That's going to be expensive.

Predictable response.
Ignore him, his hatred of Honda is legendary.
;-)

 

Champ says...

<looks out of window at 177,000 mile 21 year old CB250RS>

I have.

--
Lozzo : The anti-Timo
YZF1000R, GPZ500S, CB250RS x3
BOTAFOT#57/70a, BOTAFOF#57, MIB#22, TCP#7,
ANORAK#9, DIAABTCOD#14, UKRMT5BB, IBW#013, MIRTTH#15a/16,
BotToS#8, GP#2, SBS#10, SH#3, DFV#14, BONY#9.
Url for ukrm newbies : http://www.ukrm.net/faq/ukrmscbt.html
http://www.glfuk.com/ for MJK Leathers in the UK.
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.

 

Colonel Tupperware says...

They made the clutch baskets out of remodelled X7 cranks

--
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YZF1000R, GPZ500S, CB250RS x3
BOTAFOT#57/70a, BOTAFOF#57, MIB#22, TCP#7,
ANORAK#9, DIAABTCOD#14, UKRMT5BB, IBW#013, MIRTTH#15a/16,
BotToS#8, GP#2, SBS#10, SH#3, DFV#14, BONY#9.
Url for ukrm newbies : http://www.ukrm.net/faq/ukrmscbt.html
http://www.glfuk.com/ for MJK Leathers in the UK.
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.

 

Are you sure he's not just spinning you a yarn, you being a burd and all
that..?

--
John

SV650
Black it is
and naked

 

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

Buggeroff.

 

It would be really fucking nice if you could learn to post in a
readable manner.

If you start on a line without a character at the start of it - like a
BLANK line, that would be a really good idea.

 

Now that made me smile.

 

I don't even have to look.

 

4ax.com:

I recall the jokes me and my

I'll remember this when people tell me your days were the wild days... ;-)

 

Good nick engines with less than 4K miles are going for 1500ukp. By
the time it's fitted, watered and oiled and VATed it creeps up to
2,300 ukp.

 

All of a sudden I picked up a vibration from the engine of my

Did you get my e-mail? The UKRM mail server is/was having a bad hair day , ,
, ,

Buzby

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

"Dear Sirs,

Your engine is crap. It won't take repeated wheelieing.

Yours Sincerely

Molly"



"Dear Madam,

**** right off. Do you think we're daft or something?

Yours etc,

Suzuki"

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

[snip]

I think fate was pushed over the edge with the following comment:

"People talk about how reliable Hondas are, maybe they are but
the gixxer has been exemplary"

 

Timo Geusch

Verpiss Dich, meintest Du wohl. Currently doing so. Will
be in the Fatherland from tonight until Monday. Found a
lastminute.com offer for £80 with BA, LHR to DUS. To good
to miss.

 

On Thu, 08 Apr 2004 00:52:41 +0100, Ian < (really address

Actually, I'd say when the VFR came out, which was 87, I think. 84
and 85 they were still making awful bags of shit (CBX550, VF500, etc.
This was during the years when Yamaha and Honda were vying to be
number one, and new models seemed to be announced every 3 months.
Something had to give, and it was quality (or, in the case of the
Yamaha XV550, sanity).

The VFR was very obviously a clean break, and was massively
over-engineered to try and kill the reliability problems that the
VF750 had. Don't forget that Honda had nailed its colours to the V4
mast, with the VF400, 500, 750 and 1000. V was the way forward. But
the various problems caused all of these to be dropped apart from the
VFR.

Well, I hold no allegiance for Suzuki (my heart will always be green),
but at least they've been providing their customers with bikes that
actually do what they want over that period (i.e. go like the
bejesus).

 

Shit, bad luck love. If you need to borrow a cute little black number
to get around on in the meantime, drop me a mail (you've got my real
addy, haven't you? The one here don't work).

 

Aw, that's so sweet of you. Thanks babes. I've still got my trusty
GS500 and T/Bird.

 

Champ says...

1986 to be pedantic.

The VF500 was actually a very reliable bike that performed well and
handled brilliantly. What put people off buying them was the price, it
was really expensive compared to the opposition. I'll grant the
CBX550/CBX750 were a bags of shite though.

Yamaha launched the XZ550[1][2] in 1982. A long way before the VFR came
out, probably around the same time the original VF range was announced.

[1] I think this is the bike you mean. The one with the trailing axle
front forks and very angular styling?
[2] In 1982 I took one out for a ride on a Yamaha test day at Coburn and
Hughes. What a god-awful pile of steaming donkey shit it was.

--
Lozzo : The anti-Timo
YZF1000R, GPZ500S, CB250RS x3
BOTAFOT#57/70a, BOTAFOF#57, MIB#22, TCP#7,
ANORAK#9, DIAABTCOD#14, UKRMT5BB, IBW#013, MIRTTH#15a/16,
BotToS#8, GP#2, SBS#10, SH#3, DFV#14, BONY#9.
Url for ukrm newbies : http://www.ukrm.net/faq/ukrmscbt.html
http://www.glfuk.com/ for MJK Leathers in the UK.
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.

 

*shrug*

I think it had enough of being called a 'girly bike'.