The Bikeshite Thread

[Bren]

54 minutes ago, Barry Cade said:

They're all getting  that way. Finding a good original one isn't easy either.. seem to attract the adonsised crowd..

Sorry, anodised. 

When I bought my busa these were my first choice but only one was in my price range. It had been sat - every fastner was corroded and the plastic coating was peeling off the frame. But it was only around £2k.

[Cavcraft]

3 hours ago, Fabergé Greggs said:

Can anyone reccomend a good courier? I'm keen on a bike in Plymouth but I'm over here in Kent. Did @Cavcraft suggest someone recently? 

The fabulous Bertrand at Dolwolfian Logistics

Dolwolfian Logistics

Ignore his hit/miss English on the web page, he's a proper insured courier and the nicest person you'll ever meet.

[hairnet]

Shhh

Mad Spanish gadge  in front of me not a diesel

Epace - madman

 

[mitsisigma01]

🤷‍♂️ no idea 🤷‍♂️

[808 Estate]

Royal Enfield are celebrating 120 years of building motorcycles with a rather tasty limited edition 650 Interceptor.

 

[808 Estate]

On 8/12/2022 at 12:08 PM, Jazoli said:

Nothing in the garage to ride apart from my daughters purple scooter now. 

Born to be mild.

[Rustybullethole]

21 minutes ago, 808 Estate said:

Royal Enfield are celebrating 120 years of building motorcycles with a rather tasty limited edition 650 Interceptor.

 

That’s a bit sexual. 
id buy one of them over an xjr or any other fastasfuki nakid and use all the power all the time. 
As ever it’s the internet and I’m chatting shit. Would dust of the 100k miler cb500 and keep caining the shit out of it. TRUEFACT

[Liggle]

I love the 650 Interceptor, would have to have the chrome tank though personally

[Dave_Q]

Am in foreign on holiday and tested a rental moped:

It's electric innit. Got a discount code for a free ride so took one out for a blezz. I believe it's a NIU NQT which you can buy here for a coupla bags. Bosch hub motor and removable batteries with about a 70km range.

In line with Dutch moped laws there is a 25kmh blue plate version and a 45kmh yellow plate. Went for the full fat 45kmh. As far as I can tell the only difference other than the speed limiter is the 45kmh version has a top box with 2 piss pot helmets in which amazingly one kinda fitted on my head. 

To ride, surprisingly uneventful tbh. I think these have been nobbled for rental as I was expecting at least a bit of a shove off the line when you open the throttle but it was very serene. There's a power mode button that seemed to be disabled. Cruise control tho!

In summary, if it did 40mph and was therefore of some potential use in the UK, would. Over here 28mph tops would make it useless unless you live in that London or summat.

[Psycho Charlie Knobcheese]

Think this may be of some interest on a few of you on here.

Its been garaged at my mothers for 20 odd years and with the best will in the world I’m never going to get around to doing anything with it.

Would be interested on what people think it’s worth In it’s present condition.

1982 Kawasaki GPz 750R1. 
Only made for a couple of years before the UniTrack model came in so relatively rare.

Starter clutch is knackered/slips and is a bit of a bastard of a job and is a common problem on the Z650 based engine and bigger.

Was using a fair bit of oil when I took it off the road which I put down to the valve guide seals having gone hard.

My plan was to drop in a much later engine from a Zr7 which was still being made new in the early 2000’s as well as a stubby Harris 4-1 as the Motad that’s on it sits too low to my eyes.

Will obviously need recommissioning but cosmetically it’s in decent nick and brakes are binding a bit but still rolls freely around.

Engine turns over and could be rebuilt as all parts still available.

Was my sole transport for a couple of years and I even moved to Brighton on it from the West Midlands with nothing more than a rucksack of clothes- Oh to be 23 again…

I’m quite sentimentally attached to it hence holding onto it for so long but being realistic it’ll just sit garaged forever.

