OUT AND ABOUT 2023

[Johnwebley]

Out at biker night
On the A48 between Gloucester and Lydney

Massive crowds, and it's not yet 7pm



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[Multiman]

Rode out to the Baffle Haus near Pontypool today
Lovely weather and roads.
Lots of bikes and some classic cars.
Couple of CB 750s, a Suzi kettle amongst many others.
Worth a visit

[Johnwebley]

Out at Fladbury,near Evesham

Great crowd, although it's early



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[Nurse Julie]

Looks like a beautiful evening there John.

[Oddjob]

Apologies for all the pics but TBH it's the pics you want to see more than anything.

Meet night at the Swettenham Arms near Jodrell Bank, Cheshire. Every Thursday if you want to pop along.

Some nice bikes there tonight, unusually for me I decided to take some pics. Some were very interesting and I got some contacts for spare parts, a good CB550F seat anyone? LMAO, I've already earmarked this for Sesman, knew he was after one and as soon as I heard he had one I thought of Phil straight away. PM me Phil for his phone number.

I freely admit I do tend to only take pics of Hondas but any that took my fancy were also added including some British iron which frankly does nothing for me but I do like to see good workmanship etc.

Pics of the attendance and the number of bikes, far more than I could get in TBH.





So onto the bike pics, the CB550F Cafe racer was the owner of the spare seat. Lots of things wrong with it, bought it like that. He also has another 550 cafe at home.





Now an odd one, a genuine UK 750K2, bought from a mate who had owned it for 40 years and it was languishing in a shed, when he finally convinced him to sell it 5 years ago the seller said "I hope you don't expect to get this cheap, I'm firm at £500". He drove home, got the money, hired a van and bought it before he could change his mind.

Side panels didn't look right to me and he thinks they are off a much earlier model, possibly a K0. Note the really odd exhaust baffles, it was very quiet when running.





A couple of wings. One really odd with straight through pipes, the blue one was lovely.





Some other Hondas.

[Oddjob]

Finally some other bikes.

One for Roo.



A exceptional H2 Kwack 750.



Not seen this make before.



A very nice Norton Commando 850, made me laugh to see the Electric Starter advertising, the one behind it was really nice as well.



A really nice and tidy BSA with a nickel frame, sounded really nice.

[andy120t]

Great piccies!

[Spitfire]

Great photos, thanks for taking the time to post them

Cheers

Dennis

[Johnny4428]

That’s some very interesting pics of all the bikes above. Interesting story on the 750 Ken. FFS! £500! I’m afraid I would have had to bid him up, which is not the norm, but that’s just me. Chuffed you actually took the time to photo a 750 though. 🤭🤭

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

More cracking photos added.

[Laverda Dave]

Great photos Ken. Lovely looking Mirage there, gleaming. Does anyone on here have a CB750 going for £500 by any chance 

[Matt_Harrington]

Great photos Ken. Lovely looking Mirage there, gleaming. Does anyone on here have a CB750 going for £500 by any chance 

In your dreams! .... 

[Oddjob]

Just remembered the 750 owner saying he'd had to spend £750 on it to get it to look like it does at present, so £1250 for a 750K2, not a bad deal that.

Shame the Spondon Laverda Jota wasn't there that night, only ever seen it once but this was only the 2nd meet I've attended this year so maybe next week. I may be doing the engine on the 550 at some point in the future, sounds pretty bad TBH, lots of upper end noise and the primary chain is banging away on tickover. He said he was going to sell the bike as he wanted a quieter engine, so rather than fix the existing engine he'd sooner sell and buy another, very odd way of looking at it.

[andy120t]

Any idea what the thing behind the Laverda is? Brake calipers look the same as my 1986 Gsxr750, as do the forks ( with the anti-dive removed from opposite the calipers and a blanking plate fitted).

Frame headstock looks as if it's a custom frame.

[Oddjob]

Not sure Andy, looks modified so could be anything. The Laverda was parked well outside the normal zone for bikes so I didn't stay there long.