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Other Stuff => Misc / Open => Topic started by: AshimotoK0 on January 03, 2015, 09:27:03 PM
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Just got back from Newark Carol Nash Winter show . Nice K0 there same colour as mine on VJMC stand but could not locate owner. Few wrong items like red kill switch, non recessed ignition, four hole rear fender bracket mount but US style lamp? suspect 341 style rear guard. I think later front guard too. It was not easily accessible to photo and my son took best he could on Iphone. Lovely restoration though. Convinced my Yamiya seat is the low one looking at the Yamiya one on that bike. Also a nice CR replica for sale around 15K GBP
HA HA that grumpy sod from Sheffield 'On all Fours' was there as usual . My son reckons too that he is one of the most grumpy & miserable guys you could wish to meet.
Pi**ed down with rain and lots of Brit stuff there and loads of tool stalls. Not quite Stafford but so chuffed to see a red K0. Never seen one at a show before.
Ash
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CR750 replica pics @ Newark Show Carole Nash CB show
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Thanks for Thanks for that posting that Ash, that CR replica looked good, bet it's loud though! Was it road legal did you notice? As for the red K0, nice, but hard work and it could be YOURS sitting on that stand next year:))
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Thanks for Thanks for that posting that Ash, that CR replica looked good, bet it's loud though! Was it road legal did you notice? As for the red K0, nice, but hard work and it could be YOURS sitting on that stand next year:))
That's what I told my son about having mine ready for next year. Didn't see if CR was street legal. Got a real passion for getting all four finished this year though.
Ash
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Nice surprise with the k0, looks like you had a great day , what a nice present ash
pete
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Hmm, there's a thought, will it be Pete or Ash that finishes a K0 first:))
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Definitly ash i have too much going on still need lots of restoring and buying yet
pete
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I was at Newark today as well and asked at the 'On All Fours' stand for some bits, I thought that I had somehow offended the mardy sod, wont bother him again the funny thing was the show had only been open for an hour so God knows what he would have been like by closing time.
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I was at Newark today as well and asked at the 'On All Fours' stand for some bits, I thought that I had somehow offended the mardy sod, wont bother him again the funny thing was the show had only been open for an hour so God knows what he would have been like by closing time.
Ha HA !! glad it's not just me then. Someone came to his stand at Stafford a couple of years back and offered him a 400/4 engine(looked pretty good to me) for next to nothing, which he had brought to Stafford and didn't want to take home with him. He got the same treatment too ..... like NO !! and 'sod off' attitude. Thing is he had a load of magazines that were the cheapest there 3 for 2 quid. I think he must just buy stuff from DS (possibly at trade) and mark it up. There is also funny little guy from Lancashire called Les I believe who hawks the same stuff around the shows at silly prices and never seems to sell 'owt.
There was another guy there selling literature, old magazines etc who was totally OCD about everything being left in chronological order and watched you like a hawk to make sure you were not jumbling things up at an 'autojumble' sale ::)
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Makes you wonder about us 750K0 owners obsession with detail. So many incorrect items on that bike but lovely paint seat and pipes. The owner probably is not as obsessive as some of us and build a splendid bike, that really looked the business, with the best he could get without going over the top and the result is stunning. 99.9 % of people looking at that red bike probably would be unaware of things like scripted rims, black killswitch bla bla blah and took it for what it looks like ... a iconic bike of really beauty. Thing is I just can't bring myself to fit the superseded items, wherever possible, and all it does is stunt restoration. As my son pointed out that should have been my bike on that stand. And he's spot on... at least 3 years ago ...shame on me !
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Red k0 it has to be, a couple of years now i recon, unless i win the lottery.
That one has a lifting handle on the off side as well as near side, they don't do they?
ok as drab handles for passenger.
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Thanks for the info Ash, looks like you and your son enjoyed the day, possibly a bit cold for me.
Stunning KO, why not concentrate on one bike (the KO) and show it at Stafford Oct/2015?
Alan
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What i find with these show bikes is they always are a bit too shiny. I know of someone that has a K1 from new that has never seen daylight and the chrome and the rest of the paint work is not too much in your face.
