A Plea

[colin]

Please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, can we have some custom bikes in the mag that aren't bloody harleys i am getting fed up with it, boring boring boring boring boring boring once you've seen one you have seen them all, surely people are building custom bikes without using harley engines.

[Blue]

Please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, can we have some custom bikes in the mag that aren't bloody harleys i am getting fed up with it, boring boring boring boring boring boring once you've seen one you have seen them all, surely people are building custom bikes without using harley engines.

Not that many. Take a look around custom shows, rally sites, etc. Both Pat and I have the same problem.

[100%Pat]

It gets more and more difficult to find GOOD new built bikes that are not HD!
Yes there are some that are not but good ones are hard to come by.... :eek:

[100%Pat]

Having said that..... next issue has two lovely little trumpets... :rolleyes:

[Jay]

Please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, can we have some custom bikes in the mag that aren't bloody harleys i am getting fed up with it, boring boring boring boring boring boring once you've seen one you have seen them all, surely people are building custom bikes without using harley engines.
Mate, I don't dislike Harleys in fact I have to say I love them, but this is exactly why I don't have one - I like to be as different as I can be!

[Bassman]

So chops made with in line four cylinder motors are all magically different are they?
All rat bikes are not essentially the same?
All bike trikes?
All jap bikes?
Look at Some of the new bikes coming out, Vic's stunning indian etc. that's a V-Twin motor, don't you like that either then?
There are as many different styles of Harleys as there are different styles of other chops. Low riders, baggers, chops, softtails, old school, bobbers..etc.etc.
This topic keeps surfacing time after time after time after time...
The magazines print what people make mate... if more folk were making bikes with other engines don't you think they would show em to us all?
More folk are making bikes with Harley engines because they like em that way..
Try keeping a more open mind and maybe you will actually get to like em!! :rolleyes: :D

[Bassman]

Having said that..there is no way you would get me near a billet barge!! :D
Sooner run a Reliant Robin!! :rolleyes:

[XJphil]

Ok then, at the lakes rally i took some photos of a bike that was unique
it was powered with a Fiat engine with a A10 gearbox fitted
hows that then! and it sounded like a harley too

[tease]

How about this, bikes that have BLUING on the pipes? Thats the one thing I love about 100% biker, they run articles and pictorials of REAL bikes, NOT just the show bikes.
This is just my point of view, but anuone can build an outrageous machine, pay top dollar (or pound) for paint, shoot forks 20 feet out in front and have a back tire 10 foot wide, but its not a rider.
Show me the ones that are chopped in a kitchen and all the work done themselves (or with mates) like a friend of mines who WAS noticed and put in the magazine, a fab job she did in her kitchen with a hacksaw and a black and decker benchmate, but she rides her beast everywhere.

I get tired of seeing bikes trailered to shows then wiped down more, inside of the pipes are still chrome and they win best bike? As I like to say, a bike is meant to be ridden, not ride a trailer.

It is true that most customs are now made from HD, or HD based engines, which in my opinion doesnt matter if they get ridden. I am building my wifes now out of an 81 yammy 650, will she steal shows? nawwwwww, will she be in a mag? nawwwwwwwwww, will my wife love it and be on it all over the place? you BET!

[XJphil]

closer look at the engine

[slob]

someone mentioned the other day that me commuting a harley to London is a waste of a good Harley ... I pointed out that bikes are made for riding NOT polishing.... hence mine has only been cleaned once in 12 months.

I like all customs/streetfighters that have heart in them. Not keen on the new sort of organic looking chops like saracen etc. but each to their own.

If the engineering is good then it's all good. I would like to see a few more fun bikes out there rather than really clean and tidy... never know I might learn something about mechanics and put the monkeys ass project out there one day!

[XJphil]

How about this, bikes that have BLUING on the pipes? Thats the one thing I love about 100% biker,

How about a chop that has done more than blued the zorsts?
cuz i blew 2 engines up in mine!
Got a bandit engine in now. Heard you can`t blow a bandit engine easy? time will tell

It is true that most customs are now made from HD, or HD based engines, which in my opinion doesnt matter if they get ridden. I am building my wifes now out of an 81 yammy 650, will she steal shows? nawwwwww, will she be in a mag? nawwwwwwwwww, will my wife love it and be on it all over the place? you BET!

