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Re: The cool bike thread......
« Reply #450 on: 23 June 2020, 06:09:02 pm »
Not Harley fan myself, but if I was to have one it would be this one


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Re: The cool bike thread......
« Reply #452 on: 27 June 2020, 11:09:23 pm »
Looks like 400/650 Bros/Hawk - very underrated machines those - and that ones nice,[size=78%] tidy and understated.......best of all, not a sign of exhaust wrap, knobbly tyres, or a brown seat !!  [/size] :lol :lol

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Re: The cool bike thread......
« Reply #453 on: 28 June 2020, 06:18:02 pm »
This isn't really cool, its just absolute bonkers.
And nope it's not a historic bike - it's a new build.
Should make 240bhp he says.

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Re: The cool bike thread......
« Reply #454 on: 28 June 2020, 08:10:52 pm »
Must be like sliding down a bannister 🤣🤣

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Re: The cool bike thread......
« Reply #455 on: 28 June 2020, 08:33:24 pm »
It's mad, eh?
Here's the induction side;

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Re: The cool bike thread......
« Reply #456 on: 03 July 2020, 12:42:50 am »
Talking about dragsters,just reading about E.J.Potter,the Michigan Madman who came over from the states with a V8 lump in a Harley chassis,apparently he had no room for any transmission and would put the bike on a stand and run it up to the equivalent of 150mph and drop it onto the tarmac!!?? the resultant wheelspin would give him variable gearing enabling EJ to snake up the strip in spectacular amounts of tyre smoke and noise!! can you imagine the balls required to do that???.He even got into the Guinness book of records with an 8.68/172mph run in 1970 but the drag racing bosses wouldn't rcognise his speeds because his bike aptly named "The Widowmaker" didn't comply with their rules,didn't stop him packing places out wherever he went though,he's quoted as saying "drag racing is a way of making a living without working" what a character!!
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Re: The cool bike thread......
« Reply #457 on: 04 July 2020, 04:48:25 pm »
can i put this in the arena VNA? latest to need getting running. Its only a 250 ( '72 cb250 k4 ) but i think its go a lovely little vibe

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Re: The cool bike thread......
« Reply #458 on: 04 July 2020, 06:20:34 pm »
 That’s a sweet looking little thing.  She's got potential.   I take it there is a side cover missing?
You giving it the carb treatment?
 

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Re: The cool bike thread......
« Reply #459 on: 05 July 2020, 12:22:53 am »
What a lash! hated 'em then and hate 'em now, focin' orrible things. :finger
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Re: The cool bike thread......
« Reply #460 on: 05 July 2020, 01:49:14 pm »
That’s a sweet looking little thing.  She's got potential.   I take it there is a side cover missing?
You giving it the carb treatment?
yup owners got both side covers. waiting on a float from david silver l/h one was full of fuel on both sides. carbs horribly gummed up with varnish so a bottle of nail polish remover and lots of titting around afore it goes in the ultrasonic tank. Personally i think late sixties/early seventies small capacity hondas are little gems. having said that i wouldnt run one... :lol
Theres a sentimemtal pull to tis bike in truth. 'Knockie' ellington, an older boy who lived a few doors up from me on my council estate used to tear around it on his back in '73 when I was thirteen. I think thats where it all began for me with bikes

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Re: The cool bike thread......
« Reply #461 on: 05 July 2020, 03:28:01 pm »
I think I'm being unfair with my dislike of that Honda,I mean it sparked something inside of you,starting you out on a life of freedom,friendship,exileration and a fantastic camaraderie ,who am I to judge?
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Re: The cool bike thread......
« Reply #462 on: 06 July 2020, 09:58:26 am »
Another way to look at it though would be that its kept me impoverished all my adult life mate :lol :lol :lol
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Re: The cool bike thread......
« Reply #463 on: 06 July 2020, 11:55:19 pm »
Anyway,compared to my first "motorised" bike it's fantastic,it was...……….wait for it a Zundapp Bella scooter. :o I remember I was frightened to bank it over and went up the gutter and into a pub car park,I didn't hurt myself,I'd have probably been going quicker on my pushbike. :lol
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Re: The cool bike thread......
« Reply #464 on: 07 July 2020, 07:46:45 am »
Zundapp Bella, was it a maroon one.
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Re: The cool bike thread......
« Reply #465 on: 07 July 2020, 09:20:27 pm »
No,someone had painted it with Tekalide paint,do you remember that .you were supposed to be able to hand paint it and not see any lines,what a load of bollocks!! but anyway it was this shit green colour,did you have one? Mine was a '54 ,I actually think there's a club for them now.
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« Reply #466 on: 07 July 2020, 09:27:18 pm »
I think I worded that wrong ever seen green shit ? :lol
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« Reply #467 on: 07 July 2020, 10:08:16 pm »
No I didn't have a Bella. A guy opposite my parents house had one, and it seemed all the ones I saw were maroon. The fast big scoot of that time was the Maicoletta. Wasn't trendy like a Vespa or Lambretta, but were very quick.
Not familiar with Tekalide paint, but used plenty of Belco brushing cellulose. With patience and a decent brush, the Belco used to turn out quite well.
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« Reply #468 on: 10 July 2020, 11:57:13 pm »
Remember it well,do you also remember DAG exhaust paint? it was really good then suddenly you couldn't get it.A mate of mine used to paint everything with Belco,his bikes,van and used to change the colour of his helmet regularly with it,he always wore a Cromwell Carburton helmet 'cause it used to slope down at the back with a lovely leather neck piece. I think most of the racers at the time used them.
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« Reply #469 on: 11 July 2020, 07:30:12 am »
Not familiar with DAG, but did loads of motorbike frames in Belco, as well as a Morris 1000, bought for £5 needing a couple of wheel cylinder overhaul kits, and a VW Beetle, also bought for a fiver, which needed a top end overhaul. All done in the street then. You were dead posh if you had a garage back then.
My pal Del still uses a Cromwell pudding basin when blowing a few cobwebs off his Rocket Goldie or Road Rocket.
The first helmet I bought was an Everoak Racemaster, the most expensive you could buy at the time when jet style helmets were still quite new. It was 95/-, or £4.75 in new money. I'd saved all summer to get that. Up until then I'd been using a damaged ex Norman Surtees helmet. Good old days for sure. :)
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« Reply #470 on: 11 July 2020, 01:06:14 pm »
I even have my "Never Wet badge" from my ancient biking clothes.


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« Reply #471 on: 11 July 2020, 01:21:23 pm »
Have a look on ebay. You'd be surprised how much genuine old bike related badges go for.
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Re: The cool bike thread......
« Reply #473 on: 20 July 2020, 12:14:53 am »
WOW !!!!
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« Reply #474 on: 20 July 2020, 10:15:57 am »
wow indeed but its deffo a money no object/more money than sense build :lol
Saw this at the weekend. Love the tank, but clear rocker covers?!?
you'll be wanting to git yerself some of them obviously VNA, i mean, pure class mate.... ;) :lol