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KungFooBob wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2024 4:19 pm It's an Orcal.
Isn't that a big fucking whale?
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Yorick wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2024 4:20 pm
KungFooBob wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2024 4:19 pm It's an Orcal.
Isn't that a big fucking whale?
It would be if it was in Bristol ....
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KungFooBob wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2024 4:19 pm It's an Orcal.
Possibly the SK01?

https://www.orcal-motor.fr/motos/sk01/
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@Potter and his new outfit. 8-)

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Can't be Potter, no tan coloured gloves.
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KungFooBob wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2024 8:18 pm Can't be Potter, no tan coloured gloves.
They'll be in his skyrocket. :thumbup:
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Porsches, Ferraris and now a Sky Rocket, show off bastard!
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I do actually wear tan coloured gloves, really old Timberland ones that I’ve had for donkeys, they’re covered in oil and not very tan anymore, but there you are.
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I actually thought that was my mate Charlie on that bike, it’s the spits of him. But he’s in the Alps teaching British soldiers how to hang glide or something.
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Horse wrote: ↑Sun Mar 10, 2024 7:26 pm Nembo 32

3 cylinder
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Upside down engine
Back to front too.
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v8-powered wrote: ↑Tue Mar 12, 2024 4:53 pm Screenshot_20240312_165313_LinkedIn.jpg
Where could start? Tyres. Iron Cross on the exhaust header/ downpipe. General air of shittiness . I could go on. What's the point?
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What's that, you want to see some more of it?
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and more
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I especially like the leaf spring suspension on the single sided swingarm and the rear brake!
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KungFooBob wrote: ↑Tue Mar 12, 2024 7:59 pm I especially like the leaf spring suspension on the single sided swingarm and the rear brake!
I don't think he's unduly concerned about unsprung weight having seen his girder swingarm and steel wheel.
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Just saw this on FB.

Needs bigger silencers :obscene-birdiedoublered:
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Beautiful looking thing - Zenith.

FYI if you're interested and have five mins spare - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenith_Motorcycles

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Maybe worth a cheeky offer. Never had one and by all accounts they were fairly shit, but it's tax n mot exempt.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/285774971360 ... media=COPY
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