Mort
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I managed to grind the frame away where the exhaust mounts on my Suzuki GS1000 in 1980
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Beemerboff
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When i was 16 I went to School back in Edinburgh on a sprung hub Triumph Tiger 100, and I managed to bevel the ends of the handlebars on that.
Mainly because I seemed to go down the road every other day - they didnt handle wet cobblestones or tramlines at all well.I used to wear the shoulders out of my jackets first.
I had a Trophy style high level siamesed exhaust as the stock system hit the road far to early, and a 3134 profile cam in the inlet coupled with flat top Morris Minor pistons. Went like a rocket.
And a pillion seat that sloped to the back which meant that the passenger had to hang on to you for their dear lives - took me hours to get the slope just right!
Mainly because I seemed to go down the road every other day - they didnt handle wet cobblestones or tramlines at all well.I used to wear the shoulders out of my jackets first.
I had a Trophy style high level siamesed exhaust as the stock system hit the road far to early, and a 3134 profile cam in the inlet coupled with flat top Morris Minor pistons. Went like a rocket.
And a pillion seat that sloped to the back which meant that the passenger had to hang on to you for their dear lives - took me hours to get the slope just right!
I managed to grind the frame away where the exhaust mounts on my Suzuki GS1000 in 1980
That's Nowt I ground through the bottom of the alternator cover on my Laverda Jota. God only knows where I got the bottle to take a Jota that far over. I suppose thats youth for you
Mort
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That's Nowt I ground through the bottom of the alternator cover on my Laverda Jota. God only knows where I got the bottle to take a Jota that far over. I suppose thats youth for you
I was too young for one of those
I managed to grind the frame away where the exhaust mounts on my Suzuki GS1000 in 1980
Did you fell off to do that or was it a ridged lowrider, cos they were bendia than my ZB900
Mort
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You're a week older than me so don't pull that one
I really wanted a Jota...until I rode one
Hats off to Roger Winterburn and the blokes who raced them
I wore 2 sets of Rocker covers out on my R90s till I saw sense and fitted crash bars...
I knew one day I would not get the old bugger back upright, sooner rather than later..
Crash bars cured me
I knew one day I would not get the old bugger back upright, sooner rather than later..
Crash bars cured me
You say that, but I did manage to get the pegs down on my Mk1 Guzzi Le Mans - without binning it
John
put big flats on both silencers, and wore through metal on one side on my first lemon.
got another one now. unmarked
I wore 2 sets of Rocker covers out on my R90s till I saw sense and fitted crash bars...
I knew one day I would not get the old bugger back upright, sooner rather than later..
Crash bars cured me
I'd always understood that crash bars weren't recommended on airheads, although we didn't call them that back in the day, as they were likely to bend the frame in a crash. It was cheaper to replace a rocker cover than a frame.
Although....I do remember the crash bar on an R80G/S I was riding making a hell of a mess of a car door when some silly old bint turned across me.
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