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Good idea.

Is the red GTV the V8 Maserati powered one Tim ?

Not sure Keith but I’d sell everything I have to own it !

Two more, one to laugh at me......northern urchin .

Here you go Tim, better start saving
Good photo on the bike.


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Is that northern urchin on a Fantic ?

No, said urchin is on his Simpson ‘MZ’ 50, it cost a tenner, the throttle twist grip broke so we fitted a push bike brake lever as the throttle pull instead.

Keith That’s just the sort of specialised engineering we got away with in the 70s . These days you’d have to plug in your code reader. Enter the throttle control menu, delete “twist grip control” and enter the “Bike brake lever control ” conversion tab, not forgetting to select the correct Version ! (In your case it would be the v19.70s ) Then delete the throttle fault code from the Ecu memory. then go back into the main menu to set up the new “Bike brake lever” modification parameters to ensure full and proper operation. failure to do this will cause all your canbus functions to crash and you parachute won’t open !!!

Veesix75 wrote: ↑Sun Nov 15, 2020 10:40 pm No, said urchin is on his Simpson ‘MZ’ 50, it cost a tenner, the throttle twist grip broke so we fitted a push bike brake lever as the throttle pull instead.

Excellent mod! I recall a bike on the farm that was owned by a not nice lad and they drilled a hole in his crankcase so it did not have enough pressure and it would not start. Then when the lad was pissed off with kicking it, they would craftily stick a bit of wood in the hole, and then fire it up for him. Code reader would have hated that as well.

Yea, I started on a CZ 175 with a non road legal scrambles knobbly on the back, dodgy in the snow.

Kegsti66 wrote: ↑Sat Nov 14, 2020 11:26 pm

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Wouldn't that girl have found those boots difficult to drive in ?

LooLooSud33Spider wrote: ↑Sun Nov 15, 2020 11:53 pm Keith That’s just the sort of specialised engineering we got away with in the 70s . These days you’d have to plug in your code reader. Enter the throttle control menu, delete “twist grip control” and enter the “Bike brake lever control ” conversion tab, not forgetting to select the correct Version ! (In your case it would be the v19.70s ) Then delete the throttle fault code from the Ecu memory. then go back into the main menu to set up the new “Bike brake lever” modification parameters to ensure full and proper operation. failure to do this will cause all your canbus functions to crash and you parachute won’t open !!!

Lou, Tim is the urchin not me !!
Funny thing is that I thought the tank looked like an MZ Simpson. I had one of them, here is my Aunty mucking about on it in the garden.
Fun little thread this getting us communicating again.
James, I think the girl driver will be ok in those boots, especially the heeling bit.

Kegsti66 wrote: ↑Mon Nov 16, 2020 8:59 pm

LooLooSud33Spider wrote: ↑Sun Nov 15, 2020 11:53 pm Keith That’s just the sort of specialised engineering we got away with in the 70s . These days you’d have to plug in your code reader. Enter the throttle control menu, delete “twist grip control” and enter the “Bike brake lever control ” conversion tab, not forgetting to select the correct Version ! (In your case it would be the v19.70s ) Then delete the throttle fault code from the Ecu memory. then go back into the main menu to set up the new “Bike brake lever” modification parameters to ensure full and proper operation. failure to do this will cause all your canbus functions to crash and you parachute won’t open !!!

Lou, Tim is the urchin not me !!
Funny thing is that I thought the tank looked like an MZ Simpson. I had one of them, here is my Aunty mucking about on it in the garden.
Fun little thread this getting us communicating again.
James, I think the girl driver will be ok in those boots, especially the heeling bit.

Good i was worried about that !

Great picture of your Simpson, and while we are at it where on earth did that name come from ?

Cool bokeh...



Yes, definitely feeling better now

Ok. Who did the Nova graphic?

The invisible man holding a sparkler?

The Green Machine is an awesome pic Lauren......Guessing the black car is a Mangusta.

If I was any good at button pressing, I would post the Giulietta Register History section pic of a second series Sprint.

As I'm not, I can't!

I may have posted this before, but as Keith shared his ‘fifty’, I’ll reshare mine, a fizzy.

At 16 I hadn’t yet developed a self preservation gene, hence rode it flat out everywhere and spent most evenings looking for other fifty’s to race.

