Chimay and ukrm feckwits (longish)

could be gooseberries

 

Burn the heretic!

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

 

It's still early days, the radar is malfunctioning through lack of
use. I''ve sent it off to be recalibrated. I'm thinking of half a
dozen or so settings, incorporating 'eye candy', 'has a brain',
'married', 'gay', 'psycho'. Then of course 'the elusive intelligent,
attractive, available without complications man'. On detecting the
latter I'm thinking of rigging up some sort of capture system, easily
deployable net most likely.

 

They're bigger and sweeter than the blackcurrants, but not green and
hairy (and sour) like gooseberries, which I detest.

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Last year I did. Mind you, I'm not sure that it liked alcohol.

 

yebbut, the french call gooseberries groseilles as well, is what i meant.

 

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.

 

Oh, aye. I was really comparing the jap stuff with the mass market,
i.e. mostly british, stuff that was available.

Sure. My memories of Z900s et al failing abysmally to out-perform the
two bikes you mention are equally clear.

I was there too, remember? Again, my memories are more of Kwaks, 'cos
when I was first running with a biking crowd (1977 or so) these were
what most people had, except for the rich guys with the Italian
'exotica' and the oldsters (i.e. 25+) who were still sticking with
their brit-iron.

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Oh right. Yeah, I've heard that translation as well (and thx for the
spelling corrrection). Odd that they use the same word for two such
different fruits.

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The reason we are elusive babe is because we have built in radar
detectors.

 

I don't[1] particularly, the question was more to do with biodegradable
bags that the council give out. Anyway in some parts I am an expert and
thus I know it all already.

Good gosh no, weeing on compost is a job for a young lad. Man pee is
far too strong, it has to be weak boy pee or it is not worth the bother.


[1] I am the man who choose to compost an entire elderberry tree when I
cut it down rather than chip it, just to see whether it is possible and
just how difficult it was.

 

*snort* There's just so much wrong there but I haven't the time to
deconstruct it.

I've just got in (line flooded at Long Eaton) and I'm meant to be
heading out to be back in Nottingham for eight.

All I want to do is sit down and spod for a bit, then read the next
book in the pile.

However I shall shower and head out and hope for the best.

 

ISTR that in the late 60s, the engines had shorter lifetimes and prone
to breaking down, the chroming flaked off

The phrase didn't spring out of nowhere

 

Hmmm...having owned both an 1100 Katana and a Le Mans II I think I'd back
the Katana under most conditions, given a suitably brave and committed
rider. The Le Mans handles much better, but it just doesn't make much power,
and it is a lot heavier than it has any right to be for its size. I really,
really regret selling the Kat. I'm not in any real hurry to get rid of the
Le Mans either, but I need the garage space.

 

What, compared to the brit iron common at the time? You're having a
larf.

Who gives a shit?

No, it sprang out of the mouths of those unwilling to accept the
inevitable.

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'it' ?

D.

 

Nah UK engines plodded along at reasonable revs and lasted for
ever (STS), as opposed to the high revving, better performing Jap ones

Those who coined the phrase "Jap crap" obviously

 

I would rather eat my own testicles than own a CG125.
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I remember being scared witless missing a gear (must have been
top!) at 100 mph on the curve past Garran Hall[0] on the ANU campus on the
(1971) T500R[1]. Went into such a wobble and put me on the wrong side of the
road... Eye-witnesses told me I ran a car off the road, but I never
noticed!

[0] Google Earth sez 35°16'37.23"S 149°06'54.23"E, going SSW.
[1] http://www.suzukicycles.org/photos/suzuki-history/1971/1971_T500_450.jpg
'cept mine was purkle and white.

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I wouldn't use the term japcrap as a 'general' description for
Japanese bikes since about 1980.

Obviously a lot of bikes that are best described as being crap have
come out of Japan since then but it's not really fair to judge
everything by the standard of shit that Honda churn out.