2 minutes ago, CGW said:

My memory is obviously tainted! thought they had won "more"

 

Sorted .. I never knew that .. I was referencing the 500 without thinking about if the 750 was used competitively .. Mind you , you'd want a fat wallet to just buy let alone race one .. 

 

14 minutes ago, Justgrazing said:

The NR500 debuted at the British GP 1979 .. Two bikes entered and both bombed with one catching fire from what I remember...

 

2 minutes ago, CGW said:

My memory is obviously tainted! thought they had won "more"

 

Given that one had already caught fire, its no surprise that another blazed past its rivals in the Swan (Vesta) Series...

I saw this on the local news the other morning, and was reminded of the Raleigh ad I posted a couple of pages ago.  Contrary to the description, it wasn't deadly, but very well could have been.  Motorcycling in India:

 

..and they pull operators out of excavators in Indonesia.

A thrice of aircooled RD's .. 

Bottom bike looks neat .. 

 

Kawasaki H2 tracker .. Check out all the chambers bunching into one stinger .. It looks evil just on the stand .. 

Kawa's early 70's 750 2 stroke square 4 .. Aborted not long after Yamaha's ditched their proposed GL750 4 banger 2 stroke .. 

 

 

Not had a Millyard bike up for a while so here's his Velo' V twin ..

 

MAS , Moto CM , Ceccato and a Beta .. 

 

Saw a great bike last week in Oz.  A Suzuki Boulevard  600 or 650 single. Looked pretty good  to me.

Should  have taken a photo as the press release don't do it justice. 

 

The one I saw looked liked a single cylinder Harley. Which was the reason it got my attention.

Couple of beautiful old Zenith's es'pesh the top bike .. 

Anyone want to take a punt as to why the word " Barred " was incorporated into their emblem .? 

A clue is in the bottom bike .. 

 

11 hours ago, Justgrazing said:

Anyone want to take a punt as to why the word " Barred " was incorporated into their emblem .? 

 

Just got back from my most recent ban.

Well i could've been back a week or two earlier but i let it stew, and had to admit i'm a naughty boy to the Thai Visa Gestapo or Invisible People With No Sense Of Humour, purely because someone sent me a pm, and i'm a kindly, helpful soul, who likes to help their fellow man out.

And could'nt reply to him until i admitted my (innocence) guilt.

Anyhowz, both bike's little mods and upgrades finished, bit of spit & polish and a new photo sesh.

Been out on both proper too lately with some breaks in the (cooler weather).

 

My own bike porn...

 

 

Sweet!


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Yes very sweet you had both those bike for a lone time and it shows and I mean that in the best possible way. I assume you bent and modded those pannier racks on the Moto Guzzi very nice  simple always seem to be best.

I will willing admit to being green with envy. I only rode a Moto Guzzi one time in  summer of 1969 it was a friends and he took his other bike a BMW and let me ride the red and gold colored Moto Guzzi 850 around the back roads  in the flat delta land behind Vancouver toward Chilliwack BC.. I had no bike  licence at the time. It was a very special treat for me and still remember it fondly  to this day. My very first big bike my very first driveshaft. It was an awesome afternoon. So the Moto Guzzi's have a special place for me in my memory.

42 minutes ago, Randell said:

Yes very sweet you had both those bike for a lone time and it shows and I mean that in the best possible way. I assume you bent and modded those pannier racks on the Moto Guzzi very nice  simple always seem to be best.

I will willing admit to being green with envy. I only rode a Moto Guzzi one time in  summer of 1969 it was a friends and he took his other bike a BMW and let me ride the red and gold colored Moto Guzzi 850 around the back roads  in the flat delta land behind Vancouver toward Chilliwack BC.. I had no bike  licence at the time. It was a very special treat for me and still remember it fondly  to this day. My very first big bike my very first driveshaft. It was an awesome afternoon. So the Moto Guzzi's have a special place for me in my memory.

Yeah thanx dude.

The pannier racks were custom made by a guy who worked for me at my old shop in the UK. Johnny was his name, and he was a very talented fabricator, certainly far better than me.

