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Hoodlum90
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PostPosted: 14:33 - 02 Jul 2019    Post subject: Sinnis Scrambler Restoration For Dirtquake 2019 Reply with quote
Here's a YouTube series that I'm filming where we are restoring a Sinnis Scrambler scrap bike in order to enter it into Dirtquake 2019. Is anyone interested in this kind of content?

Series playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxibxl55VaN-mUREavF4MrI66RAbY-B6n
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stevo as b4
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PostPosted: 18:23 - 02 Jul 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'd be interested to follow your vids if it was a real scrambler bike not a Chinese hipster bike/street scrambler exercise.

Maybe get hold of a 70's or early 80's RM or KX and use that for your video content instead?

Your bike is a Vague marginal street scrambler, from a brand with no heratige or classic history. So firstly it's missing provenance and kudos. Secondly what is a road legal street scrambler even any good for?? Knobblie tyres combined with road bike suspension travel and limited ground clearance don't seem ideal for any kind of riding to me?
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Shaft
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PostPosted: 21:59 - 02 Jul 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
stevo as b4 wrote:
I'd be interested to follow your vids if it was a real scrambler bike not a Chinese hipster bike/street scrambler exercise.

Maybe get hold of a 70's or early 80's RM or KX and use that for your video content instead?

Your bike is a Vague marginal street scrambler, from a brand with no heratige or classic history. So firstly it's missing provenance and kudos. Secondly what is a road legal street scrambler even any good for?? Knobblie tyres combined with road bike suspension travel and limited ground clearance don't seem ideal for any kind of riding to me?



I think you're missing the point of Dirtquake, it's basically speedway with more bikes per heat and mostly for machines that aren't ideally suited to the role, to the point where your suggestions are actively against the spirit of the competition.

In fact, I think there might even be an entire class for bikes that are totally inappropriate for dirt racing, in a sort of "how fucking ridiculous can you be?" challenge.

I seem to remember Guy Martin did it a couple of years ago, possibly on a Harley chopper, complete with raked out frame and very extended forks.

I'm not sure I would choose a 4T 125 for the job, unless you could gear it for on demand rear wheel spinning, but a knackered old Sinnis is cheap way to get into it, plus it comes with (semi) knobblies, so that's another few quid saved.
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PostPosted: 10:00 - 03 Jul 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
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I'd be interested to follow your vids if it was a real scrambler bike not a Chinese hipster bike/street scrambler exercise.

Maybe get hold of a 70's or early 80's RM or KX and use that for your video content instead?

Your bike is a Vague marginal street scrambler, from a brand with no heratige or classic history. So firstly it's missing provenance and kudos. Secondly what is a road legal street scrambler even any good for?? Knobblie tyres combined with road bike suspension travel and limited ground clearance don't seem ideal for any kind of riding to me?


We actually applied for the inappropriate road bike category, and Dirtquake put us into street tracker! So they chose to fling a 125 shitter into that group. Maybe they want to add a little terror to the event Laughing

But I think shaft is right, the spirit is more about a rag tag bunch of motorcycle enthusiasts coming together to rip it round a dirt track. For the love of motorcycling!
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