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Doesnotcompute says...

Outdated before it was even built.

 

Lozzo wrote:

The Eurofighter of motorcycling.


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Dnc

B1200 - +30bhp ~|~ ZZR1100 - tagline being developed
V2300 - flat cap and rug ~|~ VS800 - borked

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Lozzo wrote

I was looking wistfully at a 650 yesterday but it was just a tad too pre
enjoyed for what I want. A lower mileage one would perk my interest
but.

 

That's alright, Rob, no thanks were necessary.

I'll just let you google for half an hour the next time you're
struggling, okay?

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Watch it. It's the film that gave me an "emotional reaction" to banjo
music...

 

LOL

 

Snowleopard wrote

And I thought it was just me. That is a relief then.

'ere, have you been phoning Radio 2 with traffic reports? I ask because
someone claiming to be a snowleopard did that very thing today.

 

Snowleopard says...

It made you drunk? Ye gads!

 

I think it was when it was conceptualised.

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Dnc

B1200 - +30bhp ~|~ ZZR1100 - tagline being developed
V2300 - flat cap and rug ~|~ VS800 - borked

MIB#26 two#54(soiled) UKRMMA#26 BOTAFOT#153 X-FOT#003

 

I was under the impression that it was overpriced, over budget,
extremely late and virtually unselleable.

maybe I misheard.


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Dnc

B1200 - +30bhp ~|~ ZZR1100 - tagline being developed
V2300 - flat cap and rug ~|~ VS800 - borked

MIB#26 two#54(soiled) UKRMMA#26 BOTAFOT#153 X-FOT#003

 

I have a Mandolin.

 

Molly wrote

We could do a duet.

 

Or a duel? Duelling mandolins?

Do you sing?

 

It's very good.

 

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

I've been known to stretch the vocal chords (when I'm drunk)

 

Molly wrote

Only if you promise not to hurt me.

Much the same as with my banjo playing really, not in any sense that
would be recognised by any living organism with a sense of hearing no
but I am prepared to give it a go.

 

Cagiva Raptor 650.

http://www.motorcycle.com/mo/mccagiva/raptor650.html

Bear liked it so much he bought the farm...

 

platypus wrote

I dunno. I have always had a downer on Italian machinery and there
still seems something fundamentally wrong with an Italian motorbike made
for road use to me. It is like their cars, made for looking at rather
than using and if you are silly enough to actually use them they fall to
bits.

Seat Height: 775 mm

Hmmm... makes it attractive.

 

Champ wrote

Lonely(er) I should think.

It is a bit academic as it goes. If my trips round Sunny Essex in the
last few days are anything to go by there are none of either on the
market for me to judge anyway.

Ebay is no help. The nearest FJ is in Ashford and completely the other
direction for a ZZR. Miffed I am, I was hoping to at least get me leg
over one and try it for height this week.

 

Rope says...

If anyone is qualified to speak on the respective merits of either
bike, then it's Champ. He's owned an FJ, and also owned ZZRs.

If he says the ZZR is the better bike, then I'll believe him. I knew it
anyway, cos I have ridden a fair few FJs and owned 3 ZZRs.