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Now, that R1100S I have in my garage......

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Yeah, it's ANOTHER blingy Elsie, I was just tickled by the accessory bolted to the grab rail.
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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.
I just don't get them at all.
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weeksy wrote: ↑Wed Sep 06, 2023 6:48 pm
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.
I just don't get them at all.
Not even ones with spare powerband carrying capacity?
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KungFooBob wrote: ↑Wed Sep 06, 2023 6:51 pm
weeksy wrote: ↑Wed Sep 06, 2023 6:48 pm
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.
I just don't get them at all.
Not even ones with spare powerband carrying capacity?
Deffo not ones that make Bellwood look restrained
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weeksy wrote: ↑Wed Sep 06, 2023 6:48 pm
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.
I just don't get them at all.
I wouldn't want to have one now, but they were awesome in their day and stir up brilliant memories :)
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weeksy wrote: ↑Wed Sep 06, 2023 6:48 pm
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.
I just don't get them at all.
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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. :D

FWIW I think that 'power band' bike looks :thumbup: .
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Lovely job but awful sounding spannnies! Allspeeds for the win!

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Still got a soft spot for these big lumps

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rodbargee wrote: ↑Wed Sep 06, 2023 11:09 pm Still got a soft spot for these big lumps

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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. :eh:

Wossa problem? Looks OK to me. :thumbup:
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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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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.
Wow. Looks like an essential pressie for my brother!
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Honda XLV750. I had no idea they existed.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/115907632449
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MyLittleStudPony wrote: ↑Thu Sep 07, 2023 6:14 pm Honda XLV750. I had no idea they existed.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/115907632449
Not really a forerunner to the Africa Twin as the engines are significantly different.
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Count Steer wrote: ↑Thu Sep 07, 2023 1:01 pm The headlight? It's round, with lights in, mounted in the fairing. :eh:

Wossa problem? Looks OK to me. :thumbup:
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.
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MyLittleStudPony wrote: ↑Thu Sep 07, 2023 6:14 pm Honda XLV750. I had no idea they existed.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/115907632449
They're huge and useless off road, that's my very limited experience of them, and that was in 1998
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rodbargee wrote: ↑Wed Sep 06, 2023 11:09 pm Still got a soft spot for these big lumps

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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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