That Thomas Luthi is a nutter

And he would have won too, if it hadn't been for that pesky faller.

You can keep yer 250s and 500s. 125s is where the action's at.

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No they are not. hth.
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And the curse continues...

 

Ooh. 'ark at her.

Looks like the FIM are a bit confused:

.... and ...

In fact, your cut'n'paste exercise ignored the fact that "900cc" had
been struck through.

"principle"
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Aye. He's lost it alright.

 

I'd agree on the confused bit.
From looking through the regs and updates on the FIM website I'd hazard a
guess that the bods sat in Switzerland don't know there arses from their
elbows.
Great idea - to have a body that regulates international motorsport and then
base it in a country that hates the internal combustion engine and loves
chocolate and cuckoo clocks.

 

<grits teeth>

Cuckoo_clocks_are_NOT_Swiss....

</gt>

Bloody Orson Welles!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuckoo_clock

Hmm, or Mark Twain...

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That would be the Chermans then?

Phil

 

Apologies.... I can see I struck a nerve....

I've taken note and will persevere to further the cause in disproving this
myth !



But cantonal road taxes plus a vignette, seems a bit harsh ?

What the price of fuel over there at the mo ?

 

Yeah, it was on QI the other night, so it must be true.

 

Mebbe. 'Road tax' in Basel Stadt is based on the vehicle - ISTR it's
around 300chf for the bike and Jude's peugeot and a bit more ~500? for
the volvo. So I guess it's more than the UK equivalent, but hey, we
get paid more too ;-) The vignette is, of course, only required to use
the autoroutes, which are otherwise toll-free, and at 40 francs hardly
breaks the bank.

Well it's still very high after recent world events - yesterday I
filled up at chf1.625 = 71p/litre. How much is it in the UK?

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Lucky buggers !

http://www.see-search.com/business/fuelandpetrolpriceseurope.htm

PS - I've got a mate who lives in Basel, nice penthouse flat over looking
the Rhine.
Must pay him a visit before my 05 vignette runs out .... ahh, excuse for a
weekend at the Nurburgring as well.

 

Wow, we're cheaper even than Luzembourg at the moment. Nice.

Let me know and I'll join you for a beer or three, as long as it's not
mid-Nov when I'm away.

I'll probably pass on this - a bit busy, not to mention cold, and I've
already had several bike-related trips this year, so best not push it.
One of these days, mebbe.

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Based on CV over here, so I pay twice as much road tax for the bike than
I do for the car. Bonkers idea.

That's cheap. I'm paying 1.10 euros.

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Schwarzwald oder

 

Jawohl.

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Indeed. I can't really argue with the way it's done here. It seems
fair that a 2.5litre turboed 4wd Volvo estate should cost 5/3 times
the little 2 litre peugeot convertible. Mebbe the bike's a bit high.

Eh? The link Biffa posted
http://www.see-search.com/business/fuelandpetrolpriceseurope.htm shows
Spanish prices at 65p/litre, == .96 Eu. You're being ripped off.

Then again, when did you last fill up? Prices have dropped a lot in
the past two weeks.
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Not half as much as they're disliked in the UK. There's _always_
massive road-building programs going on here, to enable road traffic
to continue growing without a long-term deliterious effect on the
surroundings. In the UK they take the view that traffic will magically
disappear once the jams get too bad. In Switzerland they try and avoid
the jams hapenning.

I've seen signs to that effect in Germany at railway crossings, and I
think it might be in the Swiss highway code. Then again, I recall that
it's recommended in the UK too, if you're stopped for more than about
a minute. In general people do so when it's sensible, but not if it's
going to slow things down.

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