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  On 14/01/2015 at 19:47, twosmoke300 said:

Lovely engine , terrible chassis. Sound amazing don't they?

Note skinny Comstar wheels... I had the privileged of riding one across private land once, sans crash hat - like riding a turbine!

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  On 05/01/2015 at 20:40, Wackeldackel said:

Thought I'd treat myself and get some new embarrassing magazines to keep under my mattress,

 

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Sod the Playboy and Penthouse, I'll take the trabant grot mag please.

Walked past this today

 

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  On 14/01/2015 at 20:07, MrDuke said:

How exactly do 'fishing thermals' differ from any other kind? Or 'fishing sweaters', for that matter?

The smell!

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I won £500 for 'bike of the night' with my self restored CBX. I posted pics of it on another thread.

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CBX, Z1300 and V-Max head to head would be fun.

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  On 14/01/2015 at 20:38, EssDeeWon said:

They were nice! Which color FP, Rosso Red, Mercury grey, Black or white?

 

Mercury grey for me 8)

Black for me.... Not biased because the one we have is a black 88 spec 1988 car with raven headlining, it had the extra of the custom pack when new as well

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Back when I was young, I spent some time assembling out of the crates thirty Z1300 A2s. They had been returned unsold from America (in the UK we were up to the A5 or 6 by then) as they had a rep as 'crank throwers'. They used oil and no bugger ever checked them and the sump was small so... the later ones addressed the problem with... a bigger sump!

 

Anyway, I digress...

 

We used to fire them up without the silencers in the workshop and fuck me, they sound absolutely fucking EPIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then we used to thrash the tits of them up the private road out the back (sans silencers natch!) and one of the guys I worked with, could wheelie them for ever... or until the oil pressure dropped to zero as it had all run away from the pick-up pipe.

 

Ooops!

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  On 14/01/2015 at 22:08, fairkens said:

Al Murray running for election against farage :-D

 

 

His car's in a garage, its Nigel Farage.

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Used that calculator to find value of metro vdp in today's money. I guess new between 6 and 8k so that is betwenn £14700 and 19600 approx. Dad's 1990 volvo glt auto was about 16 grand new which is about 34 grand nowadays

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After reading some of these car price comparisons from the late 80s it looks like we could be faced with £50k for a new Fiesta by 2040!  :-(

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  On 13/01/2015 at 17:15, Bobthebeard said:

Just checked with Mrs Beard. Seems to be a toss up between keeping my testicles and buying another car..........

What's to worry about? with the £550 saved you will be able to have your balls stictched back on.. minus the money for the ice to keep them in :D

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Seeing stories of weather based KAOS in the UK, and I have just woken up to a lovely sunny day in Perth (not the Scotch one) and am expecting to do nothing more strenuous today than getting some beers and resisting the urge to buy a Holden.

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Nice on Phil! Come have a go on mine and see if you like it! Just not yet, as it's off the road. And that's the good one.....

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Holden sounds good. One of those early 70s enormous pseudo yank station wagons with a bfo engine. Yeah!

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  On 14/01/2015 at 23:14, philibusmo said:

Seeing stories of weather based KAOS in the UK, and I have just woken up to a lovely sunny day in Perth (not the Scotch one) and am expecting to do nothing more strenuous today than getting some beers and resisting the urge to buy a Holden.

 

I'm going to the Scotch one later. I haven't checked the weather reports but I'm guessing the word "sunny" won't feature.

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Aren't Holdens basically Vauxhalls with stupidly large engines? All Vauxhalls are... what was it again?

 

I'd imagine resisting the urge to buy a Holden would be a full-time occupation...

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  On 14/01/2015 at 22:06, xtriple said:

Back when I was young, I spent some time assembling out of the crates thirty Z1300 A2s. They had been returned unsold from America (in the UK we were up to the A5 or 6 by then) as they had a rep as 'crank throwers'. They used oil and no bugger ever checked them and the sump was small so... the later ones addressed the problem with... a bigger sump!

I think Guzzi did something similar (or maybe it was after-market?) with a spacer fitted between the crank case and sump. I believe the instruction for measuring the new oil level was something like 1/4" below the end of the dipstick.

 

  On 14/01/2015 at 21:11, xtriple said:

I won £500 for 'bike of the night' with my self restored CBX. I posted pics of it on another thread.

Oooh, I shall have to find that!

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I was trying to remember what the third six cylinder bike was, it just popped into my head now- Benelli Sei

 

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I like the three-into-one-into-three exhaust on the 750.

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And here is the best motorbikes ever built, with half the amount of cylinders are those four stroke pansy mobiles 

 

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and the runner up...

 

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The Reliant now has a clean MOT :) A couple of little things needed done but its back on the road  :mrgreen:

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Honda CBX, Kawasaki Z1300, Benellie Sei, and now BMW with thispost-17481-0-05091400-1421316297_thumb.jpg

 

So there have been as many transverse straight six bike engines as transverse straight six car engines. (BL E Series, Volvo S80 Mk1, S80 Mk2 / Freeloader, Chevy  / Suzuki / Daewoo Epica thing.

 

If BMW cars hadn't gone down the drain that they have, they could build a cracking sports car around that K1600 engine. I would buy one.

 

They won't do it though, joyless bastards.

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  On 14/01/2015 at 23:14, philibusmo said:

Seeing stories of weather based KAOS in the UK, and I have just woken up to a lovely sunny day in Perth (not the Scotch one) and am expecting to do nothing more strenuous today than getting some beers and resisting the urge to buy a Holden.

 

I'll have to consider tying the Y10 down if this wind keeps up, otherwise with the shore so close by I'd be concerned about it disappearing one night and washing up in Perth in 4 months' time.

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Got to use the medical school's most prized possession today, their 70 inch 4K television. Plugged in my laptop and up came my desktop background of Ratdat's Cherry Europe in glorious massive high definition :-P . Very nice it looked too!

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  On 15/01/2015 at 08:39, Cavcraft said:

And here is the best motorbikes ever built, with half the amount of cylinders are those four stroke pansy mobiles 

 

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and the runner up...

 

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One of those poxy Kawasakis is the reason I'm now a fookin' cripple! Had a slight interface 'twixt it/me and the rear of a parked Transit van!

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My dad had a gt750 kettle.i used to borrow it and was amazed at the amount of flex in the frame.....I got a pic of it here somewhere

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