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....and a collection of HA pics from 1965 - http://life.time.com/culture/never-seen-hells-angels-1965/?iid=lf|mostpop#1

Define "cheap" <fx: looks on the 'bay> How much At £85 for a pre-cracked and repaired on and £155 to £180 for a new pattern one, I'd be tempted to fit a full front end from Recambi-weiss. Apart from having a go at some plastic welding, keeping an eye on the ZXR and greybike forums is probably your best bet.

That's what you get when you let a tyre shop do brakes

Oooops

Dunno if it's been posted here before, but someone mentioned this site to me the other day. Stick in a make and model and it tells you how many are taxed or SORN'd (bikes as well) and while it may not be completely accurate, it's still fairly interesting. Well, it was to me, as I seem to have just lost a couple of hours on there - only 6 MZ Skorpion Tours How Many Left

Sorry to hear that fella.

Sweban for me.

That was one of the sites that I had a look around as well! Cheers.

Generally the following works for me Chad: Summer gloves + leather jacket = sleeves inside gloves. Summer gloves + textile jacket = gloves inside sleeves (unless you have some stormtrooper with lumps of carbon/kevlar half way up your arm gloves with huge cuffs) Winter gloves + either jacket = sleeves inside unless you are going slow enough or far enough for the rain to run down your sleeves, in which case gloves inside.

There were a couple of residents being interviewed about it on the radio - one was bleating about getting a rent reduction and the other was giving it the "they shouldn't be allowed to do it" bit. All it needed was a third hand-wringing muppet to come on with a "think of the children" speech and you know that the only sensible thing to do would have been to point the missiles down *into* the building

Ewww that 1000cc MZ is a bit, erm, odd isn't it I like it from the front, then you notice the weedy looking forks and the drive chain on the right hand side. And during the drive-by it sounds like a GPz500 with out of spec valve clearances

Never mind the bedding score, a new crankshaft every 18,000 miles , or put it another way, 2 crankshafts for every front tyre. This boys and girls, is why Jawas are mostly seen with sidecars - so you have somewhere to sleep when you break down.

Good on you, I would suspect that his son will be all to aware of what the other lads think of his old man by the time the day is out.

Those TSs were of an era when you could fix them at the roadside with a screwdriver and an oily rag The MZ race club do a 'try before you buy' thing where you can rock up at a race weekend (having booked first), do some theory, get your ACU race licence and then borrow one of their race bikes for a couple of races in the meeting. Brilliant idea The last MZ I had was one of these: Although, to be fair, I think the only thing that was actually made by MZ was the badges, exhaust and the seat - Yamaha XT660 engine, WP suspension, Grimeca brakes, Behr rims, KTM clocks and Acerbis tank and plastics Great fun at legal speeds The same engine was put into the MZ Skorpion Tour, which I quite fancy as a pootle bike.

By jove chaps, I think you've cracked it Thanks fellas

It's three months away isn't it? How on earth can that be classed as 'near'? Don't listen to him Stan, he just wants to take his mind off buying up every B-King accessory known to man in the meantime

I know that it's got nowt to do with bikes (well, it could have, but only through a serious of very tenuous links ) but I'm hoping that one of you lovely lot can tell me the correct name of this type of door hinge. The hinges are mounted on a door and are only about 2.5cm long and obviously are in 2 bits (a bit like rising butt hinges) but I don't have the other halves that mount on the door frame - hence wanting to know the name. I've tried the usual search suspects, including google goggles, but to no avail, so does anyone have any ideas? As they seem to be more ornate than functional, I'm guessing that they are probably French or Italian in origin (especially as 50% of them have deserted ) but I am most probably wrong.

That's gotta help keeping the wind blast off

Doesn't this one belong in the 'bike faux-pas' thread? I agree with you as it happens, but it's their time/money and at least there isn't an EU directive against it (yet) I have to admit that they do appear on my personal bike-buying checklist of things to avoid if possible - not in the "run away" column, but in the "must be cheaper to make up for it" bit

Though a colleague of mine has, at the last count, 11 old lids and 3 sets of 2 piece leathers in his loft, all expensive brands, all in perfect nick. Bit of a fashion victim and liked to have this years colour scheme etc and then wouldn't sell his old one because what he would get for them compared to what he paid for them would make him weep

In mitigation: Camo trousers, but not on the bike. Hi-viz - my winter bike jacket does have hi-viz on it, but it was bought despite that, because it was cheap from Aldi. Fleece over leathers - yeah guilty Sunglasses under clear visor - loads, because I'm a speccy and as far as I'm aware you can't get a prescription lens dark visor - and even if you can, it's easier to change glasses than visors! Not guilty on matching kit, but don't see what's wrong with it really. I can however *guarantee* that rim tape, fashion jackets, brand clash and the rest are not going to happen. By the way, if a cuddly teddy is naff, I suppose the 20 foot flashing rope light I ran on the ZZR during the christmas season would fall into the same category?

Have a good one fella

Well batted young sir

http://www.oppracing.com/category/764-gilles-tooling-rear-set-spare-parts/ or http://www.sportsbikeshop.co.uk/motorcycle_parts/content_group/Gilles%20Rearset or http://www.bikehps.com HTH, HAND etc

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