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Just bought this sweet little bike from TTRfan. Tried my hardest to get it muddy but the lanes are frozen and the bike is so shiny nothing sticks to it! Must try harder biggrin

 

In cow muck

 

On ice



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Cracking bike that one - if I was in the market for another I would have been pitching my hat at it.
It ticked all the boxes, mileage, condition, price.

Rumour has it that the bloke who flogged it you may know a little about them

If you enjoy it a mere half of how much I enjoy mine (from the same vendor) then you've won.
Martyn

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Nice pics Jason - although a tad unsettling seeing that shiny TTR wallowing in cow muck blankstare

Glad you are enjoying it. A TTR is about as good a trail bike as you can get!

Things have certainly warmed up a bit now so the lanes should be a bit softer tomorrow wink

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A mere sniff of the jet wash and it was like a new pin smile



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looks like you had some fun in the ice, where bouts in devon are you ??



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What a super area in which to live, if only for the abundance of lanes.
There are over 20 between Buckfastleigh and Ipplepen, a distance of 6 miles!

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Yeah I'm spoilt for choice biggrin

Out today on the TTR

 

My old Cagiva Elefant

R1100RS and Sprint ST (which has to haul me to work every day).

TS 250 at the bottom of Tally Ho



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Loving the Cagiva! Have you got any more pics?

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It's not a TTR but if you squint (alot) no

 



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Out in the mud today



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Hi there...how do you get on with those tyres in the thick mud? OK? Are you tempted to put knobblies on for the winter mud??

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Lots of wet rock around my way so a trials tyre is the way to go, knobblies just turn to smoke. Not that bad in mud, just makes me laugh when it starts to struggle. Ain't got stuck yet!

The road bias front is good on the rock too, but it's made my hair stand up a few times on the softer stuff. Getting used to having a rudder on the front instead of a wheel biggrin I'll be getting an enduro tire on there when I've got the cash.



-- Edited by snailspacejase on Friday 24th of February 2012 10:32:35 PM

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That is so cool. I like it in the way that I like hotrod chop top Fords, something a bit different and funky

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'94 Yamaha TTR 250 Raid (with Open Enduro headlight, grrr...)

'54 plate Suzuki GSF 650S (Bandit)

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pedrosan wrote:

That is so cool. I like it in the way that I like hotrod chop top Fords, something a bit different and funky


 Take a look at the build if you like.

http://mattblackrat.myfineforum.org/ftopic1439-0-asc-0.php



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Just had a look through your build diary. Absolutely brilliant. Thanks for the link, I've sent it to a couple of friends who are into bikes, I'm sure they'll like it too... The rat bike look is easy in my opinion to get wrong and end up like its been thrown together, but yours just works. It looks like a complete bike and everything complements each other. I'd aspire to do a bike like that one day, but the moment I'll carry on tinkering with the ttr, its all experience and if I ever get round to doing something like yours it'll pay off I'm sure. Thanks again and once more; brilliant bike.

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'94 Yamaha TTR 250 Raid (with Open Enduro headlight, grrr...)

'54 plate Suzuki GSF 650S (Bandit)

Previously Yamaha YBR125, Yamaha TY125, Yamaha TY250



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I can't take the all the credit. That Ducati engine in a trail bike frame just looked and sounded mean. It just needed undressing.

It was a skinny bloke in a big jumper though and my 955i would gobble it up and spit it out in small chunks biggrin



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The Cagiva looks like something from a "Mad Max" movie!!
But Better ;)

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