Motard talk

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (roger-m @ Feb 9 2007, 10:46 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>one thing i didnt realise before i read that mag was it was that .... ken clarks fault that i was confined to a 125 when half my mates were on 250s because he changed the law just before my birthday. i hate that prick even more now, but god bless yamaha for bringing out a 125 that was legal and kicked the ... out of the 250 dreams my mates were riding. :lol:do ypou remember the x5 and x7 pete


Oh hell yeah!!!! A guy i knew hada red X7, spannies, ace bars, and Sheene leathers and Helmet. And he could wheelie it well good!!!!

The X5 and X7 were just calling out for Heron paint jobs werent they! The other ones Ive come very close to buying a few times are KH 250s and 400s. I'd love to have an H2 for sunny days, but there was a while that I really wanted a KH or S1 250. I've grown up now though.

Have I hell, I still want a nice smelly proper motorbike for sunny days!!!!! What about an H2 engine in a YPVS chassis?????

I can here Google cry enough as we talk!


Pete

this goes far far over my head. Well all except the ypvs, rd related stuff i can follow that.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Tom @ Feb 9 2007, 11:14 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>this goes far far over my head. Well all except the ypvs, rd related stuff i can follow that.
depends on how old you are tom. im pushing 40 so these were the bikes of my era that we all kicked about on. the x5 was a 200 cc 2 stroke twin and the x7 was a 250 suzuki, those and the rd's were the yobs bikes other than that you had 250m superdream which is a 4 stroke slug or old brit bike ,whitch are cool but the strokers just pissed all over them. H2 is a kwak nutter bike, killed more yanks than the veit con.

well i was 20 this week so i only know as much as i can google . Seriously though i do pick bits up here and there from listening to older people talk about it or just browsing book sor old bike mags. Still hard for me to picture it all. Am i being totally foolish in sayng that h2 kawasaki thing had a turbo or something?

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (roger-m @ Feb 9 2007, 11:25 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>depends on how old you are tom. im pushing 40 so these were the bikes of my era that we all kicked about on. the x5 was a 200 cc 2 stroke twin and the x7 was a 250 suzuki, those and the rd's were the yobs bikes other than that you had 250m superdream which is a 4 stroke slug or old brit bike ,whitch are cool but the strokers just pissed all over them. H2 is a kwak nutter bike, killed more yanks than the veit con.


The H2 also smelled nicer than the VC


Pete

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Tom @ Feb 9 2007, 11:31 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>well i was 20 this week so i only know as much as i can google . Seriously though i do pick bits up here and there from listening to older people talk about it or just browsing book sor old bike mags. Still hard for me to picture it all. Am i being totally foolish in sayng that h2 kawasaki thing had a turbo or something?
no turbos were not on any road vehicle back then i dont think. it was a 750 2 stroke tripple that excerated hard enough to rip your arms out and the brakes were made out of wood and the frame was made out of chewing gum, it was one scary bike and i want one.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (basspete @ Feb 9 2007, 11:31 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>The H2 also smelled nicer than the VC
Pete
i agree "i love the smell of shell R in the morning"

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Tom @ Feb 9 2007, 11:31 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>well i was 20 this week so i only know as much as i can google . Seriously though i do pick bits up here and there from listening to older people talk about it or just browsing book sor old bike mags. Still hard for me to picture it all. Am i being totally foolish in sayng that h2 kawasaki thing had a turbo or something?


The H2 was an early 70s 2 stroke triple, very basic no reed valves, no power valves, very fast, very bad handling...The H2R was the racing version. See above but worse!

I think you are thinking of the Z1R, you could buy that with a turbo, it was also very very silly!


Pete

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (basspete @ Feb 9 2007, 11:45 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>2 stroke triple

I want one

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Tom @ Feb 9 2007, 11:54 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>I want one
and the kettle of which we speak is a suzuki GT750 liquid cooled tripple, very sexy looking bike

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (teomolca @ Jan 4 2007, 08:58 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>I would go for the Ninja 600, but if you're interested in motards take a look at the Aprilia SXV.

550cc V-twin, style, uniqueness, power and light as a feather.

Aprilia SXV
Someone just told me about having to re-sleeve this bike every 5000 km's. I still lust for it, but I'd bet once the amount of cash it takes to keep it running, I'll be getting a 400/450 thumper.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Traverser @ Feb 13 2007, 12:56 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Someone just told me about having to re-sleeve this bike every 5000 km's. I still lust for it, but I'd bet once the amount of cash it takes to keep it running, I'll be getting a 400/450 thumper.
no way you would have to re-sleeve any road bike for ten's of thousands of miles,if at all. esp with modern synthetic oils engine ware is pretty much non exsistant. even on a race bike i wouldnt expect cyclinder liner ware. may be rings now and again. ask you mate to give us more info on this because if he is right i wouldnt touch one with a barge pole.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (roger-m @ Feb 13 2007, 12:17 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>and the kettle of which we speak is a suzuki GT750 liquid cooled tripple, very sexy looking bike


Remember the old Dunstall Heron painted Kettle, with the full fairing, spannies and ace bars? I saw one in Edinburgh when I was a kid just amazed me. I saw my first H2 on the same holiday!

The Sondel Yams were the business too, full faired RDs with Roberts paintwork, and lets not forget the KH race reps, was it Crosby Kawasaki that did the bodywork for them?

A mate of mine has a 1980 Kork Ballington rep z250 twin, it's just not the same though is it!

Pete

seeing you like the green id be going for a kx 500. but if it were me id be after a cr500 something like this;

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (thek @ Feb 18 2007, 09:34 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>seeing you like the green id be going for a kx 500. but if it were me id be after a cr500 something like this;
ooooh man thats tastey

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (thek @ Feb 18 2007, 09:34 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>seeing you like the green id be going for a kx 500. but if it were me id be after a cr500 something like this;

Very nice mate, I saw a couple of motards yesterday out an about, a DRZ and a Husaberg. Should have the Tenere finished for the start of March, not a motard, I do like my Dakar reps, itchin to get it back on the road. (and off!) Still think it needs a motard to share the shed with though, it would have to be a matching blue TDR or TTR though, just coz I want my shed to look like Peterhansels would have in the late 80s, early 90s!

Pete

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (basspete @ Feb 19 2007, 02:06 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Very nice mate, I saw a couple of motards yesterday out an about, a DRZ and a Husaberg. Should have the Tenere finished for the start of March, not a motard, I do like my Dakar reps, itchin to get it back on the road. (and off!) Still think it needs a motard to share the shed with though, it would have to be a matching blue TDR or TTR though, just coz I want my shed to look like Peterhansels would have in the late 80s, early 90s!

Pete


Just found this, a 1988 tt600 supermoto, not blue but I want one!
And a tin of blue paint!!!

Pete