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Sounds good, a Aero themed bike sounds cool. A Ejector seat is a great gag, when racing a sidecar it certainly felt like you would be ejected if not hanging on for life as the monkey. A good anvil is valuable, the cheap Chinese cast ones suck and crack easily.

Sweet Mad Willie the beast. A friend did the bikes from the latest Mad Max movie, he is a chair specialist.

I had a english wheel, great machine but not needed to do guards or any other part to a good quality. A basic stump ground into a dish and some basic hammers will do lots. A leather bag of sand or lead is also useful. A guard can be done on a old curved steam pipe or cast large diameter curved water pipe etc. just grind smooth and hammer away. If you have a angle grinder you can modify almost anything to shape metal on, custom hammers are easy. YouTube can basically teach you everything you need. It does not require big bucks and lots of tooling. Given you intend on building a sidecar, you obviously have tools, skills and lots of possible shaping tools hiding as scrape.

Love the idea of the copper tank, maybe hunt for a bigger version? Or you could modify the shape with some fillets of copper or even stainless to make it more oval shaped. I once had a Stieb Zeppelin sidecar, a thing of beauty. With a bit of imagination you could make the tank like that style as a chair. If you got a hold of another tank or two, you would have plenty to make as you desire and also the 3 wheel guards from the copper. Old copper pipes are also very useful for hand hold rails etc. Metal shaping copper is extremely easy compared to steel , alloy or god damned hard stainless. Would be very cool 😎 with a hand formed copper tank. Any worries on shaping me Metal with simple home tools and I can help, it's not rocket science- guards are surprisingly easy. I would favour a registered motorbike to heavily mod, then you can ride it to the pub etc and have the fun of riding beyond the farm. Pick a BMW k1000 from 1984-1986 and it's club rego, sidecars are common so no rego hassles and they are extremely tough with shaft drive and car strong dry clutch. Pick up a ratty looking one cheap and you can easy modify to your hearts desire. The motor is called the brick and renowned as almost unkillable. Just some thoughts.

Cool go Willie go... Full build log please. Phil

I know the ones you are talking about, but we are not all bloke that. My workshop is at my brother's, also storage for motorbikes. My mooring is way over engineered and has never moved in huge storms. Life's a compromise, sea life for me. The life Aquatic.

I can do a rebuild series if anyone is interested, it will even have aerospace technology in the build. No it will not be a expensive to build Resto mod.

Nev, Spread the word far and wide, boats are a terrible waste of money, endless days can be wasted on the water seeing birds, dolphins, whales, lots of fish and watching sharks feed on dumb tourists. It's a horrible life and no one should suffer such deprivations. The number of times I have been almost blinded by bikini babes is astounding. Tell the world to stop been silly and never come to Port Stephens, it's horrible- like a frozen gulag. So bad in fact , I am restoring a half cabin 15 ft Cruise Craft, a mere 50 years old. My tortured life continues...

Bream are just seachickens, everywhere but not that tasty and a lot of bones. Bream are extremely slow growing a plate size can be 20 years old. The Snapper are awesome tasting, Gar etc lovely. The Jew is extremely tasty if bleed and gutted on the spot, many don't and this effects the flavour and shelf life.

Here one I caught, it's 71cm and was succulent and sustainable if the rules are followed.

I assume you mean Dhu fish , not Jew fish which is actually Mulloway. Molloway just means big fish. Mulloway are also a east coast fish and very fast growing. I catch them all the time and they are generally 3-5 years old as a big fish and reach legal fishing size of 70cm and capable of breeding, by 5-6 years they are 90cm or more. They can get to over 1.4 metres and live to 30 years. depending on the area they can grow very fast- here in Port Stephens we are renowned for them and its a major breeding area. The Port is a extremely healthy system , with limited commercial fishing and many areas that are sanctuary breeding zones, we are a giant national park and Ramsar bird sanctuary. We have a hatchery here as well to increase numbers back to sustainable volume following years of over fishing. The size minimum went from 50 to 70 cm, the flesh is sweetest in the 70-90 cm range and below 50 cm are called soapies and have a slight soapy smell and taste. Most of us will return any bigger to the water for breeding, we tend to "encourage" catch and release unless you absolutely want to eat it and treat the fish with respect at all times. I think the WA govt handled this really poorly but the closure of the fishery or at least restrictions are vital or the system will quickly collapse.

Albo has said he will not be joining the Trumpist gang and needs to focus on domestic issues... A polite way of saying fuck off.

I think you will find the best paid CEO rarely pays much tax at all.

Hockey is right - Dutton has no brain

Sure, https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/07/uk-palestine-action-ban-disturbing-misuse-uk-counter-terrorism-legislation

Boat shoes, nup but find Dunlop Volleys are awesome for grip and comfort.

I refer not to militarism but the use of terrorism powers to do wholesale arrests of peaceful protesters for daring to support action in Palestine. This is a gross abuse of powers.

Police should be called a service not force, they are here to serve society. The use of black uniforms in some states is silly, its hot and sends the wrong image. The use of body cams in all interactions should be mandatory and a offense of office not to use it. Most critical incidents magically fail to get camera vision, this leads to a lack of trust in policing. Police should never be in charge of investigating police, its a massive conflict of interest. Police should never be allowed to hide their identity , they quite often do when policing protests, public order etc, this allows thuggish behaviour and zero accountability. Only speacial ops police should have such needs and then must wear clearly visible badge numbers. We are not like the usa or uk yet but its a slippery slope some right wing pollies would love to follow.

I will wear crocs or well fiited sandals on a boat or at home. Thongs are shit except for the g string type but thats another thing...

OME, At that price buy 10 pairs of thongs for any sudden blowouts...the shoes are a ripp off.

AKA...Organ donors.

Putanna and Xi would be very happy. Justifys anything they do if the US can do it, so can they.

Hey..thats my old Charger miss that beast, but not the dodgy rear traction.

We don't get refugees in Port Stephens, we call em terrorists. Commonly seen sinking boats on the ramp or riding jet skis. If they don't return they are called bait.

15 years to plug the bores? What a joke.