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<blockquote data-quote="Marcus Bowden" data-source="post: 149962" data-attributes="member: 3287"><p><strong>Tony my handsome, that looks and sounds right to me I bought my first Steib in 1966 ex Peter Garish outfit from John Cooper Plympton then it was put onto my brothers Rapide and he put 13" wheels on his bike but the tyres had such a large section that if one had a blow out the sump would make contact with the road, so a 1/4" steel belly pan was welded to front plates raised 2" and a series m "B" gear linkage was fitted, even rode it slow like that from Exeter to Looe and came up Forda Vally hill at over 70 MPH much to the dismay of a get in quite a fast car. but we raced it like that at St Evel (Cornwall) and Cadwell Park riding to and from meetings. Early 80's he sold the bike with my chair firmly attached. But the tyre section had such a good effect on chain life we couldn't believe it as the tyre pressure was so low 5 to 10 p.s.i. the the absorption from the tyres saved the chain life towards 15k miles but I got another a few years later from Harry Cox when he gave me his "A"rap that John Waltham ran P.E.I in at the international in the 80's the rubber resilient mount was still good when I finally decided that as Christine said she would never ride in it I got rid of it two months ago all nicely painted in Chinese red with hood no tonne cover suit case carrier (aluminium), hydraulic braked wheel and a bucket load of fittings. £1.5 k and my first dream machine R60 1969 for £ 4.5 k.</strong></p><p><strong>bananaman.</strong></p><p>my mate Tim Lister at the helm I'm working the chair as he had been using it the last year so was more use to it as I was racing the exworks Grey Flash with big port head LRO 993</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]46519[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marcus Bowden, post: 149962, member: 3287"] [B]Tony my handsome, that looks and sounds right to me I bought my first Steib in 1966 ex Peter Garish outfit from John Cooper Plympton then it was put onto my brothers Rapide and he put 13" wheels on his bike but the tyres had such a large section that if one had a blow out the sump would make contact with the road, so a 1/4" steel belly pan was welded to front plates raised 2" and a series m "B" gear linkage was fitted, even rode it slow like that from Exeter to Looe and came up Forda Vally hill at over 70 MPH much to the dismay of a get in quite a fast car. but we raced it like that at St Evel (Cornwall) and Cadwell Park riding to and from meetings. Early 80's he sold the bike with my chair firmly attached. But the tyre section had such a good effect on chain life we couldn't believe it as the tyre pressure was so low 5 to 10 p.s.i. the the absorption from the tyres saved the chain life towards 15k miles but I got another a few years later from Harry Cox when he gave me his "A"rap that John Waltham ran P.E.I in at the international in the 80's the rubber resilient mount was still good when I finally decided that as Christine said she would never ride in it I got rid of it two months ago all nicely painted in Chinese red with hood no tonne cover suit case carrier (aluminium), hydraulic braked wheel and a bucket load of fittings. £1.5 k and my first dream machine R60 1969 for £ 4.5 k. bananaman.[/B] my mate Tim Lister at the helm I'm working the chair as he had been using it the last year so was more use to it as I was racing the exworks Grey Flash with big port head LRO 993 [ATTACH type="full"]46519[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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