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Clubroom => Bike Talk => Topic started by: firko on November 26, 2008, 10:59:03 pm

Title: retro engine swap.. Beezuki
Post by: firko on November 26, 2008, 10:59:03 pm
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270306500151&ssPageName=ADME:B:EF:MOTORS:1123 (http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270306500151&ssPageName=ADME:B:EF:MOTORS:1123)
Title: Re: retro engine swap.. Beezuki
Post by: felix7 on November 26, 2008, 11:18:57 pm
... and on the subject of off-the-wall concepts, do you remember the loose cannon idea proposed here a while back to have a 125cc 4-stroke and 100cc 2-stroke VMX category? Seemed like a good idea to me but since it was proposed, I can't find a decent SL/XL 125cc thumpette for love nor money (well, perhaps more money that I've got).
Anyone remember if this idea was a goer?

 :o
Title: Re: retro engine swap.. Beezuki
Post by: KB171 on November 26, 2008, 11:19:49 pm
Nlce conversion job,I'd be wackin a bit of black on the frame though  :-\
Title: Re: retro engine swap.. Beezuki
Post by: firko on November 26, 2008, 11:54:30 pm


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... and on the subject of off-the-wall concepts, do you remember the loose cannon idea proposed here a while back to have a 125cc 4-stroke and 100cc 2-stroke VMX category? Seemed like a good idea to me but since it was proposed, I can't find a decent SL/XL 125cc thumpette for love nor money (well, perhaps more money that I've got).
Anyone remember if this idea was a goer?

http://ozvmx.com/community/index.php?topic=3350.225 (http://ozvmx.com/community/index.php?topic=3350.225)
Title: Re: retro engine swap.. Beezuki
Post by: Doc on December 04, 2008, 07:58:45 am
hmmm..no matter what angle I look at the ebay bikes from I just can't begin to like it...at all :-\ A big waste of a Beeza motor and I'd reckon the old RM with the extra weight thrown forward and up would be a bit of a handful. Maybe the owner is colour blind..I thought I was a little weird and each to their own I guess but that hybrid simply a waste in my eyes ;) 
Title: Re: retro engine swap.. Beezuki
Post by: JC on December 05, 2008, 09:12:07 am
Couldn't agree more, D.

Just can't see the logic/sense in that combo.
Title: Re: retro engine swap.. Beezuki
Post by: firko on December 06, 2008, 09:03:07 am
If you reckon that RM Beeza is an atrocity, what do you reckon about this baby? WAs Frank Veradi's '82 Maico/B44 BSA.
(http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-8/1062154/maicobsa.jpeg)
Title: Re: retro engine swap.. Beezuki
Post by: Doc on December 06, 2008, 07:40:59 pm
mmmm..ditto to what I said above Firko, I can't begin to like any part of it..in all honesty I'd rather see that motor sitting on a shelf for the duration before I'd even consider stuffing it somewhere it doesn't belong. Would it be rude to say it almost makes me cranky? cause it kinda does ::) cranky old bugger I am obviously :-*
Title: Re: retro engine swap.. Beezuki
Post by: Marc.com on December 12, 2008, 12:30:17 pm
wow, mid 70s frame and suspension and outdated BSA engine, and if it had CCM on the tank we would all be gushing over the wonder of it all.  ;D

his mistake was in the finishing, alloy tank and chrome frame and it would sell like hotcakes.
Title: Re: retro engine swap.. Beezuki
Post by: evo550 on December 17, 2008, 08:38:52 pm
Another one, question is why ??? ???
Full marks for the exhaust though.
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/SUZUKI-DR250-FRAME-WITH-YAMAHA-IT465-MOTOR_W0QQitemZ170287795375QQcmdZViewItemQQptZAU_Motorcycles?hash=item170287795375&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A2%7C65%3A1%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318
Title: Re: retro engine swap.. Beezuki
Post by: evo550 on December 17, 2008, 08:42:20 pm
and another, I can smell the clutch burning from here!!!
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Motorised-trike_W0QQitemZ270318585909QQcmdZViewItemQQptZAU_Motorcycles?hash=item270318585909&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A2%7C65%3A1%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318
Title: Re: retro engine swap.. Beezuki
Post by: maicopunk on December 17, 2008, 09:11:54 pm
Unfortunately there won't be a repeat of that DR / IT pipe.  I saw it under construction in the late Peter Worrall's garage in 2001.

(http://i3.ebayimg.com/01/i/001/24/f7/f078_12.JPG)

If you've seen any of his pipes you will recognise the nice smooth cones and welds.