A picture a day...biker banter (Vol 5)

[podman]

graham22 said:

Have to admit I was tempted by the new Simpson Bandits but decided they just weren't like the Bandits (and Star Wars) of old. If Simpson did an accurate reproduction of the old ones ...........

The Street looks pretty much the same and the M30 arguably looks even better than old but they just didnt fit , the street was very heavy and the liners of both where very poor in comparison to the venom...

M30

[3DP]

podman said:

Continuing the street fighter theme ...

Always fancied a Simpson lid for tooling about on the LCs, having tried (but not owned) a Bandit many moons ago in the early 90s, I found it too draughty and noisy at high speed, which is fair enough as it wasnt designed for bike use .

Anyway, I decided I wanted one after seeing a few around but I needed to try them for myself, problem is there isnt a wide range of stockists about so I ended up visiting the UK importers (Kick Motorsport) today to try on the three lids I was most interested in, good job I did as 2 of the lids I was a different size(Street and Venom) and one of them crushed me conk a bit too much (M30), so I came away with a Venom which has a nice quality feeling liner, integral visor(I had to get a black one anyway....its the law..) feels light...and its street legal!

They did me a very good price as well.


I plan to still be using the Arai on the Firestorm and for longer trips but I love the look of it....

Good choice - I still remember the bearded badboys on streetfightered slabby GSXR1100s with white simpson Bandit lids in the early 90s. To us at the time, these were the real bad boy bikers that we tried to stay away from, not the H-D wannabe badboys They all had jobs like 'welders' or 'gas fitters' and listened to ZZ Top.

[mak]

I added a few stripes on my old one to match the bike , any excuse to post old photos from my past , the old ones looked better ,

[graham22]

mak said:

I added a few stripes on my old one to match the bike , any excuse to post old photos from my past , the old ones looked better ,

That's not a Simpson, it's an Alien, can't remember who made them.

[mak]

graham22 said:

That's not a Simpson, it's an Alien, can't remember who made them.

My mistake, neither can I remember after all these years, wish I still had it though .

[leighz]

on the subject of custom 'specials'



I happen to own this vintage of R1 - I could......

rarrrrrrrr

[graham22]

mak said:

graham22 said:

That's not a Simpson, it's an Alien, can't remember who made them.

My mistake, neither can I remember after all these years, wish I still had it though .

Driver Alien

[Birky_41]

Tried out the gopro on the back of the bike this evening. They were gritting the roads which was nice

https://youtu.be/o6pzEbaT5Nc

The front camera I've just started using (garmin virb elite) seriously needs something for the wind noise. It's terrible compared to the gopro so I'll do some research there

I had TC on 5 out of 8 and on the greasy poxy salt ridden roads the light was getting angry upto about 95...crazy

[Biker's Nemesis]

Birky_41 said:

1970s Maico 440 & 490 era

Thats a proper cool picture of your dad and deserves to be framed and hung on a wall somewhere so he can see it when he comes to your house.

[WarnieV6GT]

Birky_41 said:

Tried out the gopro on the back of the bike this evening. They were gritting the roads which was nice

https://youtu.be/o6pzEbaT5Nc

The front camera I've just started using (garmin virb elite) seriously needs something for the wind noise. It's terrible compared to the gopro so I'll do some research there

I had TC on 5 out of 8 and on the greasy poxy salt ridden roads the light was getting angry upto about 95...crazy

External Mic is the way forward for any of the cameras

[Birky_41]

Biker's Nemesis said:

Thats a proper cool picture of your dad and deserves to be framed and hung on a wall somewhere so he can see it when he comes to your house.

Cheers John - i have quite a few of him doing similar and have a 8 photo frame of 3 generations in my garage with that picture in there

[Birky_41]

WarnieV6GT said:

External Mic is the way forward for any of the cameras

You're definitely right and I just remembered I bought a £10 ebay one for the gopro never used which is the same fitment so I'll try that and test again

[podman]

mak said:

graham22 said:

That's not a Simpson, it's an Alien, can't remember who made them.

My mistake, neither can I remember after all these years, wish I still had it though .

..and the NS400 of course...

[podman]

Took the covers of them and wished for Spring ....



LC looking forlorn.......



Going to the Newark classic show tomorrow for a bot of a bikey fix, anyone else heading up?...

[podman]

Some pics from the Newark show today, some familar favourites , loads of really nice tiddlers about this year...RD80/MBX80 fetched the asking prices apparently...amazing.

TS50ER, first bike I rode if not owned, this one had covered 188 miles from new, so it was claimed..



Lovely live up of RD80s/125s..













Very nice VF500













Cracking DT50 and AR..

[Krikkit]

Looks cracking, is it a regular thing, or just annual?

[Benni]

Was there anything with a Honda horizontal 4 stroke single, like SS50, Cub, Monkey, ST70 etc ?

[babelfish]

My grandfather (2nd from left) and his brothers (1st and 4th from the left) with their mates in about 1934/35 (my mothers best guess).

[podman]

Krikkit said:

Looks cracking, is it a regular thing, or just annual?

The Newark show is on ever year around this time but these shows are all on year round at various venues, next one is in Bristol in a few weeks.

http://www.classicbikeshows.com/event/

[podman]

Benni said:

Was there anything with a Honda horizontal 4 stroke single, like SS50, Cub, Monkey, ST70 etc ?

Yes there was mate, from minters to projects for sale.