Bike choice...

You don't need horses for distance work, all you need be, is in no hurry.

 

Simon Atkinson wrote

Too small. 500 minimum for anything approaching extended motorway work.

 

Shite!
You want a nice CCM 644 Trail bike.
I have one don't you know.
Going for fek all ATM

 

Rocket 3 ?

Nick

(1976 FS1E)

Joke ! ))

 

It's going to get bashed getting it on and off isn't it? A bashed
shiney bike looks shite - like a bashed but otherwise ordinary car. A
Bashed Land-Rover looks like it's got character. So it needs to be a
bike equivalent...

 

And lightweight to make loading and unloading easy? Ideally wants to
be light enough to load on and off with a couple of ramps - messing
around with a little derrick would be too much like hard work.

 

Hmmmm... I still reckon too big (physically) to fit.

 

BWWWWWAAAAAAhahahahahaha.

Good thought. This
(http://new.edp24.co.uk/content/news/story.aspx?brand=EDPOnline&category
=News&tBrand=edponline&tCategory=news&itemid=NOED02%20Jan%202005%2017%3A
39%3A33%3A463) or http://tinyurl.com/6hyxh seems to be a mate of yours.

He seems to think an Enfield wont fit - remember it must be less than
72 inches long.

 

An MZ ETZ with off road biased tyres. Looks ok battered; fairly light;
rugged enough to cope with tow paths, tracks etc. and disposable enough
for it not to be a big issue if it fell in the cut.

 

1978 TS250C - sounds ideal.

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Not necessarily, I regularly commuted for nearly a year on the A27/M27
using an MZ ETZ250 - 120 miles each way.

 

I would have suggested a Yamaha Serow. (XT 225) well, apart from the
"motorway speeds" bit. But nice and light, and fairly all-purpose. Much
cheapness.

But, it's longer than 6 feet. Most bikes are, including the XT350 you
yourself suggest...

 

How about going the other way and getting a bike thats big enough to carry a
narrowboat?

 

Now who's bikes does that put me in mind if...

 

Is it... Actually, it was more of a guideline than an actual
suggestion. I suspect that there aren't many <6foot bikes about. The
importance of 6 feet long is that it will fit in the cratch across the
boat (boat width 6 feet 10" and not have to sit up higher on boards and
get bashed by bridges and tunnels.

Could be a non-starter this then...

 

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GYASB#0 BotToS#2 BOTAFO(T|F)#35 WG*#1 DFV#8
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It would actually do for 50% of the projected use - but not the other
50... And rather than a monkey bike, I might as well get an old fold-up
Mobylette.

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

Just do what boaties have done for years... install a hoist and winche
yer p&j in and out to and from the towpath. Just make sure you don't do
it the wrong way round.

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Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

I was about to suggest a Yamaha XT. Any XT, any age, any capacity.

When did you last see an XT that *didn't* look like it had been hi
several times with a frying pan?