NOT SO MELLOW YELLOW: NORTH EAST’S XT500 RESTO-MOD
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Re: NOT SO MELLOW YELLOW: NORTH EAST’S XT500 RESTO-MOD
Jesus, don't tell me we've finally made the masses happy ???
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Re: NOT SO MELLOW YELLOW: NORTH EAST’S XT500 RESTO-MOD
Don't like the colour, and the silencer could be prettier.
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Re: NOT SO MELLOW YELLOW: NORTH EAST’S XT500 RESTO-MOD
I'm hardly representative of the masses, I own a guzzi which I think is pretty
Oh and it could do without the red showa stickers on the forks
Oh and it could do without the red showa stickers on the forks
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Re: NOT SO MELLOW YELLOW: NORTH EAST’S XT500 RESTO-MOD
That's nice, longer seat and rear mudguard would improve it.
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Re: NOT SO MELLOW YELLOW: NORTH EAST’S XT500 RESTO-MOD
Very nice indeed. Love the nod to KR colours/speedblock. Long time since I've seen a supertrapp exhaust, but it looks dead right on that.
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Re: NOT SO MELLOW YELLOW: NORTH EAST’S XT500 RESTO-MOD
Nifty enough.
When you slap the old yellow/speedblock thing on a Yam,it needs to be a mess of a bike before folk will hate it.
When you slap the old yellow/speedblock thing on a Yam,it needs to be a mess of a bike before folk will hate it.
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Re: NOT SO MELLOW YELLOW: NORTH EAST’S XT500 RESTO-MOD
Mudguards? [X]
Airbox? [X]
Sidepanels? [X]
Bloody hell, its almost as if the builder actually wanted to ride the bike, on a real road with puddles and stuff. Whatever will those bike builders think of next?
Yeah, I quite like that one.
Airbox? [X]
Sidepanels? [X]
Bloody hell, its almost as if the builder actually wanted to ride the bike, on a real road with puddles and stuff. Whatever will those bike builders think of next?
Yeah, I quite like that one.
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Re: NOT SO MELLOW YELLOW: NORTH EAST’S XT500 RESTO-MOD
KungFooBob wrote: ↑Wed Feb 03, 2021 7:05 pm What if you painted this yellow?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mash-X-ride-650/154316070633
Well, its a lot more useful looking than a lot of the modified bikes I've seen pics of recently.
That doesn't mean I don't like them, its just that they all look like the builder got to putting the carb to airbox rubber on and lost interest.
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Re: NOT SO MELLOW YELLOW: NORTH EAST’S XT500 RESTO-MOD
I think it looks good as it is, I quite like that.KungFooBob wrote: ↑Wed Feb 03, 2021 7:05 pm What if you painted this yellow?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mash-X-ride-650/154316070633
I was tempted to buy a Honda Dominator a while back but I didn't want another old bike with potential problems, this looks like a good alternative.
There are some good bikes out now in this sort of style/range, the RE springs to mind as well.