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The jawa moped is painfully slow on hills so think I'll be moving it on shortly.

Camry failed it's MOT on Friday with 6 bits of welding required, new cat, shock and bushes.

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LDV has been away for over a month having work done to get it through its MOT, I did a lot of welding on it but just couldn't be arsed doing the rest of the failures.

 

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Now that the LDV is coming back with a fresh MOT I towed the Skoda to the same garage for head gasket replacement.

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3 hours ago, bear-in-the-air said:

What's the contraption you're towing it with? Some form of A frame that ties on to the underside?

It's an A-frame.  The arms butt up against the front wishbones with a chain wrapping around them going back towards the A-frame which is ratcheted into place. Only available to dodgy bastards.

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On 9/23/2022 at 7:41 AM, DodgyBastard said:

Yes, another top quality vehicle purchased.

Honda vision 80cc, I think we should race it against the Yamaha v80.

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Front carry basket is such a good idea on a bike. So much easier to see if you’re shits fallen off. Amount of time I’ve spent reaching/looking back to check a admittedly badly secured load. 

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On 9/23/2022 at 7:41 AM, DodgyBastard said:

Yes, another top quality vehicle purchased.

Honda vision 80cc, I think we should race it against the Yamaha v80.

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I had one of those.  It wasn't fast - I'm not surprised the V80 left it for dead.  It'd barely do 40.

I had the 125 version later - that'd just about scrape 50 but the acceleration was a lot better.

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After Sunday's shite in the park we went to see a BX I'd enquired about over the weekend. I didn't end up buying it but Ged did and I drove it back to the unit.

It seems to go well enough although I was scared to drive it too hard as it had been off the road for a while and fuel gauge was either at zero or inoperative.

It goes up and down fine too.

It's had a wee bump on the rear corner but damage looks superficial.

 

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Potential new shitter incoming!

Left a note on a local acclaim and they've just got back to me about it. I can't remember the reg number but know it's silver and could possibly be this one seen at a local show 10 years ago.

 

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After pissing around with the brown honda Camino and realising how awful the jawa is I decided to raffle the jawa off at £1 a go over on FB and keep the Camino.

I raffled off the vision 80cc yesterday for £550  so need to make £350 from the jawa to break even.

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The blue Camino just wouldn't run, I removed the side casing and discovered the flywheel wouldn't turn.  I tried removing the cylinder, one of the bolts sheared off and I had to hammer fuck out of the piston as it was seized in the cylinder.

 

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70cc big bore kits are available so thinking I might fit one of those if I can remove the broken stud.

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Not quite sure whether to get rid of this one or not.

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10 minutes ago, DodgyBastard said:

Potential new shitter incoming!

Left a note on a local acclaim and they've just got back to me about it. I can't remember the reg number but know it's silver and could possibly be this one seen at a local show 10 years ago.

 

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After pissing around with the brown honda Camino and realising how awful the jawa is I decided to raffle the jawa off at £1 a go over on FB and keep the Camino.

I raffled off the vision 80cc yesterday for £550  so need to make £350 from the jawa to break even.

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The blue Camino just wouldn't run, I removed the side casing and discovered the flywheel wouldn't turn.  I tried removing the cylinder, one of the bolts sheared off and I had to hammer fuck out of the piston as it was seized in the cylinder.

 

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70cc big bore kits are available so thinking I might fit one of those if I can remove the broken stud.

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Not quite sure whether to get rid of this one or not.

Acclaim on a W plate? I drove an A plate a couple of times in the mid 90s and have seen a few Y plates over the years. W must surely be the earliest left? 

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