:-(

A nice kind one by the seaside.

 

<if it really has been sold>
oh balls, I would have been seriously tempted by that.
<iirhbs>

 

U all ride safely, now

 

The new owner saw the spare key and said "oh, so this *was* Champ's"

A nice one.

<emailed>

 

It has.

There's one on ebay at the minute. It's not original though...
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2489544010

 

I can't remember what was significant about the spare key.

<Laboriously fires up webmail at work>

Cool.

 

Thanks, I'll keep an eye on it. Yours was an ideal rolling project
though, especially as I'd already seen it and know at least some of the
history.

 

That would be the *spare* key for the *other* Turbo, perhaps?
The key that you can't find ...

 

No, I've found that now, fortunately.

I've also started house hunting, and have shortlisted a couple of
places with *large* garages. So my turbo can come home.

 

Time to bite the bullet, then. Good luck, man - you'll need it.

 

It had a coin keeper from a French supermarket chain, with
this logo:
http://www.letour.fr/stf/roubaix/2004/images/logo_champion.gif

 

heh.

But, unfortunately, no.

 

True, true.

 

I thought you were OK bcause you were with Des in the iBike camp -
subgroup: Have actually got a V5.

 

Well yeah but people ignore it and you can overtake on both sides.

Which is different to Blighty how?

The grooved concrete is an utter bastard though.

 

<pauses>

<thinks>

<unsubscribes>

 

Well, obviously.

A what?

Where I'm going, petrol is very cheap...

I never had you down as a Telegraph reader.

 

heh. But that wasn't ever mine, was it?

 

Exactly!

 

William Grainger

<fx: hands Will an i-key>

Here have that in the meanwhile.