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From: Pete Fisher on 4 Jun 2010 14:28 In communiqu� <7f793f32-3ad0-4ee7-a2cd-edf769f0b7e1(a)i28g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>, Champ <neal(a)champ.org.uk> cast forth these pearls of wisdom >On Jun 4, 11:33�am, "Beav" <beavis.origi...(a)ntlwoxorld.com> wrote: > >> > And a great feature in racers riding to their race meetings, including >> > the all time boy own adventure story of Trevor Nation riding his GSX-R >> > 750 to Spain and Portugal for two F1 races. >> >> James Ellison did that when he raced in MotoGP at Assen. Went with some >> other bloke who was a journo for a bike mag. > >Yebbut, he didn't there on the bike he was racing, tho. > Unlike Helmut Dahne for the 1974 Production TT, on his R90S, when he finished third. -- +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Pete Fisher at Home: Peter(a)ps-fisher.demon.co.uk | | Voxan Roadster Yamaha WR250Z/Supermoto "Old Gimmer's Hillclimber" | | Gilera GFR * 2 Moto Morini 2C/375 Morini 350 "Forgotten Error" | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+
From: Beav on 4 Jun 2010 15:03 "Champ" <neal(a)champ.org.uk> wrote in message news:7f793f32-3ad0-4ee7-a2cd-edf769f0b7e1(a)i28g2000yqa.googlegroups.com... > On Jun 4, 11:33 am, "Beav" <beavis.origi...(a)ntlwoxorld.com> wrote: > >> > And a great feature in racers riding to their race meetings, including >> > the all time boy own adventure story of Trevor Nation riding his GSX-R >> > 750 to Spain and Portugal for two F1 races. >> >> James Ellison did that when he raced in MotoGP at Assen. Went with some >> other bloke who was a journo for a bike mag. > > Yebbut, he didn't there on the bike he was racing, tho. True, but I reckon he would've if a MotoGp bike was allowed on t' road. -- Beav
From: zymurgy on 4 Jun 2010 15:12 On Jun 4, 4:13 pm, darsy <da...(a)sticky.co.uk> wrote: > On Fri, 4 Jun 2010 00:19:15 +0000 (UTC), wessie > > > > <putmynameh...(a)tesco.net> wrote: > >Champ <n...(a)champ.org.uk> wrote in news:6b7e9fa5-4561-46c8-9e1b- > >dc0ec21b3...(a)j8g2000yqd.googlegroups.com: > > >> This month's Classic Bike has an article on a restored CBX. > > >> And a great feature in racers riding to their race meetings, including > >> the all time boy own adventure story of Trevor Nation riding his GSX-R > >> 750 to Spain and Portugal for two F1 races. > > >> This is the first copy of Classic Bike I've ever bought. I must > >> officially be an old fart. > > >Must've been a tipping point on Sept 30th. I was wondering why a black DJ > >was featured in an old fart's magazine until I googled. > > could be worse - I misread it in a different way and thought - yet > again - that this might be a Blake's Seven thread. Me too, I was imagining Terry Nation .... I was wondering what a Dr Who screenwriter was doing racing bikes .. Paul.
From: Grimly Curmudgeon on 4 Jun 2010 15:36 We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Rusty Hinge <rusty.hinge(a)foobar.girolle.co.uk> saying something like: >>> I am glad I wasn't the only one who thought that . >> >> <confused> >> >> What? > >Half past three. > >I said > >HALF PAST THREE. I think he's been.
From: darsy on 4 Jun 2010 16:21
On Fri, 4 Jun 2010 12:12:43 -0700 (PDT), zymurgy <zymurgy(a)technologist.com> wrote: >On Jun 4, 4:13�pm, darsy <da...(a)sticky.co.uk> wrote: >> On Fri, 4 Jun 2010 00:19:15 +0000 (UTC), wessie >> <putmynameh...(a)tesco.net> wrote: >> >Champ <n...(a)champ.org.uk> wrote in news:6b7e9fa5-4561-46c8-9e1b- >> >dc0ec21b3...(a)j8g2000yqd.googlegroups.com: >> >> >> This month's Classic Bike has an article on a restored CBX. >> >> >> And a great feature in racers riding to their race meetings, including >> >> the all time boy own adventure story of Trevor Nation riding his GSX-R >> >> 750 to Spain and Portugal for two F1 races. >> >> >> This is the first copy of Classic Bike I've ever bought. �I must >> >> officially be an old fart. >> >> >Must've been a tipping point on Sept 30th. I was wondering why a black DJ >> >was featured in an old fart's magazine until I googled. >> >> could be worse - I misread it in a different way and thought - yet >> again - that this might be a Blake's Seven thread. > >Me too, I was imagining Terry Nation .... > >I was wondering what a Dr Who screenwriter was doing racing bikes .. arrrghh - get out of my head, you freak! -- d. |