Dont see nuffin wrong with using harley engines for chops
just wish i could afford one


my bike got in 100% last year, only the frame left now so
but i ride it every where and ride it hard (see blown engines bit)
and i`m now planing next years look, with pos a new tank, front wheel, front mudguard, brakes and i`ve got a great idea for the paint, and it will work cuz i aint using candy paints anymore and also i`m;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

[Bosun]

Please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, can we have some custom bikes in the mag that aren't bloody harleys i am getting fed up with it, boring boring boring boring boring boring once you've seen one you have seen them all, surely people are building custom bikes without using harley engines.


i will go with what pat and blue says, it seems to be the trend
if you know of any cracking bikes i am sure they will love to see details

[tease]

Good on ya Phil, I remember seeing yours as well, and yes, I loved her, but then she has the blue of being ridden, THATS a bike to me and cant wait to see her new incarnation!

[rommel]

I must admit I have more admiration for a chop/streetfighter etc. that looks as if it has been built in someones backyard and looks like it is ridden than any of these bikes that the owner must have paid as much again as he did for the original new bike. :(

[Blue]

I must admit I have more admiration for a chop/streetfighter etc. that looks as if it has been built in someones backyard and looks like it is ridden than any of these bikes that the owner must have paid as much again as he did for the original new bike. :(

And I tell you what, you fill two issues of a magazine with bikes like that and everyone's down your neck moaning about why did that deserve a magazine feature. Been there, done it.

[Friar Tuck]

closer look at the engine
Damn! that's ugly! but bloody smart as well! if you get my meaning!

[rommel]

And I tell you what, you fill two issues of a magazine with bikes like that and everyone's down your neck moaning about why did that deserve a magazine feature. Been there, done it.
Yep I can well believe that :o

[ForestFred]

Horses for courses Some I like some I dont I also have a liking fer Classic Iron .
That can open up a whole new can of worms.
So if you like a bike, like it if ya dont finde summat ya do :D

[Friar Tuck]

And I tell you what, you fill two issues of a magazine with bikes like that and everyone's down your neck moaning about why did that deserve a magazine feature. Been there, done it.
and I've been one of 'em I think!

I think I've mellowed over the years, cos now all I do is seem to shrug my shoulders nowadays and think "Well the owner loves it!"

I still rankle when some bozo has spent lots of dosh on a proff. built bike and then show it off, maybe win a few prizes and fail to acknowledge that they didn't build it but some custom shop or whoever!

One question that puzzles me is that with all these custom catalogues around, you can literally build a "Brand New" bike, engine, frame, wheels forks, the lot!

So what make of bike is it? Is it classified as a Harley? after all it might be.. lets say a Highway Hawk or Custom Chrome frame with a Revtech or S&S engine mated to some gearbox or other? It's a V-Twin but was it originally supplied by Harley therefor making the bike a "Harley", has the engine been modded so much that bugger all remains of the original factory jobbie, that in effect it is actually a Harley Imposter!

And once this "New Creation" has been MSVA'd, MOT'd etc, is it entitled to a Brand New reg no, or subjected to a Q reg no?

Me baffled!

[zeddman]

Not long afore you get one from Argos........................with 14 day money back guarantee.....................he he :)

[XJphil]

And I tell you what, you fill two issues of a magazine with bikes like that and everyone's down your neck moaning about why did that deserve a magazine feature. Been there, done it.

Dearest Blue
sorry to say that you will never please all the readers
must say i did get fed up with every feature bike being a £40,000 pro built jobbie.
But then again my mate owns a £38,000 harley (anyone remember BAD ASS IN BLACK?in 100%) and he rides it every where, hes been to rallies in sweden, germany, italy, norway, switzerland and even as far as Bristol


my main gripe (and its a BIG gripe) with BSH is i`ve been in at the talgarth rally 2 years running and the slander is nasty
in fact its down right insulting
yes for 2 years running BSH has called me a Brummie :eek:
and as they called us the `brummies with the eyepatched wearing mascote`
i think i should be able to sue them, unless blue gives me a public appoligy

you see i`m from the BLACK COUNTRY not brum, and its fighting talk to call us brummies

so blue i`m waiting :rolleyes:

[Blue]

So, what's the difference between Birmingham and the Black Country? It's all North isn't it? :D

I'll get me coat... ;)

[addjunkie]

mr tuck.

guess your talking kit bike really then are you not, loads a new bits, bike in a box ..........i love em, wish i could afford one, and they are cheaper than a harly then modifying it.

i agree with the ridden thing bikes are like women ( not really a sexist but seems appropriate) they are meant to be ridden, not nescessarliy used and abused. but RIDDEN :D

to me a bike should be ridden and produce a wide grin on the riders face......speed, look, colour blah blah has nothing to do with it. i find some modern bikes boring to ride they are too refined.

i too like the home built thing, hand made with a hammer and a bread knife, but the shop guys mostly started off as home builders so i guess its all a progression in our more and more affluent fashion driven world...custom bikes have become trendy, why coz they are on telly!!!!!!

so are bikers really followers of fashion..................

