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Millyard's bike?
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KungFooBob wrote: Thu Jun 20, 2024 2:46 pm Celebrity (ish) bike for sale...
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/126533410224 ... media=COPY

You can be pretty sure it's been maintained correctly:)
I'd be checking for sneaky extra cylinders and stuff...
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Just seen this on FB. The shark looks cool.
Waddya reckon?
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You're about 85 years too late ;)


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KungFooBob wrote: Thu Jun 20, 2024 2:46 pm Celebrity (ish) bike for sale...
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/126533410224 ... media=COPY

You can be pretty sure it's been maintained correctly:)
It's just an old Pan Euro that needs 400 quid worth of discs and tyre. It's not worth what the bidding is already at.
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Yorick wrote: Sun Jun 23, 2024 3:07 pmWaddya reckon?
Practice bike for Acosta?
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Bigjawa wrote: Sun Jun 23, 2024 6:03 pm
KungFooBob wrote: Thu Jun 20, 2024 2:46 pm Celebrity (ish) bike for sale...
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/126533410224 ... media=COPY

You can be pretty sure it's been maintained correctly:)
It's just an old Pan Euro that needs 400 quid worth of discs and tyre. It's not worth what the bidding is already at.
Sold for £1,271, which will be £2000 plus by the time new discs, brake pads and tyres are fitted
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I think it's a vmax underneath...
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Taipan wrote: Wed Jun 26, 2024 4:43 pm
Reminds me of that band... Wetleg.
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Better than a bullworker!Image ebay! for the young uns its a 1951 MATCHLESS G80C 500CC a bang every lamp post nice to see prices seem to be back in the real world. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/166843403659 ... R7j61JqLZA £2k with garage space I could be tempted.....
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Ninja 40th anniversary jobby. Looks OK from one side. Hideous from t'other.
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Yorick wrote: Fri Jun 28, 2024 4:05 pm Ninja 40th anniversary jobby. Looks OK from one side. Hideous from t'other.

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That's a real mess. They've got the paint badly wrong.
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mangocrazy wrote: Fri Jun 28, 2024 6:19 pm
That's a real mess. They've got the paint badly wrong.
I think the fairing shape is to pointy to suit a retro paintscheme # Lipstick on a pig.
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The blue back wheel on the 2nd photo does the bike no favours.
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KungFooBob wrote: Wed Jun 26, 2024 4:53 pm
Taipan wrote: Wed Jun 26, 2024 4:43 pm
Reminds me of that band... Wetleg.
Is it me, or is the concept of a wiper for that screen too hard a concept?
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ChrisW wrote: Fri Jun 28, 2024 6:50 pm The blue back wheel on the 2nd photo does the bike no favours.
Never mind the back wheel, it would have been better in green white RED like the original French ZXR7 endurance racer
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I always liked the Phase One colour schemes
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