"Frinton Boy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 17:24:13 -0000, Lozzo <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> >R L Driver said....
> >> "good old"
> > ^^^^ ^^^
> >
> >This.. doesn't go with
> >
> >> British bikes
> > ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^
> >this ...
> >
> >HTH
>
> I think you are all being a little unfair. True, to compare a British
> bike of the 70's or even 60's (one could take the arguement back even
> to the 50's) with a Japanese equivalent is not going to leave you with
> much good to say about the Brit Bike.
>
> However, what we are talking about there is looking at an example from
> what was a dying industry, rapidly running out of ideas, innovation
> and quality assurance!
>
> But spin the clock back a few (let's say 30 or 40) years and you could
> see the same manufacturers (and a few others), producing great
> products that could stand comparison with just about anything, from
> anywhere (granted with some exceptions), mainly because they all
> leaked oil, but that was the level of technology/development. The
> problem was that the British bike industry did not move far enough or
> fast enough from that point...
>
> So maybe we need to get some perspective on what we mean by "Old
> British Bikes" before we tar them all with the same brush...?
>
> Nick.

Nah..!
British bikes, load of old crap.
If anyone has an old Thruxton Velo, Beeza Goldie or Rocket or a Trumpet
Bonnie cluttering up their shed, I'll take it off their hands for a couple
of quid ;-)

Rick.

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Rick Maninov
<(E-Mail Removed)> typed
>
>"JB" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>> >
>> > Prolly visits Madame Dominatrix for a good thrashing with wet
>> > birchwood too ;o)
>
>That wouldn't be Miss Norton Dominatrix would it?
>

Well screwed, if not well screwed together, IWHT.
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Rick Maninov wrote:
> "JB" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>>
>> "Steve Parry" <k100rs_1990nospamthank-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
>> message news:botb9j$1gl69c$(E-Mail Removed)...
>>> In news:bot491$c0$(E-Mail Removed),
>>> Andy Clews <(E-Mail Removed)> fumbled, fiddled and
>>> fingered:
>>>> Thus spake R L Driver unto the assembled multitudes:
>>>>> Cant we have more queries about "good old" British
>>>>> bikes........... Japanese ones were far too reliable for me to
>>>>> get very
>>> interested in
>>>>> .
>>>>
>>>> Oh, so you actually *enjoyed* getting your fingers dirty every
>>>> weekend, the puddle of oil on the driveway, the fruitless
>>> heaving on
>>>> the kickstarter,
>>>> the worry of riding more than a few dozen miles in case it
>>> broke down
>>>> (again), the vibration, the bits falling off, being left
>>> standing (and
>>>> laughed at) by mates on Japanese bikes? That was my
>>> experience
>>>> anyway, and I feel no nostalgia for it whatsoever (just amused
>>>> recollection).
>>>>
>>>> But each to his own, I guess.
>>>>
>>>> The new Triumphs are of course a different story, which is why
>>> I own
>>>> one (well, a ten-year-old new one, anyway, which has never
>>> missed a
>>>> beat nor leaked any oil). I'd never have another (old) old one,
>>>> though.
>>
>> ***AOL***
>>>
>>> Prolly visits Madame Dominatrix for a good thrashing with wet
>>> birchwood too ;o)
>
> That wouldn't be Miss Norton Dominatrix would it?
>
> Rick.

ridden more times than a Blackpool donkey ..

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In news:bp2dem$cr5$(E-Mail Removed),
Rick Maninov <(E-Mail Removed)> fumbled, fiddled and
fingered:
> "Frinton Boy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 17:24:13 -0000, Lozzo <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:
>>
<snip>

> Nah..!
> British bikes, load of old crap.
> If anyone has an old Thruxton Velo, Beeza Goldie or Rocket or
a
> Trumpet Bonnie cluttering up their shed, I'll take it off their
hands
> for a couple of quid ;-)
>
> Rick.


I just could'nt possibly do it ... I would only feel guilty for
foisting such an unreliable piece of crap onto another person
..... although I understand there are some guys with rose coloured
specs who [1] think they're OK

[1] probably due to the onset of dementia


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Steve Parry

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