Meoni down & out.

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

Well, OK. With the aid of several booster rockets, an engine crane and a
small donkey wivva windlass.

Mr Picky.

--
Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets

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"

 

Nigel Eaton wrote

I would have though anti-gravity more appropriate, or an infinite
improbability drive

 

Given that 297lb is just 135kg, I'm pretty sure.

Plenty of 'normal' bikes topped 500lbs (say 230kg), so 300 for the
Behmouth doesn't sound out of court.
--
Please add "imo" to above post.
Champ
GSX-R 1000, GPz 750 turbo, ZX7RR Endurance Racer x 2
GYASB#0 BotToS#2 BOTAFO(T|F)#35 WG*#1 DFV#8
Team UKRM Racing : www.team-ukrm.com

 

dwb says...

And car crashes when seat belts squeeze the ribs and chest in. That was
the partial cause of Caz's heart attack when she was 19.

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

Native labour and a pocketful of shekels.


--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

The original Bike test of the Z13 pointed out that the
engine/transmission unit weighed as much as a complete roadgoing Suzuki
X7.

 

KTM are now urging all the KTM teams & factory riders to pull out of
the Dakar. They're also going to reconsider their support of Rally
Raiding following the deaths of Sainct a few months ago, and now Meoni.
Bastards.

 

KTm seem quite risk averse... or is that just me?

 

Shit innit. I bet he's still complaining about his moose's though.

 

The Long Way Round certainly gave that impression.

 

Lol you're probably right

 

Swede PG Lundmark who quit rally raiding last year estimates that
he was WFO 80% of the time on the Dakar. And he is one notch
slower than the factory riders (even if he won a stage or two).

OTOH, it's hard to imagine how this type of bike event could be
made safer. The terrain is what it is and somehow I can't see a
250cc limit on the bikes (Fretigne's 450 is good for some 90 mph).
Speed limitation (used in the truck class, 150 km/h) somehow
seems strange in racing.

 

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 19:31:16 +0000,

Allegedly, the complete drivetrain on the GL1500 weighs the same as
the Blackbird.

--
| ___ Salad Dodger
|/ \
_/_____\_ GL1500SEV/CBR1100XXX/KH500A8/TS250C
|_\_____/_| ..73066../..17485.../..3184./.19406
(>|_|_|<) TPPFATUICG#7 DIAABTCOD#9 YTC#4 PM#5
|__|_|__| BOTAFOT #70 BOTAFOF #09 two#11 WG*
\ |^| / IbW#0 & KotIbW# BotTOS#6 GP#4
\|^|/ ANORAK#17 IbB#4
'^'

 

Well I'll do a 5 minute silence for that one!!!

 

<cynic mode>

I'm sure that's nothing to do with him being the 2-wheel drive Yam
development rider, & therefore having a head start if the organisers
cut the capacity for next year.

</cm>

 

Yeah, brainfart time, I'm afraid.

No, not at all, now I've got the units straight in my head.