Worst first bike or scooter?

*DING*

 

Eeuw

 

shut it, Citroen/Aprilia owner - what do you know of "design".

 

Bear says...

Nah. I completely shagged a rear set of tyres in 3 hours driving an MGF
1.8VVC round the 2 mile bowl at Millbrook.

 

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

Like the white one.

Odd arse end on the roof, though.

--

Dave

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

 

Bear wrote:

[Porsches]

The eighties.

I dislike them for no other reason other than I associate them with
braying morons.

 

that's about right, and why I've not yet owned a 911.

However, the later cars are really quite a different kettle of shit.

I reckon the sort of people who bought whale-tale 911s in the 80s now
buy TVRs.

 

you mean the bit behind the targa top? Yes - a little odd - it's a
streamlining thing, apparently.

I think the "optional" rear-view camera and screen would be pretty much
a mandatory purchase.

 

sweet

 

<thinks back to a mates car in Carlisle>

Rover SDi 3.5 V8 with few tweeks.

This idiot gets new set of tyres on back.

Goes out to play, finds nice uphill single track lane enclosed by high hedges
both sides.

Burns out all the way up the hill (150 yds) just for the hell of it.

Goes back to garage for another pair of rear tyres...

 

It has to be said that that isn't the furthest distance in the
universe. Up to 6 months ago I was doing a similar (Farnham -> Woking
via Guildford) journey.

Phil

 

Yeah, but on a single speed, pedal start, four stroke moped?

 

Pah! I would have been impressed if you did it on hands and knees after
tying broken bottles to your arms and legs..

But on a veehickle? The youth of today, they don't know they are born!

Who needs acid eh? All you need is a headful of sumatriptan and a body
full of fatigue poisons.

Phil

 

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

Designer's flight of fancy; an homage to 30s GP cars, possibly.
Don't know why they simply couldn't have put a duckboard tail and rumble
seat there.

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Dave

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

 

The Hog's Back is uniquely scary from the view point of a powered
bicycle wobbling along at around 25mph. I've been much further on low
powered machines, but then I've chosen the weather / road conditions.

 

Cross winds, low cloud, sleet, snow, ice, commuter traffic driving fast
on autopilot with defective radar.

 

And that's in the summer

 

Did you have to 'pedal assist' at any points?

Used to have to on several of the hills round here, and this was when I was
a lanky streak of piss who had yet to discover pies.

 

I don't recall doing so but this would have been when I'd just bought
my first house so spring/summer of '83. The mists of time have
obscured data like that.

My downfall was a combination of eating two main meals a day because
work had a decent canteen and drinking far too much beer.