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Re: Members Motorcycles
Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2022 8:00 am
by yoda
Lovely Robert! Hope you are finding time to ride all these beauties?
Re: Members Motorcycles
Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2022 9:14 am
by one-two
Hi Feroz, the short answer is no, I'm not - but it's easier to rationalise that when the costs and space involved are so much lower than with a car! The 900 GTS is a revelation - a quick and noisy Ducati with a decent riding position and an electric start at a half-sensible price. An Italian R 90S, if you will
Re: Members Motorcycles
Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2022 4:05 pm
by neilbardsley
Mike wrote:Dug out a pic of my then new Ducati 900SS Superlight with Mavic wheels, referred to these days as the rare white framed model! My little boy is 30 now....
Those wheels are a work of art
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Re: Members Motorcycles
Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2023 1:49 pm
by Cortina
There comes a time in life when itches need to be scratched .... this was my "become a pensioner day" official present to myself. Hope the people that look here know exactly what it is ... hard to believe it's 43 years old !!
Re: Members Motorcycles
Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2023 2:19 pm
by KS
I look at it and know what it is: Kawasaki's tank! Just don't drop it.
Re: Members Motorcycles
Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2023 2:24 pm
by KS
Incidentally, if anyone here is interested, my mate Del Mallett will sell you his one-owner from new, low mile Bimota DB1. It's been an ornament in his living room for about 25 years since we wheeled it in their while Carol, his wife, was away one weekend...
Fitted with Dymag wheels (still has the originals, though) and genuine one-owner. This is a pic of an identical example...
Re: Members Motorcycles
Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2023 3:34 pm
by Cortina
KS wrote: āTue Apr 04, 2023 2:19 pm
I look at it and know what it is: Kawasaki's tank! Just don't drop it.
Compared to my Goldwing .... it's a lightweight at "only" about 300kg !!! Dropping it is not in the plan.
Re: Members Motorcycles
Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2023 4:04 pm
by anglophone1
KS wrote: āTue Apr 04, 2023 2:24 pm
Incidentally, if anyone here is interested, my mate Del Mallett will sell you his one-owner from new, low mile Bimota DB1. It's been an ornament in his living room for about 25 years since we wheeled it in their while Carol, his wife, was away one weekend...
Fitted with Dymag wheels (still has the originals, though) and genuine one-owner. This is a pic of an identical example...
We need a picture of it in Delwyn's living room!
C
Re: Members Motorcycles
Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2023 4:16 pm
by KS
Re: Members Motorcycles
Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2023 4:29 pm
by Cortina
I could better that (but it would be showing off !!) What I think is the most famous racing motorcycle in the world !! ....J Dunlop winning TZ750 from his 1st IOM victory ..... in my living room (for about 6 or 8 weeks ...can't remember now .... circa 1980/ 81 /82 ??) Tis a long story - cheers Stormy.
Re: Members Motorcycles
Posted: Fri May 12, 2023 11:26 pm
by redrobin911
Cortina wrote: āTue Apr 04, 2023 1:49 pm
There comes a time in life when itches need to be scratched .... this was my "become a pensioner day" official present to myself. Hope the people that look here know exactly what it is ... hard to believe it's 43 years old !!
HI Alan - nice to meet up today at the NW200 classci bike display and see th 'SIX' in the flesh.. a fine bike indeed, Speak soon again. Robin
Re: Members Motorcycles
Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2023 10:54 pm
by redrobin911
Thought Iād better get back in DDK and post my latest bike. A 1984 Yamaha RD350LC YPVS with significant mods....
350 ypvs by
robin titterington, on Flickr
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Re: Members Motorcycles
Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2023 4:47 pm
by Kneeslider
20220902_183157 by
Jon Hewitson, on Flickr
F. B. Mondial 200 Extra Lusso by
Jon Hewitson, on Flickr
After seeing Graham's restoration on his Yamaha, I thought it might be time to share a picture of my 1954 F.B Mondial 200cc Extra Lusso. It has now done 2 Motogiros, and I have sent off my deposit for a third in May next year. It is quite quick for a small italian Giro bike, but as usual, buying it is one thing, making it run is another, and then getting it reliable enough to go 1000 miles in a week round Italy is quite another!
Re: Members Motorcycles
Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2023 5:38 pm
by 911hillclimber
That is SO nice!
Re: Members Motorcycles
Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2023 5:53 pm
by Kneeslider
^^^Thanks!^^^ Its spread all over the garage in a million bits right now. I keep on making it better, then new problems show up, then I have to formulate a fix, then test... I limped it to the end of the last Motogiro in with oil leaks and gear selection problems. The crank case breather is a sprung flapper valve, which had become sticky, so that explains the leaking. The gear selection was due to the gearbox selector detent wearing down, it has always jumped out of 3rd gear, but the repeated jumping led to the pawls and ratchet going out of sequence with the selector mechanism, which meant engine out and everything out of the cases, which then revealed a whole load of other work. All the bearings were getting past it, but the roller big end was fine, and in getting the gearbox mainshaft bearing out of its carrier, I managed to crack the carrier! Spares availability is pretty much zero, so much fun is ensuing in putting it all back together again. It'll fix.