The Bikeshite Thread

[Jerzy Woking]

 

Stupid thing:

Have put down a deposit on this heap sight unseen. Looks like it may be an ex-track bike, hasn't been MOT'd since before computerised MOTs, but the price is right.

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https://www.gumtree.com/p/honda-motorbikes/cbr-600f-deposit-taken/1244025697

 

 

I bought a similar shit looking CBR for £250 a few years ago, as it ran well but looked awful. I stitched all the cracked panels together with cable ties, missing screws holding the fairing pieces together were temporarily replaced with cable ties before taking it to my mates place for an mot. They pissed tgemselves laughing at the state of it. I had the last laugh though as they couldnt find anything to fail it on, and they tried hard to do so.

[twosmoke300]

Sploot. I hate v twins but sploot

How can you hate v twins ?

[Jerzy Woking]

How can you hate v twins ?

 

 

Agreed - I have three (Guzzi 1200 Sport, KTM RC8 and a H*rley 1200 Sportster) and all are great things, and all so very different from each other. Whats not to like? And this post has just made me realise i now have only one in line four now (my ratty but ultra reliable CBR600).

[conkerman]

Mr Breadvan. Top buying. . I'd love to have a poke about this sometime. You xsn laugh at my modern conveyance with cruise control

 

 

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[Guest Breadvan72]

The Morini 350 Strada what I have done buyaging upon is a 1982 model, and so (allegedly) has fewer of the snags of the earlier models (allegedly).   It also has a disc brake and an electric starter, which is good because I am a wimpy kicker. 

[Guest Hooli]

Didn't you have something similar a few years ago BV? Or am i getting confused with another wordsmith upon the great ship t'internet?

[conkerman]

When I was a students t doing a year out at ICI. My supervisor at the tolime had one of these. It was Gert lush.

 

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[Guest Breadvan72]

Didn't you have something similar a few years ago BV? Or am i getting confused with another wordsmith upon the great ship t'internet?

 

I had one of these - (MV Agusta 350 S Ipotesi)

 

[conkerman]

FIT !

 

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[Guest Hooli]

Ahh, I knew it was silly , daft, italian & about 350cc

[brandersnatch]

Oooops.....

 

I have done a bad thing ...

 

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That's a very good thing silly!

 

 

One's too many, ten's not enough!

[brandersnatch]

I had one of these - (MV Agusta 350 S Ipotesi)

 

OOF!!!

 

 

One's too many, ten's not enough!

[andy18s]

Close enough?

[martc]

The Morini 350 Strada what I have done buyaging upon is a 1982 model, and so (allegedly) has fewer of the snags of the earlier models (allegedly).   It also has a disc brake and an electric starter, which is good because I am a wimpy kicker. 

 

Excellent choice - I've had both a 3 1/2  Strada and a Kanguro, neither had an electric starter but were dead easy to kick start. Which may be good news for you as the folk lore has it that the starter motors are more of an ornament than of actually being of practical use.

[doug]

 

Got the Guzzi out today and got it ready for its MOT (hopefully) next week.

 

[Guest Breadvan72]

PRON

[groovylee]

MOTd the R6 this morning.  straight through!  also sorted the insurance for £70 less than last year. roll on euro trip in july  

[Jerzy Woking]

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Got the Guzzi out today and got it ready for its MOT (hopefully) next week.

 

 

That's lovely. What make is the sidecar? The W124 looks good too!

[doug]

Its your old W124 in the background! Its a squire sidecar.

[Jerzy Woking]

I have only ridden (tried to ride?) one outfit before in about 1978. It was a Guzzi California with leading link forks and a Hedingham sidecar (it was their demo outfit). I managed all of about 200 yards before stopping and getting off. Never, ever forgotten the fear I felt in those 200 yards.

[doug]

Took a mate a run in the sidecar. After a few miles I stopped and ask if he was ok. He asked "what speed were we doing?" When I said 55/60mph his reply was "dont ever go that fast again!"

