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  • paulybronco
    paulybronco
    2 years ago
    Quoting Timmy on 15 Apr 2022 01:00 PM

    Lol,  I stay in 2nd gear a lot.  Then a short 100kmh run between villages… sometimes I get stuck behind a tractor 😂

    You make it sound as if your in the high country in Papua New Guinea!
  • steelo
    steelo
    2 years ago
    Was going so say south Australia but the tractor threw me. Sounds like Tasmania. 
  • brucefxdl
    brucefxdl
    2 years ago
    germany....
  • FBUser214
    FBUser214
    2 years ago
    Quoting steelo on 16 Apr 2022 12:05 AMedited: 16 Apr 2022 12:12 AM

    Was going so say south Australia but the tractor threw me. Sounds like Tasmania. 

    Doesn't take us long to get around a tractor.
    Not so much the mainlanders that visit, they seem to have trouble staying on the bitumen.

  • obisteve
    obisteve
    2 years ago
    Quoting obisteve on 13 Apr 2022 08:42 AMedited: 13 Apr 2022 08:53 AM

    Took the first step in fixing the gear linkage on the Sportster, put a cable tie on the clutch lever and rolled it out of the shed to pressure wash it. I swear I could see it blinking, it hasn't come out for a year.

    Here it is in all its rat glory, with its hillbilly single seat conversion done with a bread knife and duct tape, Fat Bob front wheel on the back, 21" front with '70s Superglide chromed mudguard over it, Oz made 4 piston caliper on the front, home made sissy bar, no ignition box behind the battery, mismatched mirrors, single throttle cable, battlescarred flame paint from '92 on it, short shocks from a '90s Dyna with Ikon Sporty springs on them, 10 litre tank with battered chromed brass cap off something '30s and British, God knows what else.
    I should have it running again next week, then might muck around with it a bit more. Sprung saddle? +2" fork tubes? early Street Bob limp dick tail light on a shortened mudguard?
    Anyone on here have one of those spare and wanna sell it?


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    Back in the shed snuggled up to the big girl.
    Quoting paulybronco on 14 Apr 2022 09:38 AM

    Many of a memory there Steve......look after that old girl.

    Hell, I plan on flogging the living daylights out of it like I've always done  and fixing what breaks. 
  • obisteve
    obisteve
    yesterday
    Quoting paulybronco on 13 Jan 2016 01:55 AM

    Met the owner today Steve , who has done 400000klm on his Sporty. Yes that is correct 400k! I did read about the bike sometime ago on the forum but cant find the article. Morgan and Wacker had the bike and story on their Facebook as well i am told. If anyone can steer me in the right direction to find the article i would be apprecitive. Lovely man who rides a victory now very quickly!

    Hey PB, spent some of the last few months since I got crook organising old records, and have found the HTML scrape I pulled off the Morgan and Wacker website from 2014 with the pics from the professional photo shoot they organised of the Sporty, and the words I wrote for them about its life and hard times. I won't be able to add the HTML on here, but if you still wanted to read its history I could post it as a Word doc. I think I've put most of the pics on here over the years anyway.
    So, still wanna read the words?
  • paulybronco
    paulybronco
    yesterday
    Quoting paulybronco on 13 Jan 2016 01:55 AM

    Met the owner today Steve , who has done 400000klm on his Sporty. Yes that is correct 400k! I did read about the bike sometime ago on the forum but cant find the article. Morgan and Wacker had the bike and story on their Facebook as well i am told. If anyone can steer me in the right direction to find the article i would be apprecitive. Lovely man who rides a victory now very quickly!

    Quoting obisteve on 16 Jan 2025 11:29 AM

    Hey PB, spent some of the last few months since I got crook organising old records, and have found the HTML scrape I pulled off the Morgan and Wacker website from 2014 with the pics from the professional photo shoot they organised of the Sporty, and the words I wrote for them about its life and hard times. I won't be able to add the HTML on here, but if you still wanted to read its history I could post it as a Word doc. I think I've put most of the pics on here over the years anyway.

    So, still wanna read the words?

    Absolutely Steve! Its a great bit of history and deserves to be revisited. Hopefully your on the up yourself....
  • obisteve
    obisteve
    14 hours ago
    OK, I'll post it next time I've got the laptop out.
    Yeah, pain levels are starting to drop the more blood they suck out of me, a bag, 450 ml every fortnight, as the body sucks the iron out of wherever its been storing it to build up new red blood cells. That could be in muscles, joints, the liver, the lining of the brain FFS.
    So if anyone is ever told they have Haemochromatosis do something about it. It sucks, Not so much the physical pain, been riding bikes for 55 years +, so pain and I are old acquaintances, but when the body is storing it in the brain lining it feels like someone is putting the extra iron in there with a nail gun. 24 hours a day, no let up. It's been over 3 months for me, and only now is paracetamol starting to have any affect at all.
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