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I used to sell honda's and punted on many a CB100, Super little bike. the SR and the XS both have super engines. I used to race sidecar Enduro with a Norton Commando engined outfit, Had I continued I would have gone to an XS motor.They used to take them out to 920cc and I believe even more now.

Cracking bike, I always liked them when I sold them in the 70s. However at 19s 7lb and 6'3" I look like a bear on a cycle. Just love those downpipes.

Happy new year to all. On the way out yesrerday I saw the aftermath of a car/bike accident. Although I was in my car I saw this motorcycleist in the garage moments before. He saw me looking at his bike and nodded hello.I saw him ride away at moderate speed. However less than 10 minutes later I saw the bike with the front stove in laying in the road. Two things; 1) Let us remember all those brother and sister motorcyclists in hospital at this festive time. 2) Please everyone remember car drivers do not always clear there lines of vision before driving and at best are IDIOTS. STAY SAFE AND HAPPY NEW YEAR. rocker1

Hello XS1100 Sadly someone has already made Castrol R candles, saw them advertised years ago in VMCC catalogue. However I have never tried it but I am told that an eggcup of brake fluid in a tank full of fuel will produce the same smell. Real Casrtol R in the fuel will gum up the carb/injectors. Regards and happy new year Rocker1

Hi All I once made a wind driven generator from a car alternator and catering size food can. The alternator wes mounted vertically and the can fitted over it with a reinforced end and slots in the side bent out to form vanes similar to the cowlings seen on chimneys.With this type of rotor there is no need for complicated slip rings/contacts as it will be driven from any direcion without having to track the wind. Running through a regulator/rectifier it kept my boat batteries well topped up. One last thought I use an old cordless drill (battery failed)in my camper to pump water by soldering a pair of leads and running it from the van batteries. why not use an old battery drill to power your piller drill, you can buy them cheap if they have dud batteries from car boots. I also use an LED cluster as a low volt light. All the best Rocker1

Be careful most vehicle polishes/waxes will be melted off, The recomenation is "hand hot" and some synthetic rubbers and most plastics will over time become more brittle.

[img][/:\Documents and Settings\Bobby\My Documents\My Pictures\TALMAG 2010img] Trials - Talmag MCC. Date: Sunday 30 January 2011 starting at 9:30 AM. Location: Hungry Hill, Aldershot. Hi Peeps Just thought I would tell you all of this wonderful event.

Hi ITCHY Yes I have been a Druid for the past 50 yrs or so.Never did take to conventional beliefs. Used to go to stonehenge and camp within the stones, until english heritage made them its very own gravy train.

Hi A friend has a asbestos removal buisness and he tells me the next thing that will require specialist removal is glass insulation. It brakes down into shorter strands and dust with age and will not "wet" like asbestos.

Hi All Although not a Christian myself I would like to wish you a Happy Christmas and to thank you for making this old fart feel welcome on this forum.

Hi the whole country has gone to the dogs, I am a 60year old fitter and turner and was made redundant 18 mths ago. I am currently working in a commercial zinc plating shop, a really crap job but at least I have somthing. My wife is a biologist with a first class degree and is working as a receptionist in a local hospital. perhaps we should go and work in poland!

Hi XS1100 Here is a photo of a B50 MX I owned. A real Beast.

Hi XS1100. I do have a Honda TL125 that I love and have owned for I think 13 or 15 years. and a Suzuki DR350 enduro.and have only just sold my Honda Blackbird. I like all bikes and love a small classic Jap perhaps a Honda C110.

Hi XS1100 I wouldnt want you to think all my bikes are specials / hybrids but I had a T150 in a race frame and loved it. I prefer the 150 to the 160 as they are much lighter.

Z650?

Hi XS1100 Here is a better photo of the Norbsa.

Hello XS1100 The bike in the photo is a 500cc BSA DBD34 Gold Star engine in a Norton Featherbed frame with Manx swinging arm and John Tickle 2ls brake and other bits. My beast of a trail bike is a 650 Tribsa, Triumph 6T engine in a BSA frame.It has now got a black frame and alloy mudguards.and I want a Gold Star scrambles petrol tank for it.

BSA Rocket 3. In 1971 John Cooper on a BSA Rocket 3 a converted road bike beat the mighty Agostini on a full race MV Augusta.

Stinkwheels we used to call them but for lightweight power nothing to beat them!

Again nice bike this is my version a 1976 TL125 I have owned it for about 14 yrs now and not done a thing exept normal maintenance. I got a Sammy Miller 150cc kit about 10 yrs ago with the intention of fitting it when the engine needed any work. ps like the blue, never much of an orange man, not even on a Laverda.

Smashing bike, One of Don & Derek's. Pat French has been building them for some time now. Just the job for Red Marley.... I have a Tiger 90 bottom end with Tiger 100 barrels that I intend to slot into a lightweight frame in about a hundred years when iv'e finished all my other projects. Love VW campers but I find the shrink as you get older.

Hi dave you can spot my camper a mile off as I made a motorcycle rack strong enough to take my norton Commando. Bye the bye, I was brought up in your neck of the woods, Zion Hill, Peggs Green Coleorton. I used to sit in my windowsill as a child (old farmhouse, thick walls)and watch the motorbikes going to Mallory park (I think).They used to sweep down the hill past our house and then climb up the other side, the sound was wonderful.

Hi All Its a 1948 Brockhouse Corgi, The civilian sucessor to the welbike that they used to drop on a parachute. Brockhouse was quite a large company, They made trailer for the army and owned some quite well known bike makers. I think they even owned Indian at one point. You could also buy a "leaning" sidcar for it. Ilove little bikes as much a large ones and have a modernish version (1975)in the Italjet Pack 2.

This new website, http://www.moviepropbay.com/ was launched on 1st November, from within the industry, to enable art department personnel to search for and source vehicles and other props from anywhere in the UK. At http://www.moviepropbay.com/ your members can upload photographs, a description and owner contact details. The art department will contact the owner directly to discuss a hire fee. The cost to showcase each vehicle is £10 per year. There are no further fees, costs or commission. And there are added bonuses: in addition to the kudos gained by seeing your vehicle on screen, the owner may be paid as an extra to drive the vehicle through the shot. (And if a production turns out to be a box office/TV smash hit, the value of the vehicle is enhanced by becoming film memorabilia!) If you think this is of interest please forward my email to your members. Yours sincerely John Manning propertymaster/publisher http://www.moviepropbay.com/ Shepperton Studios