The Bikeshite Thread

[Jerzy Woking]

Recent Adventure Bike Rider event had an off road course set up, quite a few miles to get round it (not just a lap around a couple of fields).

This will be Hairnet in the not too distant future.....

 

[Snake Charmer]

2 hours ago, Jerzy Woking said:

Recent Adventure Bike Rider event had an off road course set up, quite a few miles to get round it (not just a lap around a couple of fields).

This will be Hairnet in the not too distant future.....

 

That looked like fun, I grabbed a coffee and watched part 2. Highsiding a CT90! 😄  Looked like you were sat down most of the way.

[Jerzy Woking]

9 hours ago, Snake Charmer said:

That looked like fun, I grabbed a coffee and watched part 2. Highsiding a CT90! 😄  Looked like you were sat down most of the way.

Not mw, but Nathan Millward. He has a rental fleet of C110 postie bikes, as well as a fleet of sub 500cc ADV bikes and Enfield 650's. Nice bloke, excellent knowledge of the lanes around Devon and Cornwall, and a good rider on the green lanes.

[Snake Charmer]

1 hour ago, Jerzy Woking said:

Not mw, but Nathan Millward. He has a rental fleet of C110 postie bikes, as well as a fleet of sub 500cc ADV bikes and Enfield 650's. Nice bloke, excellent knowledge of the lanes around Devon and Cornwall, and a good rider on the green lanes.

Ah, I misread your "Post". 😁

 

[twosmoke300]

2001 called - they would like their trackday back !

Gonna be ball soup today 

 

There is another Thundercat here somewhere . Hope it’s in my group 

[Jazoli]

42 minutes ago, twosmoke300 said:

2001 called - they would like their trackday back !

Gonna be ball soup today 

There is another Thundercat here somewhere . Hope it’s in my group 

I'd like to bet on 7 red flags and zero uninterrupted sessions, I've given up TD's now because of the ridiculous amount of stoppages, especially at MSV circuits where if someone slides off into the gravel or stops on circuit (even if they are in a safe place) its an automatic red flag, last TD I did was at Anglesey (what a circuit btw) back in 2019, I got 12 uninterrupted laps all day, the day cost me the thick end of £600 (hire bike, hotel, fuel etc), so £50 a lap, hope you get better VFM from your day

[twosmoke300]

Been 4 reds in the “ expert “ group so far 

Us wobbly nobbers seem ok 

[twosmoke300]

Front end keeps running wide . Adjustments reqd

[5speedracer]

Tidy rear shock

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[twosmoke300]

Yeh seems good so far . Put stiffer springs in the front so I guess it’s sitting a bit higher . Bit less preload and drop the yokes a bit .

[tom13]

What a day to have it on! You lucky boy. Bikes looking ace as well.

[twosmoke300]

Riding stopped due to lack of paramedics . Ffs . Fast group keep on crashing .Jazoli is right 

[5speedracer]

"I've got an R1 so I must be in the fast group!" Hmmm!!

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[twosmoke300]

My mate on the R1 is firmly in the same wobbly nobbers group as me

[5speedracer]

The shame of it, has he had a testosterone test

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[Jazoli]

The problem is everyone wants to be in the 'fast' or 'advanced' group, there is no timing so anyone can book into whatever group they like and very little is done about it by the organisers, there can be differences of 20-30 seconds a lap, which is a joke, you have people wobbling around with experienced club racers and its a recipe for disaster, I ran someone over at Anglesey, he tried a move on the first lap out, skittled the rider in front of me and fell off, I bounced off him into the grass, this was on the first lap after the sighting lap at 9am in the morning, it set the precedent for the day

[twosmoke300]

Thundercat fweeend

[UltraWomble]

Shite bike thread meet shite bike - Honda P50 last of the "Winged Wheels"

With spare engine...

