A picture a day....biker banter (Vol 3)

[LoonR1]

Playsatan said:

We did over 100 miles over the day but that particular section is Gatesgarth Pass near lake Windermere.

Windermere. It's just Windermere. No Lake.

[podman]

theshrew said:

podman said:

Had a great hour or so on the Gamma, was really flying along and then.........she seized big time..

Going to be messy in there, the kickstart is solid..



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Bad times.

On the plus side it seems like you enjoy working on your bikes and the engine will end up as nice as the rest of it looks

Cheers mate...and thanks Ryan...I do enjoy working on them but its April now and I equally like riding on them, so this will go on the back burner for a bit..

[Playsatan]

LoonR1 said:

Playsatan said:

We did over 100 miles over the day but that particular section is Gatesgarth Pass near lake Windermere.

Windermere. It's just Windermere. No Lake.

You mean I got on that ferry for nothing? Damn it!

[crashley]

Eventually had a nice little scoot over to Finchingfield. Missed everyone else!

[central]

Top Fuel Bike by Fast an' Bulbous, on Flickr

[central]

13aines said:

central said:

aturday.

Oh right. Yesterday was great, near enough dry all day.

Are you one of the photographers with the press vests on, or just a punter?

Matt

I was, but back to being an ordinary punter this season.

Sunday's pics will be posted in a day or two.

[Ritchie335is]

podman said:

Had a great hour or so on the Gamma, was really flying along and then.........she seized big time..

Going to be messy in there, the kickstart is solid.

Not good Podman, I know the feeling, hope the crank has survived ok.

[bass gt3]

podman said:

Had a great hour or so on the Gamma, was really flying along and then.........she seized big time..

Going to be messy in there, the kickstart is solid..

Ouch

Any clues? Was she running hot?? Oil feed ok from the tank??
If she's solid, she might have dropped s skirt and the piston is jammed. Hopefully the barrels will be salvageable. Maybe it's time for a cheeky 410 conversion??

[moanthebairns]

My pride and joy is back. After a 6 month lay up its taxed and back on the road and it's legal to buy it's first pint. I rode it a whole mile to my house via the falkirk wheel.

Looks brand new considering it's done 20,000 miles and it's 18 years old.

[Biker's Nemesis]

Paul25 about to ride my 125 with his leathers on the bender.

[Chipchap]

Biker's Nemesis said:

Paul25 about to ride my 125 with his leathers on the bender.

Sold a fair few of those 125's when I had a Yamaha shop in south Africa. We sold mainly the white ones and a few blue. never seen red ones.

We called them RZ125LC and the 16 yr olds had a miniature version in the RZ50 LC.

Suzuki also has the fantastic RG50 Gamma for the kids and Honda had the MBX 50 all liquid cooled.

[Chipchap]

The liquid cooled 50's that 16yr olds had access to in SA.

[3DP]

bass gt3 said:

podman said:

Had a great hour or so on the Gamma, was really flying along and then.........she seized big time..

Going to be messy in there, the kickstart is solid..

Ouch

Any clues? Was she running hot?? Oil feed ok from the tank??
If she's solid, she might have dropped s skirt and the piston is jammed. Hopefully the barrels will be salvageable. Maybe it's time for a cheeky 410 conversion??

Oooshh - that sucks Bryan - joys of 2-stroke special ownership I guess. Hope it's not too expensive to fix.

[sc0tt]

Anyone bought any carbon from gbmoto?

[Mr OCD]

sc0tt said:

Anyone bought any carbon from gbmoto?

Tart

Go look at TYGA carbon for the R1

[sc0tt]

Mr OCD said:

Tart

Go look at TYGA carbon for the R1

Display purposes only.

[Biker's Nemesis]

Chipchap said:

Sold a fair few of those 125's when I had a Yamaha shop in south Africa. We sold mainly the white ones and a few blue. never seen red ones.

We called them RZ125LC and the 16 yr olds had a miniature version in the RZ50 LC.

Suzuki also has the fantastic RG50 Gamma for the kids and Honda had the MBX 50 all liquid cooled.

I had never seen a Red one before my own one, then Pauls mate Jimmy turned up with another one.

Pauls is White and Jimmys other mate has a Blue one so that's four of us with them localy

[Biker's Nemesis]

3DP said:

bass gt3 said:

podman said:

Had a great hour or so on the Gamma, was really flying along and then.........she seized big time..

Going to be messy in there, the kickstart is solid..

Ouch

Any clues? Was she running hot?? Oil feed ok from the tank??
If she's solid, she might have dropped s skirt and the piston is jammed. Hopefully the barrels will be salvageable. Maybe it's time for a cheeky 410 conversion??

Oooshh - that sucks Bryan - joys of 2-stroke special ownership I guess. Hope it's not too expensive to fix.

2 strokes are great when they're going....Time makes you forget what a pain in the arse they could be.

[EvoBarry]

Commiserations on the Gamma

I had a couple of days playing in Wales at the weekend, including a pleasant coffee break at the usual place, Ponderosa on Horseshoe Pass

[Andy XRV]

Biker's Nemesis said:

3DP said:

bass gt3 said:

podman said:

Had a great hour or so on the Gamma, was really flying along and then.........she seized big time..

Going to be messy in there, the kickstart is solid..

Ouch

Any clues? Was she running hot?? Oil feed ok from the tank??
If she's solid, she might have dropped s skirt and the piston is jammed. Hopefully the barrels will be salvageable. Maybe it's time for a cheeky 410 conversion??

Oooshh - that sucks Bryan - joys of 2-stroke special ownership I guess. Hope it's not too expensive to fix.

2 strokes are great when they're going....Time makes you forget what a pain in the arse they could be.

But they were/are still relatively easy to fix.