whats your winter project going to be?

[AMCQ46]

Get BMW done
spray vtr matt black
get turbo bike on the bench

Not much really!

Thumper,
you missed the multiple iterations involving:
test ride bike
blow up engine
rebuild bike
test ride bike
etc

[Kev L]

Ideally, find an old Brit bike (prefer BSA, Triumph) to pull apart and rebuild, and hopefully one day ride to somewhere scenic and watch it slowly piss oil all over the Great British countryside!
Never owned or even ridden a Brit bike from the first era so want to own one before I shuffle off this mortal coil.

[agentpineapple]

Ideally, find an old Brit bike (prefer BSA, Triumph) to pull apart and rebuild, and hopefully one day ride to somewhere scenic and watch it slowly piss oil all over the Great British countryside!
Never owned or even ridden a Brit bike from the first era so want to own one before I shuffle off this mortal coil.

i'm not really into early brit bikes, but i do like the look of the 90's daytona in black, its almost a modern classic, having said that my storms a 1997 so not that long until thats a classic

[scott02464]

What year, or how old does a vehicle have to be to make it a classic? Tax etc. :-)

[Rob]

What year, or how old does a vehicle have to be to make it a classic? Tax etc. :-)

Depends on the vehicle. I have a 2001 MGF Trophy 160 which I insure very cheaply through Peter Best Classic Car Insurance. Has to be an MG and over 10 years old (That's why I got a Trophy rather than a TF)

*Edit.

Tax wise it has to have been registered before Jan 1st 1973. I'm sure it was supposed to be 25 years but the government back tracked and left the date fixed.

[mr.john.coates]

My winter project?

Loose some weight so my leathers fit

[Rob]

My winter project?

Loose some weight so my leathers fit

People spend hundreds of pounds on Carbon Fibre and Titanium to make the bike a few Kg lighter.

Just go on a diet - you spend less money on food and the end result is the same except you have more money instead of less

And you don't have to buy new leathers

[leevtr]

My winter project is......to ride the fcuker as much as poss, seeing as we didn't get a summer !!!!

[Rob]

Ideally, find an old Brit bike (prefer BSA, Triumph) to pull apart and rebuild, and hopefully one day ride to somewhere scenic and watch it slowly piss oil all over the Great British countryside!
Never owned or even ridden a Brit bike from the first era so want to own one before I shuffle off this mortal coil.

It's going to be a few years before I can do it - but I will buy an old British bike and restore it. Then again I saw a 1953 Honda Dream for sale recently - rough condition but basically sound, if I had the space I might have bought it.

So much I would like to do but not enough space and not enough time.

[Kev L]

I have seen a few Jap projects but have set my sights purely on a Brit bike and ideally circa 1959, so it's the same age as me. I have done a Suzuki GT250M, Yamaha FS1-EA, Suzuki TS250M and the Yam FZR750RT, a couple of times.
When I kicked off legally riding you couldn't give old Brit bikes away, now even a basket case requires a mortgage.

[thumperslaw]

Get BMW done
spray vtr matt black
get turbo bike on the bench

Not much really!

Thumper,
you missed the multiple iterations involving:
test ride bike
blow up engine
rebuild bike
test ride bike
etc

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Sounds about right

need to rebuild the stunt bike
might blow the storm up again this year if i keep wheeling the thing

[VTRDark]

might blow the storm up again this year if i keep wheeling the thing

Maybe you could design some kind of device that sits in the sump so when you wheelie the device pivots up with the angle of the bike and pushes the oil up. The laws of gravity would obviously force the oil to find it's own level, but if it was on some kind of hinge that pushed the oil level higher at the front, there would be more of an oil supply feeding those parts.

That's my crazy though for the day.



(:-})

[thumperslaw]

got a long oil pick up on the gsxr to stop it from running dry (plus over filling by half a pint)

Should make one for the storm really

[tony.mon]

1. Get a decently paying job

Tony - that'd do me - I've been looking for work in the Midlands for 4 years now - the commuting and living in digs does my head in - and such a struggle for P to cope - she doesn't have the best of health......



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Ah, making me feel guilty now, but starting a new job Monday week, so it's all good on the spending front once more.....game back on.
Good luck with your job hunt.

[AMCQ46]

Congratulations onthe new job Tony

See you at the next meet