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pm · Post by pm » Sat Aug 13, 2005 6:16 pm

I had one of these http://www.bsa-brian.fsnet.co.uk/bsa_su ... tcard_.JPG I couldn't afford a lambretta. Yes, that is me on the scooter, mine looked much smarter as I removed all the bodywork. Cool or what. I used to fall off it a great deal, mostly on corners.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Aug 13, 2005 6:21 pm

So you were a Mod Peter?

......no thats not you

..maybe your wife when you met? and if not..she will wanna know why?

on second thoughts maybe you're tad too young for that era?

ellie

pm · Post by pm » Sat Aug 13, 2005 6:26 pm

Very proud of my Parka I was. Young! you are joking!

tbbr · Post by **tbbr** » Sat Aug 13, 2005 8:22 pm

Dangerous things parkas, with hood up could not see a thing and with all those toggles , once shut them in car door and was dragged down the road to much amusement of car occupants and passing pedestrians.

Still much better than being a greaser !!!

Bruxinha · Post by **Bruxinha** » Sat Aug 13, 2005 8:29 pm

Hey...no...greasy bikers rule...well ok, CLEAN greasy bikers

Go for it Ellie...on a Triumph or Harley...it would be GREAT and having read your book I think you are used to a bit of transport roughing it

cowboy · Post by **cowboy** » Sat Aug 13, 2005 9:01 pm

Say, if you had a Vespa, what would that make you?
(not sure I'm going to like the answer)

digger · Post by **digger** » Sat Aug 13, 2005 9:54 pm

I don’t know the answer to that coop old boy, but back in little England in the late 60’s I know if you didn’t have a lammy then forget it! but you’d be ok if you wore a parka and at least one of your friends rode a lammy …. and all the nice girls loved you

elle · Post by **elle** » Sat Aug 13, 2005 10:04 pm

Well Bruxhy..I'd really love to have a go...but not sure about a Harley!

Maybe Coop's horse would be more my style..or Digger or Pm's Lammy?
which is better over the bumps d'you think?

cowboy · Post by **cowboy** » Sat Aug 13, 2005 11:09 pm

digger wrote:I don’t know the answer to that coop old boy, but back in little England in the late 60’s I know if you didn’t have a lammy then forget it! but you’d be ok if you wore a parka and at least one of your friends rode a lammy …. and all the nice girls loved you

Still not sure where I'ed fit in.........I'ed never date a "nice girl".

cowboy · Post by **cowboy** » Sat Aug 13, 2005 11:13 pm

elle wrote:Well Bruxhy..I'd really love to have a go...but not sure about a Harley!
Maybe Coop's horse would be more my style..or Digger or Pm's Lammy?
which is better over the bumps d'you think?

A Honda Gold Wing.

Bruxinha · Post by **Bruxinha** » Sat Aug 13, 2005 11:20 pm

Oh no Cowboy, aren't they like armchairs for old guys? Am I treading on dangerous ground now?

"Vespa" means "wasp" in Portuguese and Italian...is that of any relevance?

Hmmm...perhaps the horse might be the best option. I met a girl recently, who travelled as passenger on her boyfriend's Harley from England to the Algarve. She had to stop and buy a big, soft cushion in France cos her derriere got a trifle sore!!!

elle · Post by **elle** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 12:04 am

Before I go to beddy byes...
that cousin of mine (the pensioner with oomph

) who wizzes 'sur le continent' on his Harley....
you'd never guess what he has written above his no.plate at rear?

...

Bruxhy I'm sure I'd need a big cushion like your friend....my derriere is getting bit tender in middle-age!..maybe comfort is taking priority over excitement..
oh lord..I hope not..
Maybe I do need that 'armchair on wheels'

..
or d'you happen to have a nice cosy saddle Coop?

cowboy · Post by **cowboy** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 2:03 am

Bruxinha wrote:Oh no Cowboy, aren't they like armchairs for old guys? Am I treading on dangerous ground now?

"Vespa" means "wasp" in Portuguese and Italian...is that of any relevance?

Hmmm...perhaps the horse might be the best option. I met a girl recently, who travelled as passenger on her boyfriend's Harley from England to the Algarve. She had to stop and buy a big, soft cushion in France cos her derriere got a trifle sore!!!

I met a girl recently, who travelled as passenger on her boyfriend's Harley from England to the Algarve. She had to stop and buy a big, soft cushion in France cos her derriere got a trifle sore

I rest my case.

Harleys will pound your butt....
(gives new meaning to "No Butt, No Putt"....)

Gold Wings won't.

And you don't have to carry a full tool kit with you to get around the block.

Or, as I once wrote on the bathroom wall at Beverley's (a local Harley bar in Austin)

"Harleys will score you chicks, but Hondas will get them home"

(I left right after I wrote that)

Harleys have a great image, (and a wonderful sound like no other), but you can get beat up on on a road trip on a Harley....

If I had a Harley, I'ed use it to pick up chicks.....

If I wanted to go on road trip, I'ed use a Gold Wing.

Bruxinha · Post by **Bruxinha** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 10:06 am

Point taken Cowboy

I have an English mate here, who says Harleys are just tractor engines and can only go in straight lines. I am sure he is right but the sound of those big machines...nothing quite like it

cowboy · Post by **cowboy** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 4:08 pm

Bruxinha wrote:Point taken Cowboy

I have an English mate here, who says Harleys are just tractor engines and can only go in straight lines. I am sure he is right but the sound of those big machines...nothing quite like it

Ah yes, the Harley sound....nothing like it in the world.

You could start up a dozen bikes, and if one of them is a Harley, you could easily pick it out blindfolded just by the sound.

This is how a Harley gets that sound......
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/question325.htm

The problem is that an engine designed that way produces a LOT of vibration...that is why it is helpful to know how to work on a Harley.....the moter literaly shakes it's self apart.