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From: Domènec on 4 Feb 2010 16:11 "Charlie" <nospam(a)all.ta> escribi� en el mensaje de noticias news:3KadnfMSoLG3PvfWnZ2dnUVZ8lZi4p2d(a)bt.com... > Dom�nec wrote: >> A thousand kms of twisty roads across the coastal range and the Pyrenees >> starting/ending in my city and no motorways: Yes, and I'd repeat. > Nay, lad, nay. It's the Pennines, not the Pyrenees! I thought you were replying to my "the Pyrenees are a cultural barrier" later posting, and that made me chuckle.
From: Domènec on 4 Feb 2010 16:14 "Switters" <me(a)privacy.net> escribi� en el mensaje de noticias news:Xns9D15892889596swittersnospam(a)188.40.43.245... > On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 07:09:21 GMT, Dom�nec wrote: >> A thousand kms of twisty roads across the coastal range and the Pyrenees >> starting/ending in my city and no motorways: Yes, and I'd repeat. > Now *that* sounds much more like it. You dare not, you puffy girlie old fart. (cheapo flight to Barcelona as per offers, crash space free, BMW unlimited kms rental 90 EUR)
From: Wicked Uncle Nigel on 4 Feb 2010 17:05 Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Champ <news(a)champ.org.uk> typed >On 4 Feb 2010 11:53:33 GMT, "Pip" <gingerbloke(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >>Set in 1972 on a Notrun Commando, three LPMCC members rode around >>Cadwell Park for just over 24 hours - and the motorcycle /never >>stopped/ in that time. Sounds like a challenge that uk.r.m could be >>equal to - whaddya think? > >I'd definitely be up for something like that! AOL. Riding or spannering, I'm in. Fuckit, we could even use my Commando for authenticity... ;^) -- Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest" "Environmentally, it is our duty to re-use our plastic bags. To suffocate our children" - Frankie Boyle.
From: Wicked Uncle Nigel on 4 Feb 2010 17:07 Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, doetnietcomputeren <doesnotcompute(a)gmail.com> typed >On 2010-02-04 13:15:46 +0100, Champ <news(a)champ.org.uk> said: > >> The article shows how they re-fuelled while at walking pace, but I'm >> not at all sure how they did the rider change - did one guy hop off, >> walk along with the clutch in, then the next rider grabbed the >> controls then hopped on? > >That was my guess. I would think that boarding at a walking pace from the back of (e.g.) a pickup-truck would be safest, followed by the rider bailing out on foot. -- Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest" "Environmentally, it is our duty to re-use our plastic bags. To suffocate our children" - Frankie Boyle.
From: Champ on 4 Feb 2010 17:26
On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 22:07:58 +0000, Wicked Uncle Nigel <wun(a)wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk> wrote: >Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, >doetnietcomputeren <doesnotcompute(a)gmail.com> typed >>On 2010-02-04 13:15:46 +0100, Champ <news(a)champ.org.uk> said: >> >>> The article shows how they re-fuelled while at walking pace, but I'm >>> not at all sure how they did the rider change - did one guy hop off, >>> walk along with the clutch in, then the next rider grabbed the >>> controls then hopped on? >> >>That was my guess. >I would think that boarding at a walking pace from the back of (e.g.) a >pickup-truck would be safest, followed by the rider bailing out on foot. You're going to have to describe your imagined procedure in more detail for me. -- Champ We declare that the splendor of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. ZX10R | Hayabusa | GPz750turbo neal at champ dot org dot uk |