I’m not ashamed to admit that it was a badge of honour to have the fastest fifty in town, and once you had the badge other fifty’s came looking for you. We had a motor cycle news tech article on how to step by step race tune a fizzy, and we followed it to the letter. Weighing 8 stone wet through bike and rider ‘flew’. I retained the badge of honour until I sold it, but we had to put a piston and rings in about once a month. The acceleration and pull through all 4 gears made it the winner.

As you can see, it wasn’t a std fizzy, and my dad being the engineer and engine tuner worked out how to fit the Suzuki forks mag wheels and fit the fizzy hub in the rear mag wheel.

I loved my fizzy (kept it in the bedroom for a short period !) loved every minute of racing it, and in hindsight the multiple cautions and trip to the police station were character building.

I got pulled up (loads of times!) by one cop at 45mph, he went bonkers about how my restricted fizzy should do 35mph, How it was illegal, and that he was going to get me (I felt like John Milner in American graffiti), and he even went to local bike shop to ask what I might have done to it. Thank god he pulled me at 45mph as I was accelerating flat out on a stretch of road where my fizzy would do a genuine and independently clocked 60mph, albeit with me laid on the tank

alfadave wrote: ↑Tue Nov 17, 2020 7:01 pm Ok. Who did the Nova graphic?

The invisible man holding a sparkler?

Not quite - LED torch. The camera is on a long enough exposure to blend me out of the picture.

Writing backwards in the air isn't easy though (as you can see!)

Tim, you may not know, but the Simpson had a speedo that only read up to 40 mph. Mine used to go all the way around and a collage mate claimed he clocked me at nearly 55 mph down the dual carriage way tail gating a truck
A great little bike that earnt respect in the collage car park. All my class mates took the P when we started but they all had new , restricted bikes and only did 31. One kid pulled up next to me on a Kawasaki AR 50 and smirked at me. It looked the part and had six gears. I think he used three to cross the central reservation of the dual carriage way.
Now the MZ only had three gears, so a short shift into second had me match him while he frantically went through all his gears till he was flat out. MZ would indicate 30 in second , so when he was done I just shook my head at him and flicked the old girl into the next gear and pulled away. Never laughed at me again and all the lads wanted a go on it
Always liked the under dog.

Had a Puch maxi step through, handed down from big brother.

Went to work on the first day and on a tight bend knocked a pedal off.

On way home , same bend knocked the other off, a slow learner I was !

The Austin having a drivers window that opens up from the bottom third is pretty unique.

I cannot see what someone would see as the gain from doing it that way. Les water in the car

Keith - my mz didn’t have luxuries like a speedo, lights, mudguards or even pleather on the seat (pure sponge so a very wet arse when it had rained). I was only 10 so no perception of speed or self preservation, so just rode on full bore most of the time. It felt fast tho.

The full on restricted ar 50 and similar were awful.

We tried to ‘port’ a mates mobylette, it didn’t have any effect. As he was so slow my brother used to push him along on his AR125, one hand on his back. A cop followed the gang of bikes doing 60ish in a 40mph limit, put his blue light on and passed them to pull in front and stop them. My brother let go of the mobylette and shut off so it looked like the mobylette was the leading bike. Said cop tried to do them all for speeding, until they argued that the lead bike was a mobylette and how could it have been doing 60. Cop gave up.

Austin - to stop the rain drops blowing in ? Is that rod Stewart to the left rear of the car.

Veesix75 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 18, 2020 11:11 pm Austin - to stop the rain drops blowing in ? Is that rod Stewart to the left rear of the car.

He doesn't look quite that wealthy. (Bet he knows all the words to Maggie though !)

Not so much to cheer me up, but by way of tribute to the late, great Tony Oksien, ex-President of the Mopar Muscle Association and a good friend of 23 years long standing who tragically died of coronavirus last week.



On any other day this would be one for the Puzzle Post, but not today. Chrysler-Ghia L64 custom by George Barris. Ordered new by Hollywood star Gary Cooper, it was delivered too late (Cooper died before it was ready in 1962) and spent the next 3 decades in a private collection before surfacing at auction in 2018. Tony absolutely loved every bit of this amazing US-Italian hybrid and its fascinating history.

Sleep tight mate.

Lauren

Sorry to hear of the loss of your friend. 23 years is long time and sure you will miss him badly over the next year.

Amazing looking car, can see the attraction if you want something very different.