Motorcycle and Scooter appreciation

R80/7 vs CBR600?

If you say so, but I'm not putting money on it.

PS: And if you say my beemer isn't a decent bike I'll shove one of your cigars up your ****.
PPS: After lighting it.

;)

Over 30mph it may well be a decent story :-)

0 to 30mph, eventually. Mind you it will do it for a couple of hundred thousand miles.

That's the spirit. Get building!

In other news I have once again decided against resurrecting the Vespa due to the lack of anywhere safe to keep it once it looks nickable.

lust

also £$£$£$£$£$£ waiting.

Biker run off the road and stabbed/beaten in Clerkenwell earlier (conflicting reports)

Biker run off the road and stabbed/beaten in Clerkenwell earlier (conflicting reports)

WTF?!

@coppithat - that is an exquisite motorcycle, sir.

TT soon!

Not killed, I hasten to add, but yeah, there's probably something on the WWW about it. Walked past the aftermath at lunch, they'd closed Tesco as I think he ran in there to get away.

........- that is an exquisite motorcycle, sir.

http://acn.liveauctioneers.com/index.php/features/grand-prix-cafe/4602-bonhams-brings-rare-ajs-motorcycle-to-auction

It is pretty but it is so slow, just about everything will leave it standing these days, and with looks like that it should leave everything standing!
It is a shame, because I love Guzzis,and the best bike I ever had was a Mk1 Lemans, curiously I sold it for a quicker bike, and regret it to this day. This though is even slower, and that will make it a real disappointment.

The plastic chrome stuff on recent guzzis is fairly tacky looking. My first Griso had it round the speedo/rev counter and it really did look like silver coloured plastic. The new one has a matt black surround which looks a whole lot better.
Corsa Italiana did their own version of the v7, with old style cylinder head covers and old Moto Guzzi badges on the tank.

Rather liking this SR400 Custom

Some real beauties over on BikeEXIF at the mo

SR400 is lovely. Spokes would finish it.

if anybody is interested in a lemans mk2 project (that needs lots of work to finish), i know of one that could be available. not mine. i was interested but the seller thinks it would be too much of a first time project for me or anybody to endure really.
its honest people like this that you feell happy having around you.

How bad is it?

heads need to be machined as they have furred
(thats what i think he said, although the sentence makes little sense to me as i am relatively new to motorcycles),
frame needs to be sprayed, the fairing is in good shape and everything is there and original its just a long project he said.

Which lemon is it?

There's a lovely write-up on on, here
http://www.realclassic.co.uk/motoguzzilemans.html

Ha! 77 Bonnie more practical? I had one so bad nothing ever stayed attached. Anne Summers could have marketed it as the world's most powerful vibrator.

this saturday, kempton race track.

http://www.strokemanhost.co.uk/egpenterprises/southern_classic_bike_show.htm

Both those flattrackers are lovely. I really would like to have a go at the dirt oval. (Fnar)

There was a bloke stabbed in chelsea after a scrote tried to nick his bike infront of him.

Coppi that do it and it'll be a learrning curve. We are will to help and the bike forums are full of really helpful people.

There was a bloke stabbed in chelsea after a scrote tried to nick his bike infront of him.

that is shocking news. apparently;

Hes fine, he needed 10 stitches and a night in hospital....

thats a relief.

There's a lovely write-up on on, here
http://www.realclassic.co.uk/motoguzzilemans.html

That brings back memories, my first ride on a Mk1 in about 1979 after I sold my 750 Honda. My mate took me to collect it on his California, and the pair of us had a real adventure getting home. He was sat up dead straight, and he seemed so much taller than me, crouched over the LeMans, and in real life he was much shorter.
For some reason I used to pretend I preferred an open face lid, so I looked like I knew what I was doing, and this was only mt third proper motorbike. It rained, it was cold, I didn't have waterproofs or decent gloves, and Dr Martin boots and jeans. And when I got back after what objectively was a miserable experience I just sat and looked at this amazing bike that was now mine. Fuck, I was so happy.
But the quirky switches, misfiring at low speed, (mine came with trumpets, so no air filters and the carbs were full of dirt and flies!) the torque reaction, the painful neck and wrists. Oh happy days. I still regret selling it about two years later.
So what is the story with the lemans 2 that needs work?

adroit - i think he half has it in his mind that one day he will complete it. its justa matter of time though and catching him on the right day. the other day if only momentarily, he definitely wavered in the direction of "you know what, i am never going to do this and its just taking up space".

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while a man has space and doesnt need the money, old classics will sleep under dust sheets in sheds and garages.

while a man has space and doesnt need the money, old classics will sleep under dust sheets in sheds and garages.

So true!
But if he ever wavers point him my way. I have space, and time and ....... er, dust sheets!