Gone.

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, platypus

Problem being, they're all straight bits. Especially the bends.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets
and Ducati Race Engineer.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
ZZR1100, Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"

 

Flat out, then.

 

Oh.

 

Look, it's been proved to everyone's satisfation that outfits are slow, so
stop whining.

 

There were two quite nice looking ones (BMW conversions though - very nicely
done) parked at the Batsford Arboretum yesterday.
My girlfriend thought they *looked* very nice, but when I asked if she'd go
in one, she just started laughing.

I took that as a no.

She was also quite interested in UKRM's recent obsession with the things -
mainly I think because she couldn't understand why on earth you'd want to
turn a bike into a crappy 'car'.

 

dwb wrote:

"To provide entertainment for one's friends" is the only reason I can
fathom.

 

dwb wrote:

[Outfits]

Platty and me (even including Blaney's interest) do not count as a
collective obsession.

 

Er it's not just you that got all excited about them though.

Or maybe I feel your contributions to UKRM outweigh all the others?

 

It wasn't? Gosh, I really should pay more attention especially as I may
also be selling my glorious Dnepr MT9: product of a culturally and
technologically advanced society; hewn by the skilled hands of the free
workers.

"The origin of [this] power is not in law previously considered and
passed by Parliament, but in direct initiative of the masses from below,
everywhere". A truly great lineage for a truly great machine [1].


[1] Lenin dodn't say that bit but I'm sure he would have done
if asked nicely.

 

"... not from some farcical aquatic ceremony."

 

Oi! Stop it!

 

or maybe your bird fancies Simon.

 

Yeah! Hot diggedy, come ride in my chair Lady.

 

Could be - she's never met him (as far as I'm aware) but you never know.

 

"a ride for a ride".

 

has she seen that picture of him standing on the steam loco? That'd
drive any woman mad with passion.

Is it still the surprisingly-fit bird you had before?

 

I can't help it, it's like a conditional reflex. Pavlov would be proud.

 

As they have placed a steam engine in St James Park [1] over the weekend
perhaps Sweller can go and stand on that and create mass orgasmic
hysteria in the centre of London?


[1] loads of lorries in the place unloading things for some forthcoming
celebration.

 

Yup - will be four years later this year.

 

Speaking of turning bikes into "almost cars", I saw a ZX12R trike on
the M5 on the way down to Newquay yesterday. Red with gold wheels and
a beautiful sounding set of twin exhausts.

Towing a trailer as well