I couldn’t afford a proper Z1000R ELR back then but if you squint it’s not far off.

Simpson Bandit and a paddock jacket and it’s 1986… 

@tom13 

[hairnet]

Ahh shure

[Rustybullethole]

9 minutes ago, Psycho Charlie Knobcheese said:

Think this may be of some interest on a few of you on here.

Its been garaged at my mothers for 20 odd years and with the best will in the world I’m never going to get around to doing anything with it.

Would be interested on what people think it’s worth In it’s present condition.

1982 Kawasaki GPz 750R1. 
Only made for a couple of years before the UniTrack model came in so relatively rare.

Starter clutch is knackered/slips and is a bit of a bastard of a job and is a common problem on the Z650 based engine and bigger.

Was using a fair bit of oil when I took it off the road which I put down to the valve guide seals having gone hard.

My plan was to drop in a much later engine from a Zr7 which was still being made new in the early 2000’s as well as a stubby Harris 4-1 as the Motad that’s on it sits too low to my eyes.

Will obviously need recommissioning but cosmetically it’s in decent nick and brakes are binding a bit but still rolls freely around.

Engine turns over and could be rebuilt as all parts still available.

Was my sole transport for a couple of years and I even moved to Brighton on it from the West Midlands with nothing more than a rucksack of clothes- Oh to be 23 again…

I’m quite sentimentally attached to it hence holding onto it for so long but being realistic it’ll just sit garaged forever.

I couldn’t afford a proper Z1000R ELR back then but if you squint it’s not far off.

Simpson Bandit and a paddock jacket and it’s 1986… 

@tom13 

Not sure on value sorry. Is a lovely thing though, not sure I’d bare to part with it.
That may be the reason I have close to 20 bikes at last count mind though surely that’s a keeper. Nice winter project. If only I had any dry space and needed another project.

[Psycho Charlie Knobcheese]

17 minutes ago, Rustybullethole said:

Not sure on value sorry. Is a lovely thing though, not sure I’d bare to part with it.
That may be the reason I have close to 20 bikes at last count mind though surely that’s a keeper. Nice winter project. If only I had any dry space and needed another project.

Thanks for the response. I’ve thought about draining it of fluids and chucking it on paddock stands as a piece of Objet d’art in my house. 
 

Would be better than a clothes horse to hang my keks off

[Rustybullethole]

9 minutes ago, Psycho Charlie Knobcheese said:

Thanks for the response. I’ve thought about draining it of fluids and chucking it on paddock stands as a piece of Objet d’art in my house. 
 

Would be better than a clothes horse to hang my keks off

Do it.

My gas gas ec250 race bike used to be kept in the back room. This was no mean feat as we live in a top floor flat and it meant getting my pride and joy up four flights of stairs in an enclosed concrete stairwell. Neighbours made it very clear they didn’t appreciate my hard enduro I’ll ride it up efforts so had to I lost the mrs to hold it steady whilst I hoofed from the spokes. We had this technique down and many happy hours were spent getting stoned and lavishing it with care in what a few years later became my kids bedroom.  Should of kept it in my pants. 
Racing became a once in a blue moon affair and then when it became a money pit and eventually blew the gearbox (like my current road bike) it got mothballed and eventually sold on as a basket case. If I could get the gs up the stairs I’d be fixing it now.
Bring that baby in you might find yourself fixing it. Or just get stoned and enjoy looking at it. Sound plan either way.

[Psycho Charlie Knobcheese]

29 minutes ago, Rustybullethole said:

Do it.

