[RoyB]

Like many members, I keep a check on eBay to see what’s coming up, and am amazed at the number of “barn find” Moultons. There must have been lots of farmers using Moultons, and then discarding them. Was it a little known piece of farming transport that has been lost in the memories of people over the last 40 years? I think we should be told……….

[Ian]

‘Barn find’ is ebay UK shorthand for ‘got it in a house clearance’ or ‘have to get rid of it as it is a rusting heap’.

In reality they have been buried at the back of a garage or damp shed and some (if not all) of them will have been left there because they had a problem or were worn out and the original owner was ‘gong to get round to it…..’ Eventually.

Obviously leaving them there for 20, 30, 40 years or more will have improved them immensely. You can pay daft money for the rusting trash certain that, as long as you tell people how wonderful they are, they will be a valuable classic, ‘better than money in the bank’. Or not 😉

[Alexander Johnston]

I too was mystified by the term “barn finds” because where I live barns have been turned into bijou residences and they’re about the last place you would find a rusting Moulton.
As Ian says a generic terms for something which has been discarded and left to rust but rediscovered and put up for sale in the hope it might make a few bob.

[William Poole]

Hi! There are loads of old bikes stacked up in a large shed near Aston Down Airfield in Gloucestershire. The ‘shed/old garage’ is almost large enough to be called a barn, and at least one of those old bikes is a Moulton! So a Moulton Barn Find can still happen!

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