The cool bike thread......

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[Skippernick]

Why has it got a Yamaha rear calliper on it?

[VNA]

Why has it got a Yamaha rear calliper on it?

Probably for the same reason it has a Yamaha Blue Spot front caliper - so you can stop.
Which is handy.  Not just from a safety point of view, but you may want to stop and pause now and again so as folks can fully appreciate how cool you are.

[Skippernick]

Why has it got a Yamaha rear calliper on it?

Probably for the same reason it has a Yamaha Blue Spot front caliper - so you can stop.
Which is handy.  Not just from a safety point of view, but you may want to stop and pause now and again so as folks can fully appreciate how cool you are.

LOL, I was referring more to the fact that it is Honda and therefore assumed Honda parts would be on it!

[Anquetil]

This photo was taken outside my old school in the 1920's. Cool bikes and even cooler looking riders ! Just love the headwear.

[YamFazFan]

Anyone identify the bike makes/models in Anquetil's photo?.

[red98]

not sure about the bikes , but i think thats ROBBO second from right 

[celticdog]

THis is what started my love affair with bikes

[robbo]

Deffo, still got that cap. :lol

[coffee]

I think Robbo's on a Singer,Ogri's maybe on a Douglas combo but I don't know what Red's on but he's definitely smoking Old Holborn  :lol

[YamFazFan]

I'm guessing Zenith Gradua for the bike on the left. I reckon that's the belt pulley adjuster winding device thingy they had sticking out above the fuel tank .


Somebody will probably point out how they can see that it's chain drive now :lol

[red98]

:lol ..........a wild guess , zenith , sunbeam . great pic thanks for sharing ANQUETLL

[YamFazFan]

I get The Vintage Motorcycle Club magazine passed on to me each month. A good read. Their club members would have a field day with that photo :lol .


You'd find out the makes/models/year of manufacture/factory options..........

[Anquetil]

The bike on the left looks like it may be a Norton, comparing it with the attached photo.

[robbo]

Mr.Red. If you like those old flat tanker, total loss oil type bikes, then you must try and get to next years Pioneer Run from Epsom Downs. It would be an early start for you to get there, as they start to leave at 8am, going from memory. I always go, but more for the social, as always regard that meeting as the first event in a new biking year. It's usually the 3rd or 4th Sunday in March. See you at the tea hut, next year :lol .

[BMCfaz]

There's a bit of a smell of beard oil, with all the hipster-cool bikes on the thread, but I guess cool is in the opinion of the individual. IMO, for example, BMW haven't produced a cool bike since the R90S!


Almost any bike can look cool with a bit of work, take Italian firm RossoChromo's CB1000R-based XESS, Velocity-moto's MT09-based 900LC or anything by Japanese firm AC Sanctuary, but the bike that was cool for me straight out of the crate was the Benelli TNT. Probably totally unreliable, but it looked something else!

[red98]

Mr.Red. If you like those old flat tanker, total loss oil type bikes, then you must try and get to next years Pioneer Run from Epsom Downs. It would be an early start for you to get there, as they start to leave at 8am, going from memory. I always go, but more for the social, as always regard that meeting as the first event in a new biking year. It's usually the 3rd or 4th Sunday in March. See you at the tea hut, next year :lol .

hi mr Robbo , had plans to go this year but something else got in the way .....yep,i do like the flat tanked bikes and who knows next years event might see me on one of my own.....i`ll look out for you on your zenith 

[VNA]

but it looked something else!

My god, it certainly does.  That thing is almost the definition, for me, in my opinion, and all that, of uncool.