[Guest Breadvan72]

The blue 1980 Yamaha RD125 DX that I bought turned out to be a dog, and the sale advert a bunch of fibs.  I have rejected the bike (yay Brit Sale of Goods Act, and yay EU Consumer rules).  I had to write one moderately firm and slightly lawyerish email to the (trade) seller, after he tried to give me some flim flam.  But the email has worked, and the seller is coming to collect the bike and refund the purchase price.  It is to be replaced by a better one, also from 1980 but white and red, bought from a chatty surfer dude in Falmouth for two bags.  It's arriving next week.

 

 

 

[Guest Breadvan72]

FOR SALE

1998 (registered 2001) Honda CG 125 CDI.  Retro stylee edition, made in actual Japan.   4 speed manual which has neutral at the top and four down (takes a few seconds to adapt to this, no biggy).   Speedo in KMH (marked with MPH), rev counter.   Modern lights and horn.  Recent carb service and valve check.   Good tyres.  Starts first kick, great fun to ride.  Has been seen to do 65 (ish) MPH flat out.   Handbook and HBOL included.  One key with Honda wing fob.   

 

Longish MoT.  Condition almost perfect, one small chip on tank.

£1100 to shiters.

 

Pictures show one mirror missing, but mirror now re-fitted.

 

 

 

 

[Guest Hooli]

Awww, it's just like a motorbike but smaller.

[Longblackcoat]

I have only ridden (tried to ride?) one outfit before in about 1978. It was a Guzzi California with leading link forks and a Hedingham sidecar (it was their demo outfit). I managed all of about 200 yards before stopping and getting off. Never, ever forgotten the fear I felt in those 200 yards.

 

I tried a Wasp MX sidecar at a race meeting in around 1985. Not like a car, not like a bike, I did not like!

[DodgeRover]

Would love to get another big 2T outfit to do Weston beach race on, or just be generally antisocial.

My old KTM 495 enduro outfit had done it a couple of times, couldn't imagine holding that flat out down the straight, we bottled out at 70+ on a private road.

[strangeangel]

I have only ridden (tried to ride?) one outfit before in about 1978. It was a Guzzi California with leading link forks and a Hedingham sidecar (it was their demo outfit). I managed all of about 200 yards before stopping and getting off. Never, ever forgotten the fear I felt in those 200 yards.

 

I had a Z440 with a Squire sidecar for a year or so while I was at Uni. I thought it was great, and the only reason I gave it up was that the bike had absolutely no chance of passing another MOT without having far too much money spent on it.

 

I suspect that the reason I got on with it so well was that I'd only been riding six months or so when I got it, and consequently had little or no skills to un-learn!

 

The only device I've ever ridden that inspired real fear was a 1965 Vespa Sprint; it handled like a wheelbarrow with a flat tyre. What with that and the shitty brakes, non-existent lights and a gazillion false neutrals, the thing was a death trap.

[Jerzy Woking]

My brother had a WASP motocross outfit that he fitted a GS750 engine into. He got it registered for the road (so easy in the late 80's) which looked and sounded fantastic. He sold it after about 8 months and more than a dozen rear tyres) but it's not been seen since.

He also had a CB200 with a small platform attached to that shook like a dog drying it's self at anything over 5mph. Terrifying.

[plasticvandan]

Guess I better put a quick update in!

Final mock up a few weeks ago:

I've now finished painting everything,just got to fit new chain and sprockets etc then will be fitting them together

[DodgeRover]

I had my first experience passengering a trials outfit on the road. 30 seconds instruction then off down to the practise area probably hitting 35mph max.

Utterly friggin terrifying.

 

Anybody selling one?

 

My brother had a WASP motocross outfit that he fitted a GS750 engine into. He got it registered for the road (so easy in the late 80's) which looked and sounded fantastic.

Can you imagine the bottle it takes to throw one if the classic outfits fitted with a 750/ 850 Norton lump into the air over a tabletop?