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Hi All,
Highly polished alloy was never a "Jap" thing, even the front forks were dull silver until the autosol came out!---Ken
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What i find with these show bikes is they always are a bit too shiny. I know of someone that has a K1 from new that has never seen daylight and the chrome and the rest of the paint work is not too much in your face.
Agree totally ...problem is finding a decent chromer who can or is prepared to , replicate the crabby original surface finish in the 'hidden' area. Plus, it's easier to polish alloy than get that lovely silky satin /clear coated finish.
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that KO looked better than new,
but does it run?
has it any motor internals?
forgive my pet rant,but if I ran a "show" and awarded marks for excellence,40% would be awarded for the ability to ride around the show ground,
thats not to say I don't enjoy shiny new toys
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that KO looked better than new,
but does it run?
has it any motor internals?
forgive my pet rant,but if I ran a "show" and awarded marks for excellence,40% would be awarded for the ability to ride around the show ground,
thats not to say I don't enjoy shiny new toys
To be fair it was a really nice job but you couldn't get close to it to properly examine it, as it was in the centre of the VJMC stand. The other bikes tendered to be around the outside with notices telling you the owner & history etc. but I couldn't see anything on the 750K0. I asked if anyone on the stand was the owner, to have a yap with, but nobody seemed to know whose it was. One guy muttered Henry St**bs or something? Guess I am not going to criticize it, because that's how mine will probably end up looking (although it will have a working engine :D).
The bikes at Pickering show near me (actually a Steam Show) tend to be ridden around a field and announced, which I agree is real nice to see.
The best picture I have seen of an almost new one, 'in the day', was the one of Dick Emery's Green/Blue bike on the cover of the Feb 71 MCM (which I posted on here once)
Ash
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thanks Ash,I remember you doing that,
but that is dated Feb '71,is it around now,how many miles does it do annually?
2 of my favorite musuens are the RAF Hendon,and Shuttleworth,
the former holds classic aircraft,but static and sterile,unable and unlikely ever to fly again,the later,with the aroma of castor oil,
has old aircraft that DO WHAT THEY WERE MADE FOR !!
they are lovingly maintained to fly,
the Motorcycle Museum near the NEC is the same,great bikes,but sterile,no atmosphere,all shiny,but captured.like having a zoo
full of stuffed animals !!!
LOL
sorry all
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Sammy Millers is the place to go for bikes that run. Last time I was there he got out a 250cc Triumph twin two stroke and ran it up.
Agree about the NEC.
Not been to Hendon but with a son in the RAF I guess it's only a matter of time.
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Sadly I think Dick Emery's K0 is long gone (BYU762H). But BYU765H in the same colour is still around and taxed until 2015. It is pictured on the front of a magazine I have somewhere.
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I was at Newark today as well and asked at the 'On All Fours' stand for some bits, I thought that I had somehow offended the mardy sod, wont bother him again the funny thing was the show had only been open for an hour so God knows what he would have been like by closing time.
Ha HA !! glad it's not just me then. Someone came to his stand at Stafford a couple of years back and offered him a 400/4 engine(looked pretty good to me) for next to nothing, which he had brought to Stafford and didn't want to take home with him. He got the same treatment too ..... like NO !! and 'sod off' attitude. Thing is he had a load of magazines that were the cheapest there 3 for 2 quid. I think he must just buy stuff from DS (possibly at trade) and mark it up. There is also funny little guy from Lancashire called Les I believe who hawks the same stuff around the shows at silly prices and never seems to sell 'owt.
There was another guy there selling literature, old magazines etc who was totally OCD about everything being left in chronological order and watched you like a hawk to make sure you were not jumbling things up at an 'autojumble' sale ::)
I know nothing about the chap above you are referring to but if he's like that with Men, I bet he wouldn't lower himself to breathe the same air as us girls with bikes , sounds like a right sad old sod ;D ;D ;D
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Julie
Me meeting with him could be shall I say interesting I just love ignorant gits NOT >:(
Cheers
Bitsa
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Life is too short to be ignorant and miserable, WTF is it with some people
pete
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Dont know Pete I just play at the part but with most souls its green eyed monsters which I am not ;)
Cheers
Ralph