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Is that welding on them four exhaust outlets or pack as much Gum Gum in till it sticks?
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Hust your criticisms! :roll: Weight savings make it both quicker and more economical! :thumbup:
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Taipan wrote: Wed Jun 15, 2022 4:20 pm Back box delete - done! :thumbup:

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What vehicle is it? What's been removed?

They're not wrong about the fabrication job on that pipe. :shock:
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Taipan wrote: Wed Jun 15, 2022 9:08 pm Hust your criticisms! :roll: Weight savings make it both quicker and more economical! :thumbup:
Ah. DIY job then. Sorry :lol:
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Taipan wrote: Thu Jun 16, 2022 2:35 pm :wub:

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My brothers first car. Probably around 1977/8. Not with that engine though. Probably 1300 and in bottle green.
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Taipan wrote: Wed Jun 15, 2022 9:08 pm Hust your criticisms! :roll: Weight savings make it both quicker and more economical! :thumbup:
You could save more weight by dumping the one-into-four part.
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JackyJoll wrote: Thu Jun 16, 2022 4:27 pm
Taipan wrote: Wed Jun 15, 2022 9:08 pm Hust your criticisms! :roll: Weight savings make it both quicker and more economical! :thumbup:
You could save more weight by dumping the one-into-four part.
And substantially improve the flow at the same time.
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CLASSIC CAR AND BIKE SHOW TODAY

WHY????
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This won best bike you can just see his home made stand under the gear box assembled from bits in a bum bag!

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The owner a sprightly70 plus bought it for £5 in 1959 and rode it to stokesley from Scarborough no kick start or motor push start all the time he was a remarkable chap
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My commando
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Best cars
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Arguably :angry-argument:
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Nice that they picked a bike with a bit of 'patina' rather than one that looks fresh off the production line. :thumbup:
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the winner deserved it he has ridden this to work for the entire of his working life and still rides it for pleasure!! I saw him bump it off on a very gravelly track into the showground never a chance he'd drop it, just a total command of it and himself thoroughly nice bloke too.
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It's a wasp nest, apparently.
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Allegedly a miserable old ...

Used to live near here, I've met a couple of people who knew him.
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Horse wrote: Mon Jun 20, 2022 12:04 pm Allegedly a miserable old ...

Used to live near here, I've met a couple of people who knew him.
Who he?
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mangocrazy wrote: Mon Jun 20, 2022 2:14 pm
Horse wrote: Mon Jun 20, 2022 12:04 pm Allegedly a miserable old ...

Used to live near here, I've met a couple of people who knew him.
Who he?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Hargreaves