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Interesting wheel alighnment. :silent:

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My B25SS looked like that after I chucked down the Wolverhampton New Road....
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Not so much interesting but totally shite. I give you a YZ chassis with a Triumph ST1050 engine!
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Rickman Honda CB750
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Very nice, but I bet it steers like a supertanker... And brake calipers mounted ahead of the forks - that dates it.
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mangocrazy wrote: Tue Jul 11, 2023 8:36 pm And brake calipers mounted ahead of the forks - that dates it.
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Suzonda WTF200/2

Found the pic and googled it, there's a build thread, but most of the pics don't work...

https://www.dotheton.com/index.php?thre ... ess.73826/
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I like that a lot. Proper irk the purists.
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It's a shit engine in a shit frame
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Horse wrote: Tue Jul 11, 2023 7:09 pm Rickman Honda CB750

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Among his collection of old Brit bikes,a mate has one of those. It's in pretty rough order,from memory.
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Is it just me that thinks this is as cool as cucumber ice-cream...
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I like that a lot. In fact I think I might have had a model of almost exactly that when I was a kid.

But it looks like it's in Sellafield and I've already been up there before to buy a vehicle, so I'll pass.
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O - casualty in....?
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Skub wrote: Sat Jul 15, 2023 9:31 pm Image

O - casualty in....?
Why didn't you buy that one? :lol:
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KungFooBob wrote: Wed Jul 12, 2023 7:05 pm Is it just me that thinks this is as cool as cucumber ice-cream...
For a second I thought the front cylinder exhaust was routed into the spot lamp.
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Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: Tue Jul 11, 2023 9:44 pm It's a shit engine in a shit frame
Makes sense, means you've not wasted anything good :thumbup:
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At first glance I thought this would be one for the eBay WTF thread, but the more I read the more I liked- she's definitely not a looker, or really that amazing engineering or power-wise, but that was a great little project, something that really appeals to me and I would have enjoyed doing.
I think he's dreaming thinking someone will buy it for anywhere near his asking price, mind

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