Paging TOG and AntonyE

A mate of mine has a 1997 Ducati Monster 750 front wheel with a small
flat in it, any use? He says it's from a single disc bike, but I thought
they had the other disc mounts already there but covered. It'll cost you
buttons.

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Lozzo
Triumph Daytona 955i SE (Niged-out)
Suzuki SV650 K3 (For sale - email for details)
Honda CBR600 F-W trackbike
Yamaha SR250 SpazzTrakka
Suzuki GSX-R750L
Suzkui TS50X x2

 

Bear says...

Nige has bought it.

I'm buying an 05 plate SV650, I love the SV thing to bits. The new one
is fully faired and black...all black. Despite all the good things Hog
has to say about the ST4S, they're not as cheap as I first thought, so
as much as I'd love to own one, I won't be at the mo.

I'm not, I just haven't got my lazy arse into sticking it all on eBay.
The bike is broken down now, apart from the engine and rolling chassis
being together still. If anyone knows of someone wanting to upgrade a
Bandit 600 with a Gixer 750 engine that will slot straight in, let me
know. I have an engine with carbs going cheap. Or, buy the whole bike as
it stands for 400 quid.

The USD forks will slot straight into a Bandit 6 or 12. Rear wheel is
identical to a Bandit 1200 one etc etc

--
Lozzo
Triumph Daytona 955i SE (Niged-out)
Suzuki SV650 K3 (For sale - email for details)
Honda CBR600 F-W trackbike
Yamaha SR250 SpazzTrakka
Suzuki GSX-R750L
Suzkui TS50X x2

 

Depends...

Do the spokes get bigger as they get to the rim:
http://i22.ebayimg.com/07/i/000/b9/53/c906_1.JPG

Or do they get smaller:
http://i18.ebayimg.com/04/i/000/cd/97/21a0_1.JPG

??

 

How cheap were you thinking?? a decent 4S can be had under 3 grand.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Lozzo

D'you still need that gear-change linkage? I was about to wander out to
the workshop.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest"

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (Fallen apart) Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single"
Norton 850 Commando Kawasaki GTR1400

 

One of the funkier toys I saw in my days loitering at Maidstone bridge
was, iirc, a CBR900RR engine in an FZR400R frame with NC30 swingarm and
custom-made under-seat pipes.

Other than the RGV500 (with leftover bodywork sourced from a skip in
Edenbridge, if you catch my drift) I saw parked up at the quay in Rye a
few years ago, it was the hardest-to-identify special I've ever seen.

 

Nah, I'm OK, ta.

 

antonye says...

I will ask

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Lozzo
Triumph Daytona 955i SE (Niged-out)
Suzuki SV650 K3 (For sale - email for details)
Honda CBR600 F-W trackbike
Yamaha SR250 SpazzTrakka
Suzuki GSX-R750L
Suzkui TS50X x2

 

DogBreath says...

Emailed, if it's who I think it is.

--
Lozzo
Triumph Daytona 955i SE (Niged-out)
Suzuki SV650 K3 (For sale - email for details)
Honda CBR600 F-W trackbike
Yamaha SR250 SpazzTrakka
Suzuki GSX-R750L
Suzkui TS50X x2

 

Wicked Uncle Nigel says...

Yes please, cos I can use them on the new bike.

--
Lozzo
Triumph Daytona 955i SE (Niged-out)
Suzuki SV650 K3 (For sale - email for details)
Honda CBR600 F-W trackbike
Yamaha SR250 SpazzTrakka
Suzuki GSX-R750L
Suzkui TS50X x2

 

Hog says...

Where? Find me one and I'll buy it in a couple of weeks.

--
Lozzo
Triumph Daytona 955i SE (Niged-out)
Suzuki SV650 K3 (For sale - email for details)
Honda CBR600 F-W trackbike
Yamaha SR250 SpazzTrakka
Suzuki GSX-R750L
Suzkui TS50X x2

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Lozzo

Okey-doke. I'll knock one out^W up.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest"

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (Fallen apart) Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single"
Norton 850 Commando Kawasaki GTR1400

 

Bear says...

Ah right, cool. I did wonder, coz I knew how much you liked your SV.

In fact, I'm pushed to think of anyone whose bike choice-fu I respect
*not* liking an SV.[/QUOTE]

It's the engine. You can forgive it's little deficiencies because the
motor more than makes up for everything else. I love the grunt, power
delivery and noise it makes, which it does with absolutely zero vibes. I
don't have huge solid bar ends on mine, but there's no vibration through
the bars at all. Now I've tweaked the rear shock a bit, and upped the
front preload it doesn't handle too badly either.

It is a Slingshot, but one of the last of that ilk. The L was the first
of the Gixers to have multi-adjustable USD forks and a multi-adjustable
rear shock. In other words, they were perfect for fucking up the
handling if you didn't have a clue about suspension. The frame design of
the J, K, L and M takes the 1100 easier than earlier 750 slabbies, but
the L and M were a more popular choice for the 7/11 conversions because
of the advanced suspension.

--
Lozzo
Triumph Daytona 955i SE (Niged-out)
Suzuki SV650 K3 (For sale - email for details)
Honda CBR600 F-W trackbike
Yamaha SR250 SpazzTrakka
Suzuki GSX-R750L
Suzkui TS50X x2

 

See email.

 

Hog says...

Replied

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Lozzo
Triumph Daytona 955i SE (Niged-out)
Suzuki SV650 K3 (For sale - email for details)
Honda CBR600 F-W trackbike
Yamaha SR250 SpazzTrakka
Suzuki GSX-R750L
Suzkui TS50X x2

 

Buttons, one ugly sister and five beans, and that's cutting my own froat.