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Post by Mr Stabby on Mar 9, 2024 8:12:21 GMT
Yes, now you mention it I think he did say it was called a Scram.
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Post by Clinton Cool on Mar 9, 2024 10:38:30 GMT
The Scram has the same engine as the Himalayan. A 411cc, very low performance one. 26bhp.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Mar 9, 2024 17:38:34 GMT
Here we are at the motorbike shop this morning waiting for the MOT. It actually failed the MOT at first then passed it after I whipped the tools out and put a bit more slack in the throttle cable.
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Post by Aloysius on Mar 9, 2024 17:50:10 GMT
The Scram has the same engine as the Himalayan. A 411cc, very low performance one. 26bhp. Also I was surprised to read that the frame for the Himalayan was designed by Harris Performance who, incidentally, live at Shardlow. Or used to. Harris used to specialise in aftermarket frames for underperforming Jap bikes, but then the big four upped their game which reduced demand a touch.
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Post by on Mar 9, 2024 17:57:20 GMT
I remember about 20 yars ago chucking the grappling iron in the canal above Soulbury three locks by the bridge.
All I was finding were aluminium motorbike frames. Several of them.
Knowing nothing about bikes and getting a bad vibe I left them there. I did wonder if there is some sort of awkward to remove mark on these to identify the bike. Maybe the scrap man won't take them.
This was quite near where the pikeys had slaves round Leighton Buzzard way.
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Post by Aloysius on Mar 9, 2024 18:04:12 GMT
Yep, there's a VIN same as any other motor vehicle. Without the log book - useless. The parts, apart from the engine crankcase, are not similarly marked.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Mar 9, 2024 19:36:20 GMT
Yep, there's a VIN same as any other motor vehicle. Without the log book - useless. The parts, apart from the engine crankcase, are not similarly marked. The frames are almost certainly stolen but if not it's easy enough to get the original registration number from the frame number, this costs £5, and then it's just a case of applying to DVLA for a V5C using form V62 "Application for a Replacement Vehicle Document".
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Post by Aloysius on Mar 9, 2024 19:44:52 GMT
Yep, there's a VIN same as any other motor vehicle. Without the log book - useless. The parts, apart from the engine crankcase, are not similarly marked. The frames are almost certainly stolen but if not it's easy enough to get the original registration number from the frame number, this costs £5, and then it's just a case of applying to DVLA for a V5C using form V62 "Application for a Replacement Vehicle Document". Sure, but it wouldn't alter the status of the VIN as 'stolen'. I suspect a connection between the proximity of the canal and the site of the deposit of original frames to Harris Engineering's operation, but I wouldn't go so far as to suggest their direct involvement.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Mar 9, 2024 20:16:36 GMT
The Scram has the same engine as the Himalayan. A 411cc, very low performance one. 26bhp. My VeloSolex has a 0.6bhp engine. That's very low performance.
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Post by on Mar 9, 2024 20:46:56 GMT
Does the Velosolex run on LPA?
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Post by Mr Stabby on Mar 9, 2024 20:55:21 GMT
Does the Velosolex run on LPA? Yes, that's very good, you are clearly a cyclemotoring expert.
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Post by on Mar 9, 2024 20:57:23 GMT
Spongy brain.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Mar 9, 2024 21:23:34 GMT
At a guess, I'd say you are the type of person whose brain is attuned to collecting and storing information which is of no practical use whatsoever while simultaneously rejecting any information which could ever be of any real use. Would that be fair comment?
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Post by ianali on Mar 10, 2024 8:12:32 GMT
The Scram has the same engine as the Himalayan. A 411cc, very low performance one. 26bhp. Also I was surprised to read that the frame for the Himalayan was designed by Harris Performance who, incidentally, live at Shardlow. Or used to. Harris used to specialise in aftermarket frames for underperforming Jap bikes, but then the big four upped their game which reduced demand a touch. I owned a magnum in the 90s. Lovely frame. Changed it for a Bimota, which was even lovelier, works of art those things were.
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Post by Andyberg on Mar 10, 2024 8:22:27 GMT
Also I was surprised to read that the frame for the Himalayan was designed by Harris Performance who, incidentally, live at Shardlow. Or used to. Harris used to specialise in aftermarket frames for underperforming Jap bikes, but then the big four upped their game which reduced demand a touch. I owned a magnum in the 90s. Lovely frame. Changed it for a Bimota, which was even lovelier, works of art those things were. I built a Harris magnum gs1000 in 1990, had it for a few years, wish I had kept it!🙁 What was the Bimota you had? SB6? 👍
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