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Marque Remarks => Spaniards (Bultaco, Ossa, Montesa etc) => Topic started by: Dinsdale on December 02, 2009, 08:47:59 am
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Hi all, after 17 years I decided to drag my 1980 414 vf Cappra out of the shed for restoration. Believe it or not, after washing and blowing the carb out, flushing the tank and cleaning the plug it started and ran with just 7 kicks. Any how, what I need from you guys is some info concerning the rear swing arm, can anyone please let me have a set of accurate measurements of the rear shock mounts. Both the sizes of the mounts and their positions on the swing arm? As mine were cut off during a half assed mod years ago. Many thanks,
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That you Ron? If it is, long time no see mate and welcome aboard!
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Hi Firko, no I'm a new boy in the uk located at 50.03.30n and 005.40.00w feeling very honoured to be allowed to join your forum.
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What a coincidence. I thought you may have been a famous Aussie racer named Ron Dinsdale who actually rode Montesas in the day. You never know unless you ask! Welcome to the forum anyway. There's a number of Poms on board here, so you're not alone.
There's a resident 414 Montesa fan here who'll be glad I'm sure to welcome you to his network. It may be an idea to PM All Things 414, he's a warm, caring and loving individual, more than willing to help out a fellow 414 owner in his time of need. Good luck.
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Not Dinsdale Pirana one of the famous Pirana brothers?
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The very one, Doug's brother. I thought I,d got away with it and every one had forgot about me after spending years hiding from Spiny Norman. Just goes to show no matter how much you try to hide quietly away some bugger always finds you!
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Summary
The Piranha Brothers were born in the slums of London in 1929, on probation, two weeks apart (with Dinsdale born again a week later). They were found too mentally unbalanced even for National Service, and became extortionists, running a protection racket after several false starts. Having acquired enough money, the Piranha Brothers formed a gang which they called "The Gang". They proceeded to take over night clubs, billiard halls, gaming casinos and race tracks, failing only to acquire the MCC. It is said that Dinsdale was a gentleman; he bought his mother flowers and that he knew how to treat a female impersonator. He also enjoyed nailing people's heads to the floor and to coffee tables, and screwing people's pelvises to cake stands. The local chief constable was in his employ, and would help him threaten others with a thermonuclear device. Dinsdale also possessed a tank. Known associates of the Piranhas included American musical stars, aristocrats, a man named Kierkegaard who bit the heads off whippets and other gang leaders.
Dinsdale was deeply afraid of Spiny Norman, an (apparently) imaginary hedgehog who, he believed, lived in a hangar at Luton Airport and who "was wont to be about twelve feet from "snout to tail", (one version states "about twelve feet from "tip of his snout to his anus"), when Dinsdale was depressed Norman could be anything up to eight hundred yards long." Spiny Norman (created by animator Terry Gilliam) appeared in this sketch growling "Dinsdale" while towering over London landmarks such as Buckingham Palace and Trafalgar Square; the giant hedgehog made brief reappearances in two later episodes.
Doug was the more feared of the two brothers. Luigi Vercotti, a pimp, claims to have seen grown men pull their own heads off rather than speak to Doug – indeed, even Dinsdale feared Doug. This was largely due to his merciless use of sarcasm, dramatic irony, metaphor, bathos, puns, parody, litotes and satire. Many of those menaced by the Piranha Brothers denied any ill will toward them, terrified into compliance with a code of silence.
The Piranhas operated their extortion racket for years, brazenly and without fear of reprisal. However, Dinsdale's fear of Spiny Norman proved to be their undoing, as he decided to solve the problem once and for all by detonating his nuclear device at Luton Airport in February 1966. After this, even the Police sat up and took notice of them.
The brothers were finally captured by Superintendent Harry 'Snapper' Organs (played by Terry Jones) of Q Division, who pursued them in a series of disguises including Blind Pew from Treasure Island, the Earl of Gloucester from King Lear, Sancho Panza from Don Quixote, and Ratty from Toad of Toad Hall. However, the Piranha Brothers later escaped, and presumably returned to their life of absurd crime.
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I'll have a look for you tonight ;)
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Gee Firko, I was there thinking you had been smoking whacky Backo until the penny dropped.......
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piranha_Brothers
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Ok Firko, I guess the jig's up. Well done mate, it's a fair cop.
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Hi Ron, i have a spare swinging arm for a 414. its got a twist at the swing arm bush ends, but the shock mounts are all in place, you could measure them and reuse the mounts.?? I am in Scotland.
cheers Sandy
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Hi Sandy, am very interested in your swinging arm, I'm near Land's End. By the way who's this Ron everyone's on about?
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Hi Sandy, am very interested in your swinging arm, I'm near Land's End. By the way who's this Ron everyone's on about?
F**K knows who Ron is.???? I just assumed from previous threads that was your name.
Send me a Pm with your details and we can sort something out, ??
cheers sandy
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Ron Dinsdale was a top Aussie rider from the seventies and early eighties and rode Monties for a while. He went to Europe for a stint with Montesa but the whole thing turned hairy. He was still beating most A graders in 2002 at the age of 46.
(http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee74/All_things_414/Dinsdale.jpg)
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Hey, the guy in the picture looks just like me, only younger and fitter and slimmer and he actually looks like he knows what he's doin, but apart from that, just like me, oh and of course he's on the bike not his arse on the deck.
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On top of what my learned friend has said above, Ron Dinsdale was also Aussie vintage motocross's first real 'superstar' riding Rob Watsons Bultacos during the first half decade of Aussie VMX. He was practically unbeatable. He made a brief comeback at the 02 Nats at Ravenswood on board Keith Stackers Maicos where his shoulder to shoulder dices with the late Andy Caldecott had 'em 6 deep at the tracks edge. I think Ron came out slightly ahead over Andy but I may be wrong...it was that close.
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Thank's for the Ron Dinsdale info,very interesting, when I get a bit more time I'll have a bit of a search and see what else I can learn about him, always nice to have a bit of a read about yesterday's hero's and their iron.
Dunno if any of you guy's have read my other posting, but I'm also looking for a vf top yoke (broke mine). Any body got one they do'nt need hanging on a nail somewhere?
Also has anyone else seen the Cappra on ebay. I'd post it on here but do'nt know how.
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Also has anyone else seen the Cappra on ebay. I'd post it on here but do'nt know how.
Yes, i cant/won't/shouldnt buy it.............
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170413665661&ssPageName=ADME:B:BCA:GB:1123
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Sandy,
Rember it is nearly Christmas...... you could allways buy it for the Mrs, I'm sure she'd love it.
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Nah, she's got one already, as do 3 no 4 of my kids... ;D
sandy