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New KTM looks sweet.

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Skub wrote: Tue Feb 20, 2024 2:01 pm New KTM looks sweet.

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Hell yeah :obscene-birdiedoublered:
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Yorick wrote: Tue Feb 20, 2024 2:12 pm
Skub wrote: Tue Feb 20, 2024 2:01 pm New KTM looks sweet.

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David wrote: Tue Feb 20, 2024 5:37 pm
Yorick wrote: Tue Feb 20, 2024 2:12 pm
Skub wrote: Tue Feb 20, 2024 2:01 pm New KTM looks sweet.

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Hell yeah :obscene-birdiedoublered:
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Hell yeah :obscene-birdiedoublered:
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Parked outside my local Halfords...that's all I know of the origin :D
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That's going to be a smidge noisy
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Yeah I heard it leave. And smelled it, several minutes later. :o. Sufficed to say it would not pass modern unburned hydrocarbon emissions tests.
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Mr. Dazzle wrote: Sun Mar 03, 2024 2:45 pm Parked outside my local Halfords...that's all I know of the origin :D

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Needs 18 inch wheels.
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Piper?
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Mr. Dazzle wrote: Sun Mar 03, 2024 2:45 pm Parked outside my local Halfords...that's all I know of the origin :D

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Oh man,when I had my Z1 I so wanted one of those. I'd still take one,but there weren't many made and even less for sale. That was the best of the best in the 70s,a fast reliable Jap engine and a great handling Rickman chassis. 8-)
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Maybe...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/305430759533 ... media=COPY
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Dodgy69 wrote: Tue Mar 05, 2024 7:10 am Maybe...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/305430759533 ... media=COPY
One of my brothers had one of them in the late nineties - he called in on it very, very early one summer Sunday morning, so I had a go, obviously. Spent half an hour riding around a deserted West End of London. I've very clear memories of riding down the mall down to Buck House and up to hyde park corner.

It was great fun, really enjoyed it.
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Dodgy69 wrote: Tue Mar 05, 2024 7:10 am Maybe...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/305430759533 ... media=COPY
1. Fit decent tyres
2. Learn conservation of momentum (ie don't slow down*)

* They had a reputation for awful braking. But that was due to rubbish tyres (Pneumants) so most riders barely used the brakes, so the shoes glaze.
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:D

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Interesting front 'suspension'.
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Horse wrote: Thu Mar 07, 2024 2:36 pm Interesting front 'suspension'.
Similar to my BMW :thumbup:
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v8-powered wrote: Thu Mar 07, 2024 3:03 pm
Horse wrote: Thu Mar 07, 2024 2:36 pm Interesting front 'suspension'.
Similar to my BMW :thumbup:
Indeed. Two stick-like bits, a wheel at one and a springy thing at the other ;)
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Horse wrote: Thu Mar 07, 2024 2:36 pm Interesting front 'suspension'.
Interesting front brake lever...
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