Night of the Nigel...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=9808&item=4550686382&rd=1

(Check the munter)

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=9809&item=4553038439&rd=1

 

I thought she looked ok. No more than a 5-pinter

 

TBH after five pints I'd be asleep on the bog.

 

On Tue, 31 May 2005 00:02:18 GMT, "platypus"


<snip luxobarges>

Look, you know you want one - why not just admit it, and have done
with it?


--
| ___ Salad Dodger
|/ \
_/_____\_ GL1500SEV/CBR1100XXX/KH500A8/TS250C
|_\_____/_| ..75127../..18653.../..3196./.19406
(>|_|_|<) TPPFATUICG#7 DIAABTCOD#9 YTC#4 PM#5
|__|_|__| BOTAFOT #70 BOTAFOF #09 two#11 WG*
\ |^| / IbW#0 & KotIbW# BotTOS#6 GP#4
\|^|/ ANORAK#17 IbB#4
'^' RBR Landmarks: 12 Pts: 220 Miles: 914

 

I'll admit there's an attraction, but I was traumatised by the Blingmobile.
I need something that handles, and I've sort of gone off fairings and
screens too.

 

Sir needs a Guzzi Le Mans

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, platypus amazed us all with this pearl of wisdom:

Heh

 

Insufficiently plus pillion accomodation. Maybe a GL1100 standard...

 

Valkyrie. ykims.

Or a GL1000K2. In yellow.

--
| ___ Salad Dodger
|/ \
_/_____\_ GL1500SEV/CBR1100XXX/KH500A8/TS250C
|_\_____/_| ..75409../..18748.../..3196./.19406
(>|_|_|<) TPPFATUICG#7 DIAABTCOD#9 YTC#4 PM#5
|__|_|__| BOTAFOT #70 BOTAFOF #09 two#11 WG*
\ |^| / IbW#0 & KotIbW# BotTOS#6 GP#4
\|^|/ ANORAK#17 IbB#4
'^' RBR Landmarks: 18 Pts: 305 Miles: 1193

 

Not ShiteOld enough. Too shiny. Not cheap enough.

Definition of chromatic aberration. And Vetter Windjammers were only
acceptable pre-1980.

 

Now then, when I were oop in Preston, I got friendly with local bike
shop, ended up helping them out at weekend etc, in exchange for parts at
cost/free labour etc.

anyway, one day we had a little lady come in, probably early 60's. Her
husband had recently died, and there was his motorbike in the garage.
She knew nowt about it, except she couldn't move it.

Anyhows, she wanted rid, so we investigated and it was indeed a Valk.
Gleaming condition, FSH the lot. We gave her a fair price, she was happy
etc.

Within a few days, a guy who's face we knew had fallen in love. The
price was a little over his budget, but after a week of pondering, he
brought the missus along and she fell in love also - the deal was done.

Next day - we get a phone call - "I've got some different exhausts for
it, would you mind fitting them?" Certainly not sir.

6 into 6 straight through.

By God was that fucker loud. In hindsight, giving it a handful of beans
in the showroom wasn't the smartest move either. The windows rattled
like a Nascar was present. *Lovely*.

Horrible bike tho.

 

Spada, Cali or somesuch. Cheap to buy and run, easy to maintain, look
'right' (although I'd have to be restrained from waving rearsets and
clip-ons at them) and quick.

 

Well, the Cali is a possible, if I can overcome my reservations re: the peg
position.