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I can remember even at as a kid walking among the rows of bikes at the places they congregated, learning the names, the engine size, the top speed, etc, most had taken a standard old bike, and made it their own, crankcases would be polished like chrome, solvol must have been on overtime back then, usually in the old cafe racer, or Clubmans style, clip ons, rearsets, ally guards, but no two alike, names were often spoke of like Hyde, Hagon, Kuhn, Dow, and many more. later there was Ducati, Guzzies, Benelli, even saw a Munch Mammoth once, a far cry from the rows of identical soul less fireblades an r1,s, gsxr,s and kawasakis. who knew back then it would one day cease to be.

I never got intimate with the 351 or 353g Think the 3 series only just came out when I was 14 ish and have seen loads of 346xp/xpg but only ever one 351g and one 353 but the 353 was a bit improved over the 351 . When I was that age I didnt follow the science just what was in the brochure !

I could be wrong but I thought the 351 and 353 had metal crank cases unlike the plastic of the 350 . Personally I would not put anything longer than 15"/16" on a 50cc saw . If only for the balance . You know , the old rule of thumb , divide the cc by 3 and that gives you approx max bar lenght in inches .

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Feck I remember what happed to the 350 , it went into a garden repair hire place and guess what the thing came out sized. Should of wrapped it round the hunts head who tried to fix it .

I'm just on about factory standard , I thought the 346 screamed its knackers off but was gutless in proper wood , 351 /353 was had more grunt or torque, And the 350 was a cross between the both i found it could carry upto a 20" bar and still work effectively ..... gawd I miss that saw

Would all Doosan have the controls on the feet? I’ve seen a couple of sany sy18 for similar price, which seem to have a regular dipper as standard-would they have joystick controls for the grab and rotator?

Maybe , the 357xp was tuned up wrong or on the wrong size sprocket,bar,chain configuration.. was the bosses saw, bulky and slow I thought. Just maybe I was lucky with my 350 and some of them are like brummie cars above .

Good Morning Back from Florence / Arezzo. With help from Italian consulate and the wonderful people at the war graves commission my sister and I were able to put my mums ashes on her dad's war grave. An emotional few days punctuated by lovely food, great people and the odd Grappa. Have a great weekend.

So @eggsarascal its been 4 weeks since your story about your friends at Cleethorpes and we've waited patiently for media stories to come out about the bus loads of immigrants but there has been nothing. I think that an explanation is needed or people can think the worst about you.

Be interested to hear. I idly assume stalk up is better as that's how they hang on the tree? But no idea if that's actually true!

So why ask? You were trying to Walt me, I've given you enough there I think.

It's quicker to use the pennant numbers but just for the pedant, Glasgow, Battleaxe, Alacrity and Arrow, did you check any of these out?

Charlie, find a pub and have a beer! Hwad a bit thick this morning, couple of pints in the Brewshed followed by some wine to celebrate the start of the weekend, plus sold the car etc! Standard jobs and tip run today etc. Planning a hit if a beery rugby thing fir next Friday too! Getting on with life! Enjoy your life, work hard and play harder! But be safe! Suite, Car, Err, loin.

Morning all, Going to be pretty wet today. Family trip to go paddle boarding, but I’ll stay in the cafe due to recent ear infection. Cloud with silver lining then. Looking good weather wise next week.

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Unless of course you have Spud ported 346 like mine . Pulls a 15" full chiz driven by an 8pin rim . Fast as fcuk .

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Morning campers . Happy Saturday ! 🙂

I did about 3300 km on the old girl this summer. One big trip with two mates when I carried all the luggage on the old girl. One breakdown when the neutral switch gave up the Ghost but that only took 15min to sort out.

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I've no idea, but if iirc it sold for 40K ish 35 years ago.. it was absolutely beautiful and great to ride. Really only worked on 2 Vinnies as in building the engines, that and a Comet. The bottom ends were probably the most beefy, bullet proof but simple that I ever saw.... although a lot of the gubbins was on the outside which I didn't really mind as it was accessible so serviceable. I also thought similar about the only Jota that I had in bits { but to a lesser extent } the quality of the engineering was cheaper as what went with the era, but still muckle compared to the 70's / 80's British equivalent... imo of course.... which I suppose would have been a delicate Norman Hyde Trident.