10-01-20, 04:38 PM
(10-01-20, 04:27 PM)unfazed link Wrote:Coolest bike around
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The cool bike thread......
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10-01-20, 05:33 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-01-20, 05:36 PM by fazersharp.)
(10-01-20, 04:27 PM)unfazed link Wrote:Coolest bike aroundAlmost -but wrong colour. 
I don't do rain or threat there of. dry rider only with no shame.
10-01-20, 07:39 PM
Quote:Coolest bike aroundThey were certainly good bikes. I bought one new myself and ran it for 5 years. But cool, as in ice cool? Nope not gonna post any pictures of my FZS600 or FZS1000 in this thread. 
10-01-20, 07:43 PM
(09-01-20, 08:00 PM)VNA link Wrote:Quote:I had an F800GT for a few months and it was a brilliant bike,did everything great except look good,what an abortion.This is the Cool Bike thread. My eyeballs have just been seriously assulted for the second time in one page! :grumble There's not much I'd rather not be seen on than a C90,maybe a Raleigh Runabout. :lol
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10-01-20, 08:22 PM
Quote:There's not much I'd rather not be seen on than a C90,maybe a Raleigh Runabout.Have I ever claimed it’s cool? I first got my grubby mits on it back in 1987. It was sitting in my folks garage with 26 miles on the clock. I had a slight problem - no money and I wanted a bike – but more than that I wanted a bike license. I took a good bit of stick for that bike, but I got my license, and in 1988 it got shoved back into my folks garage. With my ma Dad having passed away at the very beginning of 2016, and my Mother shortly afterwards in a care home. Well I dug it out of their garage, and it’s now sitting in my garage awaiting the day I decide to spruce her up a bit and maybe even take her for a spin again. She’ll never ever be ice cool, but age has granted her a certain charm, and of course I have a sentimental attachment to the old girl. 
10-01-20, 10:25 PM
(10-01-20, 07:43 PM)coffee link Wrote:[quote author=VNA link=topic=25530.msg307868#msg307868 There's not much I'd rather not be seen on than a C90,maybe a Raleigh Runabout. :lol I think a BSA Winged Wheel beats a Raleigh Runabout all day long :lol .
Whizz kid sitting pretty on his two wheeled stallion.
11-01-20, 08:45 PM
Spotted this one at the Classic Bike Show today. Looked reasonably well put together, and not bad looking either methinks
11-01-20, 09:39 PM
Honda Cub owners will always get the last laugh,the best selling bike ever and now fetching good money. :woot
never look down on anyone unless you're helping them up.
14-01-20, 11:34 AM
that looks like a modern Ariel Square 4, or an original one off.
14-01-20, 12:31 PM
(14-01-20, 11:34 AM)Oldgit link Wrote:that looks like a modern Ariel Square 4, or an original one off.It's a Sunbeam s8 I think. The s7 looked cool with it's fat tyres.
14-01-20, 03:08 PM
Sunbeam were a subsiduary of BSA. Yep, I'd agreee, an S8.
Whizz kid sitting pretty on his two wheeled stallion.
15-01-20, 06:15 PM
Yes that's an S8, I had one with a chair when you could ride a combo on L plates but the S7 was the one to have for pulling a chair. All 3 wheels were interchangable and they looked great with them balloon tyres.Those Sunbeams had a big fault in that the rear cylinder would overheat because being in line it wouldn't get the air cooling like the front.They were also very slow,you were lucky to get 50 with a chair on but I remember having a great crack lifting the chair wheel on tight left handers,when you first did it though you'd shit yourself thinking the chair was coming over and you'd bang it down and be on the wrong side of the road!! but when you got the hang of it you could go along with the wheel in the air in a straight line,very cool I thought,probably the only one who did though. :lol
never look down on anyone unless you're helping them up.
15-01-20, 07:56 PM
Getting the chair in the air was great fun, as you say, once you'd got the hang of it. I had a third share of a Tiger 110 with a float sidecar. It used to be used for recovering broken down or crashed bikes. We bought it off a bike dealer for 15 quid when he upgraded to a van. No one relished their turn being passenger on the float with just a bit of scaffolding to hang on to though. Happy days :thumbup
Whizz kid sitting pretty on his two wheeled stallion.
17-01-20, 07:46 PM
Niether!! these never did it for me,don't know why because they've got a cult following,well I think it's cult. :lol
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17-01-20, 07:53 PM
17-01-20, 10:53 PM
MV eternally cool 8) . The 6 cylinder 350 GP bike also has the coolest sound
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17-01-20, 11:18 PM
(17-01-20, 10:53 PM)YamFazFan link Wrote: MV eternally cool 8) . The 6 cylinder 350 GP bike also has the coolest soundMany years ago, I went to the Post TT Classic at Mallory Park. John Cooper and Ago were 'Parading' on their old bikes, a BSA triple and the MV500/4, not quite the 350/6 but it still sounded fantastic, that dry rasp sounds like nothing else. MV won every 500cc GP title from 1958 through to 1974 and Ago took 7 of those on the bounce from '66 to '72 ('74 was the last time a four stroke won the championship before the start of the two-stroke era) Awesome stats :eek |
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