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Winner of best in show at Bulldog Bash 2014 and coming in 5th for AMD's 2014 world championship freestyle class, the Nutcracker by Paul Milbourn is a stunning example of British engineering. Custom built using a Honda XL600R and heavily modified, it has been transformed into a wondrous work of art. Comes with Trophy and magazine. Click here for more information: http://www.bikerscafe.com/blog/2014/10/22/nut-cracker-paul-milbourn-customs/
-Â Â Â Â Nutcracker custom bike engine is 600cc single cylinder. it came from a 1986 honda XL600R which is basically an off-road bike.
-Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The carburation are twin amals 34mm concentric.
-Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The exhaust system of the nutcracker custom bike is stainless steel.
-Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The engine has had the top end rebuilt.
-Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The cylinder head is a vigor 650.
-Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The clutch has been reworked so it works on a twist helix system on the handle bars.
-Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The engine has a dry sump so it needs an oil tank which is under the right hand seat.
-Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The engine pumps the oil through the engine to the tank and back into the engine.
-Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The rear brake is on the output shaft of the engine and by this it is on the output drive sprocket so the calliper stops the drive sprocket on the engine from turning which stops the back wheel through the chain.
-Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The electrics and battery of thenutcracker custom bike are under the left side seat unit
-Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The frame is two stainless steel plates 5mm thick, they are bolted together through aluminium billets which are positioned throughout.
-Â Â Â Â Â Â Â A decorative 2mm plate is welded throughout on the top and bottom of the two 5mm plates to make it into a box section frame and then polished.
-Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The wheels are cut from solid billets.
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A Life-sized full armour for man and horse in the German High Gothic style of circa 1490-1510 Comprising sallet with fluted skull formed with a low medial ridge, fitter with visor, bevor with shaped lower border, three-piece breast plate with pierced central boss, matching backplate, a pair of pauldrons, vambraces, lower cannons, a pair of large cowters, fingered gauntlets with hinged thumb-defences, cuisses, greaves, poleyns, and pointed sabatons of seven articulated lames, saddle tacted with three fluted plates at the front, shaffron flaring out over the nose, incorporating a faceted rounded plate, large cheek-pieces, ear defences, crinet of ten articulated lames, peytral of five large fixed plates, crupper of two pairs of five plates joined by leather straps and buckles, the main plates throughout decorated with fluted patterns, the principal borders reinforced with decorated shaped brass panels, mounted on a realistic plastic horse, trimmed with crimson velvet.