A special

[Steptoe]

1050 cc engine, tiny two ring racing pistons, blueprinted and lightened engine. the revs pick up as fast as an R1- But goes through the oil just as fast.

Wheelies when you crack open the throttle l

White power front end, box section extended double sided swingarm. Sweetest gearbox i've ever known, no slack just snicks into gear as smooth as silk.
Almost everypart is a hand made one off. But it is so tall it's scary.

 

[jackassdave]

just needs some one to run the mr sheen over it

 

[desmo2]

That's not tall !

 

[peepingtom]

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and its also got a handy space for a trendy tool tubes or a nice tarten food flask in the swing arm

a true special

 

[Steptoe]

That's not tall !

You really have no idea from the pictures..... The side stand must be two foot long

 

[chad]

how the fuck do you do it , you sniff this stuff out like a Blood hound

that looks about the perfect height for me

 

[ghiribizzo]

What Chad said. Just right height. Get those calipers cleaned and the fittings cleaned up though!

 

[Deleted account 231002001]

Tart it up with a few stickers and get Voldemort to rave about it St. Eptoe.
Be worth at least £50k of anyones money

 

[jackassdave]

im eyeing up the r100gs ,in the background ,as a future purchase

 

[sycomoto]

Oh yeh

Tart it up with a few stickers and get Voldemort to rave about it St. Eptoe.
Be worth at least £50k of anyones money

Give it to me, I'll do something useful with it


























Like ram it up trippy's arse

 

[Timpo]

Most of it is reasonably reasonable, but then the rear footpeg hangers, both alloy 'new ones' and the hacked off originals let it down a little.
But an interesting example, and I'm liking the swingarm assembly, a tidy bit of fab work....

 

[(RIP) Tunneruk]

I'd love to restore that!

 

[GS TRV]

I've seen cleaner bikes

 

[Rob Farmer]

GarryH let me sit on his old bike that had been built by Crazy Ivan. I'd just got off my 1150 GSA which seemed small and light by comparison. You'd have to be one hell of a rider to cope with machines like this off road.

 

[bakerlonglegs]

Oooh, fit me too that would!! Nice.

 

[ChasF]

Appears to be some good engineering and some rough which I suspect was done by different owners with different requirements.

Swinging arm looks solid and as if the 'extra' leg may actually do something. Interesting that there appears to be no apparent frame bracing.

 

[(RIP) Proff]

Originally Posted by Trippy

Tart it up with a few stickers and get Voldemort to rave about it St. Eptoe.
Be worth at least £50k of anyones money

Give it to me, I'll do something useful with it

Like ram it up trippy's arse

My 2 pennorth on the bike,
Fooking beautiful, sod cleaning her, just ride and service her...
A really well done special VERY SPECIAL Airhead..
Thanks for posting StEptoe...

I see AD still pokes it's nose in here ..

Also, remember AD, I was 100% correct in what I stated from the beginning [5+ years ago ] about Sycos bike Camille...
Others have accepted the fact..
Must really stick in your craw to be so wrong for so long..and not being able to accept that Voldemort was right all along..

Just let it go and move on...

 

[Steptoe]

im eyeing up the r100gs ,in the background ,as a future purchase

My own R100GS. 1992 with only 5k miles

I've seen cleaner bikes

It's used not polished or looked at parked in a warm garage, it gets ridden to Italy and back a couple of times a year. Hence the pannier rails, which you don't see on many "specials".

 

[DrFarkoff]

I have to ask as I rescued my mate from this a few weeks ago

He'd changed rims and managed to get the disc on the wrong side and then due to that, insert the wheel back to front!

Anyway Is that tyre not on the wrong way ?? Or the wheel in back to front?

 

[sycomoto]

Nope

I have to ask as I rescued my mate from this a few weeks ago

He'd changed rims and managed to get the disc on the wrong side and then due to that, insert the wheel back to front!

Anyway Is that tyre not on the wrong way ?? Or the wheel in back to front?

Looks the right way round to me. I think the tread faces forward in an arrow so as the wheel rotates the water is forced outwards. I may be wrong but I'm sure that's the way it works.