Alan
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Wheelbase of a truck! Don't they have any bends over the pond?
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What is it with Brighton?
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Congrats! I thought Suzy was a gurl
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I'm on a tight budget with my bike so heated grips may over kill! Out of curiousity how heated is heated? Cus its mainly my finger tips that a falling off not my palms!! I like your thinking!!
I may have to go with the furry cover thingys, so i can take them off in the summer.
....although it may minus points from my street cred! Sayin that, how much street cred can you have with a 1988 DT125 LC that doesnt idle!!
Not a lot
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I ride to and from work on my bike everyday. My only problem (other than cars who are stuck in traffic not moving anywhere who block up the gaps so i can't filter through)....is my fingers and damn near falling off by the time i get to work or home.
I'm on my bike for about 45mins, most of the journey is at 40-50mph and the rest is filtering through traffic.
i wear a pair of those wind proof/thermal gloves and a pair of thicker waterproof gortex type gloves. I also have hand guards on the handle bars.
I almost pray to come to a stop and traffic lights so that i can warm my fingers on the exhaust manifold!!
what am i doing wrong? is it just me or is bloody freezin!!!!!!
I was gonna buy a new helmet the month, but i may have to invest in some serious gloves!
Thoughts? Am i the only one? is it my cheap gloves? is it the weather?
Have you thought about getting some heated grips? They're about same price as a decent pair of gloves
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I've owned 13 Suzukis. Beat that!
Wot wiv? A stick?
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Too many to mention
Here's some of them
Falling off outside me house x3
Forgetting to undo steering lock x2
Getting sidestand spring stuck in ankle and falling over (still got the scar from that one)
Crashing into the back of me Dad's car. He stopped I didn't!
Showing off in front of girls at chippie - pulled a wheelie and fell off the back.
Trying to bumpstart a GS1000 with a dragging clutch and being dragged 30yards up the road before being dumped in a hedge
All these happened when I was young and daft. Nowadays I'm just daft
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Well the museum got back to me, after Alan and filled me in, but heres what they said.
The Neracar was created by Carl A Neracher, built by the Ner-A-Car Corporation in Syracuse, New York in 1921 and also in Sheffield, England later that year.
Carl Neracher acquired a patent for the Neracar in the USA in 1919 and with financing help from razor maker King C. Gillette began production two years later.
The Neracar was aimed at people who wanted a comfortable vehicle but couldn't afford a car. And was advertised as "300 miles for a dollar" and 85-100 miles to a gallon and a speed of 35mph.
It featured a single cylinder 13.5 (221cc) cubic inch engine and used friction drive by means of a fabric coated wheel rubbing a flywheel which causes friction and in turn creates motion and a lever to slide the wheel to different positions for changing ratios and acting as different gears (three speed).
Also unique to the Neracar was the center hub steering system. The British Neracar also known as the Sheffield Simplex version, as it was made under license by the Simplex Luxury Carmaker in Sheffield, England. It featured a larger engine 285cc two-stroke, and in 1925 was upgraded to a 350cc engine, known as the Blackburne and Model C.
While the American version engine size was increased to 15.5 cubic inch in 1924 and was known as the Model B.
The Ner-A-Car corporation stopped making Neracar's in the USA, after the 1924 production model, due to lack of popularity.
Production also ceased in England in 1926 after a new luxurious and expensive hybrid model failed, the company closed it's motorcycle division .
Go on, ask me another?
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Yeah for some reason they still keep sending me 3 catalogues through, and of course the special offer ones
They do do some cheap stuff, i got my micron paddock stand from them, with the erm my brain has gone, the bits you screw onto the swing arm? Cant think of what they are called, and anyway was cheaper than M&P just for the stand
They're called bobbins
Hope your brain comes back soon -
http://home.planet.nl/~motors-20th-century/page_Yamaha.htm
Would be nice if they kept going untill the latest models.
Mine's on there
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I've heard of those from somewhere.
Maybe it's just me, but there's just something "Wrong" about a bike with FloorBoards instead of proper footpegs.
