interesting bikes found randomly..

[Bigjawa]

I'm probably in a minority here, but I think this looks pretty cool...

https://www.jawa.eu/jawa-300-cl--2



I especially likes the high head lamp.

Needs to lose the piggyback shocks for traditional ones tho'

Yes,yes. A minority of one maybe!

It looks like an overstuffed Honda Benly and that front end has a permanently surprised look,like someone who has been goosed by a man with very large fingers.

Also slower than the ridiculously overpriced old 350s that they're somehow still selling. The only bike I'm aware of that deliberately has two neutrals in the box.

Would you pay nearly 4k for a bike with an expected engine life of less than 15k that you can steal with a 6 inch nail?

[Bigjawa]

The Jawa/CZ road bikes, whilst being interesting to ride, were a bit rubbish, everything about them is so crude it's a miracle they're actually able to run. Like I said before, the key is a spike that literally can be replaced by a nail, adjusting the chain was a lottery, you couldn't physically test the tension because of the full enclosure, not that it mattered because the chain outlasted the engine which blew up the first time at 5000 miles, then terminally at 18000 miles.

I took an MZ that stood me £35 round Europe and the single mechanical issue was a dead capacitor, the first time I took a three month old Jawa with 2000 miles on it to Portrush, it broke down.

Worse still was that parts availability was dealer only and was roughly twice to three times the price of a Japanese dealer part.

That new Indian Jawa thing is advertised as having a top speed of leas than 80, who will actually buy it?

[KungFooBob]

My Bullet 500 EFI will only just do 80mph and that's the a loud pipe, K&N and PCV.

[Bigjawa]

Guarantee that it won't be scrap at 18000 miles though.....

[JackyJoll]

Guarantee that it won't be scrap at 18000 miles though.....

Sticking your neck out there!

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

For a short time 20 years ago Jawa CZ sold enduro bikes as Pragas, they made a 610 4 stroke and a 250 2 stroke, the 250 was £2400 and was a good bike, it was a little heavy for an enduro bike, but ride nicely, no idea about reliability as I only had a brief play on one, the 610 was very KTM LC4 like, but the importer didn't have one of those as a test bike.

[Bigjawa]

I remember the local Jawa dealer selling rather tasty looking 125 trailies that had a few bits that had been nicked from Jawas but these things had USD forks and were water cooled. They sat there for years, can't remember the brand but they were a purple sort of colour.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

I remember the local Jawa dealer selling rather tasty looking 125 trailies that had a few bits that had been nicked from Jawas but these things had USD forks and were water cooled. They sat there for years, can't remember the brand but they were a purple sort of colour.

Pragas were yellow and blue, only purple enduro bike I can remember is the Spanish Alfer brand

[Bigjawa]

I remember the local Jawa dealer selling rather tasty looking 125 trailies that had a few bits that had been nicked from Jawas but these things had USD forks and were water cooled. They sat there for years, can't remember the brand but they were a purple sort of colour.

Pragas were yellow and blue, only purple enduro bike I can remember is the Spanish Alfer brand

Found it, it was a Penta 125......

[weeksy]

That's quite a statement!

[Druid]

British made 250 2 stroke, 75bhp, £28000

https://langenmotorcycles.co.uk

[weeksy]

British made 250 2 stroke, 75bhp, £28000

https://langenmotorcycles.co.uk

That's bloody awful

[Druid]

It's supposed to be interesting, not pretty. Bit like me

[JackyJoll]

...interesting... like me

Who said that?

[Horse]

Found it, it was a Penta 125......

From the era when bike colour schemes were designed to match shell suits.

[Bigjawa]

God I loved the CBR in this scheme, just missed one a couple of years ago for 800 quid.....

My RGV was like this, considering the amount of Class As I was necking at the time I though it was very classy.....

[Druid]

God I loved the CBR in this scheme, just missed one a couple of years ago for 800 quid.....

I bought one in that colour scheme in 2003, I paid about £1k for it. It was stolen in 2007 from my daughter's house in Middlesboro but it looked different by then

[Mr. Dazzle]

I've got one exactly like this...

[Tricky]

British made 250 2 stroke, 75bhp, £28000

https://langenmotorcycles.co.uk

That's bloody awful

Have to say, I concur- I love the idea of it, but it looks a real mess in that pic.
IMO, Hipsters don't want highly tuned smokers, and people who love highly tuned smokers don't usually want tractor tyres on them or hipster gold all over the place either- They need to sack who ever does their marketing and the old giffer or hipster wannabee that "styled" that and employ a young gifted Italian....

[Supermofo]

people who love highly tuned smokers don't usually want tractor tyres on them

I don't understand why anyone would want sub optimal tyres on their bike. For me tyres are about grip/longevity. If the balloon or tractor tyres people put on hipster bikes work then fair play, but surely they can't? My mate has knobblies on his 690 Enduro cos it's an Enduro, the tyres def are a limiting factor on the road so don't know why you'd do that for a hipster bike.