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MOTOBRICK.COM => Welcome To Motobrick.Com => Topic started by: BlitzenGruv on March 13, 2016, 09:02:50 PM
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Hello,
Just brought the K home, bought a '92 K100rs, 16V.
I've been riding old British since the '70s, Triumph mostly but I have a BSA now. Just had to buy something which doesn't require daily attention just to run properly.
I hope to learn what I don't know about this bike, and contribute what I learn from ownership to this forum.
Peace, Love and Anarchy.
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greetings blitzengruv...
welcome to motobrick.com...
j o
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Welcome from the owner of a '92 16V sister ship.
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Welcome to the world of the Brick from the land of OZ.
Regards Martin.
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Welcome, Blitzengruv..........Music City? As in Nashville?
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You're buying a 24 year old bike in search of dependability? Gawd, I miss my brit machines!
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Chaos if you really miss your Brit bikes, just pour some oil under the Brick. That should help ease the heart ache. :musicboohoo:
Regards Martin
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Chaos if you really miss your Brit bikes, just pour some oil under the Brick. That should help ease the heart ache. :musicboohoo:
Regards Martin
Brilliant!!! You could market it as "Brit Bike In A Can".
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Chaos if you really miss your Brit bikes, just pour some oil under the Brick. That should help ease the heart ache. :musicboohoo:
Regards Martin
Brilliant!!! You could market it as "Brit Bike In A Can".
Excellent, Gryph! Include as a bonus a votive candle to replace the headlight bulb.
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And a bottle of Holy Water to keep the wick wet.
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Chaos if you really miss your Brit bikes, just pour some oil under the Brick. That should help ease the heart ache. :musicboohoo:
Regards Martin
well, I do have a Ural so I can still experience random mechanical adventures. But the Russian idiosyncrasies just don't have that limy charm.
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Excellent, Gryph! Include as a bonus a votive candle to replace the headlight bulb.
I also used to ride a couple of old Triumph's. Lucas prince of darkness. The old joke . . . . . Why do Brit's drink warm beer. . . . . . Cause Lucas make the fridges. Never went out at night without a torch. LOL
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Ah, British motor vehicles. I can recall with fondness the college girls of the 60's who became sex slaves to mechanics in order to keep their little green MGB's running. I often wondered if their parents knew what that car actually cost their daughter.
My son's first car was an old Triumph Spitfire. He quickly learned to never go further from home than he wanted to walk back. Also, that a good tow chain in the trunk is a wise investment. It did make him a pretty good mechanic and he accumulated a nice set of tools.
He spent two years making it run well enough that whoever bought it would get far enough away that they couldn't bring it back.
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Ah, yes, British cars.................built up a '51 MG TD in high school, paid $250 for it. Being very taken with all things British, had it painted British Racing Plum Purple. The girls loved it!
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I had a Triumph Spitfire I kept running for 20+ years. Nowadays I am still constantly amazed how reliable modern vehicles are.
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Every trip was an adventure with a British motorcar back then, especially after dark. The only thing worse was a Fiat.
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Every trip was an adventure with a British motorcar back then, especially after dark. The only thing worse was a Fiat.
My best buddy's dad bought a new MG Midget, which died on its first trip. For some reason my buddy's had a Midget, and MGB, and now has another Midget
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If I won the lotto (or got a job) a bugeye sprite and another Ural would be at the top of my list. What's wrong with me?
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Not a damn thing except limited imagination........how about a Healy 3000, Lotus Elite, and two Urals.
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Not a damn thing except limited imagination........how about a Healy 3000, Lotus Elite, and two Urals.
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What's wrong with me?
Nothing that couldn't be cured by a tall, leather-clad frauline's flogging of you with her flaxen braids and a wiring harness.
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Welcome, I too recently nabbed my first brick and joined the forum and live in Cashville.... must be something in the water.
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Welcome Jllphan.
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Welcome jllphan! Nice looking brick in your avatar. Got any bigger pictures we can drool over?
As far as the water, if it makes you ride a brick, it can't be that bad.
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Good to see some other Tennesseans on here! :2thumbup:
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My first bike was a Francis Barnett. Saw the same model in a motorcycle museum recently, made me feel really old......
Just like this one:
http://www.bsabantamclub.com/wp-content/sp-resources/forum-image-uploads/jess-steele/2012/10/francis-barnett-007.JPG (http://www.bsabantamclub.com/wp-content/sp-resources/forum-image-uploads/jess-steele/2012/10/francis-barnett-007.JPG)
BTW that bike was just awful but it was what I passed my m/c driving test on.
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Wow, never heard of a Francis Barnett! Who manufactured that bike?
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:hehehe :laughing-on-ground:
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Wow, never heard of a Francis Barnett! Who manufactured that bike?
:falldown:
This is the direct equivalent of saying "wow, I never heard of a Harley Davidson! Who manufactured that bike?"
