View Full Version : He's at it again!!
rictus01
06-06-06, 04:10 PM
Part of my bikes yearly clothes change was this afternoon completed, thought you might like to see.
Current fitted seat
http://www.bureaunet.com/FTP/Rictus/seat2.jpg
Winter seat (looks standard, but has fitted a heating element in it)
http://www.bureaunet.com/FTP/Rictus/seat3.jpg
For the new look
http://www.bureaunet.com/FTP/Rictus/seat4.jpg
And again
http://www.bureaunet.com/FTP/Rictus/seat5.jpg
And once more.
http://www.bureaunet.com/FTP/Rictus/seat1.jpg
And you may well think he's just got a seat cover, but then when would I ever waste £80 on a custom bit of kit if I could make it cheaper.
Lambretta seat cover re-modelled, total cost £14.
I'm happy with it.
Cheers Mark.
Grooooooooooooooovy baby yeah!! Very Austin Powers :lol:
Grooooooooooooooovy baby yeah!! Very Austin Powers :lol:
Wot he said 8)
I'm looking forward to what the rest will look like!
Very... er... very 'world cup'. :?
amarko5
06-06-06, 09:29 PM
Im with K :lol: where's your flags gonna mount :?: on the wing mirrors :?: :P :lol: :lol:
rictus01
07-06-06, 06:49 AM
Im with K :lol: where's your flags gonna mount :?: on the wing mirrors :?: :P :lol: :lol:
not into the football, so you'll have to correct me if I'm wrong, but there isn't a British team (is there?).
Err, British bike, British flag, you could of course try it on your jap stuff, (although it would look a little to like bleeding piles on a white seat :wink: ).
Cheers Mark.
Err, British bike, British flag, you could of course try it on your jap stuff, (although it would look a little to like bleeding piles on a white seat :wink: ).
Cheers Mark.
Eeeeeaaauuueewwww.
It's very well done I grant you that. But, nah, I just don't like white on a bike. Dunno why, I just find it looks odd. :?
Not my cup of tea, sorry.
Oh I like it - a lot. But then I'm tarred with the Trumpet brush too...
rictus01
07-06-06, 10:35 AM
Err, British bike, British flag, you could of course try it on your jap stuff, (although it would look a little to like bleeding piles on a white seat :wink: ).
Cheers Mark.
Eeeeeaaauuueewwww.
It's very well done I grant you that. But, nah, I just don't like white on a bike. Dunno why, I just find it looks odd. :?
K I fear you'll not like the finished look of the whole thing as white is one of the options I'm looking at, but as I've done before I'll do something different just to see how it looks, even to the extent of not liking it myself.
And alas, I don't have your skills, I would dearly loved to have something like that red dragon you do on the archery armguard on a leather saddle, but as I say sadly it's beyond me.
Cheers Mark.
Hmmm, you've got me thinking now.
The leather I use for tooling isn't very 'stretchy' lke garment leather or some suedes...
... but it is suitable for cold water moulding, or Cuir Boille (sp?) which is how I make the armoured greaves and breastplates.
So given the right grade, I reckon it could be used and moulded round a seat, at least to the edges, then stitched to another piece of leather that would continue on underneath.
I wouldn't rely on the waterproofing of any suitable finishes though and so unless you want to be sitting on a sponge I still have the usual vinyl seat cover on underneath.
But, yeah, I reckon it's doable.
I might have to experiment with the SV or FireBlade now. 8)
amarko5
07-06-06, 01:52 PM
Im with K :lol: where's your flags gonna mount :?: on the wing mirrors :?: :P :lol: :lol:
not into the football, so you'll have to correct me if I'm wrong, but there isn't a British team (is there?).
Err, British bike, British flag, you could of course try it on your jap stuff, (although it would look a little to like bleeding piles on a white seat :wink: ).
Cheers Mark.
Don't take it to heart mate :P
it was all toungue in cheek :lol:
(after all i use a white tyre pen )
rictus01
07-06-06, 02:20 PM
Im with K :lol: where's your flags gonna mount :?: on the wing mirrors :?: :P :lol: :lol:
not into the football, so you'll have to correct me if I'm wrong, but there isn't a British team (is there?).
Err, British bike, British flag, you could of course try it on your jap stuff, (although it would look a little to like bleeding piles on a white seat :wink: ).
Cheers Mark.
Don't take it to heart mate :P
it was all toungue in cheek :lol:
(after all i use a white tyre pen )
so I take it you didn't see the :wink: icon then :?:
Cheers Mark.
