The Bikeshite Thread

[Rustybullethole]

Talking of Urals this is worth a watch. Theres a free trailer though you need to pay for the film. Was well worth it id say.

https://www.leavinghomefunktion.com/en/home/#

[andyberg]

3 minutes ago, Rustybullethole said:

Talking of Urals this is worth a watch. Theres a free trailer though you need to pay for the film. Was well worth it id say.

https://www.leavinghomefunktion.com/en/home/#

I may just pay for this, give me more inspiration for Olga, my 650 solo. Thank you

[Rustybullethole]

1 minute ago, andyberg said:

I may just pay for this, give me more inspiration for Olga, my 650 solo. Thank you

Do it, then fix that Ural.   I now further regret selling mine  plus have massive travel jealousy not to mention a crush on the fine lady with the nose rings who features not enough as she does the camera work. 

[Dave_Q]

TBH is that perchance a Yamaha Passola?

We had one we bought for £30 to rag round fields (in like 1995), great little thing.

[UltraWomble]

Im thinking Honda Mini Melody

[Rustybullethole]

13 minutes ago, UltraWomble said:

Im thinking Honda Mini Melody

Thats the one. 

It's basically a mini red rocket. In beige.

[Bmwdumptruck]

1 hour ago, UltraWomble said:

I boiught a 50cc and the intention was for my 16YO to use it to go to college on - insurance absolutely spanked her - £900 for a ped that cost £1000

Crazy prices. No wonder the biking world is all about to die. 10 years or so and there’ll be so few bikers left the dealers and suppliers will fall like flies.  
At 16 it cost me £30 for a 50cc rider policy, same as all my mates and we could all ride each others bikes.  When my two hit sixteen I think we only paid about £400 each for their year on a moped and about the same for subsequent year or two on a 125 until they got car tests.  Both have full bike licences although my daughters is the newer restricted version and will need another test to go unrestricted, but her fella doesn’t ride and together they’re more into their hot hatches.  My lads a waste of space and as things stand doesn’t have much hope of either riding or driving in the near future. We’ve just scrapped his Fabia after it died and he’s not working or earning enough to save for another and the doors of ‘bank of mum n dad’ and locked firmly shut. 

[Barry Cade]

On 24/02/2024 at 22:20, Rustybullethole said:

Tank off or lifted at the rear if anything like my gs. Snapped the fuel pipe like a twat the first time i did mine. 

The tank is aluminium,  hidden under the fairings, so fairings off, then tank out to get to tha battery. 

[Cavcraft]

Setting standards isn't just for cars

[Cavcraft]

It got a little* more interesting after bouncing it round to line up with the ramp once too many times...

...the swinging arm snapped.

 

It was actually worth buying because it turned out they had another bike that was (hopefully) worth getting there, too. More of that later.

[Rustybullethole]

1 minute ago, Cavcraft said:

It got a little* more interesting after bouncing it round to line up with the ramp once too many times...

...the swinging arm snapped.

 

It was actually worth buying because it turned out they had another bike that was (hopefully) worth getting there, too. More of that later.

Tiger seal and hammerite should sort that.

Is it a jinlung 125? my mate big Ian had one for a few years and rode it daily including trips to wales. Like all his bikes he wrote it off in the end.

[Cavcraft]

6 minutes ago, Rustybullethole said:

Tiger seal and hammerite should sort that.

Is it a jinlung 125? my mate big Ian had one for a few years and rode it daily including trips to wales. Like all his bikes he wrote it off in the end.

It's a 'Kinroad' but I suspect a lot of these bikes are generic. It's stood in a garden for a few years hence being so bad.

[Iamgroot]

😂  Are you by any chance breaking that monstrosity?

[Dave_Q]

45 minutes ago, Iamgroot said:

😂  Are you by any chance breaking that monstrosity?

He's already broken it mate

[Iamgroot]

1 minute ago, Dave_Q said:

He's already broken it mate

Good point!

[Cavcraft]

3 hours ago, Iamgroot said:

😂  Are you by any chance breaking that monstrosity?

If you can find anything worth having let me know!

 

 

 

[UltraWomble]

Might be a bargain... 

[Aston Martin]

 

This is on in the background. 

Here's my issue, he just starts reading out bible verses for no fucking reason.

[Cavcraft]

GR8 fun today.

 

First off, a ride out to New Brighton.  Think there were 35-40 setting off and we met some others there...

Have to say it's a whole lot more fun going on run on a scooter than a bike. There's this weird sort of feeling when you roll into another town (especially by the sea) that you're some how invading it, albeit in a friendly way.  Ordinarily would have gone on the modern 4 stroke auto, but having had some work done to the Lambretta (including having the absolutely f*cked rear shock replaced with a nice new one) I used that instead.  Don't know about global warming, but asthma levels through the roof due to following some of the livelier Italians.

Anyhow, got back fairly reasonably so what better use of an hour or so than to fire the little Suzuki up and go down to the river.  One of these is a sporty, highly desirable 2T bike that changed the face of motorcycling in the early 1980s. The other is an RD250LC...