 

[Jerzy Woking]

11 hours ago, Jazoli said:

The problem is everyone wants to be in the 'fast' or 'advanced' group, there is no timing so anyone can book into whatever group they like and very little is done about it by the organisers, there can be differences of 20-30 seconds a lap, which is a joke, you have people wobbling around with experienced club racers and its a recipe for disaster, I ran someone over at Anglesey, he tried a move on the first lap out, skittled the rider in front of me and fell off, I bounced off him into the grass, this was on the first lap after the sighting lap at 9am in the morning, it set the precedent for the day

I found the opposite on a number of trackday. Knobs, with tricked up track bikes, tyre warmers and bike plugged into a laptop, riding in the novice group to show off.

Ive mentioned them a few times, but British Superbike School at Blyton are excellent. One instructor to three (often two) riders. Put myself in with the Inters group a few times, but last time I was put into the Fast group. Felt a little out of my depth for the first session, mainly as I had not used my KTM RC8 on a track before, but fine after that and a few pointers from my instructor.

Only ever seen one red flag, and that was because someone dropped it on the only righthander and lost their oil that had to be cleared up.

[twosmoke300]

I’ve always found no limits to be good but they struggled with weather and rider stupidity yesterday and could have organised it better. Wonder if it was a coincidence but that was the first NL day I’ve done where the boss man wasn’t there 

[Jazoli]

I did a couple of road bike only trackdays with MSV, they were really good and free of the bellends on shitty old beaten up trackbikes who think nothing of pulling a stupid move, just 2 groups, normal and advanced, the pace was still  fast but there was far less pressure from people with something to prove as everyone was on their road bikes, there were a couple of bellends who turned up on what were obviously track bikes with numberplates tacked on, they weren't allowed out, which made me chuckle a bit.

Speaking of Thundercats I've just rebuilt the engine on this for my mate, he tried fitting a new chain himself and he didn't do it properly and it smashed the cases to bits, still a nice fun bike to ride now.

 

[5speedracer]

Has it stolen the paint from a Daytona 595?

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[Jazoli]

23 minutes ago, 5speedracer said:

Has it stolen the paint from a Daytona 595?

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Its close but no, the daytona was more yellow, its a crap paint job, made even worse by my mates attempt to respray parts of it when he dropped it.

[Dave_Q]

@UltraWomble I are also joining the Honda slowshite gang.

CF70 Chaly, a slightly taller step-thru version of the monkey/Dax.

It's had an engine swap, the engine number is standard C50 but the clutch cover says AT like a full auto, yet there appears to be a hole where the gearshift should go? Haven't actually got it home yet to see what's what.

Anyone clued up on these engines? Same as a C70/90 I think, not something I've dabbled in before.

TBH it's looking easiest to rip it out and put in a Chinese 110, then maybe I can keep up with @hairnet, we could be slow wobbly Honda fwends

[UltraWomble]

I think there was a full auto version of this engine on some cubs and many many tiny pit bikes / kiddie bikes.

Lifan engine route sounds best though

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[MT606]

look up 'ooracing' website, top left of their page 'parts by bike' n scroll down the list..... they do chaly parts

[martc]

Rungis not far from Paris, sometime in the 1970s

[martc]

More streamlined Italian greatness. This one was not made by a motorbike manufacturer, but by the aircraft subsidiary of FIAT - Aeritalia. It was designed in a wind tunnel, used aeronautical influences and was the second time that FIAT considered entering the two wheeled market.

This is the Moto Major, from 1948 -

FIAT's  first  two wheeled project? 1938, they built a scooter, but the project didn't go anywhere. However, after the war Piaggio's Paperino scooter bore a strong resemblance to it...

More details on the Moto Major here - https://thevintagent.com/2019/11/19/moto-major-italy-reinvents-the-motorcycle/

 

[martc]

And sticking to a streamlined theme, over in Germany -

Werner Haas on the NSU 1954 Ultra light . He was Germany's first motorcycle world champion to win, in 1953, the  FIM 125 and 250 world championships riding for NSU. Werner died, aged 29,  in a plane accident.

[MT606]

got a big bird vibe about it....n I don't mean a 12 pinter down at ya local watering hole......