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v8-powered wrote: Fri Feb 02, 2024 5:04 pm Looks like a Subaru Boxer engine to me?

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Why does it need a chain follower?? Is there something odd about the rear suspension? (can't really see it)
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Not sure if I'm honest - maybe so it looks pretty?
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Maybe they made the swingarm without checking the dims properly :D
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Mr. Dazzle wrote: Fri Feb 02, 2024 5:53 pm Maybe they made the swingarm without checking the dims properly :D
It does look kind of like the chain needs the guide, to keep it off the swing arm.
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v8-powered wrote: Fri Feb 02, 2024 5:04 pm Looks like a Subaru Boxer engine to me?
It is

https://www.bikeexif.com/motorcycle-with-car-engine
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Looks like the last day before sleet and other nasty schitt blows in, A definite drop in temps back down to double figures today.

Not a five star anything in sight.

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Skub wrote: Tue Feb 06, 2024 4:33 pm Looks like the last day before sleet and other nasty schitt blows in, A definite drop in temps back down to double figures today.

Not a five star anything in sight.

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Must get pretty warm where you are!
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KungFooBob wrote: Tue Feb 06, 2024 4:34 pm
Skub wrote: Tue Feb 06, 2024 4:33 pm Looks like the last day before sleet and other nasty schitt blows in, A definite drop in temps back down to double figures today.

Not a five star anything in sight.

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AND,I posted in the wrong bloody thread.. :roll:
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On the Proddie Racers FB group just now
It was originally the 'Works' bike given to Ray Stringer to race, by Terry Becket
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I've seen a new V4S Panigale about lately and looked cool, but rider was pants.

Last night riding home along our road, I saw him set off, wobbling about.
I passed him on the corner. On my GasGas in t-shirt and flip flops :D

When I pulled up to our gate, he wobbled past looking very sheepish.

All the gear and no idea. Look at them chicken strips.

I took photo just now. Reg plate shows it's almost new.
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:shock:

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A tidy TDR on the bay,but daft dealer price.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/126324320301 ... krbHx9jM8Q

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One for Cheesy and KFB :obscene-birdiedoublered:
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Not sure if we've seen this one before
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v8-powered wrote: Wed Feb 14, 2024 5:55 pm Not sure if we've seen this one before

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:wtf: Trying to work out where all that space has come from. Have they turned the engine upside down*???? Where did those forks come from?

It's, erm, 'interesting'.

* Edit. It looks like an R80 and they've dropped the engine as far as it will go and rotated it a bit.
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Yeah, very low mounting - Wouldn't fancy attempting a speed bump!
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v8-powered wrote: Wed Feb 14, 2024 6:22 pm Yeah, very low mounting - Wouldn't fancy attempting a speed bump!
Ah. It's an R100. More info and better pix here.

https://silodrome.com/bmw-r100rs-custom-motorcycle/

(It was the 'Revival of the Machine' on the tyres that lead me there).
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