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Taipan wrote: ↑Tue Nov 05, 2024 4:32 pm
Hideous!
+2. I like Guzzi customs but that's horrid.
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+2. I like Guzzi customs but that's horrid.
That's fairly typical of what Ghezi & Brian churn out though 😕
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CB1100RS, with a sandcast paintjob and a funny seat.
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Is that your comment, or the AI prompt which made the photo?
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This popped up for sale on a Friendface group...



1960 Simson (AWO) rs 250, 11,990E!

It looks to my untrained eye like the crank is longitudinal like a BMW R series rather than the more traditional way most singles run.

Which makes it interesting imho (I'm off to google some more about it).

The shaft must make changing gearing a bit difficult.
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Sadlonelygit wrote: ↑Fri Nov 22, 2024 5:36 pm FB_IMG_1732296881450.jpg
Nice design idea fro a 750four! Like the seat but I’d go for usd forks.
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FFS :lol:
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It'll be a real slow shifter with that right side hand change.
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I just spotted this on Friendface. I've never seen one before. It's like a (slightly) more modern GasGas Pampera.
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Never heard of that either - I'd thought Montesa had been first with that concept with the 4Ride.
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I think Gas Gas' Pampera was one of the first 'Trials' bikes with a proper seat and tank concept.
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Quite right - first one to look good then.
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I like the look of the engine on the Ossa, looks almost like there should be another cylinder at the front.
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There's a couple of bikes around similar to the OSSA. It's possible to get "long range" kits for trials bikes, bigger tank, seat, sprocket change, that sort of thing. There's also the Sherco 125 Long Ride and the Beta Alp 200.

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Pirahna wrote: ↑Wed Dec 11, 2024 10:23 am There's a couple of bikes around similar to the OSSA. It's possible to get "long range" kits for trials bikes, bigger tank, seat, sprocket change, that sort of thing. There's also the Sherco 125 Long Ride and the Beta Alp 200.

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https://silodrome.com/yamaha-rd400-three-wheeler/

This bike started out as a 1978 Yamaha RD400 two-stroke two-wheeler, at some point in the 1980s it was converted into a three-wheeler using a Hi-Performance ATC frame kit, balloon tires, and a one-piece rear fender.
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A Yamaha Bi-Z, you could say...
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Dreadful waste of an rd400! :thumbdown:
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