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Clubroom => Bike Talk => Topic started by: Marc.com on April 15, 2009, 04:26:54 pm

Title: Show bikes
Post by: Marc.com on April 15, 2009, 04:26:54 pm

Is it possible top take the bling too far...pommy show scene seems to border on it.

(http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg71/marcFX_photo/CA54255F1.jpg)

Title: Re: Show bikes
Post by: ba-02-xr on April 15, 2009, 04:32:45 pm

What ya mean. That looks like a bog stock XL.

Title: Re: Show bikes
Post by: Marc.com on April 15, 2009, 04:34:00 pm

yep you can really flash up a TT500

(http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg71/marcFX_photo/CA7A0RJ5.jpg)

Title: Re: Show bikes
Post by: ba-02-xr on April 15, 2009, 04:46:06 pm

Amazing what a bit of chrome can do

Title: Re: Show bikes
Post by: JohnnyO on April 15, 2009, 05:15:04 pm

Those things look good but they're overdone for a dirt bike.

Title: Re: Show bikes
Post by: LWC82PE on April 15, 2009, 05:23:42 pm

with the honda, nothing much stands out apart from the blue drain plug and the gold sprocket.

on the yamaha, the orange brake stay, the gold barrel & gold tank cap, blue cap on rocker box and really polished motor i dont see anything else really wrong with it.

There is a fine line between overdone and underdone. I just see it that these guys have taken a little extra care and time with things and havent be constrained buy budgets and didnt just think 'oh that will do' and leave a few dull average parts etc on there, plus they wanted something that will stand out a bit.

Title: Re: Show bikes
Post by: JohnnyO on April 15, 2009, 05:36:23 pm

The Yamaha looks overdone to me.. not into the gold and polished cases, chrome exhaust and chrome footpegs and brake pedal. That stuff is for road bikes. The Honda just needs black hubs.

Title: Re: Show bikes
Post by: LWC82PE on April 15, 2009, 05:46:45 pm

yeah i know what you mean about the yamaha motor, but i could almost live with the chrome muffler, but would do it myself. Gold motors are nothing new though. There was model of Matcheless/AJS that had a gold cases or gold barrels well before the HL came along, but its just something i would not not do.

Title: Re: Show bikes
Post by: Marc.com on April 15, 2009, 06:15:11 pm

I think its a bit like some of the DG parts, if they were that color in the day then why not. I think the show scene in the UK is much more developed, probably something to do with the weather.

I think it is cool for bikes to be a bit different, but how far do you go. ::)
(http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg71/marcFX_photo/toukun007-img600x450-1218983449lkb4.jpg)

Title: Re: Show bikes
Post by: mx250 on April 15, 2009, 06:43:05 pm

There's Bling and then there is Bad Taste ::).

But then what else can you do in those long cold damp Pommy winters other than a bit of alloy polishing and chroming :P.

Title: Re: Show bikes
Post by: PJR on April 15, 2009, 06:50:29 pm

I don't think either of those bikes are over the top. I saw shinier and woggier in the pits at CD5. Let's not forget Jonesys candy apple purple Metisse.(http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-8/1062154/2008%20CD5a%200002.jpg)

Title: Re: Show bikes
Post by: VMX247 on April 15, 2009, 06:58:05 pm

A museum/collection with unused/before and used/after would be pretty cool.  8)

Cheers Alison

Title: Re: Show bikes
Post by: dr red on April 15, 2009, 11:04:12 pm

SOME BIKES ARE FOR SHOW. LOOKS GOOD

Title: Re: Show bikes
Post by: dr red on April 15, 2009, 11:38:09 pm

OH YEAH HERE,S MINE

Title: Re: Show bikes
Post by: dr red on April 15, 2009, 11:57:32 pm

ANOTHER

Title: Re: Show bikes
Post by: dr red on April 16, 2009, 12:00:26 am

AND THIS I,M HOT A SHOW OFF BUT LOVE XR75,S

Title: Re: Show bikes
Post by: Marc.com on April 16, 2009, 11:27:38 am

I have often thought a bike exhibition, like the "Art of Vintage Motocross" would be a great use for tax payer sponsored art gallery's that seem to always have bugger all people in them.

Interestingly the "Art of Motorcycle" exhibition at the Guggenheim was one of their most popular exhibitions ever. http://www.popularmechanics.com/automotive/new_cars/1268411.html

Imagine entering the National Gallery and theres a couple of hundred mint dirtbikes staring you in the face.