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Cheeseybeaner
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PostPosted: 16:56 - 01 Jan 2012    Post subject: The girl with the dragon tattoo Reply with quote

Wow! What a film, the Trent Reznor opening sequence was good enough (a led zep cover coupled with amazing visuals) but a great storyline too full of suspense.

Anyone identified the bike? Looks like a very early Honda twin cafe'd.

Loved the bike scenes, an added bonus to the rest of the more than gripping film.

Well worth watching.
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PostPosted: 16:58 - 01 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Custom Honda CL350; https://theselvedgeyard.wordpress.com/2011/12/12/the-epic-bike-build-goes-to-glory-the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo/#more-27997

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PostPosted: 17:27 - 01 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Haven't seen the new one but watched the trilogy of originals..
I think in those she was on a drz400 if I remember rightly.
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PostPosted: 19:00 - 01 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Looking at it I'd say it's actually a cb350 rather than the cl scrambler version, given the metal fork shrouds and tank shape.

They seem to have fitted high rise pipes from the cl scrambler version unusually with knobbly tyres and ace bars a little incongruous but somehow works...Either way I like it and adds to the mystique of the Lisbeth character.
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PostPosted: 23:50 - 01 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

In the books its actually supposed to be a kawasaki ke175 which i think it is in the oriinal swedish ones Very Happy did like the look of the honda though, was definatley a small cc bike
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PostPosted: 03:48 - 02 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cheeseybeaner wrote:
Looking at it I'd say it's actually a cb350 rather than the cl scrambler version, given the metal fork shrouds and tank shape.

They seem to have fitted high rise pipes from the cl scrambler version unusually with knobbly tyres and ace bars a little incongruous but somehow works...Either way I like it and adds to the mystique of the Lisbeth character.


Article suggests its a CL350, and the pics are of the guy putting them together Thinking
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PostPosted: 06:09 - 02 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

i d/l it but it was the original dubbed version...brilliant movie Very Happy
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Cheeseybeaner
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PostPosted: 16:54 - 02 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Maruchino wrote:
Cheeseybeaner wrote:
Looking at it I'd say it's actually a cb350 rather than the cl scrambler version, given the metal fork shrouds and tank shape.

They seem to have fitted high rise pipes from the cl scrambler version unusually with knobbly tyres and ace bars a little incongruous but somehow works...Either way I like it and adds to the mystique of the Lisbeth character.


Article suggests its a CL350, and the pics are of the guy putting them together Thinking



This one says they're cb350s:

https://www.bikeexif.com/motorcycle-movie

That's the wrong tank shape for the cl350 and it would have had rubber gaiters rather than metal fork shrouds too though technically they're the same bike underneath it all though one had 'trail' pretensions.

Looks the same as this but for the cl pipes they've fitted:

https://www.honda350k.com/cbk1_2.jpg


Curious to see that Honda went from the the arguably more 'modern' earlier square tank shape to a more rounded look after a few years yet did the opposite with the cb750. The earlier ones look much more like late 70s styled bikes.
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PostPosted: 17:05 - 02 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

was a great film. that bike sounded awesome, and i now want one.

I might buy my grandad's old royal enfield off him just for this... Mr. Green

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Cheeseybeaner
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PostPosted: 22:43 - 02 Jan 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

The sort of dream biker girl you'd never imagined could exist yet who probably wouldn't be even remotely interested in you! I kind of fancy her...
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