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The Happy Bike
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old betsy
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The Happy Bike
The Happy Bike is coming together
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Most problems can be solved with a suitable application of throttle!
Bitumen is a tool, to get you to the dirt.
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CSR 2012
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Bitumen is a tool, to get you to the dirt.
NJ 2011
CSR 2012
DQB 2013
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profoundly_disturbed
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Re: The Happy Bike
Ahab, You have too much spare time mate!
Don't forget to re-connect the rear brake rod and lose the pillion pegs.
Don't forget to re-connect the rear brake rod and lose the pillion pegs.
Some people are like Slinkys, you can't help smiling when you push them downstairs.
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old betsy
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Re: The Happy Bike
Well spotted, I was waiting to add the new rear tyreprofoundly_disturbed wrote:Ahab, You have too much spare time mate!
Don't forget to re-connect the rear brake rod and lose the pillion pegs.
see below
Most problems can be solved with a suitable application of throttle!
Bitumen is a tool, to get you to the dirt.
NJ 2011
CSR 2012
DQB 2013
Bitumen is a tool, to get you to the dirt.
NJ 2011
CSR 2012
DQB 2013
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old betsy
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Re: The Happy Bike
Time for a test ride. Where could I go that was terrible in sand and caused me grief to get my bike out of. Let me think.
Oh, I remember.
Now back to the trip.
This spot is the same spot that I had the GSA stuck in
The bike is standing on its own in the sand
Rear traction was very good. Front did wash out a bit, but to be expected with the tyre that was on the bike
Thanks to Brian for his words of wisdom to keep me on the right side of the law. Mods have been installed
Fuel usage: 3.6l/100km
Ahab
Oh, I remember.
Now back to the trip.
This spot is the same spot that I had the GSA stuck in
The bike is standing on its own in the sand
Rear traction was very good. Front did wash out a bit, but to be expected with the tyre that was on the bike
Thanks to Brian for his words of wisdom to keep me on the right side of the law. Mods have been installed
Fuel usage: 3.6l/100km
Ahab
Most problems can be solved with a suitable application of throttle!
Bitumen is a tool, to get you to the dirt.
NJ 2011
CSR 2012
DQB 2013
Bitumen is a tool, to get you to the dirt.
NJ 2011
CSR 2012
DQB 2013
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Swampy
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Re: The Happy Bike
Terrific Work Ahab, You have made yourself a great little CSR bike.........However.................It's looking a little dirty now 
Cheers....Swampy
Cheers....Swampy
"I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains.
Of rugged mountain ranges, of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons, I love her jeweled sea.
Her beauty and her terror, the wide brown land for me."
Of rugged mountain ranges, of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons, I love her jeweled sea.
Her beauty and her terror, the wide brown land for me."
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old betsy
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Re: The Happy Bike
Added in a new speedo last night to the happy bike 
Ahab
Ahab
Most problems can be solved with a suitable application of throttle!
Bitumen is a tool, to get you to the dirt.
NJ 2011
CSR 2012
DQB 2013
Bitumen is a tool, to get you to the dirt.
NJ 2011
CSR 2012
DQB 2013
The Happy Bike - Rear shock
You don't have to have a long neck...to be a goose
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Re: The Happy Bike
You have competition Ahab........
http://www.eicma.it/en/news/brutus.htm
They should have paid for an English copywriter
http://www.eicma.it/en/news/brutus.htm
They should have paid for an English copywriter
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Re: The Happy Bike
Mike I just love the name you gave your bike - you are just so creative!
JP
JP
Re: The Happy Bike
Hell, I'd like to have one of these... I was scoping out the dash the other day, it's got a frikkin compass! 
That's got 'awesome' written all over it.
I can see you'd have a blast on it, at low speed. Mind you the fact you took it back to the location where you axled a GSA, well.... I'd not have been happy on the sand in thongs, let alone a bike!
Lookin' good.
Bry
That's got 'awesome' written all over it. I can see you'd have a blast on it, at low speed. Mind you the fact you took it back to the location where you axled a GSA, well.... I'd not have been happy on the sand in thongs, let alone a bike!
Lookin' good.
Bry
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Re: The Happy Bike
Hello Mike
What's the plan? tow it behind the 800 till the going gets tough, then go forward on the Happy Bike? looking like a great sand dune machine - don't know how far I would ride it on the bitumen.
What's the plan? tow it behind the 800 till the going gets tough, then go forward on the Happy
Bike? looking like a great sand dune machine - don't know how far I would ride it on the bitumen.Regards
Cookie
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R75/6
Cookie
R1200RT
R75/6
Re: The Happy Bike
You know after the TW200 along comes THIS! > http://www.asphaltandrubber.com/bikes/brutus/
Go on... you needs one!
Go on... you needs one!
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Re: The Happy Bike
Hey
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Most problems can be solved with a suitable application of throttle!
Bitumen is a tool, to get you to the dirt.
NJ 2011
CSR 2012
DQB 2013
Bitumen is a tool, to get you to the dirt.
NJ 2011
CSR 2012
DQB 2013
Re: The Happy Bike
Hmm...
a) he left his login codes on remember and someone accessed?
b) he wants people to know he's a lucky man?
c) He's letting his wife ride the bike! TRUST!
d) It is actually his wife....
*waves* Hi!
a) he left his login codes on remember and someone accessed?
b) he wants people to know he's a lucky man?
c) He's letting his wife ride the bike! TRUST!
d) It is actually his wife....
*waves* Hi!
Re: The Happy Bike
Maybe a subject not to comment on !!!! 
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99 K1200 LT
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98 R 1100 GS
99 K1200 LT
20 K1200 LT
06 F650 GS
07 F650 Dakar
17 1600 GTL