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Hideous Modifications From Your Past
Andrew-S:
This wasn't my 70's masterpiece, but I do have the side panels and tailpiece for spares....
Bryanj:
That should be "St Joseph Lucas Lucas Prince of Darkness and his Intermittent Electron"
matthewmosse:
My 500/4 sported a triumph rocket 3 Raygun silencer welded to a bsm exhaust collector when I got it, my dad heard the bike being delivered, had time to walk 250 yards from his stables back to the house, tell me he thought he could hear my new bike on it's way, then I had time to walk up to the yard and get a look across the valley to see my new wheels pass across the valley. At work they could hear me about half a mile off and that was in town, competing with all the other traffic. I fitted a laser exhaust system that basically had no baffles to make it quieter eventually. Once shes back on the road I am going back to the dragon setup, it never ran so well as with that exhaust and a k&n filter that retained the original phelenem chamber etc. Used to spin the rear wheel up on every corner if you gave it the beans.
SumpMagnet:
I was proud of this ....... but those were different times :)
Z650B .... Gpz750 motor, which ended up with a Honda cb750 ignition cover, as the original had been smashed. Purchased from a breakers. I couldn;t afford the Harris pipe I craved...so the Motad got chopped, welded, and gutted. Sounded...er....interesting. Dresda swing arm, which was meant for a disc rear end so lacked the correct torque arm mount. Something I sorted later...once I had replaced the broken rear brake which had sheared the torque arm mount clean off. I discovered you can't bodge up brake torque arm mounts.....
The side panels were missing...but I grafted on a pair of GSX400F items I had lying around....which looked OK. Belly-pan was the bottom half of a Gpz600R fairing.
Paint was the result of too much clubbing. White primer base, with a crazy paving pattern in flourescent green, blue and yellow. The picture does not capture the glare...Top it off with some MX bars....and I was ready for anything.
philward:
--- Quote from: SumpMagnet on December 15, 2018, 11:49:44 AM ---I was proud of this ....... but those were different times :)
Z650B .... Gpz750 motor, which ended up with a Honda cb750 ignition cover, as the original had been smashed. Purchased from a breakers. I couldn;t afford the Harris pipe I craved...so the Motad got chopped, welded, and gutted. Sounded...er....interesting. Dresda swing arm, which was meant for a disc rear end so lacked the correct torque arm mount. Something I sorted later...once I had replaced the broken rear brake which had sheared the torque arm mount clean off. I discovered you can't bodge up brake torque arm mounts.....
The side panels were missing...but I grafted on a pair of GSX400F items I had lying around....which looked OK. Belly-pan was the bottom half of a Gpz600R fairing.
Paint was the result of too much clubbing. White primer base, with a crazy paving pattern in flourescent green, blue and yellow. The picture does not capture the glare...Top it off with some MX bars....and I was ready for anything.
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OK- You win!!!
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