I just don't get them at all.KungFooBob wrote: Wed Sep 06, 2023 6:47 pm Yeah, it's ANOTHER blingy Elsie, I was just tickled by the accessory bolted to the grab rail.
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Not even ones with spare powerband carrying capacity?weeksy wrote: Wed Sep 06, 2023 6:48 pmI just don't get them at all.KungFooBob wrote: Wed Sep 06, 2023 6:47 pm Yeah, it's ANOTHER blingy Elsie, I was just tickled by the accessory bolted to the grab rail.
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Deffo not ones that make Bellwood look restrainedKungFooBob wrote: Wed Sep 06, 2023 6:51 pmNot even ones with spare powerband carrying capacity?weeksy wrote: Wed Sep 06, 2023 6:48 pmI just don't get them at all.KungFooBob wrote: Wed Sep 06, 2023 6:47 pm Yeah, it's ANOTHER blingy Elsie, I was just tickled by the accessory bolted to the grab rail.
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I wouldn't want to have one now, but they were awesome in their day and stir up brilliant memoriesweeksy wrote: Wed Sep 06, 2023 6:48 pmI just don't get them at all.KungFooBob wrote: Wed Sep 06, 2023 6:47 pm Yeah, it's ANOTHER blingy Elsie, I was just tickled by the accessory bolted to the grab rail.
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25 years time think 690 Duke revival!weeksy wrote: Wed Sep 06, 2023 6:48 pmI just don't get them at all.KungFooBob wrote: Wed Sep 06, 2023 6:47 pm Yeah, it's ANOTHER blingy Elsie, I was just tickled by the accessory bolted to the grab rail.
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Maybe bikes are like jokes, if they're good the first time, they're not less good just because you've heard them before. 
FWIW I think that 'power band' bike looks
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FWIW I think that 'power band' bike looks
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Lovely job but awful sounding spannnies! Allspeeds for the win!
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That headlight is gopping, and not just on that bike.
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The headlight is like something from the 1950s film War of the Worlds
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The headlight? It's round, with lights in, mounted in the fairing. 
Wossa problem? Looks OK to me.
Wossa problem? Looks OK to me.
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granted the lights a bit shit the rest is nice seats a pita as is the Jota one but style wise nice don't like the tail pipe either
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Wow. Looks like an essential pressie for my brother!KungFooBob wrote: Wed Sep 06, 2023 6:47 pm Yeah, it's ANOTHER blingy Elsie, I was just tickled by the accessory bolted to the grab rail.
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Not really a forerunner to the Africa Twin as the engines are significantly different.MyLittleStudPony wrote: Thu Sep 07, 2023 6:14 pm Honda XLV750. I had no idea they existed.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/115907632449
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See so many of these light units on 125cc "cafe racers" also fitted with the obligatory brown seat (courtesy of Wish or Alibaba). When fitted to any large cc bike, it ruins them for me because of that connection.Count Steer wrote: Thu Sep 07, 2023 1:01 pm The headlight? It's round, with lights in, mounted in the fairing.
Wossa problem? Looks OK to me.
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They're huge and useless off road, that's my very limited experience of them, and that was in 1998MyLittleStudPony wrote: Thu Sep 07, 2023 6:14 pm Honda XLV750. I had no idea they existed.
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Getting a big, (top) heavy lump like that Laverda onto a paddock stand on gravel would have been fun to watch, but not to do.
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Tried to find one of these several times, as being a shafty i reckoned they'd make a superb commuter, but there were never any about when I was looking.MyLittleStudPony wrote: Thu Sep 07, 2023 6:14 pm Honda XLV750. I had no idea they existed.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/115907632449
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