Yamaha Townmate : Gone and got a moped

[stinkwheel]

Slam and stretch it.
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I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles.

[Nobby the Bastard]

[thx1138]

[wr6133]

[stephen_o]

Hi Sam, Do tell me your commute to work doesn't involve the A500, A50 or A34 as you will be dicing with death! I had a C50 as my first bike, 3 gears top speed of an indicated 40 on the level, 20 on a hill in 2nd gear and could go off the clock downhill, It was a hoot in the days before the area just got super silly and congested and I dread what the potholes would do to it now. Good luck.
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current scoot 2009 Yamaha YBR250 + Current Pootle 2013 Nissan Leaf

[grr666]

They do drive like absolute nutters in Stoke for some reason. I have spent a bit of time in the area and it's
like the wacky races. I drive a white van and that's a perfect dilligaf vehicle for a place like that. Almost entirely
forgettable visually speaking and the assumption being that it is some kind of company vehicle so why would I the non
owner driver care if it gets dented? Also there's a fair chance I might be a pikey and who would want to have an
insurance uphill battle trying to get money out of them. It's great! Like having a force field sometimes.

As for tyres, I have Michelin City Grip on the Xenter. Good all weather commuter tyre. It had some cheap chinese crap on there
when I bought it, fine in the dry but deadly in anything else. The city grips are better for sure.
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[M.C]

[grr666]

Liveried= pretty much guaranteed insured, company will have some kind of public profile, easy to find driver,
assumption they'll want to keep their job. For instance catch a BT van driving like a nutter maybe or on the phone while
driving or getting out of the cab and up in someones face on handy phone video and a quick email to customer services
with a copy of the footage and they'll be down the road or on a final warning before they've finished their shift. All too
easy but you need that starting point, company name or something to begin with.

Plain white unmarked Transit, shaven headed driver scruffy builder looking type. (I have that in writing on a police stop btw)
No identifying workwear but covered in paint/mastic/dust etc. Yep, I'd be thinking pikey. I have a surly look about me
as well and ironically I'm about 1/8th Spanish Gypsy on my Dads side. Which my explain my preference for driving a van
over a car and my complete inability to pass a skip without having a look at the contents.
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[TheSmiler]

[stephen_o]

My house backs onto the A34 opposite the now ex buffet island by the yellow brick flats. Over the last few years due to the always legendarily poor condition of the roads - now even worse than ever and the combination of every other vehicle being a taxi because people can't afford buses anymore its crazy. My daily commute from Milehouse to Longton if done on in the Leaf means I am overtaken by every tom dick and harry + all the hgvs driving on the tacho in between the jams plus the legendary wacky races at sideway means its fun! On the YBR I have no fear of out accelerating them but Longton is full of pikeys and the m/c parking is usually blocked by taxis . As for Pikeys my shop bin and all the others in the precinct are emptied on an hourly basis by people looking for stuff to sell especially cash cons and the £1 pie shop. Sometimes theres a queue for the bins, so much so they use a tannoy to announce "please keep out of the bins". Poor isn't the word for this area!

I have to say Sam the A34 40mph I would do on a 50cc but not the A500 and A50, Hartshill bank my C50 used to manage 15 up there, Big LOL. Give us a pap when you pass.
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current scoot 2009 Yamaha YBR250 + Current Pootle 2013 Nissan Leaf

[Northern Monkey]

Michelin city grips. They’re peg grindingly good on the grom
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Fisty: after polishing the tank with the glistenng beads of sweat from my full hot scrotum, I filled the headrace bearings with 10cc of my manmilk

[andyscooter]

what he said tyre wise^^^^^^^^
I use them on most scooters

am thinking ped for my commute as only ten minutes at most on 30 limit roads since they changed them
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