British company Langen Motorcycles was started in 2019 by the former CCM chief design engineer Cristofer Ratcliffe - the man responsible for the Spitfire range.  They're building a new 250cc V twin sport bike.  So what?  It's a 2 stroke.  Should be tasty, if a little hard to register.

 

On 7/18/2019 at 12:11 AM, chickenslegs said:

I'm sure I've posted this before - but it fits the category "Wimmin on Bikes" ...

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Very evil woman, She had a face i could spend hours punching and not get bored

13 minutes ago, tingtongfarang said:

Very evil woman, She had a face i could spend hours punching and not get bored

great  woman  got  rid  of  those bluddy  trade  unions.

4 hours ago, ballpoint said:

British company Langen Motorcycles was started in 2019 by the former CCM chief design engineer Cristofer Ratcliffe - the man responsible for the Spitfire range.  They're building a new 250cc V twin sport bike.  So what?  It's a 2 stroke.  Should be tasty, if a little hard to register.

24-CARAT GOLD TRIM

"Sign me up"

 

A 250 cc that weighs about 250 pounds (empty) and has about 75-80 hp...  What's not to like?  The brakes are HUMONGOUS.  Well done.

Never saw a truss-frame, rear-swingers/suspension like that b4.

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papa will wait for the Chinese 4T knock-off.

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On 8/27/2020 at 1:00 AM, Justgrazing said:

Pannonia from Hungary .. top bike is an old skool 250 2 stroke and the bottom bike a 70's 125 with capitalist twin cylinders and a touch of CZ about the fuel tank .. sort of communist version of Yamaha's YAS1 .. 

 

Along with your Pannohia, a 1963  MZ ES 125 Baujahr .

 

blue tank in the middle reminds of old Honda Bent. 1960s some time

 

Maico MX700 .. 101 kgs with near 80 hp made this one of the most brutal X'er you could buy at one time but Yamaha's new YZ500 2 stroke offering might change that .. 

 

MOTORCYCLES

BMW claims its new motorcycle chain never needs lube or adjustment

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20 minutes ago, Randell said:

MOTORCYCLES

BMW claims its new motorcycle chain never needs lube or adjustment

BMW Motorrad says it's created a motorcycle chain that totally eliminates the need for chain lube and routine tension adjustments, using a super-hard, super-low friction industrial diamond coating on the chain rollers. It'll cost you, though.   Read more

 

One would assume the sprockets would be coated as well.

 

Don't know that it would be worth it for maintenance savings alone, but for the AR guys that attempt to their bikes meticulously clean it might be a bargain... 

Yamaha's 70's ripper the DT400 .. 

Great for point and squirt in traffic but the stock suspension is next to useless for serious off road going .. 

Oh and the fuel consumption especially with the piddly little fuel tank .. like all the 70's strokers from Japan going up in value considerably now as there's few of them left .. 

 

 

 

An antic Suzuki, still on the road. 

3 minutes ago, teacherclaire said:

 

 

An antic Suzuki, still on the road. 

Nice old Suzy and looking in good fairly original condition .. 250 ? ..

Don’t think they were sold outside the US, but when I was a kid the Steens-Hodakas were supposed to be the sh*t...
 

 

 

 

Yam's awesome TZ700/750 .. Motorcyclist magazine have this as one of the most successful and influential racing motorcycles of the 70's .. even if you had the dough the chance to buy a G P winning bike out of the crate was unheard of until these came along .. holder of numerous records including highest speed recorded at the IOM TT for a 2 stroke .. 2 of these engines also powered Don Vesco's Silver Bird streamliner the first motorcycle to top 300 mph .. 

 

6 hours ago, Justgrazing said:

Yam's awesome TZ700/750

One of the bikes I always wanted but never got

Another small British manufacturer, Metisse.  Formed in 1959, they had success in the 60's with their grand prix bikes, powered by engines from various suppliers.

 

They also formed part of the holy trilogy of Rickman Metisse Triumph

 

But are perhaps best known for their scramblers, such as the Rickman Metisse Motocross Grand Prix

 

 

 

 

 

Some more mongrel scramblers with some Metisse in them:

1964 Bultaco Pursang Metisse 250

 

1964 Rickman Metisse Bultaco 250

 

1967 Rickman Metisse 'Petite' Starmaker 250

Metisse are still going, producing scramblers and cafe racers

 

MK5 Cafe Racer

 

MK5 Street Scrambler

 

Steve McQueen Desert Racer, a factory replica of Steve McQueen's Metisse.  Of which he said ‘This rig is the best handling bike I’ve ever owned!'

 

Teezed's 700/750 equally rampant kid brother the YZR 500 .. 

Won on its debut with the late great Jarno Saarinen riding it in 1973 then went on to change the face of the 500cc class with the previously unbeatable 4 stroke MV's chucking in the towel in '75 after Phil Read managed a 2nd in the standings to Ago who had moved to Yamaha to check out the new pretender .. and was good enough for Ago to win the title that year .. which probably went down well at home for him .. 

Only year during the 70's after its debut that it did not win the title was '77 when Sheene won on the Suzook .. 

 

Bag of winegums to the first to guess what make of bike this is .. 

 

700 cc two stroke less than 100kgs.......  what’s not to like

7 hours ago, Justgrazing said:

Bag of winegums to the first to guess what make of bike this is .. 

 

Bridgestone?

Just now, papa al said:

Bridgestone?

Good try Papa but not a Bridgestone ..

A great photo of the 1971 running of the Mint 400 Motocross Race.  Also known as the Great American Desert Race, held in the Mojave Desert.  It was an annual event, open to cars and motorcycles from 1967 - 1976, before it became cars only, with a break in racing from 1989 - 2008.  Motorcycles were once again included in 2019.

 

Another view. I can see two Husqvarnas in the foreground.

 

14 hours ago, Justgrazing said:

Bag of winegums to the first to guess what make of bike this is .. 

 

That weird, almost Star Trek like, logo tells me that it's an early Japanese manufacturer - Tohatsu.  A bit of Googling then tells that it's a 1960 LD3 125.  They were the biggest Japanese manufacturer by sales in the 50's, but, like the British manufacturers, were out muscled by the likes of Honda in the 60's.  They now make fire fighting equipment and outboard motors.

 

Here's its other side (and the same wall):

 

And a zoom in on the name plate:

14 minutes ago, ballpoint said:

That weird, almost Star Trek like, logo tells me that it's an early Japanese manufacturer - Tohatsu.  A bit of Googling then tells that it's a 1960 LD3 125.  They were the biggest Japanese manufacturer by sales in the 50's, but, like the British manufacturers, were out muscled by the likes of Honda in the 60's.  They now make fire fighting equipment and outboard motors.

 

Here's its other side (and the same wall):

 

And a zoom in on the name plate:

Well spotted B P .. 

They also provided some of the engines used by Honda when he started making bikes .. 

 

 

Greeves 250