Aussie ingenuity.........good and bad

[KB171]

GMC, Great stuff ,the sidecar steering looks like it worked, i hope it did,As for the teeth, bloody brilliant, Cheers KB.

[firko]

I now know where the mad professor/twisted genius side to your personality comes from Geoff ! Somehow, I'm pretty certain that I would have liked your Dad.

[Doc]

a little gem I just spotted on egay.. 



it's actually a 1977 RM80B...B for Bantam 

[Tim754]

GD    Umm I still use an ancient JAP single with sight glass etc etc on my firewood saw bench............. I will send a couple of piccies to Graeme maybe he will post them as it is all class Tim

[Here ya go Tim - GM]

[GMC]

Yes KB, the sidecar did work & he rode it quite a few times. It was a bit harsh on the rear spokes though & tore them all loose, not sure if it was the steering action or the weight of the sidecar. Easy fixed though, Dad took the spokes & rim off, made up some steel discs to bolt to the hub onto which he welded a car rim, fitted up with a small cross ply car tyre. He was always on about cross ply tyres being better than radials.
When the home of 30+ years was sold up he threw a lot of stuff down the tip including the sidecar. He was on his way to the tip with one of my brothers cars, which he reckoned had been in a state of restoration for too many years, lucky my brother was passing through an intersection the same time as Dad & he managed to salvage his car

I did grab his charcoal burner project before he managed to dump it.

One of my other brothers ended up with the Goldwing after Dad decided he should quit riding after reaching 80. But then he went & bought a CB 250 & managed to ride the smaller bike for another couple of years. Its still fitted with that rear wheel & modded front end. He may be interested in a good rear wheel if any one knows of one.

Our sawbench was a "modern one", it had a big mother of a 480 volt motor.

[Freakshow]

something not right about this hill billy kick start collection 





The true "shot gun Exhaust "

[vmx42]

Hey Geoff,
That 'teeth' story was one of the best I have ever heard - what a bloody character. He would have gotten on like a house on fire with my Grandfather. I had a mental picture of him pulling up at the lights on the Goldwing and flashing a big toothy smile at some old lady in a Hillman Imp.
VMX42

P.S. I am glad your old man had bad teeth and not erectile dysfunction...?

[gorby]

might have posted this before,but it is a pipe from a DS80 repaired by a local farmer

look out GMC,he may be stiff competition ,it should take a while to rust out next time

[Freakshow]

Here it is Freaky,  put your tin can motor here

any more ideas anyone 

[Quicksilver]

might have posted this before,but it is a pipe from a DS80 repaired by a local farmer

look out GMC,he may be stiff competition ,it should take a while to rust out next time

Fantastic job. Love it. Good ol dad keeping the kids bike going. Top stuff.
Freaky, those kick starts look a lot some ive seen out here. Again, great work keeping the old farm shitter going. I just hate dicks with welders who use them sharfts 

[VMX247]

Today we headed out to the new MX track being constructed within the old unused Speedway track and discovered this Water Truck filling system. 

[VMX247]

and in the back seat,where it all happened       (it actually worked a couple of years ago).

[firko]

I reckon that classic Zephyr is savable. A couple of patches in the floor, a coat of suede black, a 272 Cusso/3 speed combo and a Transit diff centre and the cruise nights in Buttplug, WA will never be the same again.

[oldskool]

i used to ride a bridgestone 90 when i was a kid it only had the engine pipe as an exhaust,very noisey so i stuffed steel wool up the pipe and hammered in a socket to hold it in place.it made the bike a lot quieter but also slowed it down a fair bit.not that it was fast to start with

[YUMASTEPSIDE]

.........they're still out there

               

             Roger