The embarrassing throwback pictures of your/our/my bikes & me

robs ss said:
I'm not sure I'm entirely comfortable with the 2-smoke vein this thread is moving to... ???
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The vein is "embarrassing pictures of people and bikes " nothing about no strokers ?
So here's a photo of my embarrassing T500 ;) ;)
 

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RatedSpeed said:
That's not embarrassing, that looks pretty cool.

This may be embarrassing, but my grandson loved it.View attachment 83546
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That t500 was not the easiest bike to ride
Not with the amateurish porting that I attempted
It turned out the narrow power band that I tuned into it was just above the redline and riding it on the road like that was quite interesting!!!
I started off with low clipons that moved up to the top yoke and then I changed to flat bars
When I got that bike it was a hard tail chop but I fancied a manic stroker caff at that time
So I rebuilt the subframe and added some bracing ,I wanted it to look like a crooks Suzuki
This was at least 35 years ago
 
baz said:
That t500 was not the easiest bike to ride
Not with the amateurish porting that I attempted
It turned out the narrow power band that I tuned into it was just above the redline and riding it on the road like that was quite interesting!!!
I started off with low clipons that moved up to the top yoke and then I changed to flat bars
When I got that bike it was a hard tail chop but I fancied a manic stroker caff at that time
So I rebuilt the subframe and added some bracing ,I wanted it to look like a crooks Suzuki
This was at least 35 years ago
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Is that a BSA/Triumph comical hub Baz ?
 
baz said:
That t500 was not the easiest bike to ride
Not with the amateurish porting that I attempted
It turned out the narrow power band that I tuned into it was just above the redline and riding it on the road like that was quite interesting!!!
I started off with low clipons that moved up to the top yoke and then I changed to flat bars
When I got that bike it was a hard tail chop but I fancied a manic stroker caff at that time
So I rebuilt the subframe and added some bracing ,I wanted it to look like a crooks Suzuki
This was at least 35 years ago
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Your builds do have nice lines !!
 
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baz said:
Yes it was
That one was from a rocket 3
I extended the cam levers by 1/2" and that worked well
I had tried extending them by 1" but that gave too much lever movement at the bars
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That brake was the reason I sold my Mk 2 Rocket 3, no one put disc forks on them at the time ( of course I regret selling it now) !
 
Fast Eddie said:
You mean the drum on the R3 was the world first ABS on a motorcycle :D
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Yeah - I had a 1968 6 cylinder Holden ute that used to do that "stop-the-engine" thingy that modern cars do at traffic lights. Must have been a world first for Holden.
The only thing was it didn't re-start when you took your foot off the brake! :rolleyes:
 
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