Edible hats at the ready guys...

You're 3 pots short of a chimney stack mate - sorry. ;-)

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and about the CG125?

 

3 pots short of a jap4

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Didn't you spot that it was a carefuly crafted On The Fence
special?

But no, my post was merely asking if what are commonly considered
the modern "ugly and/or unreliable[1]" bikes sell in numbers [2]?


[1] unreliable being relative to other modern bikes
[2] if yes, I would presume due to people not researching what
they're about to spend their money on.



Rich

 

Or 6 hamsters short, in CG125 speak.

 

Oh absolutely.

No, this is where you are wrong. To do that sort of velocity and hold
together, the engines have to be completely re-engineered and virtually
every single reciprocating component altered, replaced or beefed up.

Which means the engines were appallingly designed.

*Any* engine can be made to go and stay together if you throw enough
money at it.

 

tallbloke fascinated us all by saying...

But you could always walk a little way up the road to see what it was,
after it had broken down.

 

tallbloke fascinated us all by saying...

Why should it be up to Joe Public to do additional engineering work to
get the bike to be reliable. If it was well designed in the first place,
that shouldn't be necessary.

 

"The Older Gentleman"

Talking of which...one has returned. How did the CB550 perform?

 

If I had the chance at one I'd have a frag special on both legs.

 

Hmm, it's not really a GT40 if you do that though, is it?

 

They should have been like that from the factory, though. I think
that's one of the points someone might have been trying to make. I'm
damn sure I'll never buy a new bike that needs so much done to it
after purchase, just to make it perform adequately.

Actually I'll probably never buy a brand new bike at all, but that's
beside the point.

 

tallbloke wrote

But the whole point, other than I can make MZ's top 110 mph if I work
on the engines and throw enough money at them, is that the Norton,
Triumph, BSA and NVT weren't that well screwed together in the first
fucking place.

The Commando wasn't marketed as an everyman machine it's competition
was the Bonneville they were that era's Fireblades. But that era has
gone.

I accept there is pleasure to be had from humbling some modern
machines, I run a 1979 Guzzi, but to constantly crow that its the one
true machine in the hope of proving they (brit iron) are still
worthwhile machines belittles them and does you no credit, making you
appear as an anal, blinkered brit anorak. The Jimmy Goldsmith of UKRM.

They are history. Nice to look at, nice to hear, but history none the
less.

End of story.

 

Bear fascinated us all by saying...

The GT40 was *the* car that Jeremey Clarkson always wanted to drive. But,
he couldn't fit into one once he'd found someone daft enough to lend him
one. He ended up getting Noel Edmonds to drive his own around for the
cameras, and do a review on it instead. Apparently Mr Edmonds has owned
his from new, and paid around 3,000 quid for it.

 

Well there's that, and as the name comes from it being 40 inches high
it'd be a GT40+however_tall_the_bubble_is.

 

Hmm Peter William's was quoted as saying the handling of the prody racer
frightened the Shit out of him ;(

1948 500cc model 7 to 1978 850cc Commando, 30 years of engine development
and they were still trying to stop the Atlas self-destructing.
But as a piece of Brit history still nice to own and ride )

 

MZ have an honourable racing pedigree. NVT was the death throes of the
british industry. By the way, NVT stands for 'Norton Villiers Tiumph.

I think you missed the fact that this thread is all about '70's bikes.

So do I.

but to constantly crow that its the one

How so?

That statement will come back to you the next time you are overtaken by
one



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Bear <> spouted the following in

Yeah, I said you were a tosser too.

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Yeah yeah. Eat Wolfgangs gravel spray You rice burning Yuppie ;-)

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christofire fascinated us all by saying...

He bought it around 1969 when he was a young DJ. It is a 100% original
road-going GT40 of the later variety. Back then, for some strange reason
you couldn't sell the things to the general public, and racers thought
them too expesive.