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General => New Member Introductions => Topic started by: Shetland Biker on December 30, 2023, 10:45:25 AM
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Hey guys, new to the forum and pretty new to motorbikes too. passed my A licence in August this year and moved onto a 650cc Bandit. i am going to be getting a 1970s cb750 which doesnt need just too much work to get it back on the road. so i have joined to get some helpful advice and pointers from you all lol.
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Hello from Orkney!
Not sure but you might be the first from Shetland - Steve, the moderator will soon put me right (or wrong). There might be a 750 for sale here in Orkney - not perfect but needs normal re-commissioning after not being used for a while. It belonged to one of our Vintage Club members who has sadly passed away. He took a red Simca 1100 to your last Classic Show and always had lots of bikes at our own Vintage Rallies.
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Ian
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Welcome to the best forum. Plenty of helpful advice here when you need it. 👍
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i do have a bike lined up, its in reasonable shape, its missing the carbs and exhaust. the exhaust i can find easily enough but the carbs im struggling a little with, i can find some but they are all in Europe and i dont really wanna pay the customs duty/VAT to ship them over lol.
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A bit of a divergence from your original post but might throw some light on importing stuff. Someone on here might know if the system has changed recently but we frequently bought wine from Germany on our many trips. Covid came, so no trips and we ordered direct from our friend's vineyard - paid carriage but no duties. The B....T word then came along and we were stung on the next order with £94 duties. Ordered more last September (it evaporates with the Orkney heat you know) Postie delivered case with 18 bottles and no duties to be paid.
Question is - has the system changed as I can't believe they just missed this consignment and if it has changed, will it apply to bike bits ordered from Europe?
Ian
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yea im not too sure how it works these days, but most of the decent rebuilt carbs are around £300+ so it does put me off ordering from Europe incase it does get a customs charge put on it
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Welcome to the forum.
Set of carbs here https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/404688515590 description for parts etc, worth a call to see if complete with jets floats etc but look reasonable from the photos.
Likely any carb set will need clean, very and setting up unless advertised as already done (but some shonky work sometime) these maybe worth an offer as appear complete.
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Welcome to the forum, I'm pleased you decided to joined us.
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yea ill keep an eye on ebay, cleaning and rebuilding carbs is a job i know i cant do myself, so i would likely try and find a decent place to have them send to, to be cleaned and rebuilt, im only getting the bike towards the end of next month, so it will be probably middle of febuary before ill be looking for carbs. bloody christmas has wiped me out lol. but i am excited to get the bike and start working on it. it is pretty clean really. some of the chrome needs cleaning up and there is a few bits that ill take off and get powder coated but overall for the price of the bike and the condition im quite happy
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Welcome to the forum - you must be hardy riding bikes up your way!
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Welcome to the Forum, we've binge watched the TV series Shetland over the holidays - looks a lovely place to live - aside from all the murders. ;) ;) ;)
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thanks for the welcome, as i said ive only been riding for nearly 5 months, and yes im one of the crazy ones that rides all year round. i am lucky its only a 10 minute ride to work. so the cold doesnt quite have the time to set it lol. i will admit the bike does stay at home on the icy or snowy days. then i have to pay a weeks worth of fuel money to get to work and back with a taxi lol
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Just googled the population of Shetland & it brought up a map showing some odd place names including Twatt amazed there is a population of around 23,000 never imagined you had Taxis but knew there were few trees.
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Just googled the population of Shetland & it brought up a map showing some odd place names including Twatt amazed there is a population of around 23,000 never imagined you had Taxis but knew there were few trees.
i live in the main town, population of maybe 7500, its quite a small town, can ride aright around it in less than 10 minutes really lol. once you get out of the main town and onto some on the quieter roads there is some good riding to be had
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Just googled the population of Shetland & it brought up a map showing some odd place names including Twatt amazed there is a population of around 23,000 never imagined you had Taxis but knew there were few trees.
Fantastic roads, scenery and people in Shetland Ted and just like Orkney, even electric light! Simmer Dim and Shetland Classic Motor Show should be on your bucket list! Twatt here in Orkney too - even worse, an Upper Twatt! You folks in Englandshire have Peover, Littlehampton and Slaughter as well as Cridlin Stubbs and Tolpuddle, so we're even.
Ian
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True, not forgetting Over Peaover & Knotty Ash!
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Just googled the population of Shetland & it brought up a map showing some odd place names including Twatt amazed there is a population of around 23,000 never imagined you had Taxis but knew there were few trees.
i live in the main town, population of maybe 7500, its quite a small town, can ride aright around it in less than 10 minutes really lol. once you get out of the main town and onto some on the quieter roads there is some good riding to be had
Would that be Lerwick perchance?
