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Club House => Chatter => Topic started by: guest7 on November 05, 2015, 09:24:32 PM

Title: perfect combination?
Post by: guest7 on November 05, 2015, 09:24:32 PM: Featherbed Frame, Goldie engine

What's not to love?

My pub discussion project bike would be an ABSAF Goldie replica engine in a featherbed with Manx bodywork

Just waiting for that lottery win

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Title: Re: perfect combination?
Post by: themoudie on November 05, 2015, 09:41:27 PM: Bellissimo! ;)
Title: Re: perfect combination?
Post by: steveD on November 05, 2015, 10:54:38 PM: Nah, watch this space! :o

I have somewhere in my posession a Classic Motorbike glossy magazine that went out to Africa (and back) with me. That was 20 years ago!
I'll have to have a rummage and find the article. I should be able to scan and somehow get the pic up. The bike if I remember was a Featherbed but IRC it had a Cammie Norton engine.

Watch this space!

(It could take some time!)
Title: Re: perfect combination?
Post by: Andy M on November 06, 2015, 02:38:57 PM: Give me three MZ engines, a laser welder , two years and a decent first aid kit please.

Andy
Title: Re: perfect combination?
Post by: iansoady on November 06, 2015, 03:36:25 PM: No, this is the perfect combination:

(http://www.classicbikes.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/images/Terry%20Salter%20and%20John%20Davies%201973.jpg)

Norton Wasp of course.
Title: Re: perfect combination?
Post by: steveD on November 06, 2015, 06:03:05 PM: Classis Bike April 1982 (yeah sad isn't it. I've still got them!)

(http://i995.photobucket.com/albums/af71/Teneheric/Image%202_zpsvcf13qq6.jpg) (http://s995.photobucket.com/user/Teneheric/media/Image%202_zpsvcf13qq6.jpg.html)

(http://i995.photobucket.com/albums/af71/Teneheric/Image%203_zpssb2sqw7o.jpg) (http://s995.photobucket.com/user/Teneheric/media/Image%203_zpssb2sqw7o.jpg.html)

(http://i995.photobucket.com/albums/af71/Teneheric/Image%204_zpsg4d4o0wt.jpg) (http://s995.photobucket.com/user/Teneheric/media/Image%204_zpsg4d4o0wt.jpg.html)

Oh YES, dribble, gibber etc :o

and then of course there is this............................... :o

(http://i995.photobucket.com/albums/af71/Teneheric/Allerybank%20051_zpsl7cfsmsb.jpg) (http://s995.photobucket.com/user/Teneheric/media/Allerybank%20051_zpsl7cfsmsb.jpg.html)

.......and this.....................

(http://i995.photobucket.com/albums/af71/Teneheric/Tenere2013170_zps61550488.jpg) (http://s995.photobucket.com/user/Teneheric/media/Tenere2013170_zps61550488.jpg.html)

............................or could this be the perfect combination, a tent and a bike? ;D

(http://i995.photobucket.com/albums/af71/Teneheric/053_zps6d9a8009.jpg) (http://s995.photobucket.com/user/Teneheric/media/053_zps6d9a8009.jpg.html)
Title: Re: perfect combination?
Post by: SteveC#222 on November 06, 2015, 08:16:34 PM: Featherbed Matchless anyone?....oohh yes please!

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-i11uMkkNfjs/Vj0IhzfNr3I/AAAAAAAAAjc/o0JGnF8y050/s640-Ic42/DSC00055%252520bike.JPG?gl=GB)
Title: Re: perfect combination?
Post by: timbo on November 06, 2015, 10:36:01 PM: I'm with Steve, a tent and ANY bike is a combination, because that's an adventure ;)
Title: Re: perfect combination?
Post by: johnr on November 06, 2015, 11:12:13 PM: ive a 1940s bsa sidevalve rolling chassis that is crying out for a nice xbr honda engine so i can hang my old sidecar off it.
Title: Re: perfect combination?
Post by: timbo on November 06, 2015, 11:18:17 PM: That sounds perfect :)
Title: Re: perfect combination?
Post by: guest7 on November 07, 2015, 12:37:05 AM: Quote from: johnr on November 06, 2015, 11:12:13 PM
ive a 1940s bsa sidevalve rolling chassis that is crying out for a nice xbr honda engine so i can hang my old sidecar off it.

I hear you
Title: Re: perfect combination?
Post by: guest7 on November 07, 2015, 12:39:19 AM: Here's the ABSAF lump: http://www.absaf.nl/index.php?page=3&product=8

Also available with an alternator conversion!
Title: Re: perfect combination?
Post by: guest1247 on November 13, 2015, 04:37:01 PM: I hope nobody minds me taking this thread, a little off-track....... but my perfect combination would have to be..... Dark side of the moon on the CD player, headphones on, phone switched off ........ and most importantly, nobody in next door..!! Aaahhhh.... sheer bliss ..!!!
Title: Re: perfect combination?
Post by: Andy M on November 13, 2015, 05:04:45 PM: Quote from: timbo on November 06, 2015, 10:36:01 PM
I'm with Steve, a tent and ANY bike is a combination, because that's an adventure ;)

ANY bike could mean adventures in CANbus diagnostics, in which case I'd rather have Calleynes guitar music.

Add Jamesons (or Albanian "schnaps" for the sausage machine) and a decent cigar and you improve both though.

Andy
Title: Re: perfect combination?
Post by: steveD on November 13, 2015, 05:50:30 PM: Well as we're off track now, how about this..................

(http://i995.photobucket.com/albums/af71/Teneheric/Ireland%20racing%20Wales%202015%20009_zpsd1i0m0lw.jpg) (http://s995.photobucket.com/user/Teneheric/media/Ireland%20racing%20Wales%202015%20009_zpsd1i0m0lw.jpg.html)

Perfect biking weather, fantastic campsite, pub within staggering distance serving Guiness, accompanied by some great mates.

What's not to like? ;D
Title: Re: perfect combination?
Post by: Propellor on November 13, 2015, 07:21:16 PM: Quote from: steveD on November 13, 2015, 05:50:30 PM

.........
What's not to like? ;D

There's no mention of a buxom blonde. ;D ;D
Title: Re: perfect combination?
Post by: timbo on November 13, 2015, 08:48:22 PM: Ah yes Steve, the Shepherds Rest Campsite. Watch this space for details of next springs Thumper gathering ;)