Nelson Rideouts - Where next?

[NordieBoy]

take yer flippers...
X-country! ... is that what we use to call a Hare Scramble?.. back in the olden days

think I will head for a few of the back tracks around Mt Pat 2morrow...

Hare Scramble?
Is that like Rabbit Stew?

Nowadays we use "petrol" in the bikes and they have "suspension" and "brakes".

[Box'a'bits]

Hare Scramble? Is that like Rabbit Stew?

Think mum used to make that. Made with cooked hare, eggs, cheese, potatoes & sometimes any good veggie leftovers (or tomatoes) she could find in the fridge. With a Parsley garnish. Hmmmm.

[madmartin]

maybe you need to run after those rabbits a bit faster with your chainsaw Nordie?

[pete-blen]

Think mum used to make that. Made with cooked hare, eggs, cheese, potatoes & sometime any good veggie leftovers she could find in the fridge. With a Parsley garnish. Hmmmm.

LOL... sorry I asked now
I set myself up for this...
we use to ride a 10/15k track for 3 hours
who ever was in the lead or done the most laps won..
Of course I'm talking way way back in the 80s..

PS...Thats the only way to cook Hare... heaps of other stuff
so yer can't taste the tough/stringy buggers..

[Woodman]

LOL... sorry I asked now
I set myself up for this...
we use to ride a 10/15k track for 3 hours
who ever was in the lead or done the most laps won..
Of course I'm talking way way back in the 80s..

PS...Thats the only way to cook Hare... heaps of other stuff
so yer can't taste the tough/stringy buggers..

don't worry pete, you are not imagining things.


A grainy pic to prove they did exist.


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[pete-blen]

don't worry pete, you are not imagining things.


A grainy pic to prove they did exist.


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W.M.C.C ?

You are lucky.. The only people that got those
way back when in Nelson were Dave Filer & Moston Wadsworth..
It was rigged I tell yer...

[Woodman]

W.M.C.C ?

You are lucky.. The only people that got those
way back when in Nelson were Dave Filer & Moston Wadsworth..
It was rigged I tell yer...

Westland motor cycle club.

Pretty sure that one was for attendance cos i sure as hell didn't win anything. Perceived riding ability and actual riding ability were in conflict so spent a lot of time down banks, wrapped around fences, under my bike in ditches etc.

[Padmei]

I'm bored.

Gonna go on Youtube & watch some guys pound alloy into a gas tank. pretty amazing stuff really.

[Woodman]

I'm bored.

Gonna go on Youtube & watch some guys pound alloy into a gas tank. pretty amazing stuff really.

Hey I seem to be chasing you around threads. friggen cold here today.
Dragged the benelli engine out today and attacked it with some verniers, the result being that I ordered a 77mm xr250 piston off the internet. Its the closest I can find so will need to make a new gudgeon bush to suit the smaller pin and remove 4mm off the bottom of the barrel and shorten the pushrods but it should work. Giving myself 1 year to get it ride down the drivewayable.

Might start a build thread on adv later. with pics and everything.

[Padmei]

You always have to start the build thread with naming the bike dammit!

Did yu not have a piston with it? Is it a preunit?

Have you checked out the cool tools you can buy cheap at Harbourlite in the States. Man I'd have a good workshop over there.

[madmartin]

Hey I seem to be chasing you around threads. friggen cold here today.
Dragged the benelli engine out today and attacked it with some verniers, the result being that I ordered a 77mm xr250 piston off the internet. Its the closest I can find so will need to make a new gudgeon bush to suit the smaller pin and remove 4mm off the bottom of the barrel and shorten the pushrods but it should work. Giving myself 1 year to get it ride down the drivewayable.

Might start a build thread on adv later. with pics and everything.

wouldn't it be easier to get somebody to make you a piston?

[Padmei]

Anyone in Nelson got a bottle jack I could borrow?

[pete-blen]

I'm bored.

Gonna go on Youtube & watch some guys pound alloy into a gas tank. pretty amazing stuff really.

bored... same here to dam cold to ride...

So I played around in the shed & came up with these..
fork valves... just need to find some springs etc...
Give then a good clean / debur...




By petenz at 2012-05-25

By petenz at 2012-05-25

By petenz at 2012-05-25

Here yer go Padmei.....talk about time standing still..that chucks doing 1050rpm..

By petenz at 2012-05-25

By petenz at 2012-05-25

[madmartin]

i've got one, how long you need one for?

[Woodman]

wouldn't it be easier to get somebody to make you a piston?

Getting a piston made is a disaster, generally minimum quantities of 4.

Padmei, the original piston is there, but for some reason, (possibly drunk) I bored the barrel out 4mm oversize on my last day as an engine rebuilder
Can't for the life of me remember what i bored it to suit, but the xr one isn't far off except for pin size and compression height hence the minor mods to make it work. Man oh man do I wish I had access to an engine shop again, all those lurvely machines.