Wot Bike Is This? (A Puzzle)

Picasso's first venture into motorcycle design wasn't the success he'd
hoped for.

 

Hehe! Can tell you read the Darkside cartoons.

riccip

 

riccip wrote:

Nope.

 

Far Side, innit? And in any case, I think you're muddling things up with
Glen Baxter (he of The Impending Gleam).

 

Bear says...

If ya gotta win, ya gotta win good.

 

I guessed the sidepanel would give it away. The Yanks also got
the J in "California Burgundy", i.e. that pink/magenta colour
(which still looks great even today).
http://tinyurl.com/49tgw

riccip

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember
(The Older Gentleman) saying
something like:

http://www.geocities.com/grimly4/pics/FARSIDE.jpg

--

Dave

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

 

riccip says...

My mate Gus has just sold a J regd Canadian import GT750J in that pukey
pink colour. I had a 1973 GT750L back in the winter of 1980/81 when I
was 18, it was metalflake orange.

 

Well, just to show how un-sad I am. I only knew it was a suzook,
from the tank. I knew it was a GT from the writing on the side panels
and I reckoned it was a kettle from the exhauxt collector combined
with the timing case cover. As eny fule know it was clearly an import
but being of sound mind and body... I had no idea of the year or model
version of the thing. Not like those *weirdos*.

--
Alex (still a usefull member of society (no really, honest) ) Ferrier.
BMW R1150GS
DIAABTCOD#3 MSWF#4 UKRMFBC#6 Ibw#35 BOB#8
http://www.team-ukrm.co.uk
Windy's "little soldier"

 

Either that, or he's just gone that birthday card too far.

--
Alex
BMW R1150GS
DIAABTCOD#3 MSWF#4 UKRMFBC#6 Ibw#35 BOB#8
http://www.team-ukrm.co.uk
Windy's "little soldier"

 

Yes, I think you're right on both counts. I've had a long, hard
luchtime today.

riccip

 

My dad had a watercooled Scott when he was a lad.

--
Dan L (Oldbloke)
My bike 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr
M'boy's bike 2003 Honda NSR125R
Spare Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X
BOTAFOT #140, DIAABTCOD #26, BOMB#18 (slow)

 

Quite a few of 'em still around. Better handling than the kettle too.

 

I knew it was an early GT750, and I knew which model, but the fact that
it was a US model - that escaped me, I'm glad to say.

"Not quite as sad as Lozzo"

 

My sisters boyfriend had a GT250 in the same colour. What a porky 250 it
was too.

 

I *hated* the old GT250. Peaky, thirsty, ill-handling, uncomfortable,
vibratory pile of shite.

 

(The Older Gentleman) struggled
to ejaculate:

I'm surprised. The obvious indicator (sic) of US origin to me is the
presence of side-mounted reflectors. Stand out a mile, they do.

I'm not sure of that, either.

 

Dan L says...

I had a variation on the theme, they called it the RD350LC

 

The Older Gentleman says...

<prouder then he was>

 

tallbloke says...

They were shit.

I had a 1976 GT250A in red. It was a thoroughly detestable motorcycle. I
sold it for 100 quid to my mate Flid[1], who rode it all over Europe.
Fucking thing gave me endless problems in the 2 months I owned it, he
did over 10K miles in a year with nothing ever going wrong.

[1] So called because he interbred gerbils as an experiment when he was
13/14, to see what mutations occurred. Lots did.