Bucket to Bouquet

[Paul in NZ]

OK - theoretical question....

I'm rather taken with those old Italian sports tiddlers.. Super skinny wheels etc ec... Why? Does there have to be a reason??

Anyway there are a few ex buckets turn up time to time and things like MB100's etc. How hard would it be to take a bucket with a relatively standard frame and re register it for street use? Yes yes it needs lights, indicators, horns etc. It will be crippling to ride but this is only for shits and giggles... Mad thrash over the Paekak Hill at 60kph....

This things just asking for it...

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/List...?id=1215141716

Cheers

[caseye]

Sigh, you've lost it mate!
Seriously, why not!
Go on buy the bloody thing, take it for that mad fang, then sell it on.
Or, or keep it and restore it to what you want it to be and then frame it.
Not that big afterall.

[Paul in NZ]

Sigh, you've lost it mate!
Seriously, why not!
Go on buy the bloody thing, take it for that mad fang, then sell it on.
Or, or keep it and restore it to what you want it to be and then frame it.
Not that big afterall.

Lost it a LONG time ago.... Rode the ST over the hill the other day.. what a bore... Bloody thing would break the law in any gear so its just a bit boring...

[Gremlin]

Well first the unknown quantity is the bucket itself. Just how modified has it been, remembering those guys love to tinker (if anything it's probably as fun as the racing for them, if not more so?) so the odds of it being close to original would vary.

Second, registration has likely lapsed, so you're into the regular process of vehicle compliance like any vehicle being registered for road use. Brake declaration, proof of ownership and WOF check to name the main items.

[Kickaha]

OK - theoretical question....

I'm rather taken with those old Italian sports tiddlers.. Super skinny wheels etc ec... Why? Does there have to be a reason??

Anyway there are a few ex buckets turn up time to time and things like MB100's etc. How hard would it be to take a bucket with a relatively standard frame and re register it for street use? Yes yes it needs lights, indicators, horns etc. It will be crippling to ride but this is only for shits and giggles... Mad thrash over the Paekak Hill at 60kph....

This things just asking for it...

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/List...?id=1215141716

Cheers

Except that one was never a standard frame, it was one of two "specials" built for racing way back "in the day"

I've raced that one when Dangerous owned it, you'd be doing far more than 60kmh

[Paul in NZ]

Except that one was never a standard frame, it was one of two "specials" built for racing way back "in the day"

I've raced that one when Dangerous owned it, you'd be doing far more than 60kmh

Sweet looking bike though...

OK s its a total custom frame... Trickier but surely not impossible... Even with a stock MB100 it would be fun

[husaberg]

OK - theoretical question....

I'm rather taken with those old Italian sports tiddlers.. Super skinny wheels etc ec... Why? Does there have to be a reason??

Anyway there are a few ex buckets turn up time to time and things like MB100's etc. How hard would it be to take a bucket with a relatively standard frame and re register it for street use? Yes yes it needs lights, indicators, horns etc. It will be crippling to ride but this is only for shits and giggles... Mad thrash over the Paekak Hill at 60kph....

This things just asking for it...

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/List...?id=1215141716

Cheers

My father still has a couple of these

or were you more thinking of one of these


The easiest way to put a racebike back on the road is to use a donor frame that still caries a live rgo and it also has all the road gear.

[Grumph]

Would your dad ever part with one of the Ducatis ?

There's that exact MV hanging in a garage in ChCh - the owner has threatened for years he would get me to go through the motor.
He'd better hurry up....I tell him it's only an Italian CB125....

Looking at that MB, and knowing where some other "historic" buckets are, maybe CAMS should run a feature classic bucket race at one meeting a year.

[husaberg]

Would your dad ever part with one of the Ducatis ?

There's that exact MV hanging in a garage in ChCh - the owner has threatened for years he would get me to go through the motor.
He'd better hurry up....I tell him it's only an Italian CB125....

Looking at that MB, and knowing where some other "historic" buckets are, maybe CAMS should run a feature classic bucket race at one meeting a year.

Pretty sure he might part with one.
The other would be unlikely as hes had it since he was a kid.
It even has some earles forks style he made for it.

[merv]

Paul you had the little Suzuki a while back so do you regret selling that now?

[Paul in NZ]

Paul you had the little Suzuki a while back so do you regret selling that now?

Yes... I needed the space and just looking around the garage tonight I went...ummmmmmmm