Thus spake Hog. ((E-Mail Removed)) unto the assembled multitudes:

> Point of order. I realise... now... that getting a bike as a teenager was
> not a strategy destined to attract the fairer sex. At least not the ones
> you wanted to notice.

Absolutely! My Leader was replaced by an *extremely* nonstandard and almost
equally tatty BSA C15, which was probably even less attractive to the fairer
sex than the Leader, if that's possible. My luck changed however with my
full licence and my third bike, a Triumph Tiger 650...



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Andy Clews
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<snippety>
>
> I realised my mistake when I turned up one day in a new Ford Consul V6.
> the change in interest was profound.
> The fact that I was 17, with no car licence and the vehicle belonged to an
> old neighbour (I didn't like) who was on holiday, restricted the
> repeatability of the event.
> I didn't trash it however and the **** never did realise.
>
> --

*Superbly* done! Top bloody marks for having the front to do that!

JB

JB wrote:
> <snippety>
>>
>> I realised my mistake when I turned up one day in a new Ford Consul
>> V6. the change in interest was profound.
>> The fact that I was 17, with no car licence and the vehicle belonged
>> to an old neighbour (I didn't like) who was on holiday, restricted
>> the repeatability of the event.
>> I didn't trash it however and the **** never did realise.
>
> *Superbly* done! Top bloody marks for having the front to do that!

Yeah had I trashed his motor or had one of the teachers sussed my sudden
change in fortunes it may not have been cool.

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Hog

On 01/06/11 12:47, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> Partac<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>> Just thought I'd post this link in case anyone hadn't seen it - it had me
>> belly laughing and brought back many memories.......
>>
>> http://www.realclassic.co.uk/ariel03090500.html
>
> Heh.
> They were actually quite nice bikes in their day if properly fettled.
> My bruvver had one, the only real problem was that the exhaust ports
> and silencers needed regular decokeing.
> A lot of the Arrows around today actually started like as Leaders
> and lost their panels to rot and damage over the years.
>

I made the mistake of assuming the Arrow was a Leader without the panels
but I was put right by a Leader owner. There were quite a lot of
differences. I believe that when they were made standard 2-stroke mix
as sold at the pumps had more oil than was good for it which is why they
always went past leaving a blue haze behind them. Goes with de-coking
the silencer.