Yep think leadwing or Harley 'Massey Ferguson' Davidson
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OMG this is turning into a GAY honda fourm! what has taken over your guys minds?! so...does anyone want to buy my vfr400r off me then? gooo on, £500 just needs lower front fairings to be complete! u know u want to :lol:
NO!
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A woman brought a very limp duck into a vterinary surgeon. As she laid her pet on the table, the vet pulled out his stethoscope and listened to the birds chest.
After a moment or two, the vet shook his head sadly and said ''I'm so sorry, your pet has passed away.''
The distressed owner wailed, ''Are you sure?'' ''Yes I'm sure. The duck is dead'' the vet replied.
''How can you be so sure'' she protested. ''I mean, you haven't done any testing on him or anything. He might just be in a coma or something.''
The vet rolled his eyes, turned around and left the room. He returned a few moments later with a pair of Labrador Retrievers. As the duck's owner looked on in amazement, the dogs stood on their hind legs, put their front paws on the examination table and sniffed the duck from top to bottom. They then looked at the vet with sad eyes and shook their heads. The vet patted the dogs,took them out of the room and returned a few moments later with a beautiful cat.
The cat jumped up on the table and also sniffed the bird from it's beak to it's tail and back again. The cat sat back on it's haunches, shook it's head, meowed softly, jumped down and strolled out of the room.
The vet looked at the woman and said, ''I'm sorry, but as I said, this is most definitely, 100% certifiably, a dead duck.''
Then the vet turned to his computer terminal, hit a few keys and produced a bill, which he handed to the woman. The duck's owner, still in shock, took the bill.
''£150!'' she cried ''£150 just to tell me my duck is dead?!!''
The vet shrugged. ''I'm sorry. If you'd taken my word for it, the bill would have been £20. But with the Lab Reports and the CAT scan it all adds up.''
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I've had Hondas in the past. A CB400/4 and a CB750F1. The 400/4 was a stonking little bike. Wish I'd kept it. It was the first bike that I ever cracked the ton on!
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Well if you think that puts you off frogs, check out one of my lovely dishes i had in cheng-du, china, obviously you cant tell by the pic but it was actually still alive, didnt take long to die though
It's like the shite they serve in our works canteen
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You'd need asbestos cladding on your leg to ride it
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Well i was just going through my travel pics, and have forgotten what this bike was?
Does anyone know. Im pretty sure it was one of the first motorbikes ever made, pretty cool that it has hub centre steering
The bike pictured is a 1921 Ner-a-car. Built in Syracuse N.Y and under licence by the Simplex Luxury Car Maker of Sheffield U.K.
The first bikes were powered(?) by a 221cc 2 stroke single. The U.K built bikes were 285cc or 350cc 2 stroke singles. These were known as the Blackburne or Model C. They stopped production in 1924.
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Rossi's 2005 GP bike. It'll beat the Ondas
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It was those wild tumble dryers you sometimes hear about. Zanussi's I think they're called.
Dangerous, dangerous things, especially for cotton t-shirts.....
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I must admit that Hondas have got the best build quality BUT.........................
As the advert from a few years ago said
''You meet the nicest people on a Honda''
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Yes yes boys, very funny.
This is half an hour's ride from my house and has some snakey blacktop....
Was up there a couple of weeks ago and nearly hit a tumble dryer...
What? By helicopter?
Was this tumble dryer part of a herd?
Things Not To Say To A Cop
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I can't reach my license unless you hold my beer (OK in Texas)
Sorry, Officer, I didn't realise my radar detector wasn't plugged in.
Aren't you the guy from the village people?
Hey, You must have been doing 125mph to keep up with me. Well done!
I thought you had to be in relatively good shape to be a police officer?
You're not gonna check the boot are you?
Gee Officer! Thats terrific! The last officer only gave me a warning too!
Do you know why you pulled me over? OK, just so one of us does!
I was trying to keep up with traffic. Yes, I know there are no other vehicles around...... That's how far ahead of me they are.
When the officer says ''Your eyes look red, have you been drinking?'' You shouldn't probably respond with, ''Your eyes look glazed, have you been eating doughnuts?''