Show us your 2 stroke prawn

[Dominic H]

From an old BB thread...

A Honda NSR500 replica...




The link...

http://www.nsr250.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5091&...

[MrKipling43]

sprinter1050 said:

MrKipling43 said:

Was that the year Honda for car engineers in who all went mentile for lowering the C. O. G. and borked it.

..and in English that means ???
:

Hah! Yeah, the 'for' autocorrect (to 'got') probably didn't help.

Honda got car engineers in to have a go at designing their GP bike and they decided to go mad for lowering the centre of gravity (like you do in cars) and knackered the handling.

You'd think Honda would have learned from that, but they did the opposite for the 2007/08 Honda F1 car. That didn't go well either.

[Vapour]

Some awesome looking machines in this thread, keep them coming!

[Gav182]

Wow that bike above is unreal cool !!!! Would px the wife for that

[alvington89]

Here's our RG500 specials...

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They are a bit of a mixture of old skool / new skool...
RG500 engines of course but with Nova gearbox and Nova dry clutch.
Spondon frame and swing arm.
Spondon hand beaten aly tanks.
Swarbrick pipes
Ohlins front end
RGV plastics (air scoops added)
special one piece seat unit.
BST Carbon fibre wheels
all put together by two stroke specials bulder extraordinaire Mr Darren Lane, with Schwantz tribute paintwork by Darren's friend Steve.
PS did a feature on them some time back.

Edited by alvington89 on Saturday 1st June 21:27

Edited by alvington89 on Saturday 1st June 21:27

[podman]

alvington89 said:

Here's our RG500 specials...

[

They are a bit of a mixture of old skool / new skool...
RG500 engines of course but with Nova gearbox and Nova dry clutch.
Spondon frame and swing arm.
Spondon hand beaten aly tanks.
Swarbrick pipes
Ohlins front end
RGV plastics (air scoops added)
special one piece seat unit.
BST Carbon fibre wheels
all put together by two stroke specials bulder extraordinaire Mr Darren Lane, with Schwantz tribute paintwork by Darren's friend Steve.
PS did a feature on them some time back.

Edited by alvington89 on Saturday 1st June 21:27

Edited by alvington89 on Saturday 1st June 21:27

Remember them well, done many miles on them? Still running fine?

I was lucky enough to talk to Darren and meet his brother, Shaun I think(?), another 2 stroke nut a few weeks ago, really nice guys.

[podman]

I dont know about P@rn but heres some of my 2 stroke collection, from age 16 and the mighty MTX50 with 65cc bore kit and Jama pipe! (still got wasted by similarly equiped TS50s!) to my current RD350LC

I only wish i could have kept all these and bought more..and despite its lack of BHP Vs the 500's, I much prefered my NS400s over the RG.

[podman]

I couldnt find my own Maico photo, mine was never as immaculate as that...worth some serious dollar now in that condition...riding the Maico made my RG500 feel tame..

[Froomee]

Centurion07 said:

What's with the posse of green Fiestas?

Me and two friends purchased three brand new from Ford at the time as i knew someone who worked there and got a discount, paid less than £9k new in 2007 which was super cheap at the time list was around £12k.

Px'd 12 months later for £8200

[sprinter1050]

There's one that is not on this thread but been seen before....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ratfuML9QA

[sc0tt]

2 Stroke question whilst I am here.

Scooter Cuts out. Has Spark, Has Fuel. No compression says RAC man.

Is that a rebuild? And how many hours should the labour roughly be. (Asking for a friend)

[aponting389]

total 2 stroke porn....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBvqYmmvhDY

[aponting389]

moanthebairns said:

how much does a season of go karting cost yazza. all in fuel, kart and gear.

just out of interest

anywhere between £1000 and £500,000 depending on what you race and how competitive you want to be. I race at our local club, been racing about 6 months and have probably spent around £8000 (on kart, gear, entries, spares, repairs and running)

[Yazza54]

aponting389 said:

moanthebairns said:

how much does a season of go karting cost yazza. all in fuel, kart and gear.

just out of interest

anywhere between £1000 and £500,000 depending on what you race and how competitive you want to be. I race at our local club, been racing about 6 months and have probably spent around £8000 (on kart, gear, entries, spares, repairs and running)

Oops missed this. But yeah, it's hard to do any form of racing on a shoestring. We probably did 400 quid a meeting. But then there's buying everything, consumables etc.

[pozi]

Does 125cc with a hint of bare leg count as prawn?

Edited by pozi on Wednesday 7th August 12:12

[nsr125rr]

pozi said:

Does 125cc with a hint of bare leg count as prawn?

Seeing as it's an NSR we can count it

[dapearson]

aponting389 said:

anywhere between £1000 and £500,000 depending on what you race and how competitive you want to be. I race at our local club, been racing about 6 months and have probably spent around £8000 (on kart, gear, entries, spares, repairs and running)

expensive business.

caterham racing last season came to about £14k but £8k of that was the car, which was worth £500 more once i'd finished with it (and won the champ!).

[skene]

It's rough and ropey but I love it. Can't decide if I need/want to move up to a 250 though...

[LordFlathead]

podman said:

I couldnt find my own Maico photo, mine was never as immaculate as that...worth some serious dollar now in that condition...riding the Maico made my RG500 feel tame..

The bike that started my motorcycle infatuation was a Maico 400. I was 12 and bravely road it across a field in the pouring rain and it had no proper exhaust and only a front brake

Would love one for nostalgia's sake but they are BIG money now

[Ritchie335is]

podman said:

I dont know about P@rn but heres some of my 2 stroke collection, from age 16 and the mighty MTX50 with 65cc bore kit and Jama pipe! (still got wasted by similarly equiped TS50s!) to my current RD350LC

I only wish i could have kept all these and bought more..and despite its lack of BHP Vs the 500's, I much prefered my NS400s over the RG.

I'll just take that collection now please Podman.
I'll pm you my address, the cheques in the post.