Here's mine. Gilera Trials E-Type ("E" being Italian for "won't go faster than 33mph - even down hill - but don't mention it in the brochure just wait for the tit to buy it and find out the hard way").
Mine was bastardised. I had Fantic front forks. Read a silly article about porting n filed n polished n smoothed the little gilera inlet and exhausts (no change there then) to extract an indicated 63mph on the same Bovey straight we meet today. No baffles - so sounded like the most angry supercharged (10000rpm I guess) sixteen year old who should have been garrotted (no change there then). I miss TFX220R.
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Having had many colour combinations mine ended up being hand painted with big yellow geraniums, armadillos, rats, lophophoria williemsia and magic mushrooms. It really could do 60mph .... It ate a clutch (£14) apprentice wage £46 per week in less than 500 miles and the oversized Dell Orto could only swallow most of the fuel on full throttle...the air filter was mesh from a pair of tights.... Oh for a photo...it was sold £85 as soon as I had a car and I changed the clutch once for the new owner and showed him how to "tune" it three times then I don't know what happened to the badly abused wee beastie.
-- Edited by PeterBc on Friday 1st of August 2014 10:03:47 AM
I had several.
The first was a touring which ended up implanted in the pub next door door, the lamp post next to it which was only removed a couple of year ago was never straigtened out.
The second one was an E like Tims.
The third one was the enduro model which was much basterdised with unmatching frame and engine numbers. Like Pete's it to did the best part of 60 but I always carried a spare piston as they would nip up for a past time and would need filing back in to shape before being used again.
In the end I had about six bikes in parts and no runner, I sold the lot for about £20 and delivered it in my Cortina estate of the time.
e's mine. Gilera Trials E-Type ("E" easiesttalian for "won't go faster than 33mph - even down hill - but don't mention it in the brochure just wait for the tit to buy it and find out the hard way").
Just incase you ever have another one Tim. The easiest bike to derestrict, plastic spacer above slider in the carb, throw it away (stops full throttle opening) and knock out the washer welded in the downpipe (restricts gas departure). Then stick the correct jets in the carb (like the Italian ones). 60 mph all day long.
Crikey Burt where were you in 78 co's mine too would only just reach 40 downhill, tho I did bodge on a small rear sprocket from a mates ss50 it had 2 draw backs 1 it was badly off center and 2 I couldn't pull away.x
My earlier one was not restricted (was pre restriction days and law came in about a year or so later)and with a few mods it could just about top 50 on a good day. As for 60 lol heard all that bollox, Garelli owners and Fantic FS1E and SS's had wild claims but none could quite keep up with mine. The only one that was slightly quicker was my mates modded Garelli, as for stopping the flimsy piece of crap that was another matter, at least the Gilera brakes worked.
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The dubious ownership of bikes beginning with the letter G has passed me by.......
That piece of wasteland at the old Whitchurch airfield site brings back many memories of ragging around on clapped out C90's with the plastics ripped off. I once took my Suzuki X1 50cc moped over there and realised that budget suspension and low ground clearance do not make for a comfortable ride round and over the jumps.
Went back there 2-up on a mates' ER185........my bollocks were up by his ears over some of the jumps
First proper offroad bike I rode was my mates Yam TY250 when I was about 17. Total revelation and was riding up hills I could barely climb up, came as quite a surprise because up to then I had always ridden modded road.
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All my problems started when i had the Gilera
My Drink problem
Always on the pull (couldn't settle)
My obsession with Cheryl Cole
And someone else I cant mention
Talking random **** on forums to anyone
The list is endless
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Dirty Ming wrote:my bollocks were up by his ears over some of the jumps
Dafuq?!
He had the 'bars to hold on to.......I didn't have anything to hold on to, so when the bike was coming down, I was still being launched upwards, hence the near-meeting of spuds and lugholes.
Not to be confused with any sexual activities that may or may not have gone on in the vicinity
