Champ. Is that you.

Apologies if this is a ginge but is that you Champ looking like the
yorkshire riper in Bike magazine?

 

One thing I've always meant to ask you... how do you get a record
like that to 'official'? Especially these days when breaking the
record requires you to break the law?

 

"...following a police Range Rover down the M6 at 95 mph and trying not
to get noticed..."

I liked that sentence ;-)
(Apologies if I mis-quoted it, its a while since I read it.)

 

Having read the article in Bike, I don't think you need to worry about
your record going.

 

Hold on there is a BMW in there!

 

Presumably this is someone from up North who waits for fruit to become
edible...

 

'Swot I thought. What a collection of old carp.

Even on a decent contender[1], it would be hard.

Bikes are faster these days, and the roads are better, but the speed
cameras would make it much harder. Plus the fact, of course, that if
you get nicked at a hundred and eek! mph then they're quite likely to
throw you in jail.

[1] I immediately thought Kawasaki here - ZZR1200 to be precise. Why do
Kawasaki seem alone in being able to build high-speed blasters that
you'd actually want to ride at silly speeds for hours at a time?

 

says...

Dale Lomas from PB rode a ZZR1400 round Europe on the Cannonball Run, or
something similar. I didn't read the full write up but I gather he was
very impressed with its high speed blasting ability for hours at a time.

 

No, nono. That's the Yorkshire Ripener, innit.

Champ's just a bit over-ripe these days, that's all. It's prolly all
that time he's spent in his levvers goin' rahnd Pahnd Island.

 

I was surprised to see the ZX636 at number 3.

 

give us the top ten then

 

Champ wrote

That'll be the record for getting it over and done with quicker than
anyone else then?

Not fucking surprised at all me.

 

Bwahahahahaha

 

I was surprised that they wanted it at all, but they did.

 

Champ says...

I am please to say I have never owned any of those bikes listed.

 

I assume that the inclusion of the BMW assumes that one is actually
going to ride it off road, or at least 2000 miles of third-world
roads?

I've yet to encounter a Kawasaki that was the type of bike I wanted at
the time I wanted to buy at a price I was willing to pay.

 

And the Triumph Rocket III? Maybe its the thought of replacing the rear
tyre.

 

I very nearly acquired a slightly foxed RS250 as the basis of a road
legal hill climber.

Someone occasionally turns up to events with an S2.
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| Pete Fisher at Home: |
| Voxan Roadster Gilera Nordwest Yamaha WR250Z |
| Gilera GFR Moto Morini 2C/375 |
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****, As a long-term Quota rider who actually enjoys it then I must
count as an über-expert, then.

Tremble, mortals!

 

That'll be TOG falling off it, then.