[TopHat]

Originally Posted by Rush104

Just make sure he flushes after he drops off that present...

Santa already left Skunky a gold plated Corgi Mustang (and Skunky re-gifted it to a chap named Murphy).....

[tank nut]

[jim]

[quote=TopHat;133352]Oh,
So, wassup with the rice burner? Thought you would have picked something a little more home grown, like a Triumph, Norton or BSA.....



Come on Hornchurch, wheres the Jampot! (AJS before any of you lot jump in). What about a Matchless or Bonneville?

You know the type Hornchurch, real bikes, the sort Led Zep would ride. (just trying to keep something of the topic in here).

[Hornchurch]

Originally Posted by TopHat

Oh, Horny, you kill me!

So, wassup with the rice burner? Thought you would have picked something a little more home grown, like a Triumph, Norton or BSA.....

Love, Brown Hatter

[quote=jim;133413]

Originally Posted by TopHat

Oh,
So, wassup with the rice burner? Thought you would have picked something a little more home grown, like a Triumph, Norton or BSA.....


Come on Hornchurch, wheres the Jampot! (AJS before any of you lot jump in). What about a Matchless or Bonneville?

You know the type Hornchurch, real bikes, the sort Led Zep would ride. (just trying to keep something of the topic in here).

Hi Jim ; AFAIK, Bonham (senior) was the only 'biker'...... & those choppers look 'Jank' to me........!!!!!!!!
(the one I saw in "Song Remains The Same" film)

In all Honesty guys = the reason I don't ride British crap, is because I wanna Ride them, not p**s-about with oil-leaks & broken Valve-Gear etc, etc,

In 1984 I went on Holiday/Vacation (4 of us) two husband & wife teams....... one on a Kawasaki Z1000J the other on a (virtually brand-new) Triumph-Tiger Trail 750 ('X'-reg).......

One bike had NO PROBLEMS (& later went to Normandy & the Ardennes, twice) - the other wept oil, fell over, at end of week, smashed a casing, so the reliable-one ridden by guess who, went ALL round Norfolk scouring for a spare part for two days - unobtainable in it's country of origin.........LOL !!!!!!!!!!!!!
'Araldited'-together, the 'oil-leak' limped home, whilst the 'Lawson' rep soldiered on & on & on &......... (I rest my case)

I've had the (avatar) GS.1000-E since I was 27, it's a staple part of me, now !!!!!!!!!!

I've TRIED to attach a photo' of my younger bike (of the two oldies)........ a 1980 Honda CB.900-F
(without success = 'file size too large')

It's 27 years old - still going strong & running & looking GREAT (there's a GREAT U.S. website & following for these bikes !)

When I first rode a Matchless it almost spat me off at a roundabout in Dagenham !!!!!!!!
(well, the gearbox is on the 'wrong' side back to front & the wrong-way round......so, instead of 'changing-up' - I changed down !!! lol)

I'll (sadly) admit to liking T.150 & (esp') T.160 Tridents, plus the 'Rocket-3' (BSA)

& the Late-seventies Harley XLCR (mean beast, like no-other Harley.........= 'cafe-racer')

But, I like my bikes to GO, HANDLE & BRAKE..........so, Jap 'Rice-Burners' it is, thanks Gent's !!!!!!!!!!!

British-Bikes belong in Museums........(with a LARGE 'Oil-Drip-Tray' in residence' Ha,Ha,).
.

[SKUNKY]

I don't even know who the Bruins are, but I did manage to find this photie of tank nut (sunglasses and bowtie) at last summer's Show Us Your Pride, Moncton! extravaganza and ho-down...

[TopHat]

Originally Posted by SKUNKY

I don't even know who the Bruins are, but I did manage to find this photie of tank nut at last summer's Show Us Your Pride, Moncton! extravaganza and ho-down...

No piccie, no laundry......

[tank nut]

I was forced into it, the wife said if I did not do it I would not be allowed to have any more diecast (she wanted it for a joke)

[Rush104]

Originally Posted by tank nut

I was forced into it, the wife said if I did not do it I would not be allowed to have any more diecast (she wanted it for a joke)

Now we know who wears the pants in tank nut's family...

[jim]

[quote=Hornchurch;133507][quote=jim;133413]

Hi Jim ; AFAIK, Bonham (senior) was the only 'biker'...... & those choppers look 'Jank' to me........!!!!!!!!
(the one I saw in "Song Remains The Same" film)

In all Honesty guys = the reason I don't ride British crap, is because I wanna Ride them, not p**s-about with oil-leaks & broken Valve-Gear etc, etc,


British-Bikes belong in Museums........(with a LARGE 'Oil-Drip-Tray' in residence' Ha,Ha,).

Sad but so true Hornchurch,

All those wasted days of my youth spent pulling my various British bikes to bits and trying to fix them.
Always having to carry a full tool kit everywhere I went.
My problems were nearly always electrical or carbs deciding to malfunction for no particular reason.

Back then I was earning apprentice wages of the princely sum of £2.00 per week, I eventually stopped hitting my head against a brick wall and bought the then amazing Honda 50cc moped. (stop laughing you guys, I needed transport and it was all I could afford).
I had that little bike for over a year and it was brilliant, it never broke down once.
I remember going home during a serious snow storm and the little Honda struggled through the snow drifts slipping and sliding chugging away up onto the Yorkshire moors ,it never missed a beat.
That little bike knocked spots of my BSA Bantam, durned thing broke down about every 50 miles. (surprising since it was a copy of a DKW German bike).
I once owned a Norton Commando, (thinks, hm yes that was the name) what a load of scrap iron that was, it went like s..t off a shiny shovel but then would blow oil down through the clutch casing and all over me.

Thinking back a lot of the guys would think it was great to tinker with their bikes for hour upon hour, I never understood that , I just wanted to ride the darn things.

[TopHat]

But jim, those bikes had character. Plus, you ain't gonna get no tail with a Vespa....

I hear the same litany of complaints about the old Harleys from back in the day, but I don't think they apply to the modern renditions.