New Project '59 Experto Crede

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

Matching lid was good fun...not even gonna try cycle helmets!

Bars Nitto Cromo...replacing Maes Bars, nicer curve tbh, and really for safety -much as I like Hiduminium, there's a shelf life. Reynolds curly stem..bit naff, but seems to fit with the bike's lugs.

And those GB lever's, that must stay -did think of putting friction shifters on the side of them? Seen some on the front of the levers -brain has been thinking 3 x 5...hmmm

You are an artist sir, very nice. I wish I had that sort of talent.
My twopenneth. We're getting older, bar cons. I'm not keen on those levers next to the brake, I think they're ugly. The Reynolds stem works well, the shelf life of old alloy bars is a thing. I think a sensible decision.

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

What a great project and thread! And being tagged in on this page full of motorbikes too!

I use to ride, but sold my GSXR track bike quite a while ago now and then sold my wife's first generation R6 during lockdown. Reminds me, I still have a load of body work and OEM silencer from her bike I need to sell...

Loving those FZR's!!!

I was never fast enough to need a track bike. Thread derailment commencing

 

[27motorhead]

I was never fast enough to need a track bike. Thread derailment commencing

I was an absolute idiot on a motorbike when I was younger. Never had a car so it was used to go from London to Wales to race (cycling!) on weekends. I had to ring my mum once I was back in London to say I had arrived safe. I use to leave it at least 30min due to the speed I rode at!

Life got busy when I bought a house and living in London it was easier to cycle everywhere, plus with limited time every ride was a training ride to stay race fit. The motorbike got used less on the road once I got given a free car (much more handy for house renovation!) the motorbike was converted to a track bike with minimalist lights so it still had an MOT for road use. It was a lot safer to ride like an idiot on the track than on the road and had lots of fun, but lack of time forced its sale.

We still talk about getting a vintage scrambler to ride around on... but guessed what, I have another house renovation in the way, plus one or two push bikes that need TLC!

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

I was an absolute idiot on a motorbike when I was younger. Never had a car so it was used to go from London to Wales to race (cycling!) on weekends. I had to ring my mum once I was back in London to say I had arrived safe. I use to leave it at least 30min due to the speed I rode at!

Life got busy when I bought a house and living in London it was easier to cycle everywhere, plus with limited time every ride was a training ride to stay race fit. The motorbike got used less on the road once I got given a free car (much more handy for house renovation!) the motorbike was converted to a track bike with minimalist lights so it still had an MOT for road use. It was a lot safer to ride like an idiot on the track than on the road and had lots of fun, but lack of time forced its sale.

We still talk about getting a vintage scrambler to ride around on... but guessed what, I have another house renovation in the way, plus one or two push bikes that need TLC!

A quote from my friend concerning the FZR "Every time you turn the key to start that bike, you are one step closer to God".
Make of that what you will. Sold shortly before I started seeing Jo.

 

[Jez Nemeth]

Indeed! LOL...Superb...both been there...I still miss my Beemer! ...hey, ho

Found that Rotax Pic! Both Selbach's And my Kat Sprint bikes -Thing 1 and 2 (factory tuned Yoshi!), couple of fun timers...and the only two I have now, Both 1952, Thumpy, a 500 Comet and Bam-Bam (a 833cc single, runs on Alcohol and Nos -ex Joh Renwick, Makes 100bhp!!).

I'm gonna get thrown off the forum for deviation on my first post

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

Katanas

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

The Comet is nice too. A lot of us here have ridden or still ride. You appear to have found your tribe

 

[Jez Nemeth]

My god parallel lives! Horses on the farm in Australia were replaced by Jap crossers in the early 70's, started there. Always mountain biked -its Wales you would -but got into road bikes after using one as a camera platform in 2009 where I pushed it along the whole Welsh Coast path and filmed every inch of it, 1000 miles Chepstow to Chester -Used the bike to cycle back to my camper at the end of a day's walking. Walk 30 miles, cycle the same, sometimes less or more depending on terrain. Was a popular website for a time, did the same from Tilbury to Exmouth, a lot of the coast path is cycle-able, especially South coast...Chris Lewis is a mate, and we were both interviewed in Last Nov's Juno Magazine, he'd walked the whole of the UK coast line in 7 years, I was gonna film is, as a record.

Anyway started cycling to work 70 miles round trip a day, not fast pretty flat -from here over the Severn and into the middle of Bristol...racking up huge milages each week, 400+ weekly -joined Chepstow Wheelers who thought I was a something because of the Strava miles! First ride out the fast group realised I could do the distances, but nowhere close on the speed...so dabbled in Audax, loved it. Then Leaving work one evening, hit the rail tracks at the M-shed in Bristol at a hell of a lick, bike twisted, feet in clamps, ripped out all ligaments in left knee and shattered it. Rode home, and because of that they didn't investigate further, took 6 months to diagnose what I'd done.... 6 years ago -so need another bike to get me back into it, and a new bike, new project has the power to get you up and enthusiastic again -simple.

 

[Jez Nemeth]

The Comet is nice too. A lot of us here have ridden or still ride. You appear to have found your tribe

That has got to be the best welcome ever...
thx mate

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

That has got to be the best welcome ever...
thx mate

No problem mate, do you have a link for the website you mentioned? As a boy I used to go to Tilbury docks and watch the ships come in.
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