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KungFooBob wrote: Wed Sep 06, 2023 6:47 pm Yeah, it's ANOTHER blingy Elsie, I was just tickled by the accessory bolted to the grab rail.

I just don't get them at all.

weeksy wrote: Wed Sep 06, 2023 6:48 pm

KungFooBob wrote: Wed Sep 06, 2023 6:47 pm Yeah, it's ANOTHER blingy Elsie, I was just tickled by the accessory bolted to the grab rail.

I just don't get them at all.

Not even ones with spare powerband carrying capacity?

KungFooBob wrote: Wed Sep 06, 2023 6:51 pm

weeksy wrote: Wed Sep 06, 2023 6:48 pm

KungFooBob wrote: Wed Sep 06, 2023 6:47 pm Yeah, it's ANOTHER blingy Elsie, I was just tickled by the accessory bolted to the grab rail.

I just don't get them at all.

Not even ones with spare powerband carrying capacity?

Deffo not ones that make Bellwood look restrained

weeksy wrote: Wed Sep 06, 2023 6:48 pm

KungFooBob wrote: Wed Sep 06, 2023 6:47 pm Yeah, it's ANOTHER blingy Elsie, I was just tickled by the accessory bolted to the grab rail.

I just don't get them at all.

I wouldn't want to have one now, but they were awesome in their day and stir up brilliant memories

weeksy wrote: Wed Sep 06, 2023 6:48 pm

KungFooBob wrote: Wed Sep 06, 2023 6:47 pm Yeah, it's ANOTHER blingy Elsie, I was just tickled by the accessory bolted to the grab rail.

I just don't get them at all.

25 years time think 690 Duke revival!

Maybe bikes are like jokes, if they're good the first time, they're not less good just because you've heard them before.

FWIW I think that 'power band' bike looks .

Lovely job but awful sounding spannnies! Allspeeds for the win!

Still got a soft spot for these big lumps

rodbargee wrote: Wed Sep 06, 2023 11:09 pm Still got a soft spot for these big lumps

That headlight is gopping, and not just on that bike.

Bought to you very cheaply by that Great Bunch of Lads

The headlight is like something from the 1950s film War of the Worlds

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_o ... 1953_film)

The headlight? It's round, with lights in, mounted in the fairing.

Wossa problem? Looks OK to me.

granted the lights a bit shit the rest is nice seats a pita as is the Jota one but style wise nice don't like the tail pipe either

KungFooBob wrote: Wed Sep 06, 2023 6:47 pm Yeah, it's ANOTHER blingy Elsie, I was just tickled by the accessory bolted to the grab rail.

Wow. Looks like an essential pressie for my brother!

Honda XLV750. I had no idea they existed.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/115907632449

MyLittleStudPony wrote: Thu Sep 07, 2023 6:14 pm Honda XLV750. I had no idea they existed.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/115907632449

Not really a forerunner to the Africa Twin as the engines are significantly different.

Count Steer wrote: Thu Sep 07, 2023 1:01 pm The headlight? It's round, with lights in, mounted in the fairing.

Wossa problem? Looks OK to me.

See so many of these light units on 125cc "cafe racers" also fitted with the obligatory brown seat (courtesy of Wish or Alibaba). When fitted to any large cc bike, it ruins them for me because of that connection.

MyLittleStudPony wrote: Thu Sep 07, 2023 6:14 pm Honda XLV750. I had no idea they existed.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/115907632449

They're huge and useless off road, that's my very limited experience of them, and that was in 1998

rodbargee wrote: Wed Sep 06, 2023 11:09 pm Still got a soft spot for these big lumps

Getting a big, (top) heavy lump like that Laverda onto a paddock stand on gravel would have been fun to watch, but not to do.

QJM Chase 600 V4

MyLittleStudPony wrote: Thu Sep 07, 2023 6:14 pm Honda XLV750. I had no idea they existed.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/115907632449

Tried to find one of these several times, as being a shafty i reckoned they'd make a superb commuter, but there were never any about when I was looking.