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wr6133
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PostPosted: 15:50 - 11 Sep 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

Royal Enfield of London, what a soppy muppet, he made it with eBay bits.

Mushrooms are starting to appear so he must have been tripping when typing the price. That or he is so stupid he'd be best used as fertiliser.

Pod filter on a throttle body + the exhaust and no mention of a PCV (infact no PCV as I can see the stock o2 sensor). Mileage is low because it's running so lean it's probably killed itself already.

*edit* - the round can is an actual old chocolate truffle tin, he didn't even paint the sides you can see the writing
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PostPosted: 15:51 - 11 Sep 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

wr6133 wrote:

Pod filter on a throttle body + the exhaust and no mention of a PCV (infact no PCV as I can see the stock o2 sensor). Mileage is low because it's running so lean it's probably killed itself already.


Which is probably why the paint on the exhaust is flaking.
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PostPosted: 15:55 - 11 Sep 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

It just seems so lazy, from front to back, and top to bottom. That's the sort of bike that bike meet culture creates. I think scramblers should instead be built by the sort of person who takes off their plate and heads out to the forest at night. Even aesthetically, this one makes no sense. Mid-20th century cellulose-like paint tone, brown seat that doesn't flow right, etc. Compare it with the MZ springer monstrosity - whoever did that understood proportion and visual consistency. While both bikes are unrideable (one more than the other) and both could have been in a Judas Priest music video in the early 80s, one of them is even more unrideable and would look better in that video.
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PostPosted: 15:56 - 11 Sep 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's almost hurtful that it started off as a near identical bike to the one I own and love dearly.
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PostPosted: 16:05 - 11 Sep 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

arry wrote:
Which is probably why the paint on the exhaust is flaking.


Might be why he sprayed it, it's probably all golden coloured underneath. It'll run like a bag of wank, the american forum has some good data over a few threads about airbox and filter mods to the efi bikes, at no juncture does bin the airbox and put on a pod feature in it, infact the ACE intake mods retain the airbox they just improve on how it flows (and cost something like £200 Shocked ).
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PostPosted: 16:39 - 11 Sep 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

wr6133 wrote:


*edit* - the round can is an actual old chocolate truffle tin, he didn't even paint the sides you can see the writing



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I didn't notice that. What a plonker.
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PostPosted: 16:43 - 11 Sep 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

wr6133 wrote:

*edit* - the round can is an actual old chocolate truffle tin, he didn't even paint the sides you can see the writing



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PostPosted: 17:55 - 11 Sep 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

arry wrote:
It's almost hurtful that it started off as a near identical bike to the one I own and love dearly.


You ride yours a lot, probably because you bought it after having ridden lots of other types of bikes over the years. There's something inimitable about big singles. They have that connected feeling when you're riding them, that put-put sound, etc. On the other hand, when that guy bought his Bullet, it was all about the looks. There may have been an initial burst of enthusiasm, but 300-400 ish miles... He doesn't "get" that bike at all. It could have been any bike... Probably too soon for him to get one of those.
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PostPosted: 03:32 - 17 Sep 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

WD Forte wrote:
This nauseating, bad form over function pile of shite started out at £6000
and was last seen offered for £2500 which is still ten times as much as the
few useful parts are worth.

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/Y70AAOSwztRerZ3~/s-l1600.jpg


£1200 now and no takers
just needs tio drop about a grand and it'll fly out the shop
as spares
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PostPosted: 11:25 - 17 Sep 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

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£30 Chinese shocks* - check

The bike has only 390 miles on it, and that's because of those shocks.

