interesting bikes found randomly..

[Skub]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/274508706950

How fucking much????

Anything with 'Kawasaki triple' seems a licence to print money...well,to ask for it anyway.

[Mr. Dazzle]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/274508706950

How fucking much????

Anything with 'Kawasaki triple' seems a licence to print money...well,to ask for it anyway.

Take a CBR, make it slower, then add 20 something grand to the price....

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

I want, no, need this.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/suzuki-gsxr1 ... SwJodfebzB

I've no idea what i'd do with it, I just want it.

I need to work out how to sneak it past the wife before Julian buys it!

Don't like them, worst of the GSXRs, they ride long and heavy, the YZF in the background on the other hand.....

[Rockburner]

Ok Fashionistas what do you think of this found randomly on tinternet

Loads of money spent and no taste (must have covid)

TBH, I'd call it a criminal waste of what was a good frame.

[JackyJoll]

TBH, I'd call it a criminal waste of what was a good frame.

I dunno. People tell me it’s a very enjoyable engine to use on the road and I’ve no reason to disbelieve them.

[Rockburner]

TBH, I'd call it a criminal waste of what was a good frame.

I dunno. People tell me it’s a very enjoyable engine to use on the road and I’ve no reason to disbelieve them.

I've not ridden a Rapide, but the Comet was nice, if much heavier than it needed to be for a 500 single.

I was more referring to the butchered featherbed.

[rodbargee]

sadly still never ridden any of them would love a go on a Norvin just to see what the craic is.

[JackyJoll]

I can’t see where the frame is “butchered.”

The pics are a bit indistinct, but it looks like the in-unit Vincent gearbox has been sawn off the back of the engine and an AMC gearbox used.

[Taipan]

My first road legal bike, although mine was an Lreg but same colour and rack etc.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Yamaha-FS1-E ... 3724984503

[ogri]

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Had the 'dx' model with the speed blocks :p

[Rockburner]

I can’t see where the frame is “butchered.”

The pics are a bit indistinct, but it looks like the in-unit Vincent gearbox has been sawn off the back of the engine and an AMC gearbox used.

Look at the lower rails.

[Dodgy69]

fizzie.jpgHad the 'dx' model with the speed blocks :p

Same, 16th birthday and a new world. 17th and 18th also good days, Donuts in the snow time.

[JackyJoll]

Look at the lower rails.

Ok I’ve tried!

[Horse]

I can’t see where the frame is “butchered.”

The pics are a bit indistinct, but it looks like the in-unit Vincent gearbox has been sawn off the back of the engine and an AMC gearbox used.

Look at the lower rails.

Do you mean where they 'droop' when it should be straight?

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

The only KTM I've ever owned, the KTM parts were actually very reliable, unfortunately the White Power parts weren't

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/KTM-EXC-250- ... Sw-LtfYjQY

[Rockburner]

I can’t see where the frame is “butchered.”

The pics are a bit indistinct, but it looks like the in-unit Vincent gearbox has been sawn off the back of the engine and an AMC gearbox used.

Look at the lower rails.

Do you mean where they 'droop' when it should be straight?

I mean where they've been cut away and the mounting plates welded in.

This is (a copy of) a Featherbed frame:


now - compare the the lower parts of the frame rails here :



It's not necessary - it IS possible to get the Rapide engine into the frame without cutting the rails (albeit hard work)

[Whysub]

My first road legal bike, although mine was an Lreg but same colour and rack etc.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Yamaha-FS1-E ... 3724984503

First bike I ever crashed was an L reg FS1E when I was 14. An older mate offered me a go on his one on the local playing field. Forgot the left hand lever was the clutch and not the rear brake (I had a Mobecane field moped at the time), and instead of slowing it just kept going. Through some bushes and a wooden fence panel.

No damage to the FSIE, but I ripped the bottom of the leg of my loon pants.

[Rockburner]

First bike I ever crashed was an L reg FS1E when I was 14. An older mate offered me a go on his one on the local playing field. Forgot the left hand lever was the clutch and not the rear brake (I had a Mobecane field moped at the time), and instead of slowing it just kept going. Through some bushes and a wooden fence panel.

No damage to the FSIE, but I ripped the bottom of the leg of my loon pants.

You never forget your first, do you.

[Whysub]

You never forget your first, do you.

Never forgot my Loon Pants either.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

It's done well, but shit at the same time.