The wall of coolness

**Laxi** · 4th April 2009, 01:32

Originally Posted by avgas

Cool
Britten (before you burn me think about this - when was the last time you saw a world class weightlifter wearing pink and blue? The britten is like NASA - only cool if your uncool)......i love it, i love geeky stuff, i have a big calculator.
Anything with stickers

dosnt matter how much you say before you burn me! its gonna happen

, guaranteed. thats what made the britten so cool, it had the ugliest colour scheme that looked like a liberachy/wacko jackson joint effort but the engineering on those machines just made you drool, I still go to the cafe at te papa just so i can sit there and ogle that bike, add to that that it could eat ducatis, diguest them and then crap them out as over priced paper weights and the britten has to feature in the top 5 of any cool list

**NordieBoy** · 4th April 2009, 08:11

Originally Posted by avgas

Cool
GB400/500

Unfortunatly if one of us has owned one it's therefore inelegible...

**Padmei** · 4th April 2009, 19:32

Originally Posted by NordieBoy

Unfortunatly if one of us has owned one it's therefore inelegible...

It was Black baby, black as night, black as the inside of the arsehole of a very black black bear, black & proud, loud & proud, black,loud Proud. Cool, cool as an iceberg in a giant frozen sea. Cool enough to be on a menthol cigarette ad. Black, loud, proud,cool

Yeah

**NordieBoy** · 4th April 2009, 20:04

Originally Posted by Padmei

It was Black baby, black as night, black as the inside of the arsehole of a very black black bear, black & proud, loud & proud, black,loud Proud. Cool, cool as an iceberg in a giant frozen sea. Cool enough to be on a menthol cigarette ad. Black, loud, proud,cool

Yeah

Do you know someone who owned one?

**Moki** · 10th April 2009, 06:54

Originally Posted by Blatman

I think it's genuine, that's a V-Max motor, but you never know with Photoshop.
Found it here:
http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=109757

VMax? Wonder what spooning this engine into that frame would do to mid-life crises.http://users.hunterlink.net.au/~ddped/rrv2.htm

**Moki** · 10th April 2009, 06:56

Originally Posted by junkmanjoe

this chap's out for a good time.

....and who said the KLR had a dodgy rear subframe?

**Oscar** · 10th April 2009, 08:37

Originally Posted by Padmei

It was Black baby, black as night, black as the inside of the arsehole of a very black black bear, black & proud, loud & proud, black,loud Proud. Cool, cool as an iceberg in a giant frozen sea. Cool enough to be on a menthol cigarette ad. Black, loud, proud,cool

Yeah

Feh.

It was a Johnny Come Lately "me too" effort.

The SR500 - that was cool...

**marks** · 10th April 2009, 11:05

Originally Posted by Padmei

It was Black baby, black as night, black as the inside of the arsehole of a very black black bear, black & proud, loud & proud, black,loud Proud. Cool, cool as an iceberg in a giant frozen sea. Cool enough to be on a menthol cigarette ad. Black, loud, proud,cool

I know what you are describing - the black bitch - the coolest uncool bike there ever was

**bart** · 13th April 2009, 22:57

Originally Posted by Moki

VMax? Wonder what spooning this engine into that frame would do to mid-life crises.http://users.hunterlink.net.au/~ddped/rrv2.htm

Yeah, I heard about that one. Apparently he was floging out a gearbox every ride. Became a little impractical, even though Holden gearboxes are easy to find.

**warewolf** · 14th April 2009, 13:32

Mmmm Rolls-Royce Merlin V12 is one of the sweetest sounds in motoring. Heard some at various tractor pulls years ago. Every time they revved it up, the hairs on the back of my spine would all stand on end. At full noise it was sensory overload...

**cooneyr** · 14th April 2009, 15:50

Originally Posted by warewolf

Mmmm Rolls-Royce Merlin V12 is one of the sweetest sounds in motoring. Heard some at various tractor pulls years ago. Every time they revved it up, the hairs on the back of my spine would all stand on end. At full noise it was sensory overload...

You need to try the rolls griffon - 36l as opposed to the 27l of the Merlin. Even betterer

There was a nice one in a MIX Spitty puring around the Wanaka air show till some "Wallice" dumped it on its lid (crank rotates the other direction to the Merlin so you need to correct the torque the otherway on takeoff - doh). Pitty

Cheers R

**BMWST?** · 14th April 2009, 16:00

Originally Posted by Oscar

I remember the first time I saw a CBX.
I couldn't believe anyone could deal with all that power.

In perspective - it has very similar performance to a 990 Adventure.

dont know about that...they could rev,would do damn near 120k in first