For those interested...

Christ, what a heap of shite, and I thought m'boy's moped was a challenge.

--
Oldbloke

2000 Honda CB500, 1991 Suzuki TS50 (m'boy's)
BOTAFOT #140
"He's like Robbo's chubby kid brother"

 

Yeah, well.

 

It's actually a good rat. Everything works (or did), it just looks like
a pile of shit, which is what a rat is about.

The best ratbike I saw was at a Border rally some years ago. A nold
Beemer with totally homemade alloy fairing, dripping with black and Nato
paint, lots of bits stuck on for various jobs over the years, and a car
alternator belt-driven from a pulley grafted on to the old taper shaft
that used to hold the original bike alternator.

Fing was, it was a proper rat; organically grown over the years
(decades) and had a mileage on it approaching starship figures (the
ownder, a Swede, said he'd been round the world on it). All the bits
that needed to work well did, and it ran as sweet as a nut.

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19

 

Artistic interpretation.

 

On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 18:14:23 +0000, Paul Corfield
<> bored us all completely to death with wittery
prose along the lines of:

Actually no. There are a couple of mounting plates that are rusty, but
I checked over the frame and it seems okay. The chain is completely
fscked, as you could well imagine. Apart from that, I'm really
surprised at how well she's held up for the last six years.

Right. Here we go. I've always called the rat a "she". Force of habit.
But, IIRC, unless things have changed, all forms of motor transport in
English were commonly known as she.

<fx: stands back for flames...>

 

The Reg plate of my old Guzza is

GAL
866V

Numbers changed of course.

 

'Tis a thing of beauty. Does it run?

 

On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 09:27:29 +0000, Sean Doherty <>
bored us all completely to death with wittery prose along the lines
of:

Blimey, I can't believe that two people said that. Do you really mean
it???

BTW, no it doesn't. The bits of wiring loom all over the bike should
have given that away.

 

The reg plate of my Guzzi is

IAM
GOD T

some letters and numbers changed

 

It has a certain charm about it. I wouldn't restore it though, just get
it going again.

 

I love rats, I do.

Ah, that rules me out riding it down and catchinbg the Eurostar back,
then.

 

sweller said...

My ZZR has the number

2FA
ST4U

All letters and numbers changed

 

On 30 Dec 2003 10:39:51 GMT, "sweller" <> bored
us all completely to death with wittery prose along the lines of:

I've thought about that.

But I'm not sure about registering it in France. I don't know if I
could, TBH. I know that dog and H had loads of probs registering H's
400, as it wasn't sold in France.

To register the Rat would be fun to see. I may just have to keep it on
UK plates at the folks address.

 

On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 10:47:00 +0000, Sean Doherty <>
bored us all completely to death with wittery prose along the lines
of:

You could push it...