Motorcycles!

gaarddog

ears ago i had this norton 850, nice looking bike but rather heavy,

and slower than the bsa a65 lightning i had before, also the brakes did not work very well.
i did put some dunstall exhaust on it which sounded a little better.
Never had any problems with electric starter though. not even in winter.

gaarddog

If i could choose i think i would prefer the 750, lighter and faster, but not as good looking.

hen

My 09 Triumph Bonneville SE

A nice Kawasaki 900

Rest of the ice cream crowd .

Tubber

Is that a ZRX in the centre of the photo? Is that your Z1?

Tubber

All of those RD's were brilliant bikes. Company in Wigan called Langen Motorcycles still sell new 2 -strokes. I don't have £30k to spend on a new one but have you seen any of these around?

Tubber

A mate of mine had an RD250, that thing was quick. And it was a red and white which looked the business.
What is a good Kettle going for these days? I saw a few RG500's a while back and the price was quite a lot! CCM was another British motorcycle manufacturer I always quite liked too.

Tubber

For anybody that is interested the IOM TT starts this week with practice/qualifying and race week next week.
You can get a 2 week pass to watch it all at https://www.iomttraces.com/
£20 or £25 for the 2 weeks. Jamie Whitham is commenting today amongst other.
Good coverage and a lot better than waiting for the Duke video to come out if they still even do them.

Tubber

After you mentioned CCM I had a look at the Langen site. They mentioned Vins, they came out with a new 2-stroke bike a few years back.
Still haven't read this (Some good photos too) but I always intended to buy an RG500 and get Stan Stephens to tune it. But that was 30 years ago. Last time I saw him he was on Youtube trying to build a 1200cc V6 2-stroke.