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Posted: 20:12 - 23 Jan 2020 Post subject: |
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chickenstrip wrote: | Diggs wrote: | I must admit it did take a couple of attempts to find first, but as an ex-owner you'll know why |
Tis upside down; one up, the rest down.
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The gears are all up, with neutral at the bottom. I tried a couple of times to put it into 'first' before I realised this ____________________ Now - Speed Triple, old ratty GS550, GSXR750M
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Posted: 20:17 - 23 Jan 2020 Post subject: |
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Diggs wrote: |
The gears are all up, with neutral at the bottom. I tried a couple of times to put it into 'first' before I realised this |
Oh, my memory must be failing (well, I know it's failing ). Could have sworn it was a 'reverse' gear shift. Long time since I had one though. ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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hellkat wrote: | I'm not usually a fan of purple bikes but that one ... holds my attention for some strange reason. |
The H2C is the only bike that not only is allowed to be purple (and pink), but actually should be It was an original colour (for the UK at least):
https://i.postimg.cc/HxbbrtYz/dencoh2c001-zps5be04723.jpg
Dem ol' psychedelic 70s, innit.
Could've been worse. Could've been brown. ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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Posted: 21:35 - 23 Jan 2020 Post subject: |
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A parent sent me a bar of chocolate via Prof when they came to Outpatients, to say thank you for being helpful.
Nearly fell off my fucking chair in surprise.
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Posted: 21:50 - 23 Jan 2020 Post subject: |
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I went for a job interview today.
For a job that I really really want, that I've been waiting patiently for it to come up for 5 years, and its for reasonably good money, too.
Despite that i am close to the edge of my working life, it will be something that will look good on my CV.
I had a good time at the interview, banter-wise with the Trust Secretary and the Director of Corporate Strategy. I think they want me (in a good work-ethic way). Its a kind of board-servicing job so its branching out into an area I've become interested in due to having been a governor in the past.
Questions were moderately challenging in places, but I doubt there's nothing in the job that I can't actually do (standing on my head) although the third guy on panel might be quite difficult for the other two to convince that I am worthy.
I think they can see that I am up for a challenge, though.
But ... even if I don't get THIS job (which I truly do really want even more than to have babies with the Hot Professor of industrial asthma) ... I've been offered a less-paying and slightly more boring job ANYWAY - which is more the sort of thing where I will just sit and type my way to retirement and be the grouchy old bag who parents hate because I wont overbook their chesty little cherubs into outpatients.
... so either way it looks like I'm staying at the Brompton for the foreseeable.
Yay.
Plus, the Trust Secretary has amaaaaaaazing eyes.
(even if he is Australian )
The down side of that is ... if I *do* get offered that job, then I have to turn down the clinical sec job and they are going to be mightily peeved especially as I already agreed verbally that I'd take the job. ____________________ Not nearly as interesting in real life. |
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Posted: 01:27 - 24 Jan 2020 Post subject: |
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I fondly remember that period approach to tuning.
I assume from the Denco pipes and sock filters, there was a bit more going on in that motor, but the only obvious attempt to tame the chassis (which couldn't handle the standard motor) was a pair of Marzocchi shocks, which effectively made it a hard tail
I also don't know why they bothered with that front brake, all it did was add weight. ____________________ Things get better with age; I'm close to being magnificent........
20 RE Interceptor, 83 Z1100A3, 83 GS650 Katana
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Posted: 12:10 - 24 Jan 2020 Post subject: |
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Shaft wrote: |
I fondly remember that period approach to tuning.
I assume from the Denco pipes and sock filters, there was a bit more going on in that motor, but the only obvious attempt to tame the chassis (which couldn't handle the standard motor) was a pair of Marzocchi shocks, which effectively made it a hard tail
I also don't know why they bothered with that front brake, all it did was add weight. |
It had a full Denco porting job and 34mm Mikunis. Or at least, not standard carbs, but replaced to match the tune (he said, being more careful about memory this time ). I bought it off some guy through an Enfield, London dealer, as it stood in that guise, with plans to do a bit more to it, but didn't get around to anything further before I decided I was too young to die!
It had a Dresda box-section s/arm. And a Kawasaki-type steering damper. Bit like trying to fix a gunshot wound with a band aid And yes, those shocks were painfully solid.
Maybe the front brake was just intended as extra weight to try to keep the front wheel down? Fail! Even with the longer-than-stock s/arm, it made little difference in that regard. The front wheel just didn't like the ground, so a crap front brake was the least of my worries ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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Posted: 18:57 - 24 Jan 2020 Post subject: |
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That is indeed a handsome bike! If you look at the forks, it does have the mounting points for another calliper. Perhaps all old Kawas were made this way in acknowledgement that the single disk was rubbish?
I bet those spannies sounded good ____________________ Now - Speed Triple, old ratty GS550, GSXR750M
Gone (in order of ownership) - Raleigh Runabout, AP50, KH125, GP125, KH250, CBX550, Z400, CB750FII, 250LC, GS550, ZXR750H1, Guzzi Targa, GSX750F, KH250 x2, Bimota SB6R and counting... |
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Posted: 20:25 - 24 Jan 2020 Post subject: |
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Last nights mixed grill...
Steak, lamb chop, gammon steak, liver. kidneys, sausage, pork chop, black pudding, chips, peas, fried egg.
Washed down with 5 double JD's, a double Glenmornagie and 2 pints of thatchers gold.
Good company, good chats and a general feeling of being happy. Not had that for a long time.
https://i.imgur.com/l6QWnRj.jpg?1
3 x doubles in a glass
https://i.imgur.com/bodTggA.jpg?1 ____________________ Quietly and consistently taking the piss.
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Posted: 20:29 - 24 Jan 2020 Post subject: |
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You ate him? ____________________ trevor saxe-coburg-gotha:"Remember this simple rule - scooters are for men who like to feel the breeze on their huge, flapping cunt lips."
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Not yet. ____________________ Quietly and consistently taking the piss.
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Posted: 04:35 - 25 Jan 2020 Post subject: |
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I am in Milan.
I have been taken to see the Duomo (beautiful) ... although I'd like some downtime to poke about in there on my own (unlikely)
I have done the tourist traditions where apparently you drink Campari, and crush the knackers of a mosaic bull in a galleria. (I don't know, I just did what I was told)
I now own a beautiful green silk scarf
I have glimpsed La Scala (from the outside, at least)
I have already eaten so much food I can barely move.
Its only the end of day 1.
I had forgotten just how much time Italians spend eating.
I cannot remember the last time I was unable to finish a plate of food.
It happens so rarely
Thank goodness I'm only here til Sunday lunchtime.
I'd like to go and see The Last Supper but I'm actually here to work ... ____________________ Not nearly as interesting in real life. |
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Sister Sledge wrote: | just need to find a woman with false teeth now |
Presumably a dwarf with a flat head? ____________________ Now - Speed Triple, old ratty GS550, GSXR750M
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Posted: 22:43 - 26 Jan 2020 Post subject: |
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I am back from not being an international prostitute of mystery* and have returned to my farty little London flat. It's good to be home in my trackies with my cats.
I did have a nice time, though. I'm not ungrateful, as my host and his wife were incredibly hospitable and accommodating. I might send them a gardenia plant for their garden to say thank you.
*although I do know one or two. One who springs to mind: a tiny little black girl, well when I say "girl" I mean "old woman about my own age", who flits between here, Dublin and Frankfurt, and whose clients buy her latex outfits in which to frustrate them. Nice lady, very down to earth ____________________ Not nearly as interesting in real life. |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 4 years, 59 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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