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From: Rusty Hinge on 4 Jun 2010 17:02 doetnietcomputeren wrote: > On 2010-06-04 11:52:36 +0200, Rusty Hinge > <rusty.hinge(a)foobar.girolle.co.uk> said: > >> Champ wrote: >>> 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. >> >> I've been an old fart longer than I've been reading Classic Bike... >> >> BTW >> <fart="old"> >> Your sig-separator's borked. >> </fart> > > Because he's posting via google. /holds post in clinical forceps at arm's length/ -- Rusty
From: Salad Dodger on 12 Jun 2010 16:51 Champ wrote: > 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. Ta - just picked up a copy in Sainsbury's For some reason, it was almost deserted. -- Salad Dodger
From: Salad Dodger on 13 Jun 2010 17:37 On 12 Jun 2010 20:51:59 GMT, "Salad Dodger" <salad.dodger(a)idnet.com> wrote: >Champ wrote: > >> This month's Classic Bike has an article on a restored CBX. > >Ta - just picked up a copy in Sainsbury's Nice little article - I was particularly buoyed by the "you can still pick up examples for �5000" quote. Looks like the owner put a lot of elbow grease into that restoration.
From: Champ on 14 Jun 2010 04:01 On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 22:37:49 +0100, Salad Dodger <salad.dodger(a)idnet.com> wrote: >On 12 Jun 2010 20:51:59 GMT, "Salad Dodger" <salad.dodger(a)idnet.com> >wrote: > >>Champ wrote: >> >>> This month's Classic Bike has an article on a restored CBX. >> >>Ta - just picked up a copy in Sainsbury's > >Nice little article - I was particularly buoyed by the "you can still >pick up examples for �5000" quote. heh. >Looks like the owner put a lot of elbow grease into that restoration. Indeed. I should put some elbow grease into getting my 'classic' back on the road. -- Champ We declare that the splendour of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. ZX10R | Hayabusa | GPz750turbo neal at champ dot org dot uk
From: TOG on 14 Jun 2010 07:16
On 4 June, 20:03, "Beav" <beavis.origi...(a)ntlwoxorld.com> wrote: > "Champ" <n...(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. > Heh. I recall that Performance Bikes rode a UK endurance race back to Blighty after it had completed the Le Mans 24-hours, a few years ago. Superb story, including some high-octane encounters with French police, who had a definite sense of humour failure. |