Tam's New Bike
 

After the black SV sold I was left with just the cafe racer in the garage. As it's not the most practical I thought I'd get something sensible - nice pillion comfort for Mrs T, able to carry luggage, do a bit of distance if required. Something reliable and easy to maintain. Maybe a wee bit of tidying up but absolutely NOT another expensive project.

I had a pretty open mind so I was on ebay looking at all bikes below my price limit within 100 miles.

Picked this up tonight. It ticks approximately none of the boxes.

http://i918.photobucket.com/albums/a...Picture002.jpg

Ahahahahahahaha. Wooooohooooooo. Hehehehe. :smt043

I'll get some more pics in the daylight. It's a bit rough round the edges.

Feckin goes though. :mrgreen:

Re: Tam's New Bike
 

Niiiiice

Bet that's epic fun 8)

Re: Tam's New Bike
 

Nice! Enjoy!

Re: Tam's New Bike
 

Cool. At least the seat looks a bit more appealing.

Re: Tam's New Bike
 

Bwahahahaha! That's about as close to target as me looking to buy a 250 traillie and getting an XJ900! Ace!

Re: Tam's New Bike
 

What is it :D?

Re: Tam's New Bike
 

:lol:

Looks great :)

Re: Tam's New Bike
 

It's a 1992 RGV 250. Two stroke twin. You young 'uns have been denied the joys of new two strokes by the fun police, so I'll give you a summary. :)

It's very light and chuckable. Probably a similar power/weight ratio to the SV but delivers pretty much all the power in the top 3000 revs or so, with a big step at around 8k. It's pretty gutless below those revs but when you hit the power band it just ****s off. Change gear approaching the redline and it drops back to the start of the power band.

bbbruuuuummmRAAAAAAAAA (change gear) RAAAAAAAAAA :p. Keep stirring the box to stay in that rev range and it's utterly mental.

Sounds like an angry wasp. Add plumes of blue smoke (smells like the breath of Angels) and very good brakes.

On the reliability front, these engines were always predisposed to eating themselves and the normal maintenance schedule includes regular rebuilds.

But if you don't wring its neck everywhere and ride it in the powerband as much as possible you're missing the point. I was laughing out loud last night.

I've been a bit nervous on the cafe racer because I didn't want to destroy all the work I'd done and spoil its pretty looks. I'll get over that eventually, but this RGV comes "pre-crashed", didn't cost a load and Comp insurance for me is £60 so I don't have any such worries in the back of my mind. Great fun.

It's got some issues to resolve and when I give it a proper look over I'll probably find some more. Winter project sorted.

Fantastic bikes, had so much fun with one of them many years ago..

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Re: Tam's New Bike
 

Sounds pretty fun :D