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Not forgetting Nether Peover!
The F2 has a reputation for wearing out exhaust valve guides plus the spring top caps ans collets are poor quality so it is not unkown for the collets to pull through and a valve to drop, you need to pull the enginge and thoroughly inspect the head, plus you dont know what previous owner(s) have swopped and messed with
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Ian
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Just googled the population of Shetland & it brought up a map showing some odd place names including Twatt amazed there is a population of around 23,000 never imagined you had Taxis but knew there were few trees.
Fantastic roads, scenery and people in Shetland Ted and just like Orkney, even electric light! Simmer Dim and Shetland Classic Motor Show should be on your bucket list! Twatt here in Orkney too - even worse, an Upper Twatt! You folks in Englandshire have Peover, Littlehampton and Slaughter as well as Cridlin Stubbs and Tolpuddle, so we're even.
Ian
i often hear or see many visitors to Shetland saying the roads here are some of the best in the UK. some nice country twistys with no potholes lol
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..one of my sons football fixtures is played at Butt Lane.. Oh, the giggles we have whenever that game is on!
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Just googled the population of Shetland & it brought up a map showing some odd place names including Twatt amazed there is a population of around 23,000 never imagined you had Taxis but knew there were few trees.
i live in the main town, population of maybe 7500, its quite a small town, can ride aright around it in less than 10 minutes really lol. once you get out of the main town and onto some on the quieter roads there is some good riding to be had
yea that would be right
Would that be Lerwick perchance?
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Just googled the population of Shetland & it brought up a map showing some odd place names including Twatt amazed there is a population of around 23,000 never imagined you had Taxis but knew there were few trees.
i live in the main town, population of maybe 7500, its quite a small town, can ride aright around it in less than 10 minutes really lol. once you get out of the main town and onto some on the quieter roads there is some good riding to be had
yea that would be right
Would that be Lerwick perchance?
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My favourite names are Lord Hereford's Knob, near Hay on Wye and Brown Willy on Bodmin Moor.
For fans of Ogri there's Kinnell, just up the road from Dundee.
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Hello to the Sheltie from another northerner. Great place to come to for help and info. Laughing at the place names too! 😂😂
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Hello to the Sheltie from another northerner. Great place to come to for help and info. Laughing at the place names too! 😂😂
i am hopefully going to take a trip to orkney next year on the bandit. 30 years of being in shetland and ive still never been to orkney properly. would be awesome to meet up with the orcadians when i come down.
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That would be great, just make contact through the forum for a meet up.
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How much is the ferry for a bike these days Johnny?
Might have a few days riding around the isles this year.
From the mainland of course.
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Hi Ken,
And a very Happy New Year to one and all. There are 3 ways of crossing to Orkney - I prefer the Scrabster to Stromness route (90 mins) but there is also Aberdeen to Kirkwall (7 hours) or Gills bay to St Margaret's Hope (about an hour) run by Pentland Ferries. The first two are operated by Northlink Ferries. There are pros and cons with all.
Some prices for Northlink
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We can get a discount for 'Friends and Family' if there's only a very small number of travellers and I don't think they offer that in high season.
It would be great to see a few of you up here and apart from great scenery, roads, good food and drink plus lovely folk, there are many toy cupboards to visit.
Ian
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Not as dear as I expected Ian. The Aberdeen route has the advantage of being almost the same cost but reduces the miles needed to be traveled considerably and of course the cost of the petrol to cover that distance, the downside of course is the time it takes to cross but put that against the time it would take you to travel to Scrabster from Aberdeen it’s not a problem.
I’d like to stay a few days to see the island, what’s best? Book a hotel, b&b or maybe Airbnb? Is accommodation expensive?
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Morning Ken,
Depends how much pampering you are used to! Accommodation ain't cheap anywhere these days but there are self catering places too. Obviously depends on the season as some places just shut if not enough interest. Christine and I went to the Christmas markets in Cologne recently but as it was quite icy in the days before, we decided to stay at an hotel in Kirkwall the night before the flights to shorten by 20 miles, the distance to the Airport - I think we paid about £85 for a double with no breakfast (very early flight)
Riding up to Scrabster puts you into some great scenery and biking roads and it's nearer at the other side if you are staying in the West Mainland (of Orkney) as we do.
Lots of stuff to google:
Skara Brae
Italian Chapel
Kirkwall Cathedral
Churchill Barriers
Outer Isles Westray, Rousay, Shapinsay
Ian
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My favourite names are Lord Hereford's Knob, near Hay on Wye and Brown Willy on Bodmin Moor.
For fans of Ogri there's Kinnell, just up the road from Dundee.
I live very close to Lord Herefords Knob😄, my mother-in-law lives in a place called Lady Gardens