Ping TOG & HOG

I saw this & thought of you.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SUPERBIKE-No-177-MORINI-350-GS400-R100RS-FANTIC-CA
BALL_W0QQitemZ4650255890QQihZ002QQ

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Krusty.

http://www.muddystuff.co.uk
http://www.muddystuff.us
Off-road classifieds

'02 MV Senna '03 Tiger (FOYRNB) '96 Tiger '79 Fantic 250

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Krusty belched forth and ejected the following:

The exhausts look ok on those...

 

Shit I had that copy for *years*

 

I remember buying it!

 

Well I won the eBay item and I have it again!

 

Phoowarr. 70's totty ;-)

P.

 

I've wrapped the appropriate pages in clingfilm.

The editorial style and page layout is a hoot.

 

I so greatly regret allowing SWMBO to throw out some of my collection of
old motorcycle magazines. I managed to keep hold of all my MCS issues
from the early 70's but she lobbed quite a few MCI numbers before I
could rescue them.


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Whilst I remember,

I've had a rather interesting job offer. I may need some advice from
you very shortly ...

Cheers,

Paul.

 

"They all do that sir"

HTH

Paul.

 

Me? anytime if I can help

zero seven eight zero two
eight one two and three threes

 

'70s reader.....

 

They were fun.

Swings and roundabouts, then.

 

In communiqué
<1hhyttt.fcmhcj1xie9vaN%>, The Older

I quite enjoyed Motor Cyclist Illustrated in the Alan Aspel years. I'm
sure it was he, who wrote about the gearbox of some old Beezer trials
outfit he was riding, as being like motorcyclists of its era - slow and
resistant to change.

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Ah, right. I thought you were referring to Motorcycle International.

Alan Aspel was one of the few bike hacks to be killed in the course of
duty.

 

In communiqué
<1hhyxst.zkzhdrvw0qamN%>, The Older

<nods gravely>

I unashamedly offer you a quote lifted from
http://www.realclassic.co.uk/opinionfiles/swing02.html
another favourite writer, Dave Minton, about Aspel:

"Allan Aspel was my editor when in the period of the latter Sixties and
early Seventies I worked with him on the old magazine Motorcyclist
Illustrated. One day, on some long-forgotten escapade with BMWs, we
stopped for lunch at a pub high on the Cotswolds. There we fell into
conversation with an old chap who on his Rudge had toured the Continent
in the late 1920s. We stayed all afternoon. As we were preparing to
leave Allan murmured in his quiet way, 'You know what I love about
motorcycling? It's not so much the bikes, it's what they lead you to.'

He was right of course but so am I, surely. It's what I was led to all
those years ago that has given me my love of motorcycles."


Amen.

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Who was that editor bloke who rode into the back of a van after a "business lunch"?

 

"business lunch"?

MCN's editor, Peter Bolt. Pissed. After work, IIRC.

EMAP set up the Peter Bolt Memorial Scholarship or something similar,
for aspiring journos, and then quietly canned it after the inquest.

 

Bear said...

MCN geezer on the first FireBlade?[/QUOTE]

I thought it was one of the original R1s, I'm probably wrong though.

 

It happened while I was still working for Daily Mail Group, so not an
R1. Like Bear said, I think it was a Blade. See other posting for name &
details.