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Paton BIC 500 8V RU 1968 - The rebirth of an icon
The rebirth of the iconic twin-cylinder 4-stroke motorbike from the 1960s. Find out more about the Paton BIC 500 8V RU 1968.
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Want to go vintage racing - bottomless wallet required
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TK4
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Maybe for a man of unlimited resources such as yourself...Paton BIC 500 8V RU 1968 - The rebirth of an icon
The rebirth of the iconic twin-cylinder 4-stroke motorbike from the 1960s. Find out more about the Paton BIC 500 8V RU 1968.
If someone describes their product as "artisinal", I am not their target market. It looks cool though.Paton BIC 500 8V RU 1968 - The rebirth of an icon
The rebirth of the iconic twin-cylinder 4-stroke motorbike from the 1960s. Find out more about the Paton BIC 500 8V RU 1968.
If I wanted a vintage race bike, after hearing and seeing the Rudge's last year, they would be very high on my list. Not fast but with a solid rear end, the riders need to work hard and have big stones.
How do you end up with a million dollars from racing?
Start with two million dollars...
Start with two million dollars...
84,000 Euro is $113.000 CDN
If you want to build a competitive TZ750 it would be easy to spend that.
The CMR/MOJO FJs that went to Phillips Island weren't $100,000 each... but close... and MOST of the engineering that went into those bikes was done Pro Bono (and there was a LOT. Custom EVERYTHING)
Patons are very special bikes. Frames by Tonti (the guy that did all the GOOD Moto Guzzis) and the suspension design started from a blank page (VERY rare in Vintage racing)
There is a street version, powered by a Kawi 650 twin, that sells for a lot less. The Paton that Dunlop won the 2018 lightweight TT on was based on the street model (and you can buy a copy of THAT bike for about $40,000USD).
Racing ain't cheap... but in vintage racing: you don't have to buy a new bike every year. You just keep flogging it till you figure it out... or, the more popular route, you run out money and motivation
If you want to build a competitive TZ750 it would be easy to spend that.
The CMR/MOJO FJs that went to Phillips Island weren't $100,000 each... but close... and MOST of the engineering that went into those bikes was done Pro Bono (and there was a LOT. Custom EVERYTHING)
Patons are very special bikes. Frames by Tonti (the guy that did all the GOOD Moto Guzzis) and the suspension design started from a blank page (VERY rare in Vintage racing)
There is a street version, powered by a Kawi 650 twin, that sells for a lot less. The Paton that Dunlop won the 2018 lightweight TT on was based on the street model (and you can buy a copy of THAT bike for about $40,000USD).
Racing ain't cheap... but in vintage racing: you don't have to buy a new bike every year. You just keep flogging it till you figure it out... or, the more popular route, you run out money and motivation
I betcha CMR/MOJO spent most of a million going to Phillip Island in 2019... for ONE race.
Lots of the guys racing in VRRA have well over $100,000 into their race bikes. That's not uncommon and often doesn't even include the man-hours of other custom work on them.
