The Audio-Talk Motorcycling thread.

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pre65 wrote: Tue Jun 15, 2021 10:22 pm
steve s wrote: Tue Jun 15, 2021 10:10 pm
I pick a new one up on Saturday
What a bike... so easy to ride, I loved it.
My hi fi is on the back burner once more
Nice one Steve, I'm pleased for you. :)
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I had too google ktm Super Duke 1290r 2021. Stripped back look I like. I can see why you like it. When I was top rider at A to Z couriers City office and Damon Hill road for West One I would have been at home on such a bike. The anti lock brakes would have saved me from quite a few face plants around London. Tarmac is as hard as a block of granite. We had no such technology. Congrats.
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https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auct ... 4a01175f4f

Does anyone dream about a bike they owned? If only I'd been able to afford to keep my '81 bevel 900ss Ducati when I was buying my first house. A nice investment to be sure.
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Michael L wrote: Sun Jun 27, 2021 1:31 pm https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auct ... 4a01175f4f

Does anyone dream about a bike they owned? If only I'd been able to afford to keep my '81 bevel 900ss Ducati when I was buying my first house. A nice investment to be sure.
I had a Dahmer years ago but if I dreamt about it, it would be a nightmare. I enjoyed the bike but could not live with its unreliability and moved it on. But there was something a bit special about the bevels not found in the belt models. And I don't mean just bevels!
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Ooh, Mike's been up to Peebles ...
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And I don't mean just bevels!
Maybe you mean the shims to stop the bevel gears eating themself. And of course the box of shims you needed to set the valve clearance, but my Pantah needed those shims as well. Lucky the local bike shop (who was a Ducati dealer) had a box of them sorted by size they would let you take away as long as there was the same number of shims in the box when it came back.
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Michael L wrote: Sun Jun 27, 2021 1:31 pm Does anyone dream about a bike they owned?
Yep, this, it was once mine...

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Flippin' bonkers. It was awful, but now so valuable. I could buy a Norman Nippy and Sunbeam S8 now with the proceeds of selling it now and be much happier!
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Lovely dave, I once owned a kawasaki kr1s, equally bonkers, another bike I wish I'd kept.
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#909 Re: The Audio-Talk Motorcycling thread.

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8) I liked those too, and the earlier KR1.
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#910 Re: The Audio-Talk Motorcycling thread.

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Couple of pics of my new bike
It's a bit quick.. maybe too quick
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Bad ass
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Sometimes you’re friends have to ask you, which bike are you selling now you have yet another?
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Paul Barker wrote: Fri Jul 02, 2021 10:21 am Sometimes you’re friends have to ask you, which bike are you selling now you have yet another?
I part ex'd the bike I got last year for this one Paul. I only ride the new bikes, and I dont need any more than one new one.
The old ones get the odd ride around the block.
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Dave the bass wrote: Thu Jul 01, 2021 9:59 pm
Michael L wrote: Sun Jun 27, 2021 1:31 pm Does anyone dream about a bike they owned?

Flippin' bonkers. It was awful, but now so valuable. I could buy a Norman Nippy and Sunbeam S8 now with the proceeds of selling it now and be much happier!
The Norman Nippy I can understand, but are you serious about that dreadful BSA?
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Baggy Trousers wrote: Sat Jul 03, 2021 8:21 pm The Norman Nippy I can understand, but are you serious about that dreadful BSA?
Yup. Sunbeam S8, in shiny black please.

Apart from being overpriced, never successful, a complete flop, not fast or even any good in the 1st place... I can't see any negatives about them really.
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