National Motorcycle Museum

I remember visiting Oradour Sur Glane, near Limoge: the French village
wiped off the map by the SS (was it Das Reich division? Cba to Google).

Anyway, it was a gorgeous summer day and the car park was full of German
registered cars. I remember thinking that was slightly bizarre, too.

 

Are you sure you want to carry on with this sort of mud slinging?

 

Well I dare say Iraq will again become a tourist spot for Yanks and
Brits in due course.

 

Well, "within months" in 1940-odd became "within 45 minutes" in 2002.

Technology, eh?

 

So? They were asleep and probably felt nothing.

 

Christ, you sound like Des.

 

Conversely, I've never been and have absolutely no interest in doing
so.

 

No, that was the three "hardbody college hussies from upstairs" he's
just visited.

 

Sadly, I'm sure you're right. "Hey, this is where we had such fun in
Abu Ghraib!"

 

Conversely, err...

Hang on, no, that's not right...I mean 'AOL'.

 

I went *many* years ago on an Ogri^H^H Ixion run and found it quite
interesting as there were so many bikes I'd never heard of. The only
ones I recognised the the Norton F1 bikes. I remember the place being
huge, packed with bike and very empty of people.

I'm sure it has some appeal for the old biddies but would be packed
out
if they had a cafe selling cream teas.

 

Well, I didn't make a special trip. I was at a conference at the
attached conference centre, and had an hour to kill.
--
Champ

ZX10R | GPz750turbo | GSX-R 600 racer
My advice as your attorney is to buy a motorcycle
To email me, neal at my domain should work.

 

fair enough.

out of interest, have you ever owned a British bike?

 

Considering its recent-ish history, it's actually quite surprising that
it contains anything at all.

 

Nope. I did consider a Triton once, but that was when I was 19 and
didn't know any better.
--
Champ

ZX10R | GPz750turbo | GSX-R 600 racer
My advice as your attorney is to buy a motorcycle
To email me, neal at my domain should work.

 

heh.

I guess you could argue that your Harris-framed kawasaki is at least
as "British" as some Bimotas are "Italian".

 

Good point.

On further consideration, I realise that I've only ever owner Japanese
(or at least Japanese-engined) bikes.
--
Champ

ZX10R | GPz750turbo | GSX-R 600 racer
My advice as your attorney is to buy a motorcycle
To email me, neal at my domain should work.

 

That surprises me. I think everyone ought to own an Italian bike once,
if only to let it serve as a potent aversion therapy.

Let's see: I've owned two old Brit bikes (one a basket case, one a
runner, but I didn't keep it long), and one Hinckley bike. Italian
bikes - check. East German bikes - check. West German bikes - check.
Oh, and the Jawa combo - er, Czech.

Nothing American or Chinese (or anywhere else from the Far East except
Japan). I'm trying to think what other nationalities one might own.
Spanish, especially dirt bikes. French - old classics or mopeds.
Indian, of course: Enfields. Russian (paging Platypus).

OK, so Champ scores one nationality. I score five. Any advance?

 

For me, all except the current one, which was probably assembled in
Thailand.

 

No I don't - I score six. I forgot the Japanese. Doh.