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Offline Swoop

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Speechless!
« on: October 16, 2024, 12:32:51 PM »
Words escape me.
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Offline Don R

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Re: Speechless!
« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2024, 12:38:03 PM »
 The work involved to carry the theme through the bike is admirable, if not the design.
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Re: Speechless!
« Reply #2 on: October 16, 2024, 01:43:28 PM »
Halloween is just around the corner lol!
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Re: Speechless!
« Reply #3 on: October 16, 2024, 02:13:47 PM »
Is this the owner?
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Re: Speechless!
« Reply #4 on: October 16, 2024, 05:32:15 PM »
It is perfect for the Season! VERY SCARY!
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Re: Speechless!
« Reply #5 on: October 16, 2024, 06:01:46 PM »
thats awesome, i saw it last night on a swapmeet video on youtube. i'm not saying its a good looking bike ( to me, the owner obviously loves it )

the amount of work put into those exhausts alone is mind boggling

we shouldn't slag someones bike off because it offends our sensibilities, someone else had a vision that he( or she ) carried through to the end

to some people a perfectly restored bike/car is just replicating the original design faults ( i'm looking at you sohc front brakes ) and there were so many 750's made what does it matter if one travels down a different path on its way to getting on the road

i know its probably a vain hope but i would like to think my 750 dirt bike, when finished, will be nominated for both bike of the month and and hideous abortion , some people will hate it, some might get it, but in the end i'm building it for me and what matters is if i'm happy with the end product ( which i probably won't be, there'll always be something i can see that i didn't get right)
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Re: Speechless!
« Reply #6 on: October 17, 2024, 04:06:00 AM »
Didn't the front number plates on 70s Hondas get called Kidney Splitters or whatever, imagine hitting a pedestrian on that, doesn't bear thinking about. Saying that, it may just be a show bike, to show what the owner can do for example. Got to admire the work that's gone into it, if nothing else. It's kinda different but I don't dislike it.
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Re: Speechless!
« Reply #7 on: October 17, 2024, 07:41:54 AM »
good Halloween bike!
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Offline M 750K6

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Re: Speechless!
« Reply #8 on: October 17, 2024, 09:16:55 AM »
Quote from: Oddjob on October 17, 2024, 04:06:00 AM
Didn't the front number plates on 70s Hondas get called Kidney Splitters or whatever, imagine hitting a pedestrian on that, doesn't bear thinking about. Saying that, it may just be a show bike, to show what the owner can do for example. Got to admire the work that's gone into it, if nothing else. It's kinda different but I don't dislike it.
"Bacon slicers".
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Re: Speechless!
« Reply #9 on: October 17, 2024, 12:04:34 PM »
Best bit about bacon slicers was if fitted to the mudguard front to back the registration had to be on both sides but if you moved it to the bolts holding forks into lower tree it only had to show rorward
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Re: Speechless!
« Reply #10 on: October 17, 2024, 07:10:07 PM »
I thought the term was "pedestrian slicer"?
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Re: Speechless!
« Reply #11 on: October 17, 2024, 07:35:03 PM »
I like the wheels!
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Re: Speechless!
« Reply #12 on: October 18, 2024, 02:51:07 AM »
Quote from: scottly on October 17, 2024, 07:10:07 PM
I thought the term was "pedestrian slicer"?
Correct, my mistake. Bacon slicers are the discs outside high performance front drum brakes. I think, to aid cooling? Brain fade!
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Re: Speechless!
« Reply #13 on: October 18, 2024, 04:16:22 AM »
In the UK they were called a variety of names, kidney splitter was the most common as it tended to do what the name implied. Bacon slicer was another. Pedestrian slicer wasn't ever said AFAIK due to how much of a mouthful it was  :)

If that bike ever hit a pedestrian I'd imagine it would make chips or as your Americans say, fries  ;D
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