If you look up some of my posts of october last year and the previous year. You might find pictures of the Metisse stand at the NEC show in Birmingham. i have also posted pictures of one local to me with some very clever alterations to the build. That one was on posts about the Exe valley, and the Dartmoor runs. July 7th i will be on a run where one or two Rickmans join in so will get pictures of these and other bikes.

 

ill have a search again, you don't recall the thread titles do you? yea i look forward to seeing your pics up, please do so! curious to know, do you have one yourself or would want to own one?

 

Bear in mind that Metise is one company, and Rickman is another.

Consider both

 

No, i have never owned a Rickman but like some of the detailing owners do to make a custom bike. The very best i have seen will be at the ride next week possibly. A T140 left change change converted to right hand and with an electric start. I have pictured this one over the last two years of the run. There was also a Japanese 4 cylinder in a Rickman 2 years ago.

 

I’ve wanted one since the originals came out. The models with their engine intrigue me, but it’s a toss up between them and the Triumph engine models. Would I want the light weight original version or twice the horse power and electric start , along with another hundred pounds ?

 

do you recall the stats between them for comparison? honestly my research so far has been just into the models with the triumph engines, I've seen the metisse engines but honesty know nothing about them, more about the frames. my interest in them sparked through the profile on chelsea wasp's profile and her rickman's on bikeshed.

 

May as well have asked "What's your favorite color?"

Bottom line is, the choice has to be YOURS!

(I prefer the classic 650 Rickman scrambler)

 

The Metisse engine is a 997 cc twin producing 97 hp with a 5 speed transmission. I saw no kick starter. There is about a 40-50kg difference between models with a Triumph engine or their engine.

 

dayum.. that is a toss up, I'm almost leaning towards the metisse engine... or else settle with getting a version of each lol.

 

I will give this a good lookover when at their trade stand in October. They do show a bike with a prototype engine and it is usually there each year. Wait for the pictures and i will look to see if any electric starts fitted. Next Sunday i should have a pic of at least one 750 Triumph engined one.

 

both absolutely beautiful and great looking engines.

 

This is my favourite, it’s nearly 30 bags though £££.

 

that profile hey.... they're such lovely lines

 

Saw this beauty at Wheels & Waves this year. It was raced in the endure and flat track races too. Great to see a bike being used for what it was built for.

 

that is such a beaut, the amount of polishing and buffing hahaha. i must say I'm a sucker for the battleship grey or the full chrome look for these bikes, and i rarely like chrome, but it works. I'd probably still get the battleship grey though lol.

the only other time I've really dug a chrome finish is on the new norton's

 

Do they still sell the bike in kit form or only as a complete motorcycle ? Any idea on pricing ?

 

im not too sure on pricing, but you can definitely email them to get a quote, i believe they only sell it as a kit form?? might be wrong, and that'd be a rolling kit with wheels and fairings, but you'll have to sort out the engine, i believe. anyone else know?

 

They are beautiful but would not be able to be road registered here, puts a damper on it. What about elsewhere?

 

I don't think Metise sell a kit
Rickman do

Metise are road legal in the uk as they are basically new vehicles