Any bikes that fit this bill?

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Alan

Alan, it would be much appreciated if you'd read the FAQ at
www.ukrm.net, particularly the bit on posting style.

It explains why we post replies after the quoted text and remove the
..sigs (the bit after the '-- ').

Thanks

 

spouted the following in

Brassed off is on C4 now, for an insight into the social effects of
putting entire villages on the dole...

 

tallbloke says...

Aye....'appen

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Nownthis idea has a lot of merit. My soon to be rebuilt[1] Rickman
Mettisse/Yam XT550 is the best handling bike I've ever ridden.

[1] Tuit required.

 

(on imports to Norway)

I thought the weight fee only was an issue for cars[1], and with a fixed
standard sum for MCs instead?

You have taken into account that the import tax becomes less for older
vehicles? When more than 15 years old, an 80% "age rebate" applies.

In any case, it can be hard to find good >30 y.o. bikes for cheap money,
especially for terrain use. In contrast, there are even in Norway many
'84-'88 Yam (and Honda) 350-600cc offroaders that can be had reasonably
cheap, esp. if in need of some mechanical attention. I don't think there
is any import tax on used engines/bits.

It is more expensive to tax and insure an eighties off-roader[2] than a

outbalance this cost.

Motoring + Norway = Expensive. Sort of like the beer issue.

(PS Alan - please try and reply below the text you quote - otherwise
you may become unpopular on Usenet)

[1] The Norw. finance bureaucrats even decided that the approved import
weight of cars was to include a full tank of fuel, to be able to levy
import tax on it!
[2] Although these are among the cheapest ones to insure, and run. I
rarely got less than 70 mpg from my XL600.

 

I saw it at the pictures. I don't cope with clumsy cringeworthy earnest
very well and how I survived the last five or so minutes without
exploding from embarrassment I'll not know.

So in summary, well enough made film, overplayed last scene undoes any
previously well made points.

 

Hmmm, doesn't mention if it's the military spec roller bigend or the
civvie spec replace every 10,000 miles plain bigend. Does look nice,
and I do rather like the B40 engine (except for the fragile civvie
bigend...).

 

"sweller" <> spouted the following in $-berlin.de:

So slickly produced Hollywood pap satisfies your soul more? I find Hollywoood
endings even more cringeworthy TBH. Y'know, where the hero always beats the
bad guy and ends up with the shaggable babe.

 

I suppose it's because such films say nothing to you about your life.

 

Whereas in the make-believe world you inhabit...

 

well, being fair, I don't do much bad-guy beating.

I don't "cringe" at Hollywood movies, because generally they do what
you expect them to - if I didn't want to watch a movie with a
"typical" ending, I wouldn't do so.

 

Can we just have a tallbloke definition of 'make-believe' please?

 

darsy <> spouted the following in

True, Hollywood movies don't make you cringe (well not many of 'em), but a
lot of them make me laugh at the apalling dialogue, product placements,
transparent and simplistic storylines, and general shmaltziness.

Wouldn't be left with many Hollywood movies then.

 

Ace <> spouted the following in

make-be·lieve (mkb-lv)
n.
Playful or fanciful pretense

As in: Des says he has an R1 but it's only ~

Of course in this example, I'm pretending to join in with UKRM's consensus
reality...

 

I'm kinda disappointed that no-one's realised I only made the above
comment to be able to paraphrase the lyric of a 80-s band you probably
despise...

 

Dunno about 'despise'. Not high on my list, but at least they were
anti-dance, so not all bad. Panic was one of their few songs I half
liked, given that it almost has a tune.

 

*surprised*

I didn't think you liked, or in fact were even particularly aware of,
any music produced since about 1975.

 

Really? You could hardly be more wrong. I'm actually quite broad in my
musical taste, both temporally and genreally.

As long as it's not shite, of course.

 

That's not what I said. My criticism of Brassed Off is it's so clumsy,
heavy handed and stereotypical, in its approach to the 1992 closures.

Just because I sympathise with its message doesn't mean it's a good film.

If preachy and clumsy is your thing, and I have no reason to believe it
isn't then B/Off will no doubt be "up there".

<aside>
Simon's film recommendations for this weekend...

Dirty Pretty Things - More effective message than B/Off and has Audrey
Tautou, always a winner for me.

Dirty Deeds - Aussie gangster film with Bryan Brown. Top bonkers stuff.
Has a nasty Toni Collette.

There's a sequel to Battle Royale now out, but I haven't seen it yet.
There's another too, I know the title, but can't remember it IYSWIM. I
definitely know the picture on the box. "Sound of Music meets darsy and
zombies".

 

it's very good isn't it? I liked the car chase/bucket of shit scene.