Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

Honda Zoomer

You're making me want to reinvestigate pipe dream about baby turbos and engine swaps again!

Looked at the Grom?

Ha I knew I could count on you for the yes. 🙂

And yes as pointer out also rust would be an issue. But it’s 4K and have potentially a garage for it to retire too if it started suffering.

It doesn't have all that wicked storage.

I'm not actually looking. I barely ride the bike I have.

New Project Binky.

https://youtu.be/qk8t__6k1D4

The trike doesn’t need to have the two wheels at the back, Yamaha do a TriCity 300 which can be driven on a car licence. Just make sure if you do go down that rabbit hole that the spacing between the wheels is wide enough to qualify as trike and the length is short enough to be congestion charge exempt. AFAIR the French trikes are too long and the big TDF three wheel camera bikes are too narrow to be a trike.

We converted 6 of these R4’s to electric for Renault France earlier this year. On 40% power and stuck in third gear they were proper quick. One was given to Macron this summer and one was converted to a hotel room thing.

That is cool! I hope the brakes were upgraded too...

Can anyone recommend a dash cam? Is anything particularly better than anything else?

End user has hands the size of shovels so if anything is more suited to large digits that could be handy

yeah of course dude.

and do love that R6 and £4k seems like a bargain. Though I am just basing that on the photos. Such a rare machine and you know it will make you smile to drive it.

Don’t know actualy, we only did the conversions and handled the paperwork on our side (Netherlands), Renault handled the France bit and did the restaurations. The one that got gifted to Macron was officially still on Dutch plates when he accepted it, no idea if he will ever drive it though.

According to .gov about 7 on the road

Belongs here and in the WTF thread probably.

https://youtu.be/nqPCeD1_uS4

There's what looks to be a franchise operation called Phoenix motorcycle training that has an outpost in Crystal Palace, had a quick chat with them and they suggest doing the theory test and the CBT, and post-CBT they'd recommend what they think would be suitable as a next step - which in my case would clearly be some sort of litre-plus superbike due to my amazing natural ability.

They loan out jackets and gloves, said "wear at a minimum a pair of jeans and some boots such as Timberlands". Having crashed wearing jeans I'm not wholly convinced of their invincibility when it comes to denim vs tarmac, so I'm thinking of picking up a pair of entry level boots and trousers ahead of the CBT. What would people recommend?

Rev’it are decent enough quality for low price that you could happily use them when you pass …

Oxford do decent clothing, I use there jacket and trousers decent quality for the price

seconding Revit, not the cheapest out there but probably the best performance to cost ratio. Come and see us in the moto thread for more arguing about riding kit

edit - should have been @Dammit

This is now only a temperature sensor away from being done.

Finished but never really finished.

Damn it looks good.

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I'd add RST and Richa to the list.

One thing I wouldn't cheap out on are gloves. Having bought loads of cheap-medium gloves it's a false economy. You can go for more budget friendly summer shortie gloves, but for most of the time just get a good set to start.

In case you didn't know, not all trousers (aka jeans) will work with all boots. https://www.sportsbikeshop.co.uk is great. Infinity is a good real shop you can go to.

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Thanks for the advice chaps - so for the CBT I was thinking this would make a good first impression on the instructors:

Full power ranger!

CBTs expire, right? I did one like 10 years ago but imagine I'd have to take it again now...

They last for two years, from the conversation I had yesterday.

Trousers, boots, ok?

Please take this to the motorbike thread.

I didn't want to risk another 20 posts about not being triggered, not at all, I'm laughing at you etc etc.