Thumper Club Forum
Club House => Chatter => Topic started by: timbo on October 28, 2015, 10:30:27 PM
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Yes, its that time of year again, when I bring a few bikes into the house for the winter. I've broken my record today, and brought another four bikes in, which makes eight in total, including six in the living room :)
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Either you're not married or if you are does your wife have a free sister!
My bikes will spend another winter under their wet car port, but that just means I have to use them regularly to get rid of the condensation, bonus! I do have a small parafin heater in the garage to keep condensation off my tools but I only use it as a workshop and not to keep the bikes in.
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Tim. You just HAVE to post a photo of the 8 bike lounge/living room. Absolute classic 8 in the living room, I know a bloke who has a fully restored yamaha fs1e in his living room and I thought that was pretty cool but 8 bikes WHAT A HERO. Photo please. Cheers Michael
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Its a compromise mate, two of the bikes are Alison's, and one of them, her Katana, has been in the back hallway for fifteen years! Plus she has three large dogs roaming round the house. Houses are for living in, not to be show homes. Just realised as I type this, there are four petrol tanks and a load of plastics sitting on the bench next to me ;)
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I should never have moved from my house to hers, different rules, got to be happy with a couple of engines knocking about the house although she did allow me to build my Harley chop in the house when I was incapacitated after my accident to stop me going stir crazy.
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Morning all, can,t see me getting away with that accident or no accident!! Looks like I,ll be stuck with going back in the workshop once I,m properly fit n able. Hopefully won,t be to long now as I,m just starting to get a little stir crazy now I,m starting to feel better. Tim. I still love the idea of an 8 bike living room, compromise or not. Good man
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her Katana, has been in the back hallway for fifteen years! ;)
oh, katana? in the house? do tell more, pic perhaps?
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Its a 750, but not of the white, gold framed, pop-up headlight variety. Jap import, 1982, looks exactly the same as the big Kats, with a loud Yoshi pipe :) I wont put up a photo, as its in a fairly rough state at the moment ;)
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Its a 750, but not of the white, gold framed, pop-up headlight variety. Jap import, 1982, looks exactly the same as the big Kats, with a loud Yoshi pipe :) I wont put up a photo, as its in a fairly rough state at the moment ;)
Sounds like my old one, didn't get it from the Swansea area did you? :)
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its a propper kat then, not a pop up. sounds cool.
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Yep, its currently in dry storage ;) To be resurrected some time.
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Hi Tim. So first off you make us all feel like total lightweights by telling us you,ve got not 1 but 8 bikes in your living room. Then you just add insult to injury (no pun intended) by just dropping it in there that one of the 8 mosheens just happens to be a katana. Respect my man, respect. Once almost bought a mini kat, it was the 400cc jap import version, just a scaled down version of the 1100. Lovely little thing, yet another bike that I "never bought" doh. Cheers. Michael
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been trying to take a few pics, but apparently we are in an anticyclonic gloom at the moment, so not much light about ;)
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Ahh. THE anti cyclonic gloom!!! So THAT,s why I feel so p......ed off. I,d just put it down to my 'get off' ;) ;) ;) ;)
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And? ???
Go on, give them an airing, you know it makes sense. ;)
My regards, Bill
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OK, here's a couple of photos, one bike behind the settee, and two tucked in under the window. so, for a bit of interest, what are they?
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You have a Ural!!! ( M66? .. though it looks like a Dnepr tank on it). I had one for many years, cracking bike in a sort of Russian steamroller kind of way. I was Newsletter Editor of the Cossack Owners Club for several years - worth joining the COC - Very friendly bunch of erm...
nutters interesting people... bit like the Thumper Club really. If you need to do any work on it I have a maintainance book which is very comprehensive that you can have if you need it.
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Ok, so the green bike is obviously an Armstrong MT500, though this one's a bit odd, in that it was originally red, and has alloy akront rims. Would it have been for ceremonial duties, or RMP? Anyone any ideas?
As for the other two, the orange one at the back is a Dnepr model 11, of 1982 vintage, and came with a right hand sidecar, which I can only describe as a hippy wagon. It is painted orange with a "Peace and Love" and a painting of a Llama on it. WTF! :o
You are indeed exactly right, the blue bike is a model 66 Ural with a Dnepr tank, this time of 1973 vintage. The guy I bought it from was going to café racer it, but thankfully didn't, as its in great order and even has the original K301 carbs fitted.
In the last couple of years, I've gone a bit mad buying bikes. Basically anything unusual, interesting, and more importantly cheap ;)
I don't go looking, they just come my way, but I've had to wise up as I've way too much stuff, no more room, and funds are drying up. In the past few weeks I've had to pass up on an SRX400, a Yamaha Serow, a Suzuki DR250 Djebl, and a really rough seized XBR.
Thanks for your offer Steve, I will PM you with details.
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It doesn't help my situation, when certain members of this forum have been encouraging Alison, on faceache, to purchase a Jawa outfit which has come up for sale locally! You know who you are you naughty boys :D
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Aye timbo,
Whilst not wishing to cause a riot ::) might I offer this remedial blog and its latest 20 minute video for Alison's delectation. Owner of the blog and his wife are well known in Norton Owners Club circles and have visited your neck of the woods on more than one occasion! Sometime pops in to borrow tools and drink tea at our place and good for the craic. :)
Gino's Blog Hebrides Tour 2015 (http://ginoontour.blogspot.co.uk/)
My regards, Bill
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Cheers Bill. Nice outfit, but Al will have to wait till I get the Ural on the road ;)
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Aye timbo,
The Ural may be a lot more reliable than the BM! :o
Various electrical gremlins and poor components have struck Gino's "Beer carrier", oft in remote places, resulting in bump starting on and off West Coast ferrys. ::)
The price of the components has also been called into question, on occasion.
I attach an image of a chariot owned by a Munich firefighter in the IoM for the MGP in 2014 to add grist to the mill. ;) Sally and Bros got in the background, for cheek.
My regards, Bill
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Looks expensive :o
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Pretty cool tho, (for a sidecar :-) :-)
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Mine you, you can get some very useful accesories for a Ural outfit.......
(http://rvs-mirror.narod.ru/uralgearup_ptur.jpg)
.....rocket launcher anyone? ( yes this is real!)
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And here is the link to see some nifty 3 wheel riding, along with the full range of munitions. The leap over the crest and 3 wheel drift are particularly good! :o
Ural_military_spec_chair_YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN5PAwc1ns8)
Now F2 Motorcycles........!
My regards, Bill
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....the factory also listed a plough attachment at one time ...again true!
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Cool video bill and yes the three wheel drift/steer is pretty impressive. However it,s the narrators voice that does it for me. Ooo la la. :-) :-)
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And which Svetlana would that be then? :-\
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So long as she was called something like Anna onotopome I don't mind :-) :-)
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Would you want to risk the Ural kick starter if you'd just fired that huge bazooka thing at someone and missed?
Andy
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:D :D :D Thanks Bill for posting the Ural promo video. Absolutely brilliant. Plus I see there's a stack of other Ural stuff on YouTube.
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Would you want to risk the Ural kick starter if you'd just fired that huge bazooka thing at someone and missed?
Andy
;D ;D ;D