My gas gas ec250 race bike used to be kept in the back room. This was no mean feat as we live in a top floor flat and it meant getting my pride and joy up four flights of stairs in an enclosed concrete stairwell. Neighbours made it very clear they didn’t appreciate my hard enduro I’ll ride it up efforts so had to I lost the mrs to hold it steady whilst I hoofed from the spokes. We had this technique down and many happy hours were spent getting stoned and lavishing it with care in what a few years later became my kids bedroom.  Should of kept it in my pants. 
Racing became a once in a blue moon affair and then when it became a money pit and eventually blew the gearbox (like my current road bike) it got mothballed and eventually sold on as a basket case. If I could get the gs up the stairs I’d be fixing it now.
Bring that baby in you might find yourself fixing it. Or just get stoned and enjoy looking at it. Sound plan either way.

It used to live on the street just off the Lewes road in Brighton outside my room in an HMO.
Bump starting the fucking thing along one of the busiest roads in Brighton was fun*

Despite the amount of carnage that was a nightly occurrence along there by some miracle it never got touched/kicked over

 

[UltraWomble]

Ive been using the Speedfight to nip to HMP Preston on the odd occasion Im in there and taking the route daughter uses to go to college - one of the roads has a big fuck off hill that the bike struggles with, dropping right down to 20 and less. She did mention it was a bit slow up the hill but I hadnt realised how slow.

Any thoughts?

I know its a 50, I know its old. I just wondered if there was any way I can either wring a consistent power / speed out of this or are there any other bikes I should be looking at (even electrical) that would consistently do 30 even up a hill?

 

On the plus side I can see 50 on the clock coming down that same hill and as the ANPR average speed cameras face into the traffic I can just grin wildly at them whilst the cars stick to 30....

[New POD]

9 minutes ago, UltraWomble said:

Ive been using the Speedfight to nip to HMP Preston on the odd occasion Im in there and taking the route daughter uses to go to college - one of the roads has a big fuck off hill that the bike struggles with, dropping right down to 20 and less. She did mention it was a bit slow up the hill but I hadnt realised how slow.

Any thoughts?

I know its a 50, I know its old. I just wondered if there was any way I can either wring a consistent power / speed out of this or are there any other bikes I should be looking at (even electrical) that would consistently do 30 even up a hill?

 

On the plus side I can see 50 on the clock coming down that same hill and as the ANPR average speed cameras face into the traffic I can just grin wildly at them whilst the cars stick to 30....

I once took a Suzuki TS50ER to the lake District,  not realising it needed a decoke.  The slightest slope and it struggled to get out of 2nd gear. I pushed it up Buttermere pass,  engine running,  slipping the clutch. 

When I got home,  I not only did a decoke,  I also filed the exhaust ports,  and removed restriction plates from exhaust and inlet. 

After that it would do 40 on the flat,  but living in Formby,  it was pretty flat,  and I was soon 17 and swapped it for a Suzuki TS125ER. 

My point? If its a 2 stroke there's a European version with a different exhaust,  and potential for 50 mph.  Just need the right parts.  

[mitsisigma01]

3 hours ago, hairnet said:

Ahh shure

Sorry if it seems like an insult but that does look like a slimmed down pumped up Varadero , I think I've asked this before but what model is it please?

[Rustybullethole]

Nc 700 I think. 

[hairnet]

1 hour ago, mitsisigma01 said:

Sorry if it seems like an insult but that does look like a slimmed down pumped up Varadero , I think I've asked this before but what model is it please?

 

 

[hairnet]

1 hour ago, mitsisigma01 said:

Zzzzzzzz

Nc750x

Slimmer better varadildo

[mitsisigma01]

Definitely agree, Varadero is one ugly muthafkr of a bike .... Anyone want to buy a beautiful low mileage, 1999 xl1000v Varadero ...

[bear-in-the-air]

3 hours ago, UltraWomble said:

Ive been using the Speedfight to nip to HMP Preston on the odd occasion Im in there and taking the route daughter uses to go to college - one of the roads has a big fuck off hill that the bike struggles with, dropping right down to 20 and less. She did mention it was a bit slow up the hill but I hadnt realised how slow.

Any thoughts?

I know its a 50, I know its old. I just wondered if there was any way I can either wring a consistent power / speed out of this or are there any other bikes I should be looking at (even electrical) that would consistently do 30 even up a hill?

