The Obligatory Post Your Bike Topic

[Pantah]

Nice bike! What other Ducatis have you been lucky to have owned...?

[Pierre Col]

916 (stolen), 900 SS carb (given to a friend), 926 prototype (916 chassis with 888 SP5 racing big bore engine, sold) and 350 Madrk III Desmo (sold). All pics on http://www.pierrecol.com/gb/ducati.html

[ieism]

Nice! I saw one the other day, they sound amazing. But I still prefer the 350 you had before.

[chakraist]

I've just got myself a CB500 for £280 and a full system for it for £75. Another £200 or so and it'll be ready for the CB500 cup next year. Watch this space

[Gustav O]

I've just got myself a CB500 for £280 and a full system for it for £75. Another £200 or so and it'll be ready for the CB500 cup next year. Watch this space

Good on you. I´ll wait for race reports!

[motomania]

I've just got myself a CB500 for £280 and a full system for it for £75. Another £200 or so and it'll be ready for the CB500 cup next year. Watch this space

Great to hear, another career to follow

[chakraist]

I should be so lucky Thinking of selling my road bike, getting a driving license and using the spare money to fund a few races.

I think this might be post 300 for me. Thanks all, you're universally great.

[Pantah]

Im posting this up for my brother (as requested)......His MHR with his two boys in the saddle.....When he bought this bike he offloaded his Pantah 600SL to me.........A good deal where both parties came out happy.... The MHR is a great bike.Heaps of torque.The clutch is a little heavy,to say the least...............

[Cam D]

When I was in my teens I watched Geoff French and Pete Byers throw a couple of these babies around Lakeside and Surfers Paradise like they were toys! They weren't light Nice bit of gear though!

[Pantah]

When I was in my teens I watched Geoff French and Pete Byers throw a couple of these babies around Lakeside and Surfers Paradise like they were toys! They weren't light Nice bit of gear though!

Hard yakka in traffic....especially with that clutch...Ok if you have been riding the bike regularly,but if you havnt,your forearm can stop functioning and its inpossible to operate the clutch!

[Richo]

There is a guy here in Mildura who has an MHR. He found it in a paddock. The previous owner had taken a tumble off it and pushed it into the paddock in disgust. It is now fully restored, and a beautiful looking bike.

[Pantah]

There is a guy here in Mildura who has an MHR. He found it in a paddock. The previous owner had taken a tumble off it and pushed it into the paddock in disgust. It is now fully restored, and a beautiful looking bike.

Thats a nice find........

[kerm74]

NIce one Pantah - nice bike and some handsome kids to boot.

[Pantah]

NIce one Pantah - nice bike and some handsome kids to boot.

Welcome to the forum,Kerm........I reckon those kids would also look cool on something like a ......2 stroke 250 perhaps....., I

[TwoStroke Institute]

Here you go Pantah I'll raise you in the shed stakes



Not much now but will no longer be a mere 'shed' but a 'facility' in the finest F1 spin doctor speak
Probably enough room for a 23.....................

[heng47]

Your 'shed' occupies as much space as a typical house or two over here

[Pantah]

Cool.....Its fun building a shed.......I wish mine could have been bigger....Thats the problem,the bigger the shed the more bikes I will end up needing to fill it..........gets expensive after a while.....
Are you putting up a prefab steel shed or doing it with your own image and imagination?

[TwoStroke Institute]

Luckily it will be mostly other peoples bikes Heng it's only 50sqm(biggest the council will allow) there will be a 3X6m awning to the RHS. It's a pre fab steel & colourbond. Arrives on monday, slab will be down today.I wouldn't leave it to my imagination otherwise the whole house would be demolished and replaced with a big shed, full of shiny machine tools. Will be luxury as I will have separate 'clean' and 'dirty' areas, then divided into bays for each individual task.
Be disappointed if I can't see it on google earth

[Oscar]

There must be something in the water.... I'm in the middle of a protracted shed-building phase also. After spending too many years with the wood and metal work mixed in the one shed (ruination for metalworking tools) I went ballistic and now have a co-joined cluster of half-completed shedlets: 6m x 4.8 for wood (the original 1950's vintage shed) with a new metal shop (6 x 5.4 metres), attached garage (6 x 4 metres), and adjoining Fibreglass/paint shop made out of foamcore steel panels (like a coolroom) for temp and humidity-controlled environment of 6 x 5 metres approx. Metal, garage and f/glass shop with heated slab floors - as one needs here in the bloody highlands. Industrial-strength slow combustion stove in the wood facility which should be quite adequate to blow the roof off if I make enough sawdust...

Now all I need to do is a) finish everything, b) learn how to use my new toys (high-precision toolroom lathe, nice combi woodworking machine etc. properly), and c) live long enough to make enough things to justify the time and cost of the facility.

On the other hand, it's kept me from doing genuinely naughty things for most of this year so far, apart from a VT250 restoration, so I guess I'm ahead.

[Brad]

Here's my motley collection:



I have had the Guzzi for many years (my only ride, commuter, tourer) and have just taken it off the road for a well-deserved makeover. It will be getting re-done as a 750S3 lookalike in black/green. No engine work to be done as I zero'd the motor not so long ago.

At PI:


I have had the Bandit for about a month now and it is a bloody torque-monster. Woot! I have just come back from a solo 4 day, 2200km ride through the Blue Mountains to the Snowy Mountains down into northern Victoria for a Guzzi rally, back through the Snowy, down to the south coast of NSW and back up to Sydney. Mag-bloody-nificent!!



~ Brad

[Richo]

Nice one Brad. I've always loved those Le Mans Guzzi's

[Pantah]

Yep,me too....Nice 850...

[Tumi]

I very nearly bought a later 1000 Le Mans some 15 years ago. 1993 Iron Butt Rally was won by Steve Attwood on a 1983 Le Mans Mk III. Eleven days, 12458 miles and the last 150 miles on one cylinder. There was a nice story about it in Motorcyclist magazine in 1994 or 1995.

[JTECH]

I finally got these to load!

[phil]

how do you post pictures?

Go here and read the thread.