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droog
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PostPosted: 11:02 - 21 Jan 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
Keithy wrote:

He has indeed retired, to sunny Shropshire…

https://www.theridersdigest.co.uk/paul-sample-interview/

Although Whitchurch is much more of an armpit than the article states.


Great cartoonist, the detail and draughtsmanship was excellent.
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PostPosted: 11:18 - 21 Jan 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
The bastards used to call me 'Malcolm'... Sad
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PostPosted: 12:23 - 21 Jan 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
Diggs wrote:
The bastards used to call me 'Malcolm'... Sad


LMFBO Laughing
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PostPosted: 12:28 - 21 Jan 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
Diggs wrote:
The bastards used to call me 'Malcolm'... Sad


I always aspired to be like Ogri - but looking back, I realise that I was actually more like Malcolm . . . Mr. Green
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PostPosted: 11:15 - 07 Feb 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'd call that pretty miserable.. Crying or Very sad

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/144393618431

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/HgcAAOSw69hh-Pxl/s-l1600.jpg
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PostPosted: 11:31 - 07 Feb 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
A100man wrote:
I'd call that pretty miserable.. Crying or Very sad

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/