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Pard of mine in London is building this beastie.. I LIKE it.


Neat, sweet, and to the point. Ought to be a GRIN machine.

Scooter don't look much like a Lambretta to me

very nice... i like it too, willie. simple and slick. he's doing a great job on that.



Beo

I hope he's got long arms

Nice frame and stuff... but I'd plop a much bigger tank on it if it were me...



Great colour too!

Nice ride!

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He gonna add a banana seat and tassels?

Loooooots of tassles?

You know, for that sort of Flemmish Merchant Renaissance look?

:FI:Falcon wrote: Loooooots of tassles?
You know, for that sort of Flemmish Merchant Renaissance look?

Ok so let's see you skin this one Falcon
tassles,,,,,, i better go back and check those skins you did for me planes a little closer

Sweet, but does da boy got arms like an ape?


Igor

THe angle makes the bars look way longer than they are.


Looks about right to me. It is a small bike and ought to haul ass!!

Some serious grins in that machine.

Falkky, we'll get back to ya on the tassel thingies.......

gotta love those pedestrian slicers front AND rear...

Brakes that actually stop...... bikes that actually go... ahhh.... dreamland

Fen's back in the garage.... surprise

Eventually mine will look like that hopefully. As I salvage from wreck to wreck, I think the powertrain is going to be the only thing left in a couple of years, as I have written everything else off!
Don't know why I like inline twins, I just haven't a clue.


Got the paint on the scoot yet Willie?

No paint yet.. Just scored a 3" PRIMO open belt drive set up for the primary stuff. I guess that big beast is gonna be "kick only" for a while.

NO CALLOUSED THUMBS FROM PUSHING A STARTER BUTTON FOR ME!!! Probly regret that decision first time it takes the mood to refuse to light............ OR when the damn kicker gears shell out..

Oh well..

Real men use the kickstart. And REAL bikes have them

If you can't kick it to life, kick it to death



But then I own a Russian Piece of Crap (RPOC).





One must be demented to have a love of motorcycles that don't run. Money cannot buy such commitment.....

Uncle Fen wrote;

One must be demented to have a love of motorcycles that don't run. Money cannot buy such commitment.....

Profound, my brother, very profound. Dead on the mark as well.

As for kickin it to death? It's liable to win.. BIG assed "lumpy" cam. 10 to 1 compression and 93CID. At least it'll have electronical ignition.

Magnetos are cool but he spark is WEAK at low rpm ( unless ya got one of those spiffy thingies like plane magnetos have). I doubt they'd stay together at the RPM's these motors run at though.....

I've been driving myself insane the last two weeks troubleshooting a bike that worn't start.

I wnet through all the electrics looking for a loose ground or a stuck swtich, reset the timing at least three times, recharged the battery three times and did almost everything else you can think of.

THe bike just quit running two weeks back. 'Twas running fine until that day....

So, after EVERYTHING has been tested and I'm none the wiser, a guy says to me... maybe you got some bad petrol.... And I says - naw... can't be that....

So, at my wits end today I drained the tank and plopped in 5 litres of fresh juice, turned the key, depressed my starting mechanism (kickstart) and the fecker sprang to life.....

THe moral of the story is always have fresh petrol available and always drain your tank at the start of the riding season.... that's if it ever stops where you live....

Ahhhhhhh.... beer time....



Another job well done!