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Thread ID: 74295	2006-11-17 17:14:00	Speed Of Light Exceeded?	SurferJoe46 (51)	PC World Chat

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500028	2006-11-21 04:20:00	... lucas.... LOL:lol: :lol: i'll just stick to my japs then! it's a shame the jap govt brought regulations to the smaller motorbikes.... the '92 cbr250rr hurricane, '92 zxr250 and 89' vfr400 nc30 are still the best (under 400cc) bikes, death on wheels (or just wheel) and the electrics work lol. unfortunatlely i have never had the oppurtunity to ride british machines:(	motorbyclist (188)
500029	2006-11-21 04:45:00	Careful there taking the mickey like that, I used to work for Lucas, good company, good products :) Seriously, British car and bike manufacturers with the odd exception were so crappy that they were only prepared to pay the lowest possible prices, so they got supplied with what they asked for. That's why they all went down the tubes, design and quality were foreign words to them. For example, they even thought that DOHC was far too expensive for joe public motorcyclist..... thats why there were so many Ducattis around by the 1960s in the UK. Velocette had a good overhead camshaft machine in the late 40s, the KSS and the racing KTT, good bikes, fast smooth. I used to ride one. But they dropped it.	Terry Porritt (14)
500030	2006-11-21 05:12:00	My favs were the Yamahas and Kawasakis . The Londonderry bikes were fun, but not reliable . . . not even close to the Oriental crotch rockets . Had my first Yamaha 80cc I think was a '63 YGT-1B, and went to the '65 YDS2 ( . bikepics . com/pictures/714242/" target="_blank">www . bikepics . com), a 250 twin that was very quick and had won the Isle of Mann in about '63 . Then came the real fast ones . . . . A '77 Kaw ( . flickr . com/49/113009063_8a41f8a495_m . jpg" target="_blank">static . flickr . com)asaki (ttp://www . motorradhandel . ch/kunden_occasionen/1070/KZ650%20Walder . jpg) KZ-650 ( . kawtriple . com/tripleed/kz/3171l . jpg" target="_blank">www . kawtriple . com) (this is a really good pix!, but not of mine) with a small fairing after I decided it was too wet to ride in the fog to and from LA on it . I have a pix of it some where . . . . brb . . . . . here it is -> , I found it! ( . imagef1 . net . nz/files/KX-650 . jpg" target="_blank">www . imagef1 . net . nz) I had a Cibie' Z-beam headlight in it, which was very powerful and could run in both the high and low beam condition at the same time . The electrics never complained . Dunlop K70's were not good enough and I went to Carlisle Road Rac-R Twins and got some real low-down cornering ability . The BSA Gold Star 500 ( . pbase . com/jim_panzee/image/21022391" target="_blank">www . pbase . com) was a nice enough bike, but like all Beezers, it leaked badly . The Triumph Trident ( . blondeel . be/R3patlinks . JPG" target="_blank">www . blondeel . be) 750/3 was a bad experiment in terror . . . electrics were never right, the transmission would not shift hot, the clutch was a chatterer and the leaks were about as bad as a Harley . It sounded SO G-O-O-O-D! :p These olde memories remind me . . . has anyone in NZ ever seen an NSU Prinz ( . microcar . org/carspecs/nsuprinzIII . gif" target="_blank">www . microcar . org)? They were a car . . . sort of . . . but I had one, a 1959 ( . microcarmuseum . com/tour/nsu-prinz-rhd . html" target="_blank">www . microcarmuseum . com), and loved tinkering with the camshaft drive mechanism . I am sure the guy who designed that is still in a rubber room somewhere . I guess this has been badly highjacked . . the post, that is . . . but I started it so have fun if you want to go OT with it any farther away than I have already . In fact, let's start another post about our old cars and motorcycles . . . pictures should be included via the upload site (http://www . imagef1 . net . nz/) . . . . . but just wool spinning is OK too .	SurferJoe46 (51)
500031	2006-11-21 05:21:00	Unfortunately I have never had the opportunity to ride british machines:( Same applied to most owners MB, their bikes were either being kicked-started (but without the starting bit) fruitlessly pushed up and down the road trying to force them back to life, or parked up in the garage in the middle of a puddle of oil while saving up the money for repairs . In between times "off the road" there were brief periods when they ran around spreading oil trails, smoke screens and shedding miscellaneous items like mufflers, pillion passengers, number plates, tail lights etc . If it could be vibrated off, it was . As a pre-teen kid I used to walk home from school past a corner motorcycle repair shop and their back yard was always chocka with discarded broken and worn out parts . I was well into electrical things even in those days and I got my supplies of copper wire from the heaps of armatures and magneto coils they had replaced . They did a regular clear-out, but it soon filled up again . Best thing the Japanese ever did was push British cars, motorcycles and electronics (and a whole lot else) off the market . Cheers Billy 8-{)	Billy T (70)
500032	2006-11-21 05:40:00	...smoke screens and shedding miscellaneous items like mufflers, pillion passengers.... LOL	motorbyclist (188)
500033	2006-11-21 10:21:00	Same applied to most owners MB, their bikes were either being kicked-started (but without the starting bit) fruitlessly pushed up and down the road trying to force them back to life, or parked up in the garage in the middle of a puddle of oil while saving up the money for repairs. In between times "off the road" there were brief periods when they ran around spreading oil trails, smoke screens and shedding miscellaneous items like mufflers, pillion passengers, number plates, tail lights etc. If it could be vibrated off, it was. ...- - ... Cheers Billy 8-{) Obviously you are biased, you must have had some of the abominations LOL If it's not leaking oil, it's out of oil. For those who never experienced it, Lucas was what the English used as a substitute for an electrical system. The bikes I enjoyed most were Honda Dream, early (12 Volt, but no round and round gear shift) Changed the oil every 5000 miles, new tail lamp about once a fortnight until I got rid of the festoon bulb and put in a regular lamp, otherwise just kept going for years. A Yamaha 500SR single was good fun, built up from an insurance company sale and many bits from all over the place. It had an amazingly comfortable seat until the wife's horse ate it. That was almost a fatality, but fortunately for me the horse was unharmed. Then a Kawasaki triple, a somewhat frisky beast. It used more fuel than the car.	R2x1 (4628)
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