Some pics you might like to look at [URL]http://www.ckdog.co.uk/bikes/[/URL]
http://www.ckdog.co.uk/bikes/pages/DSCF0144_JPG.htm http://www.ckdog.co.uk/bikes/pages/DSCF0143_JPG.htm *Drool* I love six-cylinder engines, I do. (Bit of a cheek sticking a modern Triumph Bonnie in the line-up, though. I wonder how many people thought it was an old bike?)
Thus spake The Older Gentleman unto the assembled multitudes: The new Bonnie is a bit too retro for my liking. I think the Thunderbird strikes the better balance. Whenever people hear that I have a Triumph and start getting all misty-eyed and nostalgic, I am constantly having to tell them that it's a Hinckley Triumph and not the old company. Their reaction is often to go into a sort of denial. It's amazing how many people - especially those who've owned bikes - still don't realise that the 'new' Hinckley Triumph company actually exists. Weird.
nice pics, BTW... the folks have just been looking at 'em, and saying "we had one like that". wot's the funny red scooter? -- Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.fsnet.co.uk my opinions are just that "The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn, The swallow twittering from the strawbuilt shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed." Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.
bugger, yer right. Fooled me, I have to admit, in the pictures, though in the flesh it'd be obvious. hohum. I do quite like them, mind, but they want silly money for 'em.
Geoff Berrow vaguely muttered something like ... Wossat then ? http://www.ckdog.co.uk/bikes/pages/DSCF0133_JPG.htm http://www.ckdog.co.uk/bikes/pages/DSCF0132_JPG.htm Looks like an old beemer (Flat twin I guess) And this ? http://www.ckdog.co.uk/bikes/pages/DSCF0126_JPG.htm I can see it's a BSA, but what exactly is it and any clues as to value etc too ??? They are both fecking gorgeous ... Heheheh http://www.ckdog.co.uk/bikes/pages/DSCF0145_JPG.htm sweet .. -- Paul ... (8(|) ... Homer Rocks "A tosser is a tosser, no matter what mode of transport they're using."
Love that Benelli 750 Sei! I even considered bidding on one in Arizona on Ebay a few months back, but it was ratty as **** and I managed to persuade the head to rule the heart for a change! Ian
I can do this'n, 's a Douglas. we reckon a Gold Flash, which is not the same thing as a gold star... we think it was probably a 650 twin, pre-unit, often used as a chair-lugger, and in that sort of nick worth far more than any sensible person would pay for it, buggrit. Classic bike market is ridiculous. People wanting 4-figure sums for such dross as BSA C15s.
Austin Shackles vaguely muttered something like ... I wondered .. anyone know what Douglas ? I'm a real numpty on old brit bikes ... but I _do_ like the look of this, and it remoinds of something I've seen somewhere, but can't place yet. Figures .. We had an old BSA Starfire years ago, late sixties/early seventies .. looked somewhat similar but in a different colour (shitty reddish), and with, as I recall, different rear end and 'real' shocks, but didn't look half as good. 'course, ours also leaked oil a little .. and had a mite of rust about it maybe, and was _never_ quite so clean looking, even when new .. Heheheh, which is really disappointing if you really like a particular bike, and need a mortgage to get one .. -- Paul ... (8(|) ... Homer Rocks "A tosser is a tosser, no matter what mode of transport they're using."
precisely - I have an irrational hankering for a velo 500, preferably a venom, but they cost an arm and a leg, and are a bit scarce to boot. Nice bike though.
I think it was on Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:18:20 +0100 that "Paul - xxx" A Dragonfly. My uncle had one when I was a nipper. Used to borrow my dad's car to go courting and leave the Douggie in our garage. See http://motorcyclecity.com/History/douglas.htm for more Rob -- Rob Broseley, Shropshire 1991 Yamaha XV 535 Virago 1997 Rover 623GSi
Rob vaguely muttered something like ... Heheheh, thanks .. also found this site http://www.realclassic.co.uk/doug04022400.html once I knew what to ask for ... Now she knows how I think I feel about the bike .. it just looks sooooo .... er ... nice. -- Paul ... (8(|) ... Homer Rocks "A tosser is a tosser, no matter what mode of transport they're using."
A mate has one - Venom, with some Thruxton and other non-standard bits on it. Looks lovely, though you get all the wankers coming up and saying: "Oooohhh, that's the wrong year of footrest rubber on it..." and suchlike. **** 'em: it's his bike. Anyway, we've all heard the stories of how these things will do 90mph all day, on a teacup of petrol, etc etc. Bugger me, this one does. I've chased it across France on more than one occasion, and it don't half go, guv (doesn't *stop*, mind). Another bike I'd really like.
I think it was on Thu, 26 Aug 2004 20:01:20 +0100 that "Paul - xxx" It was such an elegant looking bike . The one in the pics at the URL above is drop-dead gorgeous. My uncle used to commute from Chester to Manchester 3 nights a week for 2 years, whilst he was doing an evening class, on his Douggie. He fitted a screen and legshields (which buggered up the looks but made it rideable in the much colder winters of the late 50s) and he reckoned he could spark up a fag, and smoke it at up to 70 mph in comfort on that bike. They don't make bikes (or bikers) like that any more <G>. Rob -- Rob Broseley, Shropshire 1991 Yamaha XV 535 Virago 1997 Rover 623GSi
Gold Flash, plunger-framed A10. My first bike, except that I never had it on the road. My dad had it off me nearly 20 years after I bought it and stripped it, and put it back on the road... Worth a couple of grand in reasonable nick, probably more like 3-3.5 in that condition.
Thus spake Antoine unto the assembled multitudes: I think that one looks out of place on the road, let alone the Cornwall Vintage show.
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