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v8-powered wrote: Fri Dec 29, 2023 2:40 pm Not sure if we've seen this one before or not....

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Squeezing so much power from a 250 will be a crap result.
That power from a 350 would have been a better ride with no extra weight.
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Henry Cole featured these one of these on his show and test rode it too.

https://www.itv.com/watch/the-motorbike ... a9745a0062
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Demannu wrote: Fri Dec 29, 2023 12:51 pm FB_IMG_1703854235628.jpg
Looks like all the extra weight makes the front tyre flat :)
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v8-powered wrote: Fri Dec 29, 2023 2:40 pm Not sure if we've seen this one before or not....

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Friends of my wife have one at the top of their stairs

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Just wrong on so many levels...
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That's a proper WTF :wtf:
However this line in the article sounds interesting;The total weight of the bike, depending on specification, can be as low as 160 kg (352 lb), so this thing will go like a bat out of hell.
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Well it's interesting, Messcherscmit BF109s had upside down Daimler Benz engines to get the crank in the right place to drive the propeller and have the barrel of a 20mm cannon running through the crank and prop, so upside down engines work, but I think having the crank so high in the bike is going to make it handle weird.
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Not one for the purist's :D

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Bustaspoke wrote: Fri Jan 05, 2024 3:18 pm Not one for the purist's :D

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I suppose it depends what they’re purist about.
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Omg
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Bustaspoke wrote: Fri Jan 05, 2024 3:18 pm Not one for the purist's :D

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The Yoshimura and Showa stickers spoil it.
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A French Bōsōzoku fan?

I like the look of the expansion chambers, very smooth.
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Should be riding along behind you slowly- blipping the throttle with the clutch in with a spotty Inaka on board
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asmethurst99 wrote: Fri Jan 05, 2024 6:07 pm Should be riding along behind you slowly- blipping the throttle with the clutch in with a spotty Inaka on board

IIRC you've Japanese connections, have you seen Bōsōzoku in real life?
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Every town has loads of wannabes so it’s difficult to tell-there is a crossover with the Yankee subculture although Bozozoku are meant to be a bush league for Yakuza but like a lot of things it’s quite opaque.
It’s a fashion as much as anything - mostly on 400’s with annoying ring ding exhausts
2 stokes command as strong a price in Japan as here so an LC is an unlikely steed of choice.
My wife is from the Boonies and Harleys are popular as are domestic cruisers .
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Not that interesting, but it’s got a Gayer engine.

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Tarmacsurfer wrote: Mon Jan 08, 2024 10:09 am I like this kit for the Monster 👍

https://rocket-garage.blogspot.com/2020 ... WSHThdOxtA
I could go for that, but I like Bimotas.

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