Two wheels good.

[panhard65]

I can take no credit for finding this as it was on the AS ebay thread.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/155344114863 ... R-bU9bOwYQ

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[DodgeRover]

One for our Spanish connection

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[xtriple]

If that is the chap I think it is, I sold him my Greeves about 15 years ago and he was a decent bloke Came over from Spain in a big Transit-type thing and collected all the bikes he'd bought here.

[DodgeRover]

If that is the chap I think it is, I sold him my Greeves about 15 years ago and he was a decent bloke Came over from Spain in a big Transit-type thing and collected all the bikes he'd bought here.

Sounds about right, older trials stuff was much cheaper here than in Spain in the 90s.

[Yellowperil]

The thing that pisses me off about exhausts is when manufacturers put an end can in the way of a single sided swingarm, on my VFR the end can has to be unbolted to take the wheel off.
The single sided swingarm looks great, when it isn't covered up.

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Most modern motorcycle exhaust nowadays are massive, at first glance they may look ok, but when you look closer there is usually a vast expanse at exhaust box painted matt black in a vain attempt to hide it.

[Jerzy Woking]

Never understood why they would want to hide the lack of swing arm with an exhaust. Surely after the Ducati 916 came out in 1994, you have thought they would have got it right.

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Also liked them as the disc brakes were nearly as big as the wheel. Lovely to look at, but a stepbackwards in rider comfort to the 900SS (at least for me it was).

[JimH]

They were lovely and all but my heart belongs to another.



Now that was a set of well lined up cans. As an added bonus they made enough noise to wake the dead.

[Jerzy Woking]

When we were racing TZ250's in 1995, one of our competitor mates sold his Honda NS250, and bought a two year old 888 racer. It had been raced hard by the look of it.
The sound was just awesome, but not so much the sound of him swearing at it when it broke down yet again. The next season he was racing an RC30, which didn't sound anything as good.

Last I heard of him, he stopped racing in the mid 2000's, but still has the 888 and the RC30, both displayed in his conservatory.

[JimH]

The closest I have come to living with an 888 was owning a Bimota SB6 for a couple of years. That was hard work.

[Jerzy Woking]

Always fancied a Bimota SB but that was in the days when big Suzukis had poorly executed chassis but good engines. I could never see the reason to put a Ducati engine in one of their frames, but there must be a reason they sold.

An acquaintance and his friend both had Moto Martin CBX1000's back in the early 80's, which to me always looked like they were unfinished rolling projects, not the finished article.

Today we are blessed with bikes that have racetrack handling directly from the dealership floor.