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

[Jazoli]

Speechless





that is one of the most ridiculous things I have ever seen

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/35114316...

[talksthetorque]

Jazoli said:

Speechless





that is one of the most ridiculous things I have ever seen

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/35114316...

I saw the second picture you posted and thought it was fish eye lens distortion going on.

It looks in good nick once you've taken the riot shield off

[Jazoli]

talksthetorque said:

It looks in good nick once you've taken the riot shield off

Yeah it does, thinking of buying it to be honest, I couldn't ride it home with that on, I doubt it'd fit in the garage either!!

[carinaman]

I bet that's fun in a cross wind.

[Andy XRV]

SlimRick said:

My mum and dad, outside the house dad grew up in, taken 50 years ago:



Me on a jolly around the Peak District, taken yesterday

How cool is that photo!!! Absolutley priceless!

[talksthetorque]

Jazoli said:

talksthetorque said:

It looks in good nick once you've taken the riot shield off

Yeah it does, thinking of buying it to be honest, I couldn't ride it home with that on, I doubt it'd fit in the garage either!!

If you do go, just make sure he hasn't got any more spare body bags that he's trying to dispose of in the recycling bin

[Birky_41]

First road ride in a month. Had to adjust my head to road speeds, bike felt weird but really enjoyed the evening ride and felt like a teenager buying Wiz sparky sliders scuffing them about

[wilbo83]

Alex-e88m5 said:

Long way home through dartmoor before rejoining the M5 at Exeter after a few days touring bits of Cornwall.

Heavy M5 traffic meant the neck and wrists took a battering was really quite a miserable ride home.

What Kriega combo have you got there? Can't tell if its a 30+20 or 20+10.

[Bob_Defly]

Love getting out dirt biking this Summer. My son and a couple of friends.

[Bob_Defly]

anonymous said:

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Funnily enough, I was laid off this year, so I started my own business. A different type of stress, but at least I can take time off when I want (albeit only 1 day every couple of weeks, and I generally work weekends too .

[SlimRick]

black-k1 said:

SlimRick said:

My mum and dad, outside the house dad grew up in, taken 50 years ago:



Me on a jolly around the Peak District, taken yesterday

Excellent pics!

I see the bike technology hasn't advanced much in 50 years!

I wish he still had the Lambretta!

[tvrolet]

I thought this deserved a wider audience. It (or a copy of it) was in this month's Vintage Motorcycle Club comic and it just blew me away. Sums up everything that's fun on bikes with age no limit. The VMCC pic doesn't have the bottom of the wheels cropped, but this is all I could find on the interweb.



In terms of facts, it's Eric Oliver (3 times sidecar world champion) with a (16 year old?) Steve Allen as passenger. Allegedly out for a parade lap with Eric in a tweed suit but lapped everyone else twice. I just thought it was a glorious photo.

[gareth_r]

tvrolet said:

I thought this deserved a wider audience. It (or a copy of it) was in this month's Vintage Motorcycle Club comic and it just blew me away. Sums up everything that's fun on bikes with age no limit. The VMCC pic doesn't have the bottom of the wheels cropped, but this is all I could find on the interweb.



In terms of facts, it's Eric Oliver (3 times sidecar world champion) with a (16 year old?) Steve Allen as passenger. Allegedly out for a parade lap with Eric in a tweed suit but lapped everyone else twice. I just thought it was a glorious photo.

The son of "Titch" Allen, who founded the VMCC?

It always amuses me that the Vintage Motor Cycle Club, for pre-1931 bikes, was created in 1946. However, thinking about it, Allen was 31 in 1946 - perhaps a 2005 bike seems old to a 30 year old now.

[Pothole]

gareth_r said:

The son of "Titch" Allen, who founded the VMCC?

It always amuses me that the Vintage Motor Cycle Club, for pre-1931 bikes, was created in 1946. However, thinking about it, Allen was 31 in 1946 - perhaps a 2005 bike seems old to a 30 year old now.

I don't understand the amusement.

[gareth_r]

Pothole said:

gareth_r said:

The son of "Titch" Allen, who founded the VMCC?

It always amuses me that the Vintage Motor Cycle Club, for pre-1931 bikes, was created in 1946. However, thinking about it, Allen was 31 in 1946 - perhaps a 2005 bike seems old to a 30 year old now.

I don't understand the amusement.

That's amusing in the sense of interesting, entertaining rather than funny.

16 years ago seems like yesterday to me, and bikes from 2005 are just, well, no different from current bikes, really.

But I'm not 30.

[Bob_Defly]

anonymous said:

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Thanks!

[KTMsm]

Pothole said:

I don't understand the amusement.

That in 1946, 1931 bikes really weren't that old

Although if it was for Pre 1900 bikes it would have been a very small club

[Merch131]

Finally got my Z650 / 1170 on its wheels for the first time, a pita to make the ZRX12 swing arm fit the much modified frame..

[Mr Tidy]

Merch131 said:

Finally got my Z650 / 1170 on its wheels for the first time, a pita to make the ZRX12 swing arm fit the much modified frame..

Hopefully it wil be worth it though.

My 1979 Z650 felt like it had a hinge in the middle.

My KH500 handled far better, but then it did have an alloy box-section swinging arm with Marzocchi piggy-back shocks.

Looking forward to seeing the final result.

[smifffymoto]

Bob_Defly said:

Love getting out dirt biking this Summer. My son and a couple of friends.

Are the Beta and Sherco both 300s,if so,how does 4t power compare to 2t?