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My new ride !!

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  • 10-06-2009 10:25am
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    KTRIC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭


    Just won a 1987 Simson SR50 B4 on ebay this morning. I've sort of fallen in love with ugly bikes / cars from the DDR recently and they can be picked up in good condition for next to nothing.

    Here she is

    sr50_b4.jpg

    Stock pic but identical to mine.

    The great thing about the old DDR machines in Germany is they aren't restricted to 45kph like all other scooters, this one will do 60kph (maybe more with some tinkering) and to register, tax and insure them its just €80 per year.:D


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    Steffano2002
    Registered Users Posts: 5,918 ✭✭✭Steffano2002


    I can't say I approve of this particular purchase KTRIC...

    But hey, enjoy it nonetheless! ;)


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    Steffano2002
    Registered Users Posts: 5,918 ✭✭✭Steffano2002


    Oh and here, how can you afford all these bikes?!?! Can I have the same job as you please? :P


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    KTRIC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭KTRIC


    Steffano2002 wrote: »
    Oh and here, how can you afford all these bikes?!?! Can I have the same job as you please? :P


    You can have my job if you want, I'm bloody sick of it.

    I wouldn't expect a Frenchman to like Commie bikes anyway :pac:


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    Idleater
    Registered Users Posts: 6,236 ✭✭✭Idleater


    Comunistastic!

    The Party will be best pleased. Does it spit and cough blue smoke (not exhaust mind) like the Trabi's?


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    madrab
    Registered Users Posts: 3,892 ✭✭✭madrab


    Awesome, i approve!


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    Steffano2002
    Registered Users Posts: 5,918 ✭✭✭Steffano2002


    KTRIC wrote: »
    You can have my job if you want, I'm bloody sick of it.
    What do you do for a living?
    KTRIC wrote: »
    I wouldn't expect a Frenchman to like Commie bikes anyway :pac:
    :D


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    KTRIC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭KTRIC


    Steffano2002 wrote: »
    What do you do for a living?

    :D

    Supposidly I'm a IT support engineer. I don't find much time for it during my busy day surfing boards.ie and eBay :D


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    madrab
    Registered Users Posts: 3,892 ✭✭✭madrab


    like all engineers then :-)


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    Steffano2002
    Registered Users Posts: 5,918 ✭✭✭Steffano2002


    KTRIC wrote: »
    Supposidly I'm a IT support engineer. I don't find much time for it during my busy day surfing boards.ie and eBay :D
    Similar boat myself but with a relatively lower pay grade me thinks... :pac:


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    KTRIC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭KTRIC


    Steffano2002 wrote: »
    Similar boat myself but with a relatively lower pay grade me thinks... :pac:

    I thought you had a couple of bikes yourself ?

    A track and road bike ?


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    KamiKazi
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,201 ✭✭✭KamiKazi


    oh KTRIC, you so pimp :pac:


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    randomway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 54 ✭✭randomway


    Oh, no! I remember these bikes, they polluted the roads of Eastern Europe for at least a century. They were the top of the line scooter :D


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    Steffano2002
    Registered Users Posts: 5,918 ✭✭✭Steffano2002


    KTRIC wrote: »
    I thought you had a couple of bikes yourself ?

    A track and road bike ?
    I do... :o

    And that's why I'm flat broke! I even have to give up racing and I'm currently 5th in the Championship! :(


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    Interceptor
    Registered Users Posts: 3,180 ✭✭✭Interceptor


    Victory to the Vietcong - that would make any Bolshevik give away his Ural!!

    Have fun on your new acquisition, don't forget all possessions are theft and two strokes don't pollute as much as nuclear reactors...

    'cptr


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    seanybiker
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    man that is the cutest thing ever. That would look lovely on my mantle . I would love to go around on that in full leathers. I want it grrr. Be class pulling up outside murphys here in waterford on that.


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    KamiKazi
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,201 ✭✭✭KamiKazi


    seanybiker wrote: »
    man that is the cutest thing ever. That would look lovely on my mantle . I would love to go around on that in full leathers. I want it grrr. Be class pulling up outside murphys here in waterford on that.

    or go to a track day just to get the knee down on it :pac::pac:


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    weeder
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    so so wrong, but yet theres somthing about it im drawn to, any gears on her? how much it set you back?


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    KTRIC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭KTRIC


    weeder wrote: »
    so so wrong, but yet theres somthing about it im drawn to, any gears on her? how much it set you back?

    Set me back the princely sum of €390, its only got 8000k's on it and its got 4 gears.


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    Steffano2002
    Registered Users Posts: 5,918 ✭✭✭Steffano2002


    Interceptor wrote: »
    Victory to the Vietcong - that would make any Bolshevik give away his Ural!!

    Have fun on your new acquisition, don't forget all possessions are theft and two strokes don't pollute as much as nuclear reactors...

    'cptr
    Nuclear reactors don't pollute 'cptr. The radioactive waste left behind is terrible for the environment but if it's stored correctly then it's no bother!

    As you can see, I'm pro-nuclear (being French and all...)!


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    Steffano2002
    Registered Users Posts: 5,918 ✭✭✭Steffano2002


    KTRIC wrote: »
    Set me back the princely sum of €390, its only got 8000k's on it and its got 4 gears.
    Super cheap!!!


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    Interceptor
    Registered Users Posts: 3,180 ✭✭✭Interceptor


    Steffano2002 wrote: »
    Nuclear reactors don't pollute 'cptr.

    Come around and tell that to the Chernobyl kids staying in my neighbourhood this summer... The French pollution record is undeniably good, but not everyone is as eh, careful as the French.

    'c :rolleyes:


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    Steffano2002
    Registered Users Posts: 5,918 ✭✭✭Steffano2002


    Interceptor wrote: »
    Come around and tell that to the Chernobyl kids staying in my neighbourhood this summer... The French pollution record is undeniably good, but not everyone is as eh, careful as the French.

    'c :rolleyes:
    When I say "nuclear energy is clean" I mean "if the power plant doesn't blow up" of course! :pac:


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    EvilMonkey
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    Steffano2002 wrote: »
    When I say "nuclear energy is clean" I mean "if the power plant doesn't blow up" of course! :pac:

    What if it sends its spent fuel to Sellafield to be reprocessed(dumped in the Irish sea) :p


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    KTRIC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭KTRIC


    She's home :D

    We rented a van for the evening and managed to tie her down in the back, first time doing this and managed to pull it off without any breakages.

    It was sitting up for 3 years in the previous owners garage hence the dust and cob-webs. But luckily she's all there, 100% original and in surpirsingly good shape. Not a rust spot or dent in site. The plastics have aged after 22 years but nothing that can't be painted or replaced cheaply.

    We're going to tear her apart before making the maiden voyage just to make sure its road worthy. I did spin it around a car park before it went in the van and boy was it fun, drives like a small enduro because the forks were used by Simson on an enduro bike and the sound is great for a 50cc.

    Sorry about the quality of the pics and the state of my garage ;)


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    madrab
    Registered Users Posts: 3,892 ✭✭✭madrab


    you so need a pair of chaps to ride that hog :-)


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    KamiKazi
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,201 ✭✭✭KamiKazi


    And of course you'll need a sissy bar to stop your bizatches falling off the back when you open her up :pac:


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