interesting bikes found randomly..

[Mr. Dazzle]

Why has it got a 5 year old tax disc in a 1990s anodised holder?

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

He can hardly pass that off as period additions can he.

I don't get why people do that, it's like the 350LC lot that put RGV banana swingarm on - just buy an RGV.
I'm into period improvements, my LC has them, but if you take a bike from a decade+ later and graft parts on then it just doesn't make much sense to me.

I'm with you on that, my YPVS is keeping the original skinny 18" wheels, forks and brakes

[Potter]

I'm with you on that, my YPVS is keeping the original skinny 18" wheels, forks and brakes

They're the only things I changed on my LC

[Yorick]

I'm with you on that, my YPVS is keeping the original skinny 18" wheels, forks and brakes

They're the only things I changed on my LC

We raced with skinny wheels forks and brakes

[Potter]

I'm with you on that, my YPVS is keeping the original skinny 18" wheels, forks and brakes

They're the only things I changed on my LC

We raced with skinny wheels forks and brakes

So did I on an MT125, but I didn't know better at the time.

[Tricky]

They're the only things I changed on my LC

We raced with skinny wheels forks and brakes

So did I on an MT125, but I didn't know better at the time.

Remember those well- Doug Randall, the racer I spannered for in my teens raced one of the first versions (aircooled) in the MT125 challenge in the late 70s, diddy little thing, had the narrowest imaginable top yoke and the front brake was the mechanical cable operated front caliper off the SS50 of the time

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

I'm with you on that, my YPVS is keeping the original skinny 18" wheels, forks and brakes

They're the only things I changed on my LC

Why?

[Potter]

Why?

Better suspension and lighter wheels, but so it still looks very much like a standard LC.
Most people don't notice until I point it out.

Some specials look good with period changes, like Metmachex swingarms and stuff, but as soon as you put stuff on it like banana swingarms and gold Ohlins forks then I just think it ruins the classic look.
Just MHO.

[Potter]

Remember those well- Doug Randall, the racer I spannered for in my teens raced one of the first versions (aircooled) in the MT125 challenge in the late 70s, diddy little thing, had the narrowest imaginable top yoke and the front brake was the mechanical cable operated front caliper off the SS50 of the time

They were fast, not so far off the later RS125, but being air cooled they went off the boil a bit quicker.
My brake was a hydraulic with single disk but useless.

I got t-boned at Darley Moor and it snapped the frame, so that was the end of the bike.

[The Spin Doctor]

Why has it got a 5 year old tax disc in a 1990s anodised holder?

Displayed on the wrong side too

[weeksy]

I don't like it, no sir, not one bit....

But... it's interesting i guess.

[Horse]

I don't usually like K-based specials, and I'm not sure that I completely like this one

It reminds me of a a Munch Mammoth (that's not good), but I wonder whether the bulk of the K11 engine makes the whole bike looking bigger than it probably really is.

[Mr. Dazzle]

Interesting choice of place to mount the rear shock.

Look where it is on KFbs K. That is gonna make quite a difference.

[KungFooBob]

It's a K100 tho, previous generation to mine...



It's got a much more modern shaft/swingarm on the custom one tho'

[KungFooBob]

Actually scrap that, the Special must be a K1100, they had the more modern casing on the final drive, but still with the same shock mount point...

[Horse]

the bulk of the K11 engine

Bit cryptic

[KungFooBob]

Bit cryptic

I can't read proper, you readist!

[kendo57]

[KungFooBob]

Well that's one way to convert a BMW boxer to chain drive... just rotate the engine 90 degrees and weld a sprocket to the gearbox output shaft!

[weeksy]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/A-very-speci ... SwGypfwCWU

KTM Freeride-E, converted to Supermoto....