Two Smoke Foolery

[Skub]

A lemon flavoured twosmoker.
https://www.bikebound.com/2021/07/27/el-citron/

[Ditchfinder]

Now there's a few bits I don't like but sod it gizagomister !

[Supermofo]

Same, some bits I'm not sure of but overall I like it.

[Mr. Dazzle]

Either the wheels and tyres are too big, or the frame's too small.

[Taipan]

Back end looks unfinished, but I still like it. I love these restomods!

[mangocrazy]

A 150 rear I can just about live with, but the size of that front tyre is ridiculous. Otherwise I quite like it.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

It's a no from me, the wheels, forks and swingarm are too big for the bike

[Dickyboy]

It's a no from me, the wheels, forks and swingarm are too big for the bike

Yeah but it looks sweeeet & besides riding any distance and it is gonna make yer ears bleed.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

It'd look nicer with skinny spoked wheels, skinny forks and a spindly swing arm.

[Yorick]

In my teens the learner law was 250 so hundreds of the buggers around.
The GT250s and RD250s sounded nice, but the KH250 sounded the best.
But it was also slower.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

I rode my mates KH250 when I had a 250LC, the KH felt slow and very old fashioned.

[Yorick]

I rode my mates KH250 when I had a 250LC, the KH felt slow and very old fashioned.

For some reasons all the triples in Bradford used BelRay which smelt lovely

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

I rode my mates KH250 when I had a 250LC, the KH felt slow and very old fashioned.

For some reasons all the triples in Bradford used BelRay which smelt lovely

The ones round our way could have used chip oil without seizing, they all had more slap than Debenhams make up counter

[Skub]

I rode my mates KH250 when I had a 250LC, the KH felt slow and very old fashioned.

By the time the KH models came around air cooled strokers were detuned from the original firecrackers and two strokes in general were on borrowed time. When Yamaha finally went all fourstroke that was the last major manufacturing Japanese bastion consigned to history.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

By 1983 a 350 YPVS was 60bhp

[Yorick]

By 1983 a 350 YPVS was 60bhp

I was still racing a good LC350 in 83 and the power valves were only marginally better.

[Skub]

When you consider the stir that first Kawasaki Z1 caused,yet it weighed well over 200kgs and punted out around 80bhp.

And it still didn't handle.

[mangocrazy]

When you consider the stir that first Kawasaki Z1 caused,yet it weighed well over 200kgs and punted out around 80bhp.

And it still didn't handle.

130mph (which is about what a Z1 did) was a big thing in the early 70s. And all the road tests alluded in some way or another to the high-speed handling (or lack of), so they must have been pretty scary.

[Skub]

When you consider the stir that first Kawasaki Z1 caused,yet it weighed well over 200kgs and punted out around 80bhp.

And it still didn't handle.

130mph (which is about what a Z1 did) was a big thing in the early 70s. And all the road tests alluded in some way or another to the high-speed handling (or lack of), so they must have been pretty scary.

I can personally vouch for that,but you have no fear at 19.

[Yorick]

I got a GT750 at 19 and it had Cambrey mag wheels and piper 3 into 3. Saved about 300Kgs and wheels helped the handling. Regularly got the pegs down and was as fast as anything else about at the time. But maybe it was me as I had no fear. My mates were worried and I started racing soon after.