[XJphil]

So, what's the difference between Birmingham and the Black Country? It's all North isn't it? :D

I'll get me coat... ;)


spit splutter cough choke

its like calling someone from sunderland a gordie only worse
Black Country are fine true bred englishblokes
Brummies are mungrels, just check on yoda and johniefp

us black country folks are the ultamate pioneering idustrious folk about, all round bloody good blokes, we invented industrie

brummies are moronic knobheads (that should wake up yoda and jfp :D )
who take all the credit for what us fine upstanding yammas are
(yammas are the name given to us by brummies)

we gave you BSAs we gave you pork scratchings we gave you slade
we gave you Banks`s beer, we gave you the best speedway team in the world, Cradley Heatherns (my uncle rode for em in the 60s)

the brummies gave you



Rover :eek:

[Blue]

Ah.

I see.

Only the greatest speedway team was obviously the Ipswich Witches.

[Duggie]

The wee Fiat job is pure class, but I must say you have to give top marks to the mag for putting in the Harley supplement a few issues back. That way you could throw it away and read about the bikes that were ridden! I also like Harleys as in America but I wouldn't want to try riding one up here!
:eek:

[Yoda]

I am Brummie hear me Roar

[Blue]

I am Brummie hear me Roar


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[Duggie]

God that is so neat and well engineered looks like maybe a Fiat 500 engine as its air cooled. Anyone know any more about it?

[Yoda]

anyway i love all the bikes and trikes and admit to reading both mags cover to cover, (the only bike i have taken an aversion to was that gsxr on ebay with the black guy in the pics that had the matching pyjams, trousers helmet and probably thong :) )

other than that i like everything else

yoda

[Blue]

That is because you is lovely, Mr Yoda. http://users.telenet.be/eforum/emoticons4u/love/246.gif

[STEViE]

I'll get me coat... ;)
Watch out phil. That's where she keeps her throwin' knives http://users.pandora.be/eforum/emoticons4u/happy/404.gif

[Blue]

Watch out phil. That's where she keeps her throwin' knives

Oh no I don't. Why do you think I wear cowboy boots so often. ;)

[Friar Tuck]

Oh no I don't. Why do you think I wear cowboy boots so often. ;)
OHMYGOD!

That's the Nursey Uniform Fantasy out of the window now!

Blue in Leather Chaps and Cowboy boots! Yeeehaah!

Someone put on that Dixxie Chicks Album!

Cooee! Bloooo? Where are you?

[devon-tony]

Im not a particular fan of these great big billet barge shop biult bikes, but at the end of the day each to their own, I regularly browse thru all my old mags and in the last few years the standards of bikes has rocketed,

I like to look at the bike bucks bikes, mainly because sometimes I see a good idea that can be "altered" to suit my latest project, without these innovative big bucks bikes surely the new ideas that take money and time to create wouldnt filter down to the smaller builders and home builders etc

well thats my thoughts anyway, back to the garage to work on my chop, one that hopefully will make the mag next year :D :edit: WILL make the mag next year even if it takes a years supply of cream cakes and lots of other devon goodies :) anyone at 100% like home made jams or fudge ;)

[100%Pat]

Ah.

I see.

Only the greatest speedway team was obviously the Ipswich Witches.


Sadly you are both wrong, the greatest speedway team is obviously the Poole Pirates.... :eek:

[Blue]

Sadly you are both wrong, the greatest speedway team is obviously the Poole Pirates.... :eek:

Bugger, I thought you weren't watching!! :D

[Spike]

Coventry Bees !! Or whatever there called now !!! Not been in years................

[BikerGran]

Sadly you are both wrong, the greatest speedway team is obviously the Poole Pirates.... :eek:


Well said that woman! :D



Not a bike builder myself but I like the contrast between the ones that obviously costa packet and the cheaper ones.
It was 100% Biker that inspired me to have my bike triked! When I was in hospital in Abergavenny nearly 2 years ago, I met a mad biker name of Dave the Food, who kept me sane by lending me some bike mags. And there in 100% was a little green CX500 trike that I fell in love with! And it only cost £500 to build, so the story said. Well I didn't get a CX trike cos it turned out I already had the ideal bike for triking, the GT being a shaftie and all.....

The rest is history!