No8 Wire Extraordinaire
Yeah there are so few VTRs still going it may be hard to get coin for bits, but weirder things have happened on Tardme. Erm VT vs VTR, I thought late 80s would be VT, oh no, hold on they went all plasticy, sorry didn't really pay much attn to them.
FZR sounds good. Neat engine, that's some serious arse hp you are talking.
Don't you look at my accountant.
He's the only one I've got.
The metal is always nude.
I've owned a couple of models of the VT's before. Great wee motors.
The most powerful of them all was the FG late 80's one.
The Spada & then the Monster lookalike got ever reducing power outputs.
"...you meet the weirdest people riding a Guzzi !!..."
Forum whore
My bad it will be mid 80s vt250 and not vtr.Originally Posted by F5 Dave
Has 16inch front wheel etc.
Will post photos when I have collected it.
Some parts will sell but as there are heaps wrecked only expect to unload bits cheep and maybe only 30% of the parts will sell but it all helps.
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Got it home now.One head off already and for how long is not clear.
Had a check of the fibre glass rg fairings I already had and they will fit once headlight removed.To late to start working so listed road parts on tardme for now at least.
Long Haired Yobbo
I guess you saw the buckets at round 5?
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Have been to cart track and slipway to watch with George so it was already on the must do list.Have had fairings for 6 months.
Manfield not quite suited to buckets.I thought they were still on warm up lap but they were already racing.
Very controversial
some of the buckets go realy well at big tracks, my fxr was great at taupo and i could imagine my cbr would be too.......
what sort of buckets were they?
chuck norris's calender goes from march 31st to april 2nd
No one fools chuck norris.......
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They looked like 60k machines and a mini bike was keeping up but I could be wrong and they may have been moving quicker.
Very controversial
a pocket bike? keeping up with a bucket?.......i used to race an italian one of those and it seems like an asmatic snail compared to my bike,
buckets arnt that slow, some of them might be,but some of the buckets around can beat a street stock 150 bike with the right rider.
chuck norris's calender goes from march 31st to april 2nd
No one fools chuck norris.......
Bucket Racer/Crasher
I did OK at W(h)anganui on my bucket in either F3 or (shudder) Clubmans. Original Taupo it was pretty even with the streetstock 150s and a couple of the faster bucket guys blew them away - Dennis Charlotte and Jimmy Steadman for instance. The Auckland club ran a class one year which I think had "old" RS125s, streetstocks and buckets and I did OK there as well. The RSs would get me as they wound up but I could outbrake them at the end of the back straight and ride round them in turn one. Turn 1 was good for passing the streetstocks as well as they ran out of ground clearance. A whole bunch of us gave the learn to most of the F3 class at Nelson one year as well, that was fun, they wouldn't let us practice with F3 and then in the race started us at the back in a 2nd grid as they didn't want us getting in the way at the start. By the 2nd corner the 1st two rows of buckets were scrapping in the top 10.
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I talked to someone in the know more than all of us and he suggested drill holes in top of piston and plate over the head or put the head back on with no cam so the valves are all shut.The holes in piston will allow the pressure to return in and out of the chamber enough and the slight unbalance will add character.
I listed the parts so will see what is requested .If I get lucky and people are after ignition and electrics then I may be able to get more suited motor without blowing the budget.$150 plus some lunch money is it im afraid, and 80 is gone already buying bike.
The contract that may wife signed for me in her own mind is binding as far as she is concerned.The tyre are not bad thank God cause otherwise I would be cutting the knobles off trail tyres to have tyres.LOL
Very controversial
me and a kid on a aprillia rs125 had a race at a track-day back in june, his top end speed was extremely fast but i bet him cos his lines were bad and his corner speed in and out of corners was much slower than me, it comes down to rider.Thats why even though i have a "bucket' i still dont get phased by bigger bikes, there always going to be a gumby on a big capacity motorbike than cant handle it.
Ive heard heaps of stories from people at mt wellington going to track days with their buckets and thrashing 1000cc bikes ect
chuck norris's calender goes from march 31st to april 2nd
No one fools chuck norris.......
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I usually have left over 120/70/17 front slicks on my postie if you Welly guys want to buy or swap bits for them.They would make great rears on a 3.5 inch rim and because I have tyre sponcer they are normally three heat cycles old new generation medium compound(suit cold to warm weather).
Just a thought.
Long Haired Yobbo
Th buckets at manfeild were only 3 laps of the "Club curcuit" using the sliproad for a bit of fun, Sketchys bucket was heaps faster than the rest.
Actually racing a 150 I would have to say to say it would take a learner rider to be beaten by an average bucket.
An exceptionally fast two stroke bucket could beat a 150 on atight track, the really fast guy gave me the shits a the TRRS until he blew it up.
Anyway...
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Forum whore
Any rule about superchargers as the second piston can be used as air compressor filling and cylinder tank.
Check this out.
http://thekneeslider.com/archives/20...le-conversion/
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