Fine Steed

Nealh

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What a bloody mess !!! Ok if you want to ride a 50kg bike, it must handle like three sacks of spuds on a soggy afternoon.
I count four silverfish's, how many more lurking in the panniers.

At the other end the Royal Enfield looks pretty.
 

sjpt

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Saw this splendid self build parked at my local Sainsbury's.
What makes you think it's a self build; I think it's from one of those 'style over substance' boutique manufacturers.
 

guerney

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In addition to the four silverfishes - in the second photo, that black oblong with a red light on the end, under the basket camouflage looks to me like a rear rack battery, mounted sideways on the front rack. Are those two Zefal bottle holders bolted to the handlebars, for bottle batteries? I'm bewildered by the number of displays - voltage and/or heat monitoring plus kit displays? Plus whatever else. So many switches! Are some for disengaging and engaging batteries? I like that he has connected rear flashing indicator lights, via a waterproof 12V aluminium housed buck converter (pic 1, between basket and handlebar)- it's the same model I was thinking of buying to possibly power indicators. That looks like yet another battery connector hanging loose out the back, near the rear wheel in the first photo - so there may well be more batteries in the trunk and/or pannier bags. Maybe he's a Mad Max type, prepared for the oil apocalypse? His red rear light near the wheel, is on the wrong side.
 

soundwave

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frames have waight limits for a reason so it is when not if that thing will snap in half.
 

guerney

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About 25kg to 30kg (or more) in batteries? Maybe it's escaped from a comedy film set? Is it normal for a fire extinguisher to be kept next to the door (third pic), was someone nervous? It's the maddest looking self-build I've seen on this forum, and one which appears to work. But there was that other top heavy monstrosity, covered in aluminium boxes for no apparent reason...
 
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Nealh

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I like egroovers reply, ' ram raided aliexpress' priceless.
 
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