General Bike Ravings

Bin doin a bit more collecting, polishing & assembling
The 'bars are a cruiser pushbike beach bend that Ive wrapped leather straps around,added brass caps,the choke ,throttle & a Solex reverse style brake lever
As you can see the headlite came up real good after a 2 hour session on the polisher,Ill be adapting a modern lens assy to it later on
The Albion 3 speed 'box/clutch is already hand change that'll save a bit of mucking around

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Originally Posted by navek

Hi All knowledgable bike types
Having recently upskilled to novice in trail riding skills in last 11 months from ziltch to able to get there, finally got bike suited to my personailty/skills KTM 400, (great bike)for weekend trails but now wish for more 'Adventure' type bike for comfort over longer and longer km's on road and gravel but still capable in trails. Most importantly short legs make this challenging. My list BMW 650 GS great seat height lovely on road, bad small front wheel low

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Clive & I headed out of town for a wee mid week tootle with no plans on where to go and we finally ended up in Koupokanui. Go on google it! But before we got there we needed to stop and get some liquid refreshments and some fuel for the body. We had a great "long way" ride to our final destination via Alfredon, KImbolton, Mangaweka, Hunterville, Fordell so we needed something to eat.

Hallelujah Hawera!!!
Finally some wedges that are the way that I feel wedges should be! For ...

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Heres a couple of inspirational pix of where Im trying to head:

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Another great evening for a ride. Caught up with the wednesday night crew again and headed over the hill again, this just a little further up the road.
Second time over the hill this week for me and since I had a really good run on Monday night I was looking forward to a repeat tonight. To make that happened I hung back and let the crowd go for it. By the time I got to the hill I had a clear road in front of me
Road was in good nick again and the road work crew are making ...

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We knew that she's fires up and runs. Admittedly she was running pretty rough, but she was running. So it was time to start tidying up the fiddly bits and getting her ready to hit the track.

We headed around to Brents place after grabbing some things and turned up with beer and some yummy chocolate croissants from Bakers Delight. After knocking those off we headed out to the shed for the last burst before she goes to her permanent home.

It was a stinking hot, muggy ...

The concept is one of brass,copper wood & leather,
No chrome, early 1900 's style
Hand change, foot clutch,internal throttle,reverse levers,big diameter skinny tyred wheels {23" off an XL250S},using a small 500cc v- twin Briggs & Stratton
Ive been trawling TardMe & have come up with a good number of items including an old fire extinguisher for the petrol tank....

Yes they sure do,although the one Im using would be way too big for an oiltank
Heres some more pix of the collected bits pile

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