Ebay 'WTF' bikes
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Re: Ebay 'WTF' bikes
Ewwww that's really quite horridKungFooBob wrote: ↑Wed Jan 12, 2022 6:47 pmDickyboy wrote: ↑Wed Jan 12, 2022 6:15 pm https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/165226352924
Velocette LE cafe racer anyone
So that's what they look like naked!
(but I have to admit I find it sort of cool as well and like it in a really dirty feeling embarrassing way )
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Re: Ebay 'WTF' bikes
WTactualF
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/304299269589 ... Sw9nhh297N
They've cut half the fuckin' frame away!!!!
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/304299269589 ... Sw9nhh297N
They've cut half the fuckin' frame away!!!!
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Re: Ebay 'WTF' bikes
I've re-read the description, they've welded in a spine which the stock NTV didn't have.
I bet it's well flexy tho'
I bet it's well flexy tho'
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Re: Ebay 'WTF' bikes
Sold for scrap value to pay for the Maxxis tyres?
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Re: Ebay 'WTF' bikes
Bike aside, I always wonder why people get near to the end of the project, then stop and sell it after the main hard work is done?KungFooBob wrote: ↑Wed Jan 12, 2022 8:42 pm WTactualF
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/304299269589 ... Sw9nhh297N
They've cut half the fuckin' frame away!!!!
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Re: Ebay 'WTF' bikes
Probably as either it has problems that they can't sort, or just they finally come out of their bubble and realise what they have created is is really shit I suspect!
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Re: Ebay 'WTF' bikes
I sent the guy an ebay message saying 'What have you done with the frame spar? What's holding it all together?'
This was his reply:
it has a 2inch 3mm curved box section welding over the top of the engine from the top seat rails to the stock and then gussets welded in
Some photographs of the welded in section wouldn't have gone amiss. That is surely most people's main concern.
This was his reply:
it has a 2inch 3mm curved box section welding over the top of the engine from the top seat rails to the stock and then gussets welded in
Some photographs of the welded in section wouldn't have gone amiss. That is surely most people's main concern.
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Re: Ebay 'WTF' bikes
You can just imagine the conversation with the insurance company - "Are there any modifications to the vehicle?"
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Re: Ebay 'WTF' bikes
Is it the grey bit in this pic?mangocrazy wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 3:52 pm
it has a 2inch 3mm curved box section welding over the top of the engine from the top seat rails to the stock and then gussets welded in
Looks uninsurable.
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Yeah, probably. At the very least you'd need an engineer's report, and I can't see any engineer of any repute putting their name to that.
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Re: Ebay 'WTF' bikes
And really shallow pancake filters which I doubt would be good for the carburation, 'cos that curved section is where the air box would normally live.JackyJoll wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 4:11 pmIs it the grey bit in this pic?mangocrazy wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 3:52 pm
it has a 2inch 3mm curved box section welding over the top of the engine from the top seat rails to the stock and then gussets welded in
Looks uninsurable.
Blundering about trying not to make too much of a hash of things.
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Re: Ebay 'WTF' bikes
I'm at a loss as to why he did it in the first place. What has actually been gained by chopping a lump of frame spar out?
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Re: Ebay 'WTF' bikes
Maybe he wanted to make it lighter like KFB's Hornet?mangocrazy wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 4:35 pm I'm at a loss as to why he did it in the first place. What has actually been gained by chopping a lump of frame spar out?
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Re: Ebay 'WTF' bikes
Nik Samson had a similar front end on one of his bikes. It certainly looks better from the bare side!
The owner looks like a character,judging from the stuff at the front of the house.
The owner looks like a character,judging from the stuff at the front of the house.
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