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Re: "INSPIRATION GALLERY "
« Reply #9950 on: May 31, 2015, 07:18:11 PM »
Yep, I'm the kid that figured out how to put things back together...eventually.

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Re: "INSPIRATION GALLERY "
« Reply #9951 on: May 31, 2015, 08:20:37 PM »
Mick,

Is that a buddy of yours or were you at Willow?

The guy that owns it is a custom bike builder in the States, I don't know him at all.. ;)
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« Reply #9952 on: June 01, 2015, 08:16:05 PM »
Loota nice parts on that bike: Swing arm, rear shocks, yoshimura 4-1, yoshimura points cover.  What's that rear brake set up? Doesn't appear to be a stock SS (F-model) or is it just inverted caliper mount?

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« Reply #9953 on: June 01, 2015, 08:37:28 PM »
Loota nice parts on that bike: Swing arm, rear shocks, yoshimura 4-1, yoshimura points cover.  What's that rear brake set up? Doesn't appear to be a stock SS (F-model) or is it just inverted caliper mount?

Not stock, I don't have a close enough picture to tell exactly what that caliper is... ;)
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« Reply #9954 on: June 02, 2015, 09:06:56 AM »
I think they are Lockheed aluminum calipers.. I would like to run one with 41 forks, like the old Rickman used.
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Re: "INSPIRATION GALLERY "
« Reply #9955 on: June 02, 2015, 04:34:15 PM »
I think they are Lockheed aluminum calipers.. I would like to run one with 41 forks, like the old Rickman used.

I thought they were grimeca, saw some like that on an old Kawasaki race bike, who knows..... ;D
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« Reply #9956 on: June 02, 2015, 04:45:35 PM »
I think they are Lockheed aluminum calipers.. I would like to run one with 41 forks, like the old Rickman used.

I thought they were grimeca, saw some like that on an old Kawasaki race bike, who knows..... ;D

Could also be Brembo P series.
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Re: "INSPIRATION GALLERY "
« Reply #9957 on: June 02, 2015, 04:49:55 PM »
I think they are Lockheed aluminum calipers.. I would like to run one with 41 forks, like the old Rickman used.

I thought they were grimeca, saw some like that on an old Kawasaki race bike, who knows..... ;D

Could also be Brembo P series.

The plot thickens.... ;)
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« Reply #9958 on: June 02, 2015, 05:26:09 PM »
I just asked him. ill post the reply when i get it. They are KZ wheels and its a modified yoshi replica exhaust.

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Re: "INSPIRATION GALLERY "
« Reply #9959 on: June 02, 2015, 06:05:11 PM »
Do you know Kiyo personally J..?
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Re: "INSPIRATION GALLERY "
« Reply #9960 on: June 02, 2015, 07:55:26 PM »
No. I follow him on Instagram and he replies to some questions there.

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« Reply #9961 on: June 02, 2015, 10:24:03 PM »
Do you know Kiyo personally J..?
That guy has some seriously impressive chops! He did. Most of the metal fab work on Vincent's CR750.
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Re: "INSPIRATION GALLERY "
« Reply #9962 on: June 02, 2015, 11:08:00 PM »
Do you know Kiyo personally J..?
That guy has some seriously impressive chops! He did. Most of the metal fab work on Vincent's CR750.

Cool... ;)
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Re: "INSPIRATION GALLERY "
« Reply #9963 on: June 03, 2015, 06:08:04 PM »
Bullocks of Steel! Guy Martin practicing at the Isle of Man going 200 mph in places:


Does anyone think they are fast now?
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Re: "INSPIRATION GALLERY "
« Reply #9964 on: June 03, 2015, 06:35:31 PM »
French racer Franck Petricola died in practice there last night....
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Re: "INSPIRATION GALLERY "
« Reply #9965 on: June 03, 2015, 06:38:30 PM »
There's a Canadian sidecar team running there.  A lot of the sidecar practice has been cancelled though for weather. :(  Not good for newcomers.
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Re: "INSPIRATION GALLERY "
« Reply #9966 on: June 03, 2015, 07:39:36 PM »
French racer Franck Petricola died in practice there last night....

That's awful. Poor ba$tard.
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"There are some things nobody needs in this world, and a bright-red, hunch-back, warp-speed 900cc cafe racer is one of them — but I want one anyway, and on some days I actually believe I need one.... Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba." Hunter S. Thompson, Song of the Sausage Creature, Cycle World, March 1995.  (http://www.latexnet.org/~csmith/sausage.html and https://magazine.cycleworld.com/article/1995/3/1/song-of-the-sausage-creature)

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Re: "INSPIRATION GALLERY "
« Reply #9967 on: June 04, 2015, 01:21:45 PM »
This may go under the "What not to do" category.




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Re: "INSPIRATION GALLERY "
« Reply #9968 on: June 04, 2015, 02:12:00 PM »
Wow, that's WRONG.
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"There are some things nobody needs in this world, and a bright-red, hunch-back, warp-speed 900cc cafe racer is one of them — but I want one anyway, and on some days I actually believe I need one.... Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba." Hunter S. Thompson, Song of the Sausage Creature, Cycle World, March 1995.  (http://www.latexnet.org/~csmith/sausage.html and https://magazine.cycleworld.com/article/1995/3/1/song-of-the-sausage-creature)

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Re: "INSPIRATION GALLERY "
« Reply #9969 on: June 04, 2015, 02:59:40 PM »
Abomination thread is that way -------->

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Re: "INSPIRATION GALLERY "
« Reply #9970 on: June 04, 2015, 03:59:00 PM »
Abomination thread is that way -------->
Agreed!
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"There are some things nobody needs in this world, and a bright-red, hunch-back, warp-speed 900cc cafe racer is one of them — but I want one anyway, and on some days I actually believe I need one.... Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba." Hunter S. Thompson, Song of the Sausage Creature, Cycle World, March 1995.  (http://www.latexnet.org/~csmith/sausage.html and https://magazine.cycleworld.com/article/1995/3/1/song-of-the-sausage-creature)

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Re: "INSPIRATION GALLERY "
« Reply #9971 on: June 04, 2015, 04:04:02 PM »
Abomination thread is that way -------->
Agreed!

You could be the first guy in your street to scrape the air filter.... ;D :o
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Re: "INSPIRATION GALLERY "
« Reply #9972 on: June 04, 2015, 04:16:54 PM »
The sobering thing is that someone put a lot of work into that...
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« Reply #9973 on: June 04, 2015, 04:33:02 PM »
The sobering thing is that someone put a lot of work into that...

Nobody said it was worthwhile.  It's just so damn absurd -- huge car light housing and no need hyperextended intake -- that the someone couldn't have been serious at all. It borders on Photoshop.
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2005 RVT1000RR RC51-SP2 "El Diablo" - Sold
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Re: "INSPIRATION GALLERY "
« Reply #9974 on: June 04, 2015, 04:34:56 PM »
The sobering thing is that someone put a lot of work into that...

Nobody said it was worthwhile.

No body said he was sober either..... ??? ;D
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