Cafe Racer Forum

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That's lovely, let's see it out from under the wrapping! Good luck with that, I agree it would be a shame to mess with it.

Posts : 541 Join date : 2011-10-26 Location : black country

Subject: Re: :D Thu Nov 17, 2011 8:35 am

-Nice find
-Here in the states cant find any thing British with out spending as you said a small fortune.
-I would love to get my hands on one of those. I say keep it the way it is. But that's just me........ Very Happy

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miffa wrote:: unless any brit experts are on here can think of anything ive missed

A nice long hill to bump it down once your right leg has turned to jelly from kicking it over! Laughing

Seriously bud, good luck with it, it's a nice looking bike.

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Subject: Re: :D Tue Nov 22, 2011 10:31 am

sod this kicking malarky tow it behind a car on a long rope Very Happy

Posts : 16 Join date : 2011-08-20 Location : Leyland, Lancs

Pud wrote:: sod this kicking malarky tow it behind a car on a long rope

That old Beeza is a nice looking bike. I'd keep it as it is myself. Mind you it'd make a great cafe racer.

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Pud wrote:: sod this kicking malarky tow it behind a car on a long rope

I got towed across the Isle of Man once by a pal on his bike using two bungie cords hooked round his carrier and my headstock.

All went well until I got a bit nervous and applied the brakes, the hooks on the cords pulled straight and they flew off and smacked him in the back of the head, lucky he was wearing a crash helmet or that would have been b*oody painful (although I was sore afterwards...from laughing my arse off!)

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That looks stonking bud!

Where the hell do you find things like that, particulalry as he has the Enfields and the T'bird as well, and what's the blue car in the very first pictures out of curiosity?

Subject: Re: :D Thu Nov 24, 2011 12:12 pm

blue car looks like a lotus 7 or locost (thing) probably something completly different though!! lol

Subject: Re: :D Thu Nov 24, 2011 9:27 pm

defo not a Lotus as tool box on full length running board could be an MG or Riley scratch

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No, not a Westfield/Locost/Tiger/Caterham or any of the hundreds of derivatives of the original Lotus 7.

Unless it's on blocks it's too tall, that looks like a manufacturers plate on the fire wall, and the bonnet is hinged in the centre, all the Lotus 7 look-alikes have 1 piece, lift-off bonnets for ease of access.

I'm thinking like Pud, Riley or MG, although I think it's still too tall for a TA-TF style sports car.

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it's a Clyno, one of only about 100 left of the 30,000+ built between the first and second World Wars Cool

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TBH I cheated, the phrase '3rd largest British manufacturer' and the fact the car was obviously pre WWII narrowed it down, good old Google!

But yes, I'd be interested to see any photos.

BTW, have you collected the T'bird yet?

Oh, and yes, I'd love the Enfield, Lord Lucan's picture of his is an inspiration, but I value my marriage and at the moment the financial controller says no more bikes Crying or Very sad

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You could also try The Tank Shop in Dumfries, long waiting time but very, very good! http://www.thetankshop.com/

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That my friend is a post-WWII JNSN Lightweight, built by the Jensen Motor Company of Carter's Green, West Bromwich, manufacturers of the famous Jensen Interceptor and much better looking CV8.

It was called the Lightweight because the body was revolutionary for the time, being made of aluminum rather than steel. Couldn't find any pictures in the flesh as it were, so here's the best I ca do

:D Jnsn_lightweight_48_1_l

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miffa wrote:: Delivery time on tank orders at the moment is 40 weeks

I did say long waiting time, didn't realise it was 9 months, what are they doing down there, giving birth???

No wonder John Williams is offering tank training courses, mind you, I don't know he's going to get many takers at £50k for the basic course and £100k for the franchise. At £400-450 per tank that's a long pay back!