It's going absolutely great, despite the weigh penalty it has to endure.  Would imagine these would struggle to hit 30mph (and some say 27 was as good as it got) back in the day, but this was sitting at 40 for a short while and pulls beautifully getting there.

Inadvertently ended up at the tail end of some sort of bike club coming through town. They were leaving  a pub to cheers and whoops and claps from people so I beeped the horn and waved which surprisingly* seemed to bemuse some of the onlookers that waved back.  

Only one overtake, a  lad on a Deliveroo scooter but they all count somehow.

[Minimad5]

9 minutes ago, Cavcraft said:

GR8 fun today.

 

First off, a ride out to New Brighton.  Think there were 35-40 setting off and we met some others there...

 

Ya mad man 😅

Still want to blag a ride of your Harley, as tempted to chop the BMW in for one.

[Cavcraft]

7 hours ago, Minimad5 said:

Ya mad man 😅

Still want to blag a ride of your Harley, as tempted to chop the BMW in for one.

Hopefully be back on the road soon, you're more than welcome to try it out.

[Snake Charmer]

On 28/02/2024 at 12:17, Cavcraft said:

Setting standards isn't just for cars

Is that the twin exhaust port pushrod engine similar to a CG125?

[MT606]

On 26/01/2024 at 20:35, Back_For_More said:

Whilst pondering my sanity with the horror show that is the P6 - I dragged this out of the cellar drying room and charged the battery up.... 

Started up first time. Throttle twist grip repaired and it's running great. 

GF not happy with the smell of 2 stroke throughout the downstairs though 🙄

gorgeous machines them, I had the 1996 chesterfield schemed one.

[scdan4]

Found it (under stuff at the back of the garage)

Fixed it (brushed off the cobwebs, fresh fuel and a caliper check)

 

Happy days.

Fortunately the other 2 bikes are broken so there's a chance it will get used this year 🤣 

[Stinkwheel]

On 04/03/2024 at 17:46, Snake Charmer said:

Is that the twin exhaust port pushrod engine similar to a CG125?

Looks more like the actual 125cc twin (as used in the honda CB125TD etc back in the day)

[Snake Charmer]

3 hours ago, Stinkwheel said:

Looks more like the actual 125cc twin (as used in the honda CB125TD etc back in the day)

I thought that at first glance when I saw one parked up a few years ago then realised it was a twin port single and the rocker cover looked CG shaped. Started me thinking about the K1 CG l have and a 50's French twin port 2 stroke hardtail I saw.

Lexmoto? I'm out of touch with all the Chinese bikes but this looks like the head....

 

[Bmwdumptruck]

On 03/03/2024 at 21:38, Cavcraft said:

GR8 fun today.

 

First off, a ride out to New Brighton.  Think there were 35-40 setting off and we met some others there...

Have to say it's a whole lot more fun going on run on a scooter than a bike. There's this weird sort of feeling when you roll into another town (especially by the sea) that you're some how invading it, albeit in a friendly way.  Ordinarily would have gone on the modern 4 stroke auto, but having had some work done to the Lambretta (including having the absolutely f*cked rear shock replaced with a nice new one) I used that instead.  Don't know about global warming, but asthma levels through the roof due to following some of the livelier Italians.

Anyhow, got back fairly reasonably so what better use of an hour or so than to fire the little Suzuki up and go down to the river.  One of these is a sporty, highly desirable 2T bike that changed the face of motorcycling in the early 1980s. The other is an RD250LC...

It's going absolutely great, despite the weigh penalty it has to endure.  Would imagine these would struggle to hit 30mph (and some say 27 was as good as it got) back in the day, but this was sitting at 40 for a short while and pulls beautifully getting there.

Inadvertently ended up at the tail end of some sort of bike club coming through town. They were leaving  a pub to cheers and whoops and claps from people so I beeped the horn and waved which surprisingly* seemed to bemuse some of the onlookers that waved back.  

Only one overtake, a  lad on a Deliveroo scooter but they all count somehow.

Ye gods I remember Coburn and Hughes in Luton selling OR50s for £399 brand new back in 80/81. Nobody from my school dare buy them for the ridicule they’d have suffered😂

[Rustybullethole]

Popped into a Halfords off the North circular the other day to garb some mirror glass for the little Renault and found this peddle cycle with a motor and number locked to the cycle rack outside. I thought some here might appreciate it. Very much a used classic complete with lashings of oil and grease and a gaffer taped seat. Lovely.

[Stinkwheel]

12 hours ago, Snake Charmer said:

I thought that at first glance when I saw one parked up a few years ago then realised it was a twin port single and the rocker cover looked CG shaped. Started me thinking about the K1 CG l have and a 50's French twin port 2 stroke hardtail I saw.

Lexmoto? I'm out of touch with all the Chinese bikes but this looks like the head....

 

Thats looks much more like it

[Stinkwheel]

2 hours ago, Rustybullethole said:

Popped into a Halfords off the North circular the other day to garb some mirror glass for the little Renault and found this peddle cycle with a motor and number locked to the cycle rack outside. I thought some here might appreciate it. Very much a used classic complete with lashings of oil and grease and a gaffer taped seat. Lovely.

Raleigh wisp maybe?