I overtook one on the Aprilia a few days ago on the A14, and saw one
this morning in Black Bear HD's car park as I was taking T to nursery.
They may be shite old Brit iron but I do like seeing them.

Given their rarity, I imagine it was the same one.


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-Pip

On 22 July, 22:54, Pip Luscher <plusc...@live.invalid.co.uk> wrote:
> I overtook one on the Aprilia a few days ago on the A14, and saw one
> this morning in Black Bear HD's car park as I was taking T to nursery.
> They may be shite old Brit iron but I do like seeing them.
>
> Given their rarity, I imagine it was the same one.
I don't think they are rare , I know a bloke with 4.
Rarely used and rarely sold maybe.....

Steve

Pip Luscher <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> I overtook one on the Aprilia a few days ago on the A14, and saw one
> this morning in Black Bear HD's car park as I was taking T to nursery.
> They may be shite old Brit iron but I do like seeing them.
>
> Given their rarity, I imagine it was the same one.

I saw one on the way to Chimay. It was just in front of an old boxer...
by the side of the motorway.

I stopped and they thought it had holed a piston. They were proposing
to ride it the two miles to the next junction. Madness.

On 23 July, 22:29, stephen.pac...@gonemail.com wrote:
> Pip Luscher <plusc...@live.invalid.co.uk> wrote:
> > I overtook one on the Aprilia a few days ago on the A14, and saw one
> > this morning in Black Bear HD's car park as I was taking T to nursery.
> > They may be shite old Brit iron but I do like seeing them.
>
> > Given their rarity, I imagine it was the same one.
>
> I saw one on the way to Chimay. *It was just in front of an old boxer....
> by the side of the motorway.
>
> I stopped and they thought it had holed a piston. *They were proposing
> to ride it the two miles to the next junction. *Madness.

It's for situations like that, that I usually carry a tow-rope of some
sort.

On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:29:14 +0100, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:

>Pip Luscher <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> I overtook one on the Aprilia a few days ago on the A14, and saw one
>> this morning in Black Bear HD's car park as I was taking T to nursery.
>> They may be shite old Brit iron but I do like seeing them.
>>
>> Given their rarity, I imagine it was the same one.
>
>I saw one on the way to Chimay. It was just in front of an old boxer...
>by the side of the motorway.
>
>I stopped and they thought it had holed a piston. They were proposing
>to ride it the two miles to the next junction. Madness.

Hmm. I have ridden an XS750 frm London to Cambridge on two pots and a
Guzzi one mile on one pot to get home, but neither was a) spewing oil
out of the exhaust or b) churning bits of piston around the cases.

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-Pip

platypus <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> On 23 July, 22:29, stephen.pac...@gonemail.com wrote:
> > Pip Luscher <plusc...@live.invalid.co.uk> wrote:
> > > I overtook one on the Aprilia a few days ago on the A14, and saw one
> > > this morning in Black Bear HD's car park as I was taking T to nursery.
> > > They may be shite old Brit iron but I do like seeing them.
> >
> > > Given their rarity, I imagine it was the same one.
> >
> > I saw one on the way to Chimay. It was just in front of an old boxer...
> > by the side of the motorway.
> >
> > I stopped and they thought it had holed a piston. They were proposing
> > to ride it the two miles to the next junction. Madness.
>
> It's for situations like that, that I usually carry a tow-rope of some
> sort.

I didn't have anything with me and having been towed on a bike I'm not
sure I'd want to do towing (or be towed at speed).

Personally I'd have pushed it to the nearest bridge and waited for
recovery.

On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 11:16:28 +0100, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:

>platypus <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>> It's for situations like that, that I usually carry a tow-rope of some
>> sort.
>
>I didn't have anything with me and having been towed on a bike I'm not
>sure I'd want to do towing (or be towed at speed).

I once towed a mate's broken GT750 kettle back from the lake district
to Leicester, on my XT500.

We were young and foolish, of course, and I don't think I'd do it now,
but it wasn't _that_ bad.

On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 09:32:08 +0100, Pip Luscher
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Hmm. I have ridden an XS750 frm London to Cambridge on two pots and a
>Guzzi one mile on one pot to get home, but neither was a) spewing oil
>out of the exhaust or b) churning bits of piston around the cases.

<HEROIC FAILURE MODE>

I rode my KH250 from Falconwood station back to Gillingham
(A2/M2/A278 - including the long drag up from the Medway bridge)
after it had lunched its near-side piston rings.

It was everso untidy in there after I'd whipped the head off when I
got home.

In my defence, I was only 19, and it was only 29 miles.

<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> I saw one on the way to Chimay. It was just in front of an old boxer...
> by the side of the motorway.
>
> I stopped and they thought it had holed a piston. They were proposing
> to ride it the two miles to the next junction. Madness.

Yebbut, it was only a ShiteOldBMW ;-)


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Ace <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 11:16:28 +0100, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:
>
> >platypus <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> >> It's for situations like that, that I usually carry a tow-rope of some
> >> sort.
> >
> >I didn't have anything with me and having been towed on a bike I'm not
> >sure I'd want to do towing (or be towed at speed).
>
> I once towed a mate's broken GT750 kettle back from the lake district
> to Leicester, on my XT500.
>
> We were young and foolish, of course, and I don't think I'd do it now,
> but it wasn't _that_ bad.

I've done it. More or less what you say.


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can-do attitude and a set of cheap tools