Platyfest

I don't think I can ginge you, since it was your idea originally but
see ^^

P.

 

not exactly close to Calais, is it?

 

Fortunately we'll be sitting on a form of transport which could be
utilised to take us to Poitiers.

It's a crazy idea I know.

 

going to a bike race in a plane? Freakazoid.

I've heard worse.

 

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

YGM

 

We could always go on a night boat Portsmouth -> Le Havre.

 

true.

My other issue that is that if everything goes to plan, by mid-July I
won't have any suitable touring bikes in my garage.

 

The ZX7 would be ok for that? Or borrow one, Nigel Eaton appears to have
a surfeit of gaudy trash.

I may have something suitable.

 

Looks like I'll be setting off at Sparrersfart on Saturday. If I can
get away on Friday at all, it won't be till gone six, which seems
pointless.

I was in the same boat with the CBX last year, but I needn't have
worried, as it didn't have "Morini" written on the tank.
--
| ___ Salad Dodger
|/ \
_/_____\_ GL1500SEV/CBR1100XXX/CBX1000Z
|_\_____/_| ..80264../..21661.../..31308.
(>|_|_|<) TPPFATUICG#7 DIAABTCOD#9 WG*
|__|_|__| BOTAFOT #70 BOTAFOF #09 PM#5
\ |^| / IbW#0 & KotIbW# BotTOS#6 GP#4
\|^|/ ANORAK#17 IbB#4 YTC#4 two#11
'^' RBR'06 Points: 75 Miles: 317

 

"suitable touring"? What an odd idea.
--
| ___ Salad Dodger
|/ \
_/_____\_ GL1500SEV/CBR1100XXX/CBX1000Z
|_\_____/_| ..80264../..21661.../..31308.
(>|_|_|<) TPPFATUICG#7 DIAABTCOD#9 WG*
|__|_|__| BOTAFOT #70 BOTAFOF #09 PM#5
\ |^| / IbW#0 & KotIbW# BotTOS#6 GP#4
\|^|/ ANORAK#17 IbB#4 YTC#4 two#11
'^' RBR'06 Points: 75 Miles: 317

 

"if everything goes to plan", my garage will only have one bike in it
by mid July, and that one bike will not be one of the four currently
in there.

oh god.

 

"bikes at all suitable for touring".

 

No, really.

 

The Mouton Blanc is the one I booked a couple of years ago - decent
food and a selection of bars within staggering distance.

 

It looks lovely, but it's actually, genuinely within strolling distance of
Chimay, and probably doesn't have an all-night bar. The Mouton Blanc in
Cambrai, where we stayed in '04, was fine, good food, close to bars etc.

 

"Lager, kebab and a fight, please."

 

You could borrow the Z200 if you like.

 

autogyro?

 

I checked that one out as well - looks like a runner, yes.

 

I think sweller has already lined him up for the MZ with the novel front
wheel angle. Either that or snorky.