Chimay and ukrm feckwits (longish)

Nothing makes her happier than wandering amongst her plants in PJ's of a
sunny morning.

 

Don't see why - the battery on the Blackbird lasted seven years of
stop-start low speed daily use.
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_/_____\_ GL1500SEV/CBR1100XXX/CBX1000Z
|_\_____/_| ..91198../..24811.../..31928.
(>|_|_|<) TPPFATUICG#7 DIAABTCOD#9 WG*
|__|_|__| BOTAFOT #70 BOTAFOF #09 PM#5
\ |^| / IbW#0 & KotIbW# BotTOS#6 GP#4
\|^|/ ANORAK#17 IbB#4 YTC#4 two#11
'^' RBR Clues: 26 Pts:0500 Miles:1739

 

Is it a sealed battery too?

Mind you, I am surprised.

 

Obviously, I needed neither.

 

'iggins 'osonon

 

'urricane 'iggins

 

'japcrap'? I haven't heard that expression in years. Surely a troll,
but on the very slim chance that you actually believe this: what's so
crap? I'd really like to know.

 

ISTR that when the phrase came out, they really were

 

Yes.

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| ___ Salad Dodger
|/ \
_/_____\_ GL1500SEV/CBR1100XXX/CBX1000Z
|_\_____/_| ..91198../..24811.../..31928.
(>|_|_|<) TPPFATUICG#7 DIAABTCOD#9 WG*
|__|_|__| BOTAFOT #70 BOTAFOF #09 PM#5
\ |^| / IbW#0 & KotIbW# BotTOS#6 GP#4
\|^|/ ANORAK#17 IbB#4 YTC#4 two#11
'^' RBR Clues: 26 Pts:0500 Miles:1739

 

Yet the phrase outlasted both the initial fact and the bulk of the
British bike industry.

 

You must be too young to remember the terminology in popular use when the
Japanese motorcycle invasion was in its infancy. It took a long time for
the cheap ripoff copies to evolve into decent machines.

Being old does not necessarily make a bike a classic. How many 500/4s
do you see with original chromework for example.

 

SWMBO is the same, cup of tea, stomping snails, talking to neighbours,
it's a wonderful morning.

 

It took them considerably less time to do so than the entire lifespan
of the old British motorcycle industry, which was inevitably overtaken
and made obsolete in comparatively short order.

Get with the now, grandad. Anyway, chrome doesn't make it go faster.

 

Really? Were you there? Even the early stuff that started to corner
various market niches in the mid 1960s (and I'm thinking, for example,
of the C50) was better, in any objective sense, than almost anything
else available at the time. In fact, I'm struggling to think of any of
the early jap imports that would warrant that description,
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\`\ | /`/ DS#8 BOTAFOT#3 SbS#2 UKRMMA#13 DFV#8 SKA#2 IBB#10
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"Chrome won't get you home."

 

It's an Onda. It just works.

 

^^^^^^^^^
This helps. A lot.

 

I only know it's still posting because of this and occasional use of
google groups.

 

Burn the heretic!

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Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the
river cleaned out in a day.

 

I can think of a lot of Jap bikes that were nothing short of rubbish
until you compared them with the equivalent British built offering.

For a large part of the '70s the best bikes available were Italian
but you had to pay a considerable higher price for these bikes.

Want an example? Try any Laverda triple or a Guzzi Le Mans and then
look at what the Jap alternatives were. I don't think a Suzuki Katana
could out perform a Jota on any level and it'd struggle against a Le
Mans.

I was there, I rode the bikes and I can vividly remember being scared
rotten by an early GS1000 going into a speed wobble as soon as you
backed off the throttle and didn't hit the brakes to steady it up.