Peter Henry
07-06-06, 04:56 PM
Rictus...Power to you fella! For having the cojones to try things that would make me sh*t me pants just thinking about! :wink: :P
not into the football, so you'll have to correct me if I'm wrong, but there isn't a British team (is there?).
Err, British bike, British flag, you could of course try it on your jap stuff, (although it would look a little to like bleeding piles on a white seat :wink: ).
Cheers Mark.
Wasn't it Kawasaki who were commissioned to build or design the engine!?
Correct me if I'm wrong!
rictus01
07-06-06, 10:28 PM
not into the football, so you'll have to correct me if I'm wrong, but there isn't a British team (is there?).
Err, British bike, British flag, you could of course try it on your jap stuff, (although it would look a little to like bleeding piles on a white seat :wink: ).
Cheers Mark.
Wasn't it Kawasaki who were commissioned to build or design the engine!?
Correct me if I'm wrong!
Consider yourself corrected, It's a T5 engine.
Cheers Mark.
Very Proud to be British... but I would not be so disrespectful as to put my rear end on it :shock: :wink:
I like it, but as you say it would only be fitting on a Brit bike.
Red ones
08-06-06, 06:05 AM
I saw the post title "He's at it again!"
I saw the pictures
I didn't see who posted
I thought "It must be Mark"
:wink:
nice
rictus01
08-06-06, 08:39 AM
well obviously mixed reviews there, still the most important opinion is my own. so I'm happy.
as to the ongoing project; I pickup the fairing and forks over the next few days, however the "trendy" disc's are proving a bit of a problem, the guy's not answer ing this mails :x , if I don't get a responce soon, I'll have to open a dispute :evil:
then it's only the bodywork to do (still haven't finilised the colour choice yet).
unfortunately the down pipes haven't arrived yet so I'm unlikely to get the exhaust ceramic coated in time, so will have to leave that until after AR06, which is a shame, but sometimes these things can'rt be helped.
Getting there.
Cheers Mark.
On a Trumpet related theme - my Tona is in the fix shop today to adjust the idle speed and I have a Speed Four as a loaner. Awesome, the power surge is simply fabulous, but I wish it was the triple.
not into the football, so you'll have to correct me if I'm wrong, but there isn't a British team (is there?).
Err, British bike, British flag, you could of course try it on your jap stuff, (although it would look a little to like bleeding piles on a white seat :wink: ).
Cheers Mark.
Wasn't it Kawasaki who were commissioned to build or design the engine!?
Correct me if I'm wrong!
Consider yourself corrected, It's a T5 engine.
Cheers Mark.
Yeah I remembered today! It was the IL4's that were I think(wasn't it?)
Still I like the Triumphs,they make a nice noise!
And yes your seat is cool!
Still I like the Triumphs,they make a nice noise!
This Speed Four I had today no exception. When I got back to Wylies (only 15 miles), they wheeled it into their shed. The bike was VERY hot, they said 'you've given this a thrashing, haven't you?' Me 'no comment :lol: :lol: :lol: ' Well yes of course I did, that orgasmic howl at 9K......
Quiff Wichard
08-06-06, 09:55 PM
is it complicated to adjust the idle speed on a Triumph??
Wylies??.... market Drayton?
is it complicated to adjust the idle speed on a Triumph??
Wylies??.... market Drayton?
Nope as to both.
The bike's under warranty still so I thought they might as well do it. And I got a Speed Four as a loaner. 'Twas Wylies at Wellington (Telford), proper job too they done on it, much better than I could have done. Dynoed 'n' all, like new :D Lots of va va vroom, I tested it on the A5 on the way home :D
Marshall
08-06-06, 10:08 PM
is it complicated to adjust the idle speed on a Triumph??
Wylies??.... market Drayton?
Nope as to both.
The bike's under warranty still so I thought they might as well do it. And I got a Speed Four as a loaner. 'Twas Wylies at Wellington (Telford), proper job too they done on it, much better than I could have done. Dynoed 'n' all, like new :D Lots of va va vroom, I tested it on the A5 on the way home :D
Ahh you use wylie and holland aswell,
i find then a bit expensive, and one of there sales guys just plain rude. upstairs is ok tho, and i only found out last week they have a dyno.
Tis only 10 mins away from me, i pop there about once a week and drule over rocket IIIs and that benilli theve had in the window for the past year
i pop there about once a week and drule over that benilli theve had in the window for the past year
Oh I know what you mean :love:
Tis a place of pilgrimage =P~
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