Greetings

[Shetland Biker]

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. 

[Orcade-Ian]

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

[taysidedragon]

Welcome to the best forum. Plenty of helpful advice here when you need it. 👍

[Shetland Biker]

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.

[Orcade-Ian]

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

[Shetland Biker]

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

[K2-K6]

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.

[Nurse Julie]

Welcome to the forum, I'm pleased you decided to joined us.

[Shetland Biker]

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

[philward]

Welcome to the forum - you must be hardy riding bikes up your way!

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

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.

[Shetland Biker]

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

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

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.

[Shetland Biker]

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

[Orcade-Ian]

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