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    Commuting on a classic

    After pulling the 1972 R50/5 out of the shed,getting it Woffed and taking it on a BFTP thrash to Raglan and back I have been......commuting on it....been a full week now.....have to try my hand at 80kmph lanesplitting on the Southern at rush hour....might have to remove the panniers...

    Anyone else ride to work on old bikes...?

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    My GSXR1100 is the usual daily ride - shes 20 years old this month!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Voltaire View Post
    . . .have to try my hand at 80kmph lanesplitting on the Southern at rush hour. . .
    Zoiks! You're keen. (80 KM/H is pretty quick to lanesplit - I'm going to pressume that you didn't mean, if I can be permitted to mix SI and imperial measures, kilo-mph which would be, well even quicker.)
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    Quote Originally Posted by paddy View Post
    Zoiks! You're keen. (80 KM/H is pretty quick to lanesplit - I'm going to pressume that you didn't mean, if I can be permitted to mix SI and imperial measures, kilo-mph which would be, well even quicker.)
    no. but its worth the mental image of an old beemer with panniers doing it.....but I have seen some pretty ' interesting' bike riding on the motorway.
    Personally I'd rather be late...or leave earlier.

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    I regularly commute on & in most of my dinosaurs, either the 1936 Morris 8 Sport, '75 850 T Guzzi,'76 1000 Guzzi, '76 GS 750 Dunstall Suzuki,'82 CX500,'72 Guzzi Eldorado or the '82 R65 Beemer & soon.... my '71 CB450 street tracker & '67 Matchless
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    Quote Originally Posted by StoneY View Post
    My GSXR1100 is the usual daily ride - shes 20 years old this month!
    As is my 1986 CBX550F2.

    Actually, this is my ONLY vehicle (unless you count the wife's bike).

    Took it round the east cape for a few days last week and had a ball
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    Quote Originally Posted by paddy View Post
    Zoiks! You're keen. (80 KM/H is pretty quick to lanesplit)
    I've split once or twice at 120k past 100k traffic. Not something I make a habit of.
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    Yeah I commute to work between Wanganui and Wellington and have Taken my 83 CB250RS to work ,gave a mate I work with a shock though when I past him... he reackons he was doing 120 at the time I reackon his speedo is out

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    Quote Originally Posted by Eurodave View Post
    I regularly commute on & in most of my dinosaurs, either the 1936 Morris 8 Sport, '75 850 T Guzzi,'76 1000 Guzzi, '76 GS 750 Dunstall Suzuki,'82 CX500,'72 Guzzi Eldorado or the '82 R65 Beemer & soon.... my '71 CB450 street tracker & '67 Matchless
    you album is great, I like the Guzzi project!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Eurodave View Post
    I regularly commute on & in most of my dinosaurs, either the 1936 Morris 8 Sport, '75 850 T Guzzi,'76 1000 Guzzi, '76 GS 750 Dunstall Suzuki,'82 CX500,'72 Guzzi Eldorado or the '82 R65 Beemer & soon.... my '71 CB450 street tracker & '67 Matchless
    How many of those are regoed?
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    I've been commuting the last couple of years on my classic Avanti Town & County,an early model Mountain bike.Steel everything,no alloy in sight.I realise it's a bit of a crime to use such a classic beast for mundain duties like commuting,but it's well fit for the purpose.I'll regret it in a few years when these models are sought after and fetching high prices - but at least at a Classic Mountain Bike meeting I'll be able to walk up to some young guy and say....""I used to have one of those.....''
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    Garn ! y' a bottom feeder by y' own admission. We don't have "classics" we just have old bangers and scrap iron.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ixion View Post
    Garn ! y' a bottom feeder by y' own admission. We don't have "classics" we just have old bangers and scrap iron.
    Is that due to having a bush instead of a bearing...

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    And we don't pay for these classics either - another mans castoffs are my daily ride.
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