Author Topic: 500cc Bantam - I kid you not!  (Read 688 times)

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Re: 500cc Bantam - I kid you not!
« Reply #1 on: 22.06. 2015 22:14 »
 ::hh::

Bit slow through the bend though... *smile*
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Re: 500cc Bantam - I kid you not!
« Reply #2 on: 23.06. 2015 20:29 »
Imagine hitting the power band *????* As the front wheel comes up the spokes are torn out of the back wheel, and as it comes down the front end snaps off. it must be safe it's got a disc on the front. *work*
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Re: 500cc Bantam - I kid you not!
« Reply #3 on: 24.06. 2015 04:11 »
reminded me of some mates who fitted an RD400 into an Nzeta scooter back in the early 80's, luckily it used to starve fuel from around 80mph. But another interesting death trap. ( originally a CZ powered scooter sold in NZ!)



 
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Re: 500cc Bantam - I kid you not!
« Reply #4 on: 24.06. 2015 14:11 »
If we're talking silly death traps my entry as got to be  a friends Trifeld, 650 T110 motor in an Enfield frame , downtubes cut, massive engine plates went like sh1t of the proverbial shovel but didn't stop and oh how it weaved on bends ,I had the misfortune to be on the back one day when it crossed the white line (we were in the Yorkshire moors at the time ) just has a Cortina did the same ,result my leg battered onto the rear rack ,( didn't know I could do the spits til then  *roll*) and Bruce, piloting the thing  got a very badly injured foot where the kickstarter squashed his foot against the peg (also took a coil of metal out of the side of the car neatly rolled into the nook of the kickstarter ,when we got back to civilisation Liverpool  *whistle*the bike was seen no more !!  *work* *wink2*Bob
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Re: 500cc Bantam - I kid you not!
« Reply #5 on: 24.06. 2015 15:32 »
If we're talking silly death traps...
Blimey you were very lucky  *wink2*
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Re: 500cc Bantam - I kid you not!
« Reply #6 on: 24.06. 2015 16:31 »
Hi GB , yesindeedy and I don't think it even fazzed us but at 17 you're (we were all ) bulletproof weren't we !! Cheers Bob
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