Ready for the straight jacket

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Ready for the straight jacket

Postby prmurat » Fri Aug 05, 2011 9:00 am

We all know the, wrong, saying "nature hates emptiness".... After selling 5 bikes I could not ride anymore I had trouble seeing myself with only two 2 strokes (H2 & S2 Kawie) in the midst of the rest of 4 strokes… So in between a family road trip, in a car , Ebay, some Wifi locations and an Iphone I did it again: I bought, un-tested, un-seem, another ring a ding… The same one we used to make fun in France in the 70’: slow, smoky and always coming with a Communist Party card: a 350 Jawa Californian…

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Time for my pills now!

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Re: Ready for the straight jacket

Postby grandpaul » Fri Aug 05, 2011 9:06 am

Very sharp bike, I saw it on FB.
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Re: Ready for the straight jacket

Postby Jeandr » Fri Aug 05, 2011 9:28 am

That was the bike I lusted over when I was a poor student, after I started working, I bought a Commando S instead :wink:

Still a cool find, probably very easy to ride.

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Re: Ready for the straight jacket

Postby DonOR » Fri Aug 05, 2011 2:54 pm

Totally cool blast from the past... put some expansion chambers and a turtleback seat on on it, and you're good to go!
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Re: Ready for the straight jacket

Postby prmurat » Fri Aug 05, 2011 5:13 pm

No pipes for me .... Maybe a big WWII Russian leather jacket, Wermacht boots, jet helmet and Buco or leather saddlebags...
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Re: Ready for the straight jacket

Postby AussieCombat » Fri Aug 05, 2011 5:47 pm

A good find Philippe, Very basic but reliable old classic.
Quite a few found their way to Oz from the mid Sixties on.
They respond well to a Port cleanup. Bing carbies work well.
Awesom sound.
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