XS1100

Might have to go find some though a taste of the past

1 hour Later now we are in the shiyt!




What do you do with this stuff swig it from the can pour in to a suitable Glass,mix it with a bottol of Owd Roger or go and wash the chain on the Bandit.I recon a couple of these at 8% is sure to wreck yer head.

Bonzo your spot on there god dam they where bad thick fag with a short stubby filter Horrid.

The Bandit is the most unforgiving bike I have rode and so easy to ride after the tea trolly handling of the big XS1100 that weighs 650llb before you fill the tank with 25 litres of unleaded.But the Bandit build quality is poor compaired with the XS

Haaaaaaa Sobrane cocktale smoked only at chistmas partys and tasted like old rope I recall.

Hi B, Barley wine forgot about that Gold Label as I recall tasty! strong as a beast to All these mixes need to be checked out me thinks!wile these long dark nights are here.....

Yer! and still have enough change for the Bandit!

Lambos gold was the end for me quit after them.

Great pics why do they look so 70S
Thinking back I did buy a RD250 one owner from new but when it ran on to one cylinder the lad just left it in is yard £50 quid later and a good carb clean it ran greatI used it for the local pub run every night for quite some time my brother borrowed it after taking a bread knife to the seat to lower it then tape over the 250 and took it to le mans 24 for the week. I sold it and bought a plane ticket to California and nothing else.what a blast tell yer later........

I had a RD400E best fun bike I have owned very quick but seized solid with out warning and never got me home I dumped it in a farmers field and walked the 2 miles home in disgust to get me van.
My Dad always told me they where witch craft nasty smelly things,I never owned another other than my fantic 200 trials outfit witch I still own

I went up the shop the other night to get me ale and joking to the chap I asked for 20 Camel lites it was nice just to hold the pack before saying naaaaaaaaa end off!Having kids and be a grumpy old git helped me quit buggar that was hard just will power and apples no patches.Felt crap ever since.

Are 2 stokes really witch craft?

Yep there about all I can handle apart from these from time to time




Way to go

About 200 years ago when I was 7 I smoked cigarettes more or less most folk did in the 70s era it was great down the boozer buying 2 pints and getting change from a quid yer mates would turn up and crash the fags most of the time Benson & Hedges,I was posh then and took a fancy to 20 Rothmans

and Camel lights my favourite brands there where many brands No10 No6 JPS Blue Black and Red Embassy all sorts of quality brands for not very much spondooly.

The question is what was your brand or brands I was Rothmans among the odd Park drive and Craven A until the prices went silly and the tobacco went cheep and nasty.

I quit in 2000 and still miss um would never smoke again though them days are long gone.now swilling ale well that's another story...........Sup up

Happy Birthday Dave xx

Can you still get old original




We did vodka black and russian =Iron maiden, was tasty

Which one had vimto mix?

About a million years ago when pubs where proper with saw dust on the floors we would buy a pint of Manns brown split Half a Manns and half a bitter,Then there was the Larger top Larger with a lemonade top.
any more you can think off?What was black velvet Guiness & Vimto?
Cheers

Yes looking at this it may be

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And the rivers flowed with Watneys red barrel

I found this in a coal shed the other day,
Its a baby Ducati motor dated around 1954 it clips on to a pedal bike and as 2 speeds and a clutch,Its a 4 stroke and the valve open via a pull rod system not push rod.
I need A carb to get it running have a spark.
My project for the winter sorted

Who can remember these?

Yes these where all took this year.except the triumph

Will I keep it 20 odd years dunno?

Well after 20 odd years I was getting bord so I dug a spare tank and side panels out and sprayed them Orange,made up an exhaust system out of stuff I had in the shed,Got my mate in California to post the Jardine end can that he had spare,And over the winter I got some Kawasaki ZRX1200 carbs rejetted them and grafted them on to the barrels.I retained the std air box but fitted A more free flow K&N air filter.the aim to make the XS breath better.
The difference in all round performance was outstanding,and fuel consumption was improved from the low 30s & 20s some times to mid 40s.
I fitted progressive fork springs and Koni dial a ride rear shocks,Bridgestone rear and Metzler front.Jota bars.
The whole set up performed well, but I was fed up of living in the 70s so after one 350 mile round trip to Aberystwth I went and and bought A 1200 Bandit the most up to date bike I have owned.

Yes your correct the silver was the SL125 looked like the motorsport they then went on to the XL range.

This is the Triumph Metisse one hell of a fastbike on the dirt and was used mainly for trail riding in wales it would blast though the peat bogs where as the XL and the DTs would have to slowly go around the long way.
The camper van was ours to and is still around today the Triumph was sold many years ago to a guy way up North.