With its gentle curve it looks, to me, like something that should've been picked up in a biodegradable bag, before disposal.
You do where I live, hordes of them, scooters are a big deal around here.
Yet to see a Laverda on the road after a week ??These XA Fairmont wagons used to be pretty common in Australia. Very surprised to see one in Woolacombe, England! This one is unrestored and in great condition with 29,000kms on the clock. The owner’s late Uncle imported it back in the 70s
I’m yet to see a Laverda on the road after a week in England. Seems everyone owns Beemers
No belt sanders involved. You can buy them like that. Without going out in the cold to the shed to confirm, I'm 99% sure it's a Metzler Block-K Sidecar tyre.
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Hang on ……. emBrown seat syndrome
Hang em
As you say and indeed ride Cam, tyres and more...much ( of my exposure ) is about directly what my brother did with his outfit, period restoration, tyres were round, yes i know, they are all round, profile was spehrical... a smile here. Begs the question, is the requirement for certain profile related to front end systems? There being little in the way of sprung front ends, as we know them post world war two, to the girder style front ends of the period, my knowledge ceases there.No belt sanders involved. You can buy them like that. Without going out in the cold to the shed to confirm, I'm 99% sure it's a Metzler Block-K Sidecar tyre.
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The tyre on the back of my Kawasaki outfit is a car tyre. I forget the exact details, but I had a car rim grafted onto the Kawasaki hub. I think the car rim was off some small European car like a VW beetle or old Citroen. I think it's 15 x 4" rim. It was for the skinniest car tyre I could find that was approximately the right rolling diameter. I couldn't go wider because of the Kawasaki's drive shaft housing in the swing arm being in the way. As it was, I had to offset the rim about 10mm on the hub and grind down the welded seam on part of the drive shaft housing. There's only a millimeter or two of clearance. It would be a major engineering project to shift the shaft drive system sideways to allow a wider tyre. As it turns out, the car tyre is slightly smaller in diameter than the original Kawasaki tyre, which is not a bad thing on a sidecar outfit because it lowers the gearing a tad.
Incidentally, the bloke I bought the outfit from used the original Kawasaki rear wheel. He had tyres made by getting old bike tyres re-treaded with a square profile. He gave me a couple of tyres he'd had done. When the tyre that was on the bike wore out, I tried his square section re-treads. They were absolutely awful. So far out of balance and alignment that they were unusable. That's when I had the car wheel rim fitted by a sidecar specialist in Melbourne (Ian Souter at Premier Sidecars).
Go on admit it, makes you want to go out and buy a puffer jacket right away....Brown seat syndrome
Go on admit it, makes you want to go out and buy a puffer jacket right away....
the ID Buzz. Pics taken outside of the Guinness Brewery at St James Gate, Dublin.
They’re £60k in the UK- May be not that popular..
