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Buy one and just keep removing bits 'till it stops.
Then replace the last bit you took off. 🙂
And I'm going to use this thread as an excuse to post these again:
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Because I love Friedel Munch's impossibility of a motorbike and that second picture always makes me laugh. 😀
[url= http://www.caferacerclub.org/ ]here is some nice idea, saddly in French[/url]
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[url= http://www.eicma.it/en/news/new-boxer-bmw-in-2013-975.htm ]http://www.eicma.it/en/news/new-boxer-bmw-in-2013-975.htm[/url]
lank45, where did you get those first pics you posted. i'd love to have a look at the site.
boxer metal on fb is good btw.
Mythic pic from edouard bracam...
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I'm not normally in favour of capital punishment, but I could make an exception.....
Someone mention Guzzi caferacer 🙂
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By far my two favourite project on CRC.
[url] http://www.caferacerclub.org/t26519-sauvetage-xtx-660-yamaha-euuu-mbk [/url]
[url] http://www.caferacerclub.org/t22787-zabel-700 [/url]
druidh - Member
I'm not normally in favour of capital punishment, but I could make an exception.....
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Sorry. I love that Ducati. Sorry.
I certainly burst out laughing at that one Rusty Spanner - absolute magic but there's probably not many on here old enough to really appreciate it.
The cartoon? 🙂
It's by Shobba - he used to do them for 'Bike' in the early 80's:
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Edit - the Duke is by JvB, not Lazareth - doh!
absolute magic but there's probably not many on here old enough to really appreciate it.
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My favorite Shobba was always this one, always makes me chuckle
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not quite chopped, but here's a vincent my dad modded in the 60's, i believe its in a norton (featherbed?)frame. sadly he sold it in 1971 or thereabouts when we moved to the south coast, for peanuts, and always wished he had'nt.
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Oh god, that's beautiful...... 😀
Love the tank indents for clip ons & that front drum is huuuuge.
Yeah looks like a featherbed frame. Supposedly the best or at least most acclaimed cafe style frame of the era? My dad says its the frame everyone wanted. And what better engine to have in it than a norton? :p
Isn't that Ogri's bike?
It kind of is Ogri's as it's a Norvin. Which is a custom of a Norton frame with a Vincent engine. Think Triton. Did anyone ever concoct a Norvil?
Norvil still exist as a manufacturer of brand new old style Commandos and Dommies.
I'm sure someone has stuck a Villiers engine in a Featherbed at sometime though, nowt so queer as folk 🙂
Owning one of these was a bit of a dream from when I was a kid. Only had it a year or so though, after 15 years away, I found I'd lost interest in bikes really..
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Look at the length of that gear linkage 😯
That doesn't work for me, sorry
[url= http://factoryjackson.com/2012/09/19/long-live-the-kings-a-motorcycle-road-trip-short-documentary-film/#.UKY5w4FIgwI ]a video[/url]
someone posted that vid earlier aye-aye but great watch none the less! 🙂
Ee,off down memory lane here. Shobba was funny but not a patch on Ogri. And remember Bloodrunners?
Anyroad up, I once *borrowed* a Triton for a little spin. That was an experience. I was used to Jap bikes so the controls were all arse about face. Plus all the rigamoarole of starting the bugger in the first place. And it was a unit Triumph engine in a pre-unit Featherbed frame. That was one loooooooong chain!
Rusty Spanner, that's what I was thinking of. I guess there are some 'Norvil's' on the trials scene as the villiers units are supremely popular, and Norton frame, just won't be a featherbed frame though
I'm sure someone has put a villiers in a featherbred though.
N'owt as queer as folk, says he who dreams of getting his MZ back on the road. Must rescue it from my Dad's garage first though.
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Dickyboy. George, ever the showman, might even have approved of that one were he alive today.
I love MZ's, proper motorbikes. 😀
Mate of mine had a TS250 with a sidecar made from an Asda trolley back in the 80's, it was fantastic.
You know they race them, don't you?
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Or an MZ caff racer?
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MrSparkle - Member
And remember Bloodrunners?
Certainly do.
I was a bit sniffy at first, didn't really want a replacement for Ogri, but it grew on me.
And as to the Armageddon vs Hoover debate, dunno - Hoover was a very cool bike indeed:
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"You know they race them, don't you?"
Read "Stealing Speed" by Matt Oxley. Amazingly Radio 4 did a programme on this piece of history earlier in the year, called The Degner Defection. Suzuki would be nowhere without MZ.
I briefly had an ETZ 250, shoulda hung onto it and stuck some race parts on it. That R4 programme was pretty interesting. What a story!
I learnt on an MZ 125, bought for 30 quid. Broke down every time I rode it (diagnosed after I got rid of it as losing compression). Think my dad hoped it would put me off.
Look at the length of that gear linkage
no longer than many modern bikes, just more visible. My 05R1 isnt much shorter, but it passes through the frame and is less obvious.
not mine, courtesy of google, but note long rod from the back of footpeg
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Yes I do know and am trying to ignore the idea of buying a basket case to do up as a road going racer style. My etz251 is one of the last proper E German ones and is on a K plate. Good Nick but when I get it to mine will be much better
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Saw this outside the pub recently.
Seen an HRD going through the traffic in Bolton a few times. Bit of a double take moment...
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Its a 450 Ducati! Although the only one I've been on was turned it an FF:
http://www.bikeweb.com/node/494
And thanks for the 'Panther Owners Club' cartoon - always remember that one.
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Maybe, but they are built in 'sheds', and you need to experience the ride.
Mine was a modified 350YPVS. Less acceleration due to weight but totally stable, even flat out, and fully wind/rain proof. You've got to remember just how bad must bikes handled then, so alternatives were been explored.
Go for it! Looks awesome!
Maybe, but they are built in 'sheds', and you need to experience the ride. You've got to remember just how bad must bikes handled then.
We're they really all that bad though? Alot of people seemed more than happy to bomb around using bikes with the more traditional saddle seat position.
I truly do respect and love anything built in a shed that provides a solution to a problem but clearly it didn't stick for a reason? I wouldn't mind betting alot of people would try one and think it was unrideable. But of course its very subjective so if it felt good to you then thats all that matters.
It's strange how MZs don't look so ugly anymore.
I know what you mean - they've crossed over into 'classic' territory.
Even CX500's don't look THAT bad these days. 🙂
Has anyone checked out [url= http://www.f2motorcycles.ltd.uk/ ]this place?[/url]
F2 motorcycles in Oxfordshire - fascinating place.
You can still buy a new Jawa:
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When I was a kid I'd rather have eaten worms than ride one, but now I'm very tempted. 😐
Still love one of the Ural combos,
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but I'm not paying £10,000 for one.
MrSparkle - Member
And remember Bloodrunners?
Hell yes, Suzi was my first obsession and I love the idea of hub steering.
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Anyone remember the Quasar?
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Reliant engined 🙂
I was ===>this<=== close to getting one!
Druid - yes & there was one at Cassington bike night this summer, roadworthy & everything 😯
Had a bloodrunners "got anything faster in pink" t shirt bitd - was going through a bit of an ambiguous phase at the time 😳