 

On the plus side I can see 50 on the clock coming down that same hill and as the ANPR average speed cameras face into the traffic I can just grin wildly at them whilst the cars stick to 30....

Not a bike owner, been looking in to electric bikes a bit lately. This is all on paper stuff so grain of salt:

50cc bikes are restricted here to shite power. The leccy equivalent have the same power restrictions, so although the instant torque makes them take off faster, you're still limited to the same slow speed on a pull up a hill as that power is too little to overcome weight up a hill. 

Official way is to not slow to a crawl is to upgrade to a 125 class bike (electric or petrol)  but you could try NewPOD's suggestion for a small boost in power 

[New POD]

I'm.notvsure why an electric motor, couldn't be restricted via the wheel speed sensor.  Then you could tune it by removing a few of the teeth, in the ring. 

[Jazoli]

10 hours ago, UltraWomble said:

Ive been using the Speedfight to nip to HMP Preston on the odd occasion Im in there and taking the route daughter uses to go to college - one of the roads has a big fuck off hill that the bike struggles with, dropping right down to 20 and less. She did mention it was a bit slow up the hill but I hadnt realised how slow.

Any thoughts?

I know its a 50, I know its old. I just wondered if there was any way I can either wring a consistent power / speed out of this or are there any other bikes I should be looking at (even electrical) that would consistently do 30 even up a hill?

 

On the plus side I can see 50 on the clock coming down that same hill and as the ANPR average speed cameras face into the traffic I can just grin wildly at them whilst the cars stick to 30....

A less restrictive exhaust and a bigger carb and some careful setting up will see gains, you're not a small bloke so any 50cc is going to struggle a bit to be honest, I don't know how old your daughter is but once you start fiddling you could be making the bike illegal if she's only 16 and restricted to a moped, whether that is a concern of not is up to you.

[bear-in-the-air]

3 hours ago, New POD said:

I'm.notvsure why an electric motor, couldn't be restricted via the wheel speed sensor.  Then you could tune it by removing a few of the teeth, in the ring. 

The 50cc class electric bikes generally just have terrible weak motors, there is generally no more power to be extracted. Why waste money on a nice motor and restricting it when a cheaper one would do.

Some of the electric bicycles and kick scooters have stronger motors than the 50cc equivalent mopeds (although you're not supposed to ride those on the road on those in full power mode)

[Fabergé Greggs]

On 8/24/2022 at 9:48 PM, Dave_Q said:

Over here 28mph tops would make it useless unless you live in that London or summat.

Travelling at 28mph in London would attract some serious road rage. You have to go at least 45mph if you don’t want an angry Audi up your bum. 

[hairnet]

On 8/23/2022 at 5:53 PM, pilninggas said:

On the inner German border 

Who asked about that

It's this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_German_border

Nothing to do with Berlin wall

 

 

[pilninggas]

27 minutes ago, hairnet said:

Who asked about that

It's this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_German_border

Nothing to do with Berlin wall

 

 

The similarity with the Berlin wall is that the GDR/DDR built both to prevent flight from the Socialist East Germany into the West. The IGB (DDG) was built first to prevent flight into West Germany, the Berlin Wall was built later to prevent flight into West Berlin.

I stayed in a village just inside the Western side, a few kilometres is Benneckenstein, a small town. The host said to me that Benneckenstein was heavily policed and only East Germans with special permissions [eg locals] were allowed to enter.

Whilst the Berlin Wall was physically limited in size [depth], the inner german border had greater depth with layers of systems to prevent flight from totalitarianism. 

[hairnet]

That was close

Left at half 12 plenty of time boat at 1445

M7 shut due to accident and long enugf there's people out their cars sunbathing

Filtered to the front stopped

Was gonna ask road fellas if stuff was ok they let front go 

Back to 130 kmh

Hit ferry 10mins before they closed the gates