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From: Pip Luscher on 24 Jul 2010 04:32
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:29:14 +0100, stephen.packer(a)gonemail.com wrote:

>Pip Luscher <pluscher(a)live.invalid.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> I overtook one on the Aprilia a few days ago on the A14, and saw one
>> this morning in Black Bear HD's car park as I was taking T to nursery.
>> They may be shite old Brit iron but I do like seeing them.
>>
>> Given their rarity, I imagine it was the same one.
>
>I saw one on the way to Chimay. It was just in front of an old boxer...
>by the side of the motorway.
>
>I stopped and they thought it had holed a piston. They were proposing
>to ride it the two miles to the next junction. Madness.

Hmm. I have ridden an XS750 frm London to Cambridge on two pots and a
Guzzi one mile on one pot to get home, but neither was a) spewing oil
out of the exhaust or b) churning bits of piston around the cases.

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-Pip
From: stephen.packer on 24 Jul 2010 06:16
platypus <monotreme(a)blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

> On 23 July, 22:29, stephen.pac...(a)gonemail.com wrote:
> > Pip Luscher <plusc...(a)live.invalid.co.uk> wrote:
> > > I overtook one on the Aprilia a few days ago on the A14, and saw one
> > > this morning in Black Bear HD's car park as I was taking T to nursery.
> > > They may be shite old Brit iron but I do like seeing them.
> >
> > > Given their rarity, I imagine it was the same one.
> >
> > I saw one on the way to Chimay. It was just in front of an old boxer...
> > by the side of the motorway.
> >
> > I stopped and they thought it had holed a piston. They were proposing
> > to ride it the two miles to the next junction. Madness.
>
> It's for situations like that, that I usually carry a tow-rope of some
> sort.

I didn't have anything with me and having been towed on a bike I'm not
sure I'd want to do towing (or be towed at speed).

Personally I'd have pushed it to the nearest bridge and waited for
recovery.
From: Ace on 24 Jul 2010 06:30
On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 11:16:28 +0100, stephen.packer(a)gonemail.com wrote:

>platypus <monotreme(a)blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

>> It's for situations like that, that I usually carry a tow-rope of some
>> sort.
>
>I didn't have anything with me and having been towed on a bike I'm not
>sure I'd want to do towing (or be towed at speed).

I once towed a mate's broken GT750 kettle back from the lake district
to Leicester, on my XT500.

We were young and foolish, of course, and I don't think I'd do it now,
but it wasn't _that_ bad.

From: Salad Dodger on 24 Jul 2010 06:46
On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 09:32:08 +0100, Pip Luscher
<pluscher(a)live.invalid.co.uk> wrote:

>Hmm. I have ridden an XS750 frm London to Cambridge on two pots and a
>Guzzi one mile on one pot to get home, but neither was a) spewing oil
>out of the exhaust or b) churning bits of piston around the cases.

<HEROIC FAILURE MODE>

I rode my KH250 from Falconwood station back to Gillingham
(A2/M2/A278 - including the long drag up from the Medway bridge)
after it had lunched its near-side piston rings.

It was everso untidy in there after I'd whipped the head off when I
got home.

In my defence, I was only 19, and it was only 29 miles.
From: The Older Gentleman on 24 Jul 2010 07:20
<stephen.packer(a)gonemail.com> wrote:

> I saw one on the way to Chimay. It was just in front of an old boxer...
> by the side of the motorway.
>
> I stopped and they thought it had holed a piston. They were proposing
> to ride it the two miles to the next junction. Madness.

Yebbut, it was only a ShiteOldBMW ;-)


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