Paging Timo or other Pan Europeanisti...

They are amazingly comfy and slightly better on fuel. Also they are as
reliable, if not more so, and certainly easier and cheaper to service.

Where they don't score so highly is on finish - a Divvie won't survive
the winter slop like a Pan. But then as you say, the price reflects
that, and a very decent Divvie can be had for 2.5k

 

I was thinking more like Rampton or Broadmoor.

 

Just the stripes will do the job. A ,mate had a blue one, but done out
in IOM police Yellow and blue fluoro panels, that really parted the
ways.

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No. Don't take it like that. Go and pester someone easily upset (for
entertainment's sake).

There is that.

"Nothing trivial, I hope".

It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.

It's almost Mesopotamia, and almost hot (18degC today).

 

Heh... Are there any of those sort still on UKRM? Apart from Rope?

Aye - you can't do too much for a good firm.

Sadly not.

It is - reading this froup again is like pulling on a well worn old sea
boot.

18 isn't that hot. Been outside chipping the salt off the Pan and it's
almost that here - give or take 10 anyway.

 

Ooh... Ta.

 

They just don't look as 'complete a package', IYSWIM.

I will have to try this one I've been offered, and a Pan.

Given the amount of time I have to spend with anything that's deemed the
'workhorse', I tend to get irritated very quickly with any niggles or
shortcomings, hence why a Pan, given their good reputation, is the one
that's really caught my imagination.

That's a given with a Yamaha as a rule, mind.

 

I had no niggles with my Divvie at all. It did exactly what it said on
the tin. A very competent, slightly boring motorcycle, It was as happy
being trundled through London traffic as it was being thrown around the
Ardennes or hooned along motorways.

Weather protection will be better on the Pan, of course, and even a Pan
has more soul, but as a working bike, a 900 Divvie is hard to beat.

 

JackH was seen penning the following ode to ... whatever:

Oh, forgot - get an ABS one if you'd like it to stop this side of the
next millenium. The one non-ABS one I tried had about the same braking
ability as an early '70s CB750.

 

what I want to know is - how come you can post things like that, and
not get called a tedious ****?

 

Aye... well this one is a Sony that's unusual in that it has a proper tray
that pops out the front which you pop the disc onto - it then uses the same
anti skip technology as their CD Walkmans, hence why I thought it might be a
good 'un for on the bike.

The only thing that's fazed it since it's been in the car, has been
terminally scratched CDs - another byproduct of only having a single slot to
play with.

I seem to remember seeing one where the stereo had been plumbed into the
left hand fairing cubby hole, just next to the tank.

My neighbours seem happy to wake us up at some ungodly hour, screaming at
each other, so I'm quite happy to treat them to an early morning dose of
Anal **** and the like, on occasion...

Ok, ta.

Well yes... but alas, time is money, and the time spent on the bike or in
the car for work purposes is very money orientated.

 

:-O

Ok noted, cheers.

 

It's because he's not a tedious ****.

HTH.

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ah. Still, it's something I could be good at if I keep working on it.

 

JackH said...

I used to live close to Rampton, what amused me was that there's a very
posh private school full of adolescent females almost next door.

 

...and you just happen to have one for sale? ;-)

Heh, all noted - I will have to try both, then look at the shekles in play
before making the choice... that is, if I do decide to go down this route -
I'm still pretty pro something along the lines of a big trailie, if the CBR
is to be replaced with something that isn't expected to do around 50k a year
reliably in order to earn a crust.

 

"So tell me, what was it that initially attracted you to Rampton?"

 

You can tell the nonABS Pans, by the crease in the seat

)

 

JackH wrote:

There's a chap on Ebay flogs the kits for about 35 quid a time.
However, you need a radio that's DIN sized from the front, but only
about 2/3rds of the depth of a normal one to fit in there - otherwise
you need to cut the side panel and the base of the radio is touching or
nearly touching the cylinder head.

 

*wail*