I laughed my arse off

Phoned my mate who bought my CBR. A bloke in his street has bought a
BMW C1. They got chatting. The bloke down the road said to Mark: "we
should go out for a ride together one weekend".

Mark - usually the king of cool, got all the patter - was speechless.

 

uh oh

he couldn't even raise a "**** off, I wouldn't be seen riding within the
same county as that thing" ?

 

Now that *is* funny. Last weekend, I needed a surprsing abount of
effort to overtake one of those mega scooters[1] on my F650.

[1] A yamaha one, I think.

 

Had a sit on a Yamaha T-max the other day.... oooh luxury, the owner was
telling me that is was surprisingly quick (500cc I think) must be quite
relaxing really being auto and it had loads of storage room.

So will these be the next big thing for the born again biker (self) ?

D

 

Bloke who lives upstairs from me is a courier of some kind and, when
not riding his ZZR11, tends to pootle about on a ratty NTV but for
the last few weeks he's been given a Honda Silverwing instead.

One of the new ones.

Poor bugger's nearly died of shame.

 

I feel his pain.

 

Oh dear.

I bet.

 

f650... Is that one of those BMW thumpers?

How would you feel if the Siverwing was faster?

Tom

 

Its certainly a more powerful engine albeit by 2hp and the suzuki burgervan
is 5 up on that
F650 - 48 hp
Silverwing -50 hp
Suzuki - 55 hp

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Alex

YZF 600

"I laugh in the face of danger"

"Then I hide until it goes away"

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www.drzoidberg.co.uk

 

They are - I followed one once and had to do over 95 to get past him.

It seemed to wobble a bit, though.

 

Not bothered.

 

Blimey they must be loud if you can hear them from here !

D

 

The Older Gentleman wrote in :

I know a 78 year old who rides one. He has restricted movement in his
ankles. He looked for an automatic and settled on the T-Max. He comes from
Devil's Bridge near Aberystwyth and regularly gives power rangers a fright
on the twisty Welsh roads.

He's a top bloke. Ex-army officer who used to race bikes for his regiment
apparently.

 

I can imagine...

Hack-chew-woolly, I've seen a couple of C1s being ridden in a spirited
fashion, lately, including one bloke filtering like a proper twat on the
A312...

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