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I have to confess I used to have one I swapped my mate a leather jacket for it. I think he ripped me off it had been stripped of its bodywork. I think it was either a Falcon or a Cruiser 250. The single front down tube was tear drop shaped and the fuel tank had a measure incorporated into it to measure the oil. Some where in my archives I think I have a picture. The engine was either an AMC or a Villiers and they used to call them fanny B's. My first bike was a Puch 175 which I found dumped in a creek in 1966 a mate and managed to get it going. what was your Fanny B Glacial .
Ahh the good old day's or were they Martin???
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The old days are these days, Martin; they're being resurrected—nice looking small bike in several models. Maybe it is something more substantive than the Royal Enfield attempt.
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Duh, Glacial, we call that "tongue in cheek", glad Laitch & you caught it!
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glad Laitch & you caught it!
Now just how glad are you, Ace? Please respond with the following form.
☐ I've become celibate because no gladness can exceed my current level even when factoring in trapezes and pearl strings.
☐ Glad to the extent that bladder control has become an issue.
☐ Substantially but not exceedingly glad.
☐ A sort of transitory glad—like coming down with bronchitis instead of pneumonia
☐ Not quite glad, more like not very annoyed.
☐ Unglad.
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Uh, could you tell me more about the pearl strings?
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Uh, could you tell me more about the pearl strings?
Two forms of identification, a letter of consent signed by a parent or registered appropriate adult, and conversational ability in Old Low Norse are required, Ace.
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Duh, Glacial, we call that "tongue in cheek", glad Laitch & you caught it!
Ace,
my tongue is so far into my cheek that the bike is falling over...
There were many strangely-named bikes that got the British working man to the factory gate in the post-war era. One of my earliest memories is handing my Dad spanners and screwdrivers as he tried to keep his James running to get him to and from the night shift when the buses didn't run.
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Old Low Norse is no problem.......let me check with my nurse about the consent..........is it too late to upgrade "glad" to "ecstatic"?
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Welcome jllphan! Nice looking brick in your avatar. Got any bigger pictures we can drool over?
As far as the water, if it makes you ride a brick, it can't be that bad.
Thanks all. Absolutely, I'll be starting a project thread in the next day or two given I've put a lot into my new love in the short time I've had her. I've simply been covered up for the past few days obtaining my first airhead. Yep, the bike bug bit hard with me!
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1972 and 1976 Austin Minis....we had a blast with those cars. Manual choke, 4 speed, doughnut tires(were they 11 or 12 inch???), the most uncomfortable seats on the planet...OK, early VW Beetle seats were no raving hell. Our Minis were really pretty reliable. The worst of Canadian winters eventually got the '72. The floor boards came up into the passenger compartment....RUST!! Cute cars, handled like go-carts, got great MPG for their time. And a bit of a chick magnet - truth be told!!
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First Mini's had 10" tyres. I used to ditch sport at school to help my mates brother work on his Austin Mini Copper S Hill Climb car. Two mates and I volunteered to train for the cross country running . The only running we did was around the corner where we had stashed our bags. We obviously didn't think it through, at the end of the year the school entered us in the Inter School Cross Country Race. What a disaster we filled the last three places and we were very much over time. We got out of the hole (PIT) we had dug our selves by saying we must have missed one of the route markers. :dunno :nono :clap: :hehehe
Regards Martin.
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Chaos if you really miss your Brit bikes, just pour some oil under the Brick. That should help ease the heart ache. :musicboohoo:
Regards Martin
Brilliant!!! You could market it as "Brit Bike In A Can".
You can sell it right next to the Genuine Lucas Smoke.
BTW: I thought that when I started this thread the title was "Cheers!"
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I seriously don't know what's happening here. I entered this threads with the title "cheers." I have modified my posts, and it still reads as "Queers." Is it just my computer (Macbook Pro, Firefox.)
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There it is again! This forum changed what I typed to "QUEERS". That is NOT what I typed!
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There it is again! This forum changed what I typed to "QUEERS". That is NOT what I typed!
Type "Beers" and see how that displays.
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On another forum I belong to: if you want to reference Fag, as in bearing, you have to type it F A G with spaces or it gets bl***ed out ... :nono
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My first bike was a Puch 175 which I found dumped in a creek
My first was the DS60. Still have it ...
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Thanks for the pics Ed fond vague memories of mine.
Regards Martin.
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Let's try this: Queers, Queers, Queers
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I typed Queers that's cee aich eee eee ar ess. I also typed those letters separated by spaces. I typed Queers.
Preview looked normal. The change occurs when I submit the post
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I just tried it and it does the same. I think I smell something fishy.
Ch33rs Martin.
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I typed Queers that's cee aich eee eee ar ess. I also typed those letters separated by spaces. I typed Beers.
Preview looked normal. The change occurs when I submit the post
It seems like a misspelling.
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I surrender you win. I thought I had got around the queers thing by typing it with a . between the c and the h. But alas some smart donkey has closed the loophole. I will now admit defeat and retire to my garage to sulk.
Tally Ho chaps a defeated Martin.
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Is what happens when you pour a German lager on your breakfast cereal (Cheerios)?