"show us your shonker" thread in "Motorbike Media & Image Gallery"
Originally Posted by Olly Fine work. The luggage rack is looking good - please tell us you have the wrong panniers, bodged to fit? meh. ...

meh. i cut up a perfectly good givi monorack and welded it on to the shonker as they didn't fit the proper way.

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Meh, I just bungee stuff in sacks to the pillion seat

amateur shonking

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Minimalist shonking.

I think we should deduct points for welding, too - far too neat. A surplus of bodged bracketry, nuts, bolts and cable ties is surely the way forward

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Bah humbug.

another badly painted kwak i've owned...check out how he masked some of the decals, and painted straight over others. i was particularly found of the the way he painted the wheels black...with rattle cans...without removing or masking the tyres!

the anti-dive units had been blanked off with squares of what appeared to be old ally roadsign.

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mmm...angle iron.

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Lazy shonking..

I offered him a set of panniers for the damn thing about 37 years ago, but he still ain't picked 'em up.

Is this thread only open to currently owned bikes btw?

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is that like easy skanking?

nope, see the GPZ i rode to le mans above

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Ah yes.

Um, assuming I fix it this week and don't set fire to it I may well take you up on the offer, and offer a suitable reward.

cut up an old C90 leg shields then you can ask at posh offices/Hotels where the Tradesman's entrance is

Also can I say you are all armatures when it comes to hacks

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Are the noises in my Head disturbing you

I used a zzr11 fitting kit

My old faithful XBR
Cost: -£200 (Paid £500 (it was in good nick), three weeks later it got written off, got paid £1000, bought the salvage and fixed it for £300)
Dents and scrapes all over, rusty mudguard off some other Honda, bodged on bikini fairing (I didn't have the right colour paint so sprayed it with blue, red then black to match the original colour). The chain was so knackered I took a link out and set the adjusters back to their minimum position . Throw in three years of constant abuse with no more maintenance than a quick annual hose off prior to its MOT...

paid £175 for this beauty complete with the lower fairing, two brand new BT020's heated grips, new head race bearings (not fitted) and a haynes manual.

It had been stood for a few years but it now runs perfectly

all i had to do was

strip and claen carbs
valve clearances
balance carbs
general clean up
head race bearings
strip and new seals in front calipers

only things i have bought are

caliper seals
throttle cable
brake pads

lovely jubbly - one commuter to get me to stansted every day!

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I have to add the OH's XS650 here.

Acquired as a box of bits in return for a favour done for a friend waaay back in the mists of time and rebuilt by himself as a winter project once he had worked out which bits were missing and collected enough extra bits to do it, he can't remember exactly when but it was before I met him so we estimate around 89/90. 60000 miles later............

Note frame inexpertly painted with white gloss and touched up every now and again. Note home-made rear rack that was originally a tv stand. Note screen half-inched off a chinese 125. Note taxi-tyre on rear. Note sidepanels off something else cable-tied on for easy access to the battery. Note total lack of baffle in exhausts (it's a real pain in the ears riding behind him ) Note snazzy throwover panniers that have to go everywhere with it as they contain noothing but tools, enough to fix pretty much any problem (except the one that occurred on the way to the Mem meet this year when the crank tried to eat its wasy out of the cases ) and also at least one tin of carb cleaner, often required to start it. Note home-made woolly muffs, template for the ones since fitted to my winter bike.

Note that despite everything the darn thing just keeps going and going, needs the odd bit of work every now & again (it's ready for a new chain right now) but basically just refuses to die............! Whatever else he has to ride he always sort of comes back to the XS eventually, it's almost like a gravitational pull.

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Sod falling in love, I want to fall in chocolate!

WTF is that back tyre off!

loving the whte gloss frame paint!

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