He's also the guy that cut and hinged the rear mudguard on that Guzzi and hence we offered that as a set price job to customers which proved quite popular.

He also made the unique front headlamp mount for that bike.

A man of many talents, who had a lot of health problems in his later life.

 

 

 

Moto Guzzi Big Twins are certainly wonderful motorcycles, especially the earlier pre 95 ones which still had full heavy flywheels. A certain charm you never forget and i only wish i had discovered earlier in my motorcycling life.

2000th post for this thread .. So here's an assortment of SR500's ..

 

Cute Suzuki 50 with a pit bike 125 lump in it.

Latest Z900 with 80's bodywork kit on.

Wonderful.

 

The UK's Velocity Moto's love of the LC350 has made them produce a very popular bodywork kit for the XSR900. Selling like hot cakes, dunno why Yamaha have not brought it out; the LC900...

 

I posted this photo in response to JG asking why Zenith Motorcycles incorporated the word "Barred" in their logo.  As no one else has replied to that, here's some clarification:

 

In 1905, when virtually all other manufacturers used a basic single speed belt drive transmission, Zenith came out with "Gradua Gear", a sort of manually controlled CVT system that varied the diameter of the belt-drive pulley while moving the rear wheel back or forwards to keep belt tension constant.  The system was controlled by the circled crank in the picture above.  Ride along, rotating the crank one way and the other to keep the revs in the best range, like a modern Honda car with CVT does automatically.  riders of other manufacturers' machines complained that this gave Zenith an unfair advantage, and they were barred from many competitions because of it.  In 1924, when the modern style gearbox and chain became the standard transmission system, Zenith went over to that.

 

 

 

 

4 hours ago, ballpoint said:

I posted this photo in response to JG asking why Zenith Motorcycles incorporated the word "Barred" in their logo.  As no one else has replied to that, here's some clarification:

 

In 1905, when virtually all other manufacturers used a basic single speed belt drive transmission, Zenith came out with "Gradua Gear", a sort of manually controlled CVT system that varied the diameter of the belt-drive pulley while moving the rear wheel back or forwards to keep belt tension constant.  The system was controlled by the circled crank in the picture above.  Ride along, rotating the crank one way and the other to keep the revs in the best range, like a modern Honda car with CVT does automatically.  riders of other manufacturers' machines complained that this gave Zenith an unfair advantage, and they were barred from many competitions because of it.  In 1924, when the modern style gearbox and chain became the standard transmission system, Zenith went over to that.

 

 

 

 

Spot on B P .. I figured you'd worked it out in the first highlighted pic' .. 

How terribly unsporting of them to invent such a device .. 

4 hours ago, thaiguzzi said:

Latest Z900 with 80's bodywork kit on.

Wonderful.

 

The UK's Velocity Moto's love of the LC350 has made them produce a very popular bodywork kit for the XSR900. Selling like hot cakes, dunno why Yamaha have not brought it out; the LC900...

 

Superb Guzz' everyone of them .. If I had to choice one it would be the top bike , the white one .. 

And the equally stunning Kawa at the top has a bit of late 80's ZX7 look about it in that livery .. 

3 hours ago, Justgrazing said:

equally stunning Kawa at the top has a bit of late 80's ZX7 look about it in that livery

I do like that! the front "mudguard" and colour scheme are stunning................

Near forgot about these .. 90's Yamaha TRX 850 .. parallel twin with a 270° crank for that lumpy lumpy feel .. 

By all accounts not a bad bike but you never seen that many of them on the road .. 

 

The orange one reminds me of a Laverda 750s Formula.  Wonderful bikes.

Ducati V4 Panigale with a BMW/Confederate'esque front end .. This is by an Italian custom builder but Ducati are working on their own stripped off version of the Pan' .. 

 

Racing back in the day ...

 

Must have hurt if you fell off and hit some boards that were sticking up a bit.  Splinter City.

 

 

 

 

 

Exclesior :

 

Oops ...  The guy on the right is happy, not so the others.

 

 

Superb Guzz' everyone of them .. If I had to choice one it would be the top bike , the white one .. 
And the equally stunning Kawa at the top has a bit of late 80's ZX7 look about it in that livery .. 

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