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Weird looking bike
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Near the bottom of this page:
The blogger comments:
When I first saw these photos of the "Bsaki" in the British custom
bike magazine _Back Street Heroes_ way back in 1993, I was floored.
Who knew that grafting a 1980s Kawasaki four-cylinder engine and
disc-brake front end onto a vintage BSA could appear to be so easy,
or look so right? The casual observer would have no idea that
continents and decades once separated the components of this bike.
If I'm gushing, I mean to; I love this bike. It's unique, even weird,
but it all fits together so incredibly well!
On my first view of the picture I got a pain, it looked so *wrong*.
Then after a while I wanted one.
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In a way it is a throwback to the Kawasaki W650 except for 4 cylinders. It
would probably be a blast to ride. However, this item on same page (link
gives expanded coverage) -
| You say “megalomania� like it’s a bad thing.
I thought Spagthorpe was back in business.
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It's really not that much of a stretch. Afterall, those BSA's had
parallel twins. The Kwak engine only tacks on two more cylinders. The
only thing that looks "wrong" about it to me is the conflicting badges.
It's not like someone tried to transplant a Belarus farm tractor
engine(1) into the frame. That would be wrong. Really wrong.
(1) For those not familiar with farm tractors, Belarus builds farm
tractors with 3 cylinder, air cooled, diesel engines.
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Ummm........
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And if I had said anything Belarus motorbikes, not tractors, that would
mean something.
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So sorry, my bad.
Somehow I thought I had seen the word 'motorcycles' up there
in the group name, and I just kinda figured that implied that an
ocassional post mentioning them might be OK.
Now, carry on with your regularly scheduled discussion about
Russian tractors :-)
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