A Nicely done TL

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A Nicely done TL

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I've no info,just a fb pic. I'll even forgive the Red Bull can.

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Re: A Nicely done TL

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Why?
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Looks good, with the usual sucker-for-a-retro-paintjob rider. Bet it's cracking fun, too.
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ChrisW wrote: Mon Jan 02, 2023 12:17 pm Looks good, with the usual sucker-for-a-retro-paintjob rider. Bet it's cracking fun, too.
A lot more fun with the original engine in.
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Re: A Nicely done TL

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Yorick wrote: Mon Jan 02, 2023 12:19 pm
ChrisW wrote: Mon Jan 02, 2023 12:17 pm Looks good, with the usual sucker-for-a-retro-paintjob rider. Bet it's cracking fun, too.
A lot more fun with the original engine in.
What was the original engine?
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Re: A Nicely done TL

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ChrisW wrote: Mon Jan 02, 2023 12:28 pm
Yorick wrote: Mon Jan 02, 2023 12:19 pm
ChrisW wrote: Mon Jan 02, 2023 12:17 pm Looks good, with the usual sucker-for-a-retro-paintjob rider. Bet it's cracking fun, too.
A lot more fun with the original engine in.
What was the original engine?
GSXR1000
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Yorick wrote: Mon Jan 02, 2023 12:36 pm
ChrisW wrote: Mon Jan 02, 2023 12:28 pm
Yorick wrote: Mon Jan 02, 2023 12:19 pm

A lot more fun with the original engine in.
What was the original engine?
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No it isn’t put your bifocals on it’s a TL1000R frame 😂
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Re: A Nicely done TL

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Maybe it was just a very thorough TL swap ;)
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ChrisW wrote: Mon Jan 02, 2023 1:20 pm Maybe it was just a very thorough TL swap ;)
The old "radiator cap rebuild"?
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Re: A Nicely done TL

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I sort of quite like it, suitably simplified. But caff rear ends never quite go with big ol' twin beam frames do they? And the blacked out frame just disguises that horror of plumbing and wires behind the front wheel, you can never really get away from that. Gold anodising needs shooting from space about now, very much on borrowed time.
I'd take 6 inches off the exhaust as well.
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Re: A Nicely done TL

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https://www.bike-urious.com/nick-okane- ... afe-build/

Thos it's a load of bollocks about it being a 92. The TLR didn't come out until the late 90's and the TLS was 97. (EDIT: it says 2002 in the body text).
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Skub wrote: Mon Jan 02, 2023 11:37 am I've no info,just a fb pic. I'll even forgive the Red Bull can.

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Re: A Nicely done TL

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The forks are dropped through the yokes to such an extent that on full bump the front wheel will almost certainly clout the radiator or the oil cooler or both. Looks wise the only thing I'd say is that it's very hard to make a TL1000R look worse than standard.
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Looks OK other than the exhaust. Do something better with the pipe and I'd happily own it....
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mangocrazy wrote: Mon Jan 02, 2023 6:34 pm The forks are dropped through the yokes to such an extent
Another one needs their bifocals on. The forks aren't dropped, that's a headlight bracket.
(Not saying I know for a fact that the forks on it are as long as the originals, mind)
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They are GSXR1000K6 forks (with R1 callipers), so probably shorter than the original TLR ones.
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The grammar of the OP led me to believe this was a bike done in the style of the capital of the Alpes-Maritimes department . But it isn't. :(
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MyLittleStudPony wrote: Mon Jan 02, 2023 9:39 pm The grammar of the OP led me to believe this was a bike done in the style of the capital of the Alpes-Maritimes department . But it isn't. :(
Not in the stlyee of a thin, rectangular biscuit?
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KungFooBob wrote: Mon Jan 02, 2023 9:40 pm
MyLittleStudPony wrote: Mon Jan 02, 2023 9:39 pm The grammar of the OP led me to believe this was a bike done in the style of the capital of the Alpes-Maritimes department . But it isn't. :(
Not in the stlyee of a thin, rectangular biscuit?
Even that would have been ok!
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MyLittleStudPony wrote: Mon Jan 02, 2023 9:39 pm The grammar of the OP led me to believe this was a bike done in the style of the capital of the Alpes-Maritimes department . But it isn't. :(
Riddled with both high and low level crime, questionable pasta restaurants, utterly terrible parking and the home of my one true love?

Oh sorry, got mixed up with Marseille, again.