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From: The Older Gentleman on 24 Jul 2010 07:20
Ace <b.rogers(a)ifrance.com> wrote:

> 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.

I've done it. More or less what you say.


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From: stephen.packer on 24 Jul 2010 07:48
The Older Gentleman <totallydeadmailbox(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> <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 ;-)

Er... no. It was the vincent with the holed piston.
From: The Older Gentleman on 24 Jul 2010 08:52
<stephen.packer(a)gonemail.com> wrote:

> The Older Gentleman <totallydeadmailbox(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > <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 ;-)
>
> Er... no. It was the vincent with the holed piston.

Can I claim a whoosh here?


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Nothing damages a machine more than an ignoramus with a manual, a
can-do attitude and a set of cheap tools
From: Mark Olson on 24 Jul 2010 09:15
Salad Dodger wrote:
> 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.

I drove my '64 MGB from Winnipeg to Minneapolis (450 miles) in February
1979 on three pots after burning a 1/4" hole in an exhaust valve, by
removing the pushrods from the affected cylinder. Got about 20 mpg
(US) and it never missed a beat aside from when it decided to have a
lie down in the ditch near Downer, MN.

From: steve auvache on 24 Jul 2010 09:29
On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 11:46:15 +0100, Salad Dodger <salad.dodger(a)idnet.com>
wrote:
Falconwood station

Just down the road from there, approaching the bottom of the very slight
gradient is where I saw my first ever death in a motoring accident and the
second which was the first bike one and in the same place is where I
became a survivor statistic.

The Good Old Days eh, they don't make them like they used to.



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