OT eBay Motorcycle Mags.

I have a complete set of 120 'On Two Wheels' magazines, in folders, from
1976 to 1979 if anybody is interested,


http://search.ebay.co.uk/_W0QQsassZblubbly1QQhtZ-1

Thanks.

 

Quite the crappiest bike mag ever produced and not even much use as
firelighters.

 

Given some of today's offerings, that's almost impressive.

 

My MCS&L subscription is due for renewal. Not sure I am going to bother.

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The only subscription I have nowadays is to RealClassic.

 

I have browsed the web site a bit. The problem is that I am still
moderately interested in some modern machinery. The only modern bike I
stumbled across in a report on RC was the Morini Corsaro 1200, and a
mate of mine wrote that anyway.

Quite enjoyable reading Minton's musings about Laverdas and the like,
but what does he make of say a KTM950SM. Too long in the tooth now I
suppose.

Oh for the modern equivalents of Aspel and Setright[1].

[1] Just dug out MCS from Jan '77. "Yams with Pomegranates" : LJKS in
Marrakesh on the XS750 et.al.
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I subscribe to RC. (1) It's very cheap. (2) I enjoy parts of it
immensely. I loathe other parts of it in equal measure, mind. But it
still gets my dosh.

MCS&L is an arse-wipe, IMHO.

 

Is that the classic write-up where, in a lovely veiled reference to the
amount of recreational drugs available on the laucnch he referrred to
some of the journalists having developed pinhole retinas, presumably to
aid navigation?

 

I do buy other mags from time to time, mostly PB. I was slightly iffy about
subscribing to RC, as I remarked to Rowena at one of the shows, as I
subscribed to MotoRetro and it went down the tubes after 18 munce, and I
didn't want to inflict the same fate on RC.

I think Minton wishes he filled that role, but he hasn't the command of
English to do so.

IMNSHO

 

In communiqué
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Bugger, I'll have to read it all now - where are my bins? I may be some
time. It's the one that ends (talking of the DT250), "...if God had
meant us to go grubbing around in the dirt like that, He would have
given us a nose for truffles."
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Also my conclusion lately. Not even any letters worth reading.
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It wouldn't be the first time. I wrote in to them just last year IIRC
(you won't find it hard to guess the subjest). The beauty of MCS in "the
good old days" was that the letters pages[1] were a sort of very long
drawn out, but gentlemanly, version of UKRM in many ways.

[1] Note the plural


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1986, TOG and Bruce Preston having a bitch-fight over R80 mpg...

 

<reads text in full>

The very same:

"Maybe it was because some of the English riders' pupils had noticeably
contracted soon after arrival, presumably giving them needle-sharp
vision as an aid to navigation..."

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The Jan '77 issue features a letter of from "Idi Amin".

Morphing already in vogue in 1977. Nothing new under the sun eh?



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So true. So very true.

Long discussions over the merits (or otherwise) of MZs.

Letters a whole page long, dissecting the technical aspects of Japanese
footrest mounts.

Explanations of how Vincents got there before the Japs.

 

Continual references to the PEMC.

 

I sometimes read that and occasionally enjoyed it, but one thing I found
most peculiar was the habit of article writers of not naming themselves,
just initials. Probably the same auld buggers who wrote stuff for the
amateur radio publications of the late 50s.
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Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the
river cleaned out in a day.