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From: Roger Hunt on 15 Mar 2007 19:10
Bob Scott wrote
>Brian <blecnospam(a)tesco.net> writes
>>
>>Sadly there are many on this group who seem to think that the motorcycle was
>>invented and first produced by the Japanese.
>>I actually think that the group should be re-named for clarity.
>>uk.rec.japanese.motorcycles.classic?
>>
>You're a ducati owner, aren't you?
>
>It was a ducati salesman who looked out of the showroom at my SFC parked
>outside & sniffed something about how japanese bikes have no character.
>
>Hmm, if I buy the cheap 906 Paso I was offered will I have to sneer at
>my own SFC for not being Italian?

<dim>
Only SFC I know of is a Laverda.
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Roger Hunt
From: Brian on 15 Mar 2007 19:54

"Bob Scott" <bob(a)bobandaileen.co.uk> wrote in message
news:eiBdm$AqgY+FFwfH(a)loud-n-clear.com...
> Brian <blecnospam(a)tesco.net> writes
> >
> >Sadly there are many on this group who seem to think that the motorcycle
was
> >invented and first produced by the Japanese.
> >I actually think that the group should be re-named for clarity.
> >uk.rec.japanese.motorcycles.classic?
> >
> You're a ducati owner, aren't you?
Never had one of those. They don't last long enough.


From: The Older Gentleman on 16 Mar 2007 03:20
Brian <blecnospam(a)tesco.net> wrote:

> Never had one of those. They don't last long enough.

<Examines sig>

<Examines poster's intellect>

Yep. Another ignoramus.


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From: Roger Hunt on 16 Mar 2007 11:32
wrote
>Thus spake Austin Shackles (austinDITCHTHISFORBETTERRESULTS(a)ddol-las.net) unto
>the assembled multitudes:
>
>>>What you seem to want is uk.rec.motorcycles.british.classic, which
>>>doesn't exist.
>>>
>>>Feel free to set it in motion. It might need a hefty boot, though.
>
>> not to mention various arcane actions with ticklers and suchlike.
>
>And a drip-pan the size of an olympic swimming pool.
>
Oi! Now steady on there.
British bikes did not and do not leak oil. It is simply a cheap smear
thought up by other nations' motorcycle industries.
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Roger Hunt
From: Bob Scott on 16 Mar 2007 11:50
Roger Hunt <nospam(a)nospam.demon.co.uk> writes
>Oi! Now steady on there.
>British bikes did not and do not leak oil. It is simply a cheap smear

'snot a cheap smear - given the price of decent monograde dinosaur it's
a damn expensive smear.

Mind, I was horrified at the rainbow the father-in-law's Laverda 500
left on the wet road last weekend. I was riding it & had stopped to see
why the bother-in-law's laverda[1] had stopped - they don't tend to run
very well when the earth lead isn't connected.

Bob

[1] There's a theme developing here - we're trying to find one that will
fit my wife but for some reason there's a lack of Laverdas that suit a
26" inside leg, so she rides a Triumph. The shame of it.
--
Bob Scott
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