyre puncture, the AA man came out and stuffed it with grass from a nearby field to get us home!! Halcyon days!! ;D ;D
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Post by: stevew101 on Friday 02 June 17 10:08 BST (UK)
One with some colour

Steve
Title: Re: Tidy up please - Dads motorbike.
Post by: ev on Friday 02 June 17 10:44 BST (UK)
Thank you , Steve , that looks great  :)



ev