A picture a day....biker banter (Vol 4)

[terry tibbs]

moto_traxport said:

Yay! Managed to find 4 sort-of-okay brake pads from my seconds pot. The scraping has now stopped!

fk, someone nicked your bike and left the pads

[Hooli]

terry tibbs said:

moto_traxport said:

Yay! Managed to find 4 sort-of-okay brake pads from my seconds pot. The scraping has now stopped!

fk, someone nicked your bike and left the pads

There is no stopping some thieves

[central]

1973 MV Agusta by Mark Skinner, on Flickr

[tonytifoso]

central said:

1973 MV Agusta by Mark Skinner, on Flickr

[Johnny50]

Nice little run tonight down the coast.
Getting used to the bike now..love it!

[Playsatan]

I quite fancy an airhead cafe racer today.



Are they style over substance or genuinely worth garage space?

[gwm]

Playsatan said:

I quite fancy an airhead cafe racer today.



Are they style over substance or genuinely worth garage space?

There's a ropey one of these in my local Motorrad. As long as you're not in a hurry and have breakdown cover, go for it

[winbar]

central said:

1973 MV Agusta by Mark Skinner, on Flickr

[Hammerhead]

Some from last Sunday's Tortoise and Hare run (Wells, Somerset)









This cat was completely unfazed by a load of noisy motorbikes!

These 'peds made us chuckle!

[central]

Z900 by Mark Skinner, on Flickr

[Biker's Nemesis]

This was at Washington tonight.

[twizellb]

central said:

1973 MV Agusta by Mark Skinner, on Flickr

Mate had one back in the late 70s with a full fairing.
It used to rattle my front windows as it came past coming in to our village.
They could'nt give them away at the time

[gwm]

Short video, wouldn't recommend hitting a resurfaced road at decent speeds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd8xPRAJOfM&fe...

[Alxxx]

Our little CG125 project, currently searchable on the bay of e.

[Hooli]

Biker's Nemesis said:

This was at Washington tonight.

That's lovely

[graham22]

Playsatan said:

I quite fancy an airhead cafe racer today.



Are they style over substance or genuinely worth garage space?

Style over substance as far as I can see. They weren't particularly good in their day other than just being dependable.

I think the BMW thing has been done to death now and the originality has been lost, there will be lots of these with no homes once the hipster bubble has burst.

OK the one above looks quite nice, however, the clip-ons with standard footrests always grate with me, not to mention the upright rear shocks. Does it actually run - BMWs of that age used to have car size batteries, will a small gel unit in the tail unit really fire it up?

Then again anything from that era with no side panels, K&N carbs, no/minimal clocks will look just as clean (ie Carpy CB750s).

[graham22]

Hammerhead said:

Some from last Sunday's Tortoise and Hare run (Wells, Somerset)

I passed my test on a borrowed TL125 like this!

Hammerhead said:

A lot of work and imagination has gone ito this, where the hell do you get hubs with that many spoke holes!

[Catnapper]

Tim85 said:

God's country...Yorkshire

Afraid I have to beg to differ

[gwm]

Pah! The 360 days of wind and rain keep the roads quiet:

[3DP]

Cooling off after an 80 mile evening thrash