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Old 23rd December 2018, 19:37   #51
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My son is rebuilding an Ariel Red hunter from 1934, I think.
One of his other bikes is a 1935 Sunbeam 9, with split exhaust, like new.
All very close to the year of my first bike.--A 1937 BSA 250. Three speed with the gear change on the tank. Passed my test on it in 1955.

Somebody had stripped it right down and it was brought home by my father in three cardboard boxes !!!!

My first experience as bike mechanician trying to piece it back together.--
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Old 18th February 2019, 23:09   #52
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I used to have a 1967 Honda CB450 Black Bomber.

I have just seen the actual bike that I owned for sale on eBay:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1967-Hond...t/132948472636

It was in reasonably good nick when I sold it for about £180 in 1977.

I wish I still had it!
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Old 18th February 2019, 23:48   #53
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Bit to broken to ride these days but did a little racing in my youth. Have owned most of the bikes from MM1 and a few others beside.. Quite a few i regret selling now but i'm sure we all have one or two of those... My last project was bought as a matt black ratted GS650GT shaftie for pennies. Ended up a 724 with a Wiseco bore kit and breathed on generally. Would keep up with many a newer bike until it got towards its gearing limit on speed...
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Old 19th February 2019, 00:24   #54
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Hi,first bike was a Suzuki gsxf600 after passing my test,then quickly moved onto my current ZZR 1100 D3 model,purely because it is so comfy,burgundy colour and most of all has twin exhausts,like cars with twin tailpipes they look great.Not to mention the BHP and the roar of the air induction.Old tech like me but easy to live with and maintain.Oh,and still have the Sunbeam S7 shaft drives.Still waiting to be restored but keeping my launch 75 on SORN company in the garage!Regards Ry.....
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Old 19th February 2019, 19:47   #55
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passed me test in 1979 on a suzuki x7 then went to a suzuki 2 stroke 750 triple (the old kettle) my 1st brand new bike was a honda cbx1000 six cylinder then just recently got rid of a triumph daytona had to sell due to a bad back . me rover 75 dont do it any good but i like the car so thats that rgds mark
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Old 19th February 2019, 20:06   #56
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This is my little baby modelled by my mother lol



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Old 19th February 2019, 20:34   #57
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This is my bike - Kawasaki Z650 B1. I've owned it for ages.

I refurbished it a couple of years ago, up to it's current state. I hesitate to say finished, as there's always further improvements... however, these have been on hold recently due to other priorities.

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This is my bike - Kawasaki Z650 B1. I've owned it for ages.

I refurbished it a couple of years ago, up to it's current state. I hesitate to say finished, as there's always further improvements... however, these have been on hold recently due to other priorities.

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Now that's a proper bike, they don't make them like that anymore.
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Old 20th February 2019, 08:21   #59
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This is my bike - Kawasaki Z650 B1. I've owned it for ages.

I refurbished it a couple of years ago, up to it's current state. I hesitate to say finished, as there's always further improvements... however, these have been on hold recently due to other priorities.

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F I ever get another bike, it will be something like that. I passed my bike test at 31,by which time I had got the “idiot” out of me, and seen friends and friends of friends come a cropper, and end up in hospital seriously hurt. I had always had off road bikes from the age of 18. My best mate and I shared a Suzuki 50; then we moved on to trial bikes, I had a Fantic 156; he had a couple of Montesa Cota 248s. I then had a Suzuki SB 200 , which was a road bike, but I used it on the forest roads, until one day I got carried away,then the brake cable snapped and I crashed it into the rough at the side of the forest road. Swapped that for. Honda.CG 125 and a C70, both had been modified to use on the fields, the C70 had the fairing taken off and a home made exhaust. One of the other lads had a C50 modified the same, one was called. The Beast, and the other The B1tch, but I can’t remember which one I had, the latter I think.
I did the DA course and learnt on Yamaha Diversion 400; and took the test on a Honda VFR 400. The firm that taught me, used to hire bikes out,so myself and my mate hired a couple for a day,and went up the Northumberland coast for the day. I had a Cagiva Canyon 600; he had the divi600.
He now has a 1980 Suzuki GS850, a DR 400; and a 68 Yamaha 175; I can’t remember the model , but it’s a yank import.
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I rode lots of 2 strokes, mostly Yamaha RDs, before I got a taste for 4 stroke Kawa's. I got the Z650 when I was around 21. It got quite tatty over the years as I moved the country around and it wasn't always garaged. I restored it to it's current state a few years ago, and I'm looking forward to spending a bit more time on the engine to get it to 110%. Trouble is, house, garden, cars, family, work etc all erode available time...
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