TassieTiger wrote:EB. You have a lot to answer for...and my wife wants words.
In the space of a week, I’ve taken out the ktm for the first time in x months, I’ve stripped the Gixxer down for a service and booked a Baskerville day and I literally just bought a 200cc diet kart after seeing your bloody electric set up. The 200cc engine can piss right off - I might dose it with n20 and see how much she can take captain...
It’s this..
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/200CC-6-5HP ... SwgW9ciDxS
Deadest - I’m sure is Taswegians suffer from winter depression due to low levels of light. You’ve fired me up man!
If your not opposed to throwing some advice, I might lean on you for some info on elec conversion...for the kids...of course
Ecobogan wrote:Stix wrote:G'day EB...
I must have ESP...just last week i was wondering where you got to & if you'd be back...
I cant contribute to motorbike stories as ive never owned one...although i could tell a tale of being the passenger on the back of a mates Triumph a few years ago & hitting some unexpected undulations in the bitumen at nearly 180km/hr & fair dinkum thinking i was going to die... .
I could also bore you with the tale of some stupid young invincible primary boys who made their own BMX track, & because one of the stupid boys decided to go the wrong way around the track, two of them made the same evasive move, landing them both face first into not only each other at top speed, but also the trunk of a big gum tree, bruised battered scratched & with limbs intertwined inside each others bike frames...(it really was amazing the state of the tangle--there is no way we could have purposely placed ourselves in that position... ).....but i shant insult your big bike thread with such insubordinate weakling schoolboy talk...Ecobogan wrote:https://youtu.be/Jh7ys7vUv4o
Here's one of the shakedown runs
Anyway...watching this had me swaying back & forth on the seat & tensing up my legs for turns & braking...i seriously thought you were going to drive me into a tree again with another rider coming the other way... ...
Sorry for a stupid question..but...what is this--a motorised thingy...???
Cost...? Availability...?...looks cool...!!...i want one...!!
Hey Stix!!
Yeah good to be back for sure and mate you make me laugh. Nowhere near bored by the BMX recounts....those unco, pre macho,like-off-the-cartoons gutsa's the old BMX's used to dish out was the prequel to all these stories here.
I can sure picture it. Usually the first time your balls got smashed by a bit of steel, first time airborne on 2 wheels, first high speed stack, wheelies and bad cracks at impressing chicks. The trusty nasty BMX was usually behind it.
My cousin Dominic had freestyle pegs on his axles front and back. He swore black n blue they were on tight and sturdy as and if I didn't sit on the bars and go ripping down our street with him riding then I was a pedigree punce.
So off we went and this bad idea got properly worse. At 'too fast to pedal speeds' he had the bright idea of getting some air over a driveway gutter jump. We nosedived wildly, hit the ground front wheel first, the front axle pegs that I was standing on both disappeared and I face and bodily planted the gravel footpath to be then run hard up the clacker by the bike!
Big stack and I was skun at a royal level. Dominic's mum, my Aunt, acted responsibly and abused both of us to the core then tipped iodine all over my carnage whilst holding me down. The '80's were good for things like that.
That electric downhill bike was an idea I had a few years ago. To make a fastish off roader that could be ridden places where an MX bike would have you shot.
There are variations of that concept on the market but they're not cheap ($5k+) as elec power is still kind of exotic, I'll dig up some links. That one cost me $3500 in parts and is far from properly sorted but well worth the effort.
There might be some ESP getting around mate coz late last week myself I had a recall chuckle about your 'anyone seen this handyman thread?' comment on Tassie's shipping container, very funny stuff.
What have you been up to of late? All well in SA land?
Blr243 wrote:My bike is not running at the moment due to electrical damage sustained while a thief attempted to steal it. So it just sits there sad. A couple of weeks ago there was sirens , police ambo, fire brigade , a big crowd and bits all over the intersection. all that just down the corner. Every arvo I go through that intersection as I take my mongrel dog to the dog park a pranged up black motorcycle sits on the nature strip with POLICE AWARE tape across it. So someone is probably sitting in hospital while his bones mend and not really in a position to collect his machine for the moment. That’s enough for me I think. I will just sell mine as is .....bitumen is much coarser than sandpaper. stay safe on the roads fellow hunters
Wm.Traynor wrote:Speaking of the end of riding Blr243, my basket case did not sell so I am giving it to the wife's son.
Confession
Maybe he will let me ride it a bit, one day
Blr243 wrote:What is basket case ? I did take the three times stolen Suzuki DR 650 on a hunt once but it was too big to throw around chasing pigs in tight scrub or lift when it fell I feel much better and safer on the quad now with the extra battery set up , racks iPad storage of food water blankets and mattress dog rifle and shotgun It’s almost a home on wheels. I won’t bother adding a TV fridge or kitchen sink. I intend mounting a thermal on the new shotgun and mounting the gun facing forward in my line of sight above my front rack. The thermal will send a wifi signal to my iPad which is mounted up front so I can see the reticle and field of view. This way I can chase pigs on the cultivation paddocks at night with no headlights or spotlights what so ever