* These are as stiff as struts, so they turn the bike into a secret hardtail


Absolutely this I once had some on my XJ and it turned the thing into an unrideable bucking bronco on any uneven road. I confess to knowing jack-shit about suspension but even I could detect these are worthless.. and yet it seems every brat/tracker/bobber shite-hawk shitter features them. You can tell them a mile off with that shroud and the nylon separator between teh 'dual rate' springs..
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PostPosted: 17:13 - 17 Sep 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

A100man wrote:

Absolutely this I once had some on my XJ and it turned the thing into an unrideable bucking bronco on any uneven road. I confess to knowing jack-shit about suspension but even I could detect these are worthless.. and yet it seems every brat/tracker/bobber shite-hawk shitter features them. You can tell them a mile off with that shroud and the nylon separator between teh 'dual rate' springs..


If you wanted a stiffer suspension setup on your 1990s Toyota Land Cruiser, they would be the perfect shocks.

The major problem with bike shocks is that the good ones cost too much. Shocks are either very expensive, or very cheap, and there's nothing in between. I sort of found something in between, in the form of Harley shocks (people who buy new Harleys immediately replace their shocks, so these new/unused standard ones end up on the market). I then went back to original Kawasaki shocks. I will do a write-up on the Harley shocks one day, and will try to word it so the Harleyists don't get too upset, but, to be frank, I don't know which is worse: Harley shocks which fail dangerously, or Chinese "shocks" which are just like iron bars.
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PostPosted: 15:22 - 20 Oct 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't like to see a good thread die, so..

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SUZUKI-HARD-TAIL-BOBBER-X-REG-400cc-UNFINISHED-PROJECT-LOTS-WORK-DONE/324335605314

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PostPosted: 15:33 - 20 Oct 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

Is that Meccano?
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PostPosted: 15:39 - 20 Oct 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

That is certainly a very curious looking frame colour/wrap/paint !? Question
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PostPosted: 15:42 - 20 Oct 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

I love the way they got almost everything to clash Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 16:18 - 20 Oct 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

A100man wrote:
Shocked Why?

The number plate is so nearly visible in this photo. https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/qokAAOSw2lxfSjKz/s-l1600.jpg
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PostPosted: 16:52 - 20 Oct 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ste wrote:
A100man wrote:
Shocked Why?

The number plate is so nearly visible in this photo. https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/qokAAOSw2lxfSjKz/s-l1600.jpg


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PostPosted: 17:42 - 20 Oct 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

That hurts my eyes.
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PostPosted: 19:06 - 20 Oct 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

Fisty wrote:
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YNC 49X Registrered at a GSXR, last MOT'd in 2012


Jeez - what part f that frame is original GSX-R? Presumably just the head-stock.
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PostPosted: 20:25 - 20 Oct 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

It looks like something a clown would ride in the circus . . .
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PostPosted: 08:50 - 21 Oct 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

A100man wrote:
Fisty wrote:
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YNC 49X Registrered at a GSXR, last MOT'd in 2012


Jeez - what part f that frame is original GSX-R? Presumably just the head-stock.


Not even that. Looks to be a custom steel frame, even the earliest GSXRs were an aluminium alloy frame.

This may still be legal somehow, I trying to dredge up half-remembered SVA rules. There was a system where various bits of the original bike were awarded points, and if you had enough points through retaining original parts you could keep the registration. In this case it may retain the original engine, wheels, forks and brakes (where fitted).

Not that it matters. This thing is going to be scrapped.
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PostPosted: 09:57 - 21 Oct 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

How can something painted basically black and red look so bad, and that's before you get onto the engineering.

Talking of which, is that black stockings used as air filters?? Laughing
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PostPosted: 11:40 - 21 Oct 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

If you're going to all the bother of making a frame then surely you'd plan to route the cables through the tubing. Also air cooled for this style of bike. Oil rad at a push.
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PostPosted: 13:19 - 21 Oct 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

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...LOTS OF STAINLESS NUTS AND BOLTS

Laughing one hell of a selling point there. You'd think they would put some good information in the description, like it doesn't have a front brake.

I always wonder if who ever made these bikes stopped and realised how shit it was just before they finished it so flogged it onto the next idiot.
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PostPosted: 14:27 - 21 Oct 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote

The engine is GSXR400 GK71F / Impulse. The ideal engine for a nice torquey custom bike.
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