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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: chuck peterson on April 22, 2019, 08:14:49 AM
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Exquisite.
https://vermont.craigslist.org/mcy/d/wayland-1960-harley-davidson-hummer/6871511666.html
(https://i.ibb.co/h9HrtsN/image.jpg) (https://ibb.co/h9HrtsN)
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For that price, I would expect to at least have the correct speedometer instead of a homemade cover and toggle switch.
Without a long excursion into the proper S-125, Hummer, Model 165, Pacer, etc monikers, a 165 is technically not a Hummer and that by 1960 they were 175cc & called a Pacer. I've had a few. Hard to believe how much people ask for them now..
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A local member of the Canadian Vintage Motorcycle Group (CVMG) restored a 1956 HD Hummer and showed it at the International Motorcycle Show when it came through town in January this year. His was a perfect restoration and it was HD orange, man did it draw a crowd.
He was offered $10K CDN ($7K US), he turned it down. He claims it's a pleasure to ride and he put on about 500 miles the summer before.
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DKW RT 125. The design was appropriated (war reparation) by the US, Britain, and Russia after WW2. Sure got a lot of attention for a design that came out of Germany in the 1930s.
Bob
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DKW RT 125. The design was appropriated (war reparation) by the US, Britain, and Russia after WW2. Sure got a lot of attention for a design that came out of Germany in the 1930s.
Bob
I didn't know it was of German origin, I though the west only got V2 rockets and Sarin nerve agent from the Germans after WWII :shocked:
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I didn't know it was of German origin, I though the west only got V2 rockets and Sarin nerve agent from the Germans after WWII :shocked:
The BSA Bantam was based on the NSU RT 125 also . Honda borrowed heavily from the NSU Fox for the Benly .
Dusty
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The BSA Bantam was based on the NSU RT 125 also . Honda borrowed heavily from the NSU Fox for the Benly .
Dusty
If you put, for example, a Bantam and a HD 125/165/175 side by side, you'll notice the engines are somewhat of a mirror image of each other with reversed primary and drive sprockets. Kinda cool. A plunger-frame Bantam was one of my first non-Japanese old bikes.
The NSU and DKW platforms led to a lot of bikes, some more obvious or acknowledged than others.
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That's crazy, I see one half of a Yamaha twin two stroke. 330cc, light nimble dependable...even the exhaust has the stiletto tip of a roadracing Suzuki rg500
(https://i.ibb.co/TKcCkKF/image.jpg) (https://ibb.co/TKcCkKF)
google pick a number between 1 & 5 (https://freeonlinedice.com/)
(https://i.ibb.co/98r61vF/image.jpg) (https://ibb.co/98r61vF)
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Hmmm. I've got 4 'stiletto tips' in the basement. All are oily. 2 are connected. 6 +4 more were, but they're long gone, as are 2 non-oily, being a poor connection from the start. R3~
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That's crazy, I see one half of a Yamaha twin two stroke. 330cc, light nimble dependable...even the exhaust has the stiletto tip of a roadracing Suzuki rg500
(https://i.ibb.co/TKcCkKF/image.jpg) (https://ibb.co/TKcCkKF)
google pick a number between 1 & 5 (https://freeonlinedice.com/)
(https://i.ibb.co/98r61vF/image.jpg) (https://ibb.co/98r61vF)
Yamaha jumped on the same bandwagon when they got started. The 1955 YA-1 125 was their first bike. Always wanted one but never found one. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_YA-1#/media/File%3AYamaha_YA-1_00.jpg (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_YA-1#/media/File%3AYamaha_YA-1_00.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/ZMS78qF/image.png) (https://ibb.co/ZMS78qF)