In general, I hear from about three people per year who have found Welbikes in garages, warehouses and such.  Most people are from the United States, which reflects the number of surplus Welbikes that were sold in this country after the war.  I really don't know what this means as to the total number of  Welbikes that still exist, but it does seem to indicate there are still Welbikes to be found.

Below is a partial picture of both replica and original Welbikes in attendance at a meeting of a Dutch Welbike club in 2006 at the Hartenstein Hotel, the site of great museum about Operation Market-Garden and the British Parachute Regiment.  This group was started by one person's desire to own a Welbike.  When an original proved too expensive to purchase, he built his own (a bit like the one I own, but much more accurate).  After taking his replica to the 55th anniversary of Operation Market-Garden, enough motorcycle owners were interested that the decision was made to form a club and proceed with production of a batch of Welbikes.  After 6(!) years of work, 21 replica Welbikes were completed.  Once production was finished the group officially disbanded.  I've talked to a member of this group, who firmly reminded me to say that there is nothing original about these Welbikes.  Each replica uses a Villiers Junior engine, which were taken from a variety of sources; the most common one was from lawn mowers.  The rest of the bike was built from scratch, using WWII-vintage line drawings and a real Welbike as reference.

In what I think is the most unique post-war Welbike story, a news service in India reported a gentleman who had found the parts of a Welbike in a local junkyard.  He purchased them, restored the bike to operating condition, and now uses it as personal transportation.  The only thing he didn't have was the hand pump to pressurize the fuel tank, so he remounted the tank higher than normal to get gravity to feed the fuel.  He says it works great as his daily transportation and the engine still gets 100 miles per gallon as specified in the original Army operator's manual.   Not bad for a throw-away scooter that's over 60 years old.  I love the green paint!  See the picture below.