Hard decision - choosing a bike
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From: S'mee on 6 Feb 2010 20:27 On Feb 6, 9:39 am, totallydeadmail...(a)yahoo.co.uk (The Older Gentleman) wrote: > S'mee <stevenkei...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > On Feb 6, 1:49 am, totallydeadmail...(a)yahoo.co.uk (The Older > > Gentleman) wrote: > > > The Mighty Quinlan <no.s...(a)no.spam> wrote: > > > > > SQ [muttering: Street Triple. Speed Triple. Rocket 3. Trident. > > > > Bloomin' Brits and their quaint bike names] > > > > I'ss see your Brit names and raise you Fat Boy, Night Train, Cross Bones > > > and Night Road :-p > > > You are just irked that americans can come up with names as quaint and > > silly as the british manufacturers. ;^) > > Damn, rumbled ;-) > > I did like the old Brit habit of naming bikes after aircraft: Spitfire, > Hurricane, Meteor, etc. > > I wish the Germans had had the courage to do the same. Imagine riding a > BMW Stuka[1]. > > [1] Yes, I know it's an acronym, but still. bah the Stuka would have been a mere tiddler! Now the Schnellbomber...that woulda been a dang fine sport touring bike. Thought I suppose with a name like ZERSTÖRER it would most definately a super sport bike. 8^)
From: S'mee on 6 Feb 2010 20:29 On Feb 6, 12:27 pm, Twibil <nowayjo...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Feb 6, 8:39 am, totallydeadmail...(a)yahoo.co.uk (The Older > > Gentleman) wrote: > > > I did like the old Brit habit of naming bikes after aircraft: Spitfire, > > Hurricane, Meteor, etc. > > > I wish the Germans had had the courage to do the same. Imagine riding a > > BMW Stuka[1]. > > > [1] Yes, I know it's an acronym, but still. > > Since the original Stuka was slow, not very agile, outdated, and > vulnerable to practically anything else in the air, I suspect the BMW > marketing deewb who suggested the idea would be looking for employment > as a janitor mach schnell. See my post for what it would have been...appropriate especially if it was a 2 stroke. 8^) > Perhaps a "Wuerger" (shrike) model named after the FW-190 might be a > better bet......particularly if the first production run were prone to > overheating. You are thinking of the prototype with the funky spinner that was meant to facilitate cooling but didn't. Not sure what butcherbird translate to but it's a more / better name and what everyone called them.
From: S'mee on 6 Feb 2010 20:31 On Feb 6, 2:16 pm, totallydeadmail...(a)yahoo.co.uk (The Older Gentleman) wrote: > Twibil <nowayjo...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > On Feb 6, 8:39 am, totallydeadmail...(a)yahoo.co.uk (The Older > > Gentleman) wrote: > > > > I did like the old Brit habit of naming bikes after aircraft: Spitfire, > > > Hurricane, Meteor, etc. > > > > I wish the Germans had had the courage to do the same. Imagine riding a > > > BMW Stuka[1]. > > > > [1] Yes, I know it's an acronym, but still. > > > Since the original Stuka was slow, not very agile, outdated, and > > vulnerable to practically anything else in the air, I suspect the BMW > > marketing deewb who suggested the idea would be looking for employment > > as a janitor mach schnell. > > > Perhaps a "Wuerger" (shrike) model named after the FW-190 might be a > > better bet......particularly if the first production run were prone to > > overheating. > > Or just give the bikes designations like 109, 262, 88 and so forth :-) have to have some letters in front something like HO XVIII B but that's just me.
From: Bob Myers on 8 Feb 2010 14:21 Twibil wrote: > On Feb 6, 8:39 am, totallydeadmail...(a)yahoo.co.uk (The Older > Gentleman) wrote: >> >> >> I did like the old Brit habit of naming bikes after aircraft: >> Spitfire, Hurricane, Meteor, etc. >> >> I wish the Germans had had the courage to do the same. Imagine >> riding a BMW Stuka[1]. >> >> [1] Yes, I know it's an acronym, but still. > > Since the original Stuka was slow, not very agile, outdated, and > vulnerable to practically anything else in the air, I suspect the BMW > marketing deewb who suggested the idea would be looking for employment > as a janitor mach schnell. > > Perhaps a "Wuerger" (shrike) model named after the FW-190 might be a > better bet......particularly if the first production run were prone to > overheating. Maybe they could name a bike after the V-2; imagine how popular those would be in London.... Bob M.
From: .p.jm. on 8 Feb 2010 14:24
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 12:21:33 -0700, "Bob Myers" <nospamplease(a)address.invalid> wrote: >Twibil wrote: >> On Feb 6, 8:39 am, totallydeadmail...(a)yahoo.co.uk (The Older >> Gentleman) wrote: >>> >>> >>> I did like the old Brit habit of naming bikes after aircraft: >>> Spitfire, Hurricane, Meteor, etc. >>> >>> I wish the Germans had had the courage to do the same. Imagine >>> riding a BMW Stuka[1]. >>> >>> [1] Yes, I know it's an acronym, but still. >> >> Since the original Stuka was slow, not very agile, outdated, and >> vulnerable to practically anything else in the air, I suspect the BMW >> marketing deewb who suggested the idea would be looking for employment >> as a janitor mach schnell. >> >> Perhaps a "Wuerger" (shrike) model named after the FW-190 might be a >> better bet......particularly if the first production run were prone to >> overheating. > >Maybe they could name a bike after the V-2; imagine how >popular those would be in London.... > >Bob M. > I think they would bomb. -- Click here every day to feed an animal that needs you today !!! www.theanimalrescuesite.com/ Paul ( pjm @ pobox . com ) - remove spaces to email me 'Some days, it's just not worth chewing through the restraints.' 'With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine.' HVAC/R program for Palm PDA's Free demo online at www.pmilligan.net/palm/ Free 'People finder' program now at www.pmilligan.net/finder.htm |