Following on from the agricultural machinery thread

My point being that 'most of them had fairings and heated grips'..

are you saying that most didn't? a majority didn't?


G-S

 

Yeah, well, from the pictures, your Triumph is a related model to
Spiro's Yellow and black full faired triple...perhaps Daytona?

Anyhow, I had a sit on Spiro's bike, and needed help to get the lump off
the side stand. :-(

The 850 is, by the numbers, far too heavy for me, but, because of the
lower CG, it becomes possible for me to live with it.

I imagine an R1150R would, indeed, be a very nice bike, but, for a
similar age and kilometres, would be rather more expensive than the
R850. While Spiro, who had an 1150 Rockster(?), said it was indeed,
down on power, I found the power quite adequate for what I am likely to
want to do with it.

I ain't going to load the thing up with camping gear, supplies and wife,
and head off for a round Oz trip.

Angie's idea of a long motorcycle ride, and her longest to date, is from
Raymond Terrace back to Beecroft. (The last Stone Ride)

If I want to go for a longish ride, I'd be on my own, and would most
likely take the Street Triple.

OTOH, I don't like taking the Trumpy or the Z50 and parking it in a
shopping centre parking lot.

regards,
CrazyCam

 

CrazyCam wrote:

Geez, I hope I can live with it, 'cos I just bought it.

regards,
CrazyCam

 

Actually, it turned out I was the only ng user on Bekkers and we were
paying $200 a month for the peering, so we dropped it last week. So
here I am on google, trying to find all the previous posts about other
news services that I previously ignored.

Help!

Theo

 

That really gave me a good laugh.

Thanks.

regards,
CrazyCam

 

<chuckle> I'll say one thing - you're not indecisive !!

Congrats, hope you enjoy it

JL

 

<snort !> Bloody ISPs you can't trust them to look after their
customers !!

You should churn to one that'll actually look after you !! ;-P

JL
http://www.individual.net/

 

Congrats. Welcome to the world of chivalry and refinement. May your
malts never multiply.

 

Ah welding them on, yes that's definitely Bikie.

 

Nev.. wrote:

Rubbish. By the looks of that photo, on that road you'd have spent all
your time pushing yourself back upright with your hands. Heated grips
would have been a waste

 

Goodonya
Moike

 

aioe.cjb.net seems to work well
Moike.

 

+1 reliable and very cheap... 10 euros or something like that a year.

Doesn't disappear like the free ones have a tendency to do either...


G-S

 

Congrats

G-S

 

Yep; sounds like a Super 111.
I can't find a photo but they were a hotrod yellow Daytona with a heap of
black carbon fibre and sand-cast heads.
Ran about 20% more power than the normal carb triple.
They also had long 6-piston front calipers.

The old carb triples are top-heavy, slow dinosaurs compared to that scalpel
you've got!

Though it would be PERFECT for such a trip!!
****; loan it to me and I will!

 

That's the spirit!
Bags a ride if we ever meet.

 

Oh Come on! ....
He's only killed the one that I know of...

Moike

 

Maybe you're right Johno. What's the make of your other big bike Cam?

 

Knobdoodle wrote:

Dats da one.

Yup, but it does look and sound very nice, and the yellow/black is
really tasty.

If you want to start mid-June, and be back by early August, something
could be arranged.

Hang on tho, don't you have some weird business of having to crash a
bike before you really bond with it? ;-)

regards,
CrazyCam

 

I don't have a big bike. The 850 is the biggest.

That black pommie thing? It's just a little 675....a girlie bike.

regards,
CrazyCam