Ooh, haven't seen one of these in a while...

....well, about 16 years to be exact.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2427814950&category=424

I paid the princely sum of £15 to a mate who'd inherited it off of a
disabled aunt, and it was a runner.

Had my fun out of it until someone else told me how easy it was to extract
extra power out of it by filing bits off the carb slider (1), and an
afternoon in the garage resulted in a bike that ticked over at something
near to whatever its redline was.

Doh.

Ob: 3 wheelers - anyone here ever owned or ridden in a Replicar Cursor, as
I've seen one local in need of work...

(1) Hey, I was about 14 and knew no better

 

No surprise... but at 14 years old, it was quite a laugh to blat round the
local field on and up the private track that led to the back of our house.

£15, *and* legally acquired!

ROTFL... one of the local dwarfs had one of them... horrid.

Anyway, never been anywhere near a Replicar Cursor then?

http://members.aol.com/roldr91408/cursor.htm

 

would one be allowed to run it on a track day?

 

Jezzus; I recall being stuck behind the one and only sold in Glasgow
at the time. Pissed myself laughing.

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6? DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#16? FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19

 

Heh... whilst I have a few fond memories of leaping mine over the ridge in
the pavement into the track that led to the back of my house, I don't really
feel the need to get another to 're-live my yoof'.

I also had one of these when I was 16...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2427686728&category=980
6

Bloody awful it was... essentially a single speed C50 lump.

At least you got fit, assisting the lump, pedalling up hill.

Still, it passed between three other people I knew after I'd finished with
it, and it reliably lasted a fair few years longer.

I remember one night thinking it would be ok if I went out on the beer, and
then just flicked the switch so I could pedal it home as a bicycle... I'm
bloody glad there were no coppers about that night, anyway!

 

What a horrible looking device. Istr those being used by posties up
round my way.

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Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6? DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#16? FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19

 

Well mine was a bit easier on the eye, being of a two tone colour
combination of navy blue and rust.

I think the Camino was basically the same bike, but with the awesome
addition of a two smoke lump.

 

Heh, 'twas just a stopgap whilst my 'proper' moped was being sorted (1).

Pah. I progressed to a FS1E, and that would do an indicated 42 if you got
your head down, dropped it into third, and switched the petrol off (2).

(1) Suzuki CS50 'Roadie' (3), which I managed to do untold amounts of damage
to, in hamfistingly rebuilding the top end.

(2) No, really!

(3) Which funnily enough is where the mechanicals of those Replicar Cursors
are nabbed from.

 

42?

Yours must've been knackered then. They'd easily do 52 if gently
gas-flowed and de-coked regularly.

My Gilera would only manage about 48 (which meant I *always* lost on the
straights), but was *much* better on the twisty bits. I think the fizzy
frame's resemblance to a boomerang had something to do with it.

Happy days, very.

Regards,

Simonm.

 

42? Blimey, I used to get an indicated 50 from my fizzy[1]

[1] Going down Gatton Bottom[2].
[2] Hur-hur.

 

Yeah, but mine was one of the bog standard late 90's ones.

Badly restricted (1), I had to decoke the baffles of the standard pipe once
a week.

Went a lot better once I stuck a Micron on it though

(1) The fact it went better on a leaner mixture when you switched the petrol
off, was as good an indication of this, as any.

 

It was just badly restricted, that was all, as were all the ones produced in
the late 90s.

A micron, followed by a 65 kit soon sorted that out.

I was always on the lookout for a YB100 engine, mind.

 

I had no idea they'd been resurrected in the 90s. Bizarre.

Regards,

Simonm.

 

What I meant of course, was the late 80s.

Doh.

 

Used to go down there every day to work. It was a point of honour to get
the RD350 up to a ton.

 

Nah, Fs1e's handled ok, they didn't have enough power to trouble the frame!
You could get the pedals down without it weaving and wallowing too much.

Oh yes! It was what being sixteen was all about

Regards
Ross