Flat-Tracker, Street-Scrambler, Custom-Bobber. Why Retro is the future (for adventure biking).
Re: Flat-Tracker, Street-Scrambler, Custom-Bobber. Why Retro is the future (for adventure biking).
Funny those Viragos should pop up we were chatting about the amount of work and skill that had gone into them recently. Remember the Yam TR1? half way there? This is Clive's XBR, a real home grown project
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Re: Flat-Tracker, Street-Scrambler, Custom-Bobber. Why Retro is the future (for adventure biking).
Sprockette, I'm totally with you in the fi thing, it's been round long enough to have produced itself hundreds of times over. I love the thought of going to a primary school to get your Raspberry Pi based ECU replaced.
It's not thing like trick suspension or ABS or traction control. Things where you have an electronic/mechanical interface particularly when the on board computer refuses to let you go on. It's Claudio's GS in Mongolia, crippled after the ABS wasdamaged while welding.
Mind you it's also an excuse for nice pictures.
It's not thing like trick suspension or ABS or traction control. Things where you have an electronic/mechanical interface particularly when the on board computer refuses to let you go on. It's Claudio's GS in Mongolia, crippled after the ABS wasdamaged while welding.
Mind you it's also an excuse for nice pictures.
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Re: Flat-Tracker, Street-Scrambler, Custom-Bobber. Why Retro is the future (for adventure biking).
Greetings,
Here are a couple of photos I took when the rider/builder kindly stopped to offer assistance to repair a broken down motorcycle on Long Hill, Whaley Bridge, the other day. He has called his unique hand built bike (which is more a work of art) a Métis, from a description of a mixed race of North American Indians.
I hope you like because the photos do not do this machine justice.
TTFN
Hugh.
PS thanks again for stopping.
Here are a couple of photos I took when the rider/builder kindly stopped to offer assistance to repair a broken down motorcycle on Long Hill, Whaley Bridge, the other day. He has called his unique hand built bike (which is more a work of art) a Métis, from a description of a mixed race of North American Indians.
I hope you like because the photos do not do this machine justice.
TTFN
Hugh.
PS thanks again for stopping.
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Re: Flat-Tracker, Street-Scrambler, Custom-Bobber. Why Retro is the future (for adventure biking).
Blimey...what's the engine?
Re: Flat-Tracker, Street-Scrambler, Custom-Bobber. Why Retro is the future (for adventure biking).
Greetings Richard,
I think that the engine might have been an Indian with a belt drive but I do not know for certain. I was just so spell bound by the finish and I could not hear the chap's voice clearly. I shall definitely look out for it around the Stockport and Whaley Bridge areas.
TTFN
Hugh.
I think that the engine might have been an Indian with a belt drive but I do not know for certain. I was just so spell bound by the finish and I could not hear the chap's voice clearly. I shall definitely look out for it around the Stockport and Whaley Bridge areas.
TTFN
Hugh.