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Posted: 14:33 - 02 Jul 2019 Post subject: Sinnis Scrambler Restoration For Dirtquake 2019 |
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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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Posted: 21:59 - 02 Jul 2019 Post subject: |
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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. ____________________ Things get better with age; I'm close to being magnificent........
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