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From: Wicked Uncle Nigel on 24 Jul 2010 19:42
Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Champ
<news(a)champ.org.uk> typed
>On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:29:14 +0100, stephen.packer(a)gonemail.com wrote:
>
>>I stopped and they thought it had holed a piston. They were proposing
>>to ride it the two miles to the next junction. Madness.
>
>Poof.
>
>I rode my ZZR1100 5 miles to the dealers after it had thrown a rod out
>the front of the crankcases.

Yeah, but did you get yer knee down on the way?

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest"

I've always been a man who's open to persuasion
From: stephen.packer on 25 Jul 2010 03:34
Champ <news(a)champ.org.uk> wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:29:14 +0100, stephen.packer(a)gonemail.com wrote:
>
> >I stopped and they thought it had holed a piston. They were proposing
> >to ride it the two miles to the next junction. Madness.
>
> Poof.
>
> I rode my ZZR1100 5 miles to the dealers after it had thrown a rod out
> the front of the crankcases.

Under warrantee with good spares availability.
From: frag on 25 Jul 2010 08:00
In article <gdum465jb59tek9d69t1f29gg3kd4f674n(a)4ax.com>,
news(a)champ.org.uk says...
>
> On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:29:14 +0100, stephen.packer(a)gonemail.com wrote:
>
> >I stopped and they thought it had holed a piston. They were proposing
> >to ride it the two miles to the next junction. Madness.
>
> Poof.
>
> I rode my ZZR1100 5 miles to the dealers after it had thrown a rod out
> the front of the crankcases.

CrankcaseS?

I know you love odd strange modified bikes (with the single intention of
going faster - an admirable trait it has to be said), but a ZZR1100 with
two crank cases?

Impressive!

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frag

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From: Oily on 25 Jul 2010 14:46

<stephen.packer(a)gonemail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:29:14 +0100, stephen.packer(a)gonemail.com wrote:
> >
> > >I stopped and they thought it had holed a piston. They were proposing
> > >to ride it the two miles to the next junction. Madness.
> >
> > Poof.
> >
> > I rode my ZZR1100 5 miles to the dealers after it had thrown a rod out
> > the front of the crankcases.
>
> Under warrantee with good spares availability.

Another type of guaranty no doubt. :-)


From: Oily on 25 Jul 2010 14:57

"The Older Gentleman" wrote:

> 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.
>
> +1 Towed a mate of mine on his Goldie with my HT5 and nearly pulled
him into a garden through some bushes on a street corner. He wasn't very
pleased but I had told him to shorten the rope, heh.


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