Don't you look at my accountant.
He's the only one I've got.
mmm take a reasonably unmolested bike chop it about a bit & dulux overhaul it then try to pretend it's something it'll never be and ask silly money
https://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/mot...88ac8d15266bd2
It's nicely done job and they're a damn fine bike at their intended purpose but 250kg & 90 odd neddies it'll never be a cafe racer
would've been far better off keeping it stock and sprucing it up as is. Did about 100kms as pillion on one many yrs ago and I know why they've got the rep as the "lazy man's tourer"....stock that seat is plush!
DeMyer's Laws - an argument that consists primarily of rambling quotes isn't worth bothering with.
That bloke must have got around a bit back in the day, I posted a pic of him on a Kennedy Lister in almost the same pose 9yrs ago
https://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/s...18#post1988518
Might be a lower power to weight ratio but i know which one I'd rather be on in tight country
I rescued one of those 1100s from the scrapper.
Diff, Suspension, paint, and some CBR brakes.
Made a great tourer. Lazy is right. I only sold it as it got a bit ponderous if riding with mates and they got a move on. Nothing 20yrs of chassis development wouldn't fix I always said.
The real answer is not try keep up or rides with the wife. We did some kms in comfort.
Best memory up 90mile beach in our bikinis (or one of us at least) then stream at the end out to the road. No drama.
Don't you look at my accountant.
He's the only one I've got.
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