You know you want it... http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2441082629&category=424 -- Platypus - Faster Than Champ VN800 Drifter, R80RT DIAABTCOD#2 GPOTHUF#19 BOTAFOS#6 BOTAFOT#89 FTB#11 BOB#1 SBS#35 ANORAK#18 TWA#15
Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Platypus Hah! "2 miles from Channel Tunnel". Looks like we know its range then. Still, better than 53 feet, eh?
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http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2441082629&category=424 It's funny isn't it, on reading the original post I thought "yes I've been watching that one and wanting it!" Though to be honest when it went beyond 50 quid I lost interest. But as to the above reaction, I have much the same when I see some of the late 70's, early 80's stuff that gets "ooh'ed" over. It makes it fun when we all have a common interest, but such widely varying ideas of what is "good". Nick
Thus spake Platypus unto the assembled multitudes: A mate of mine would have gone all misty-eyed over this, because he had one in the mid 1970s. He had gone up in the world, because this was an upgrade from an Ariel 3. Even rode all the way from Sussex to Cornwall on it for a camping trip. Exhaust was held on by a length of wire tied to the engine (the exhaust clamp thread had long since disappeared). However one icy winter's day, just for a laugh on the way home from the pub, he decided to ride the bike across a frozen village pond, but encountered some thin ice in the middle.... He managed to rescue the bike (just) but it was never quite the same after that, having briefly run underwater and sucked in dirty pond water. Unfortunately said mate has just emigrated to New Zealand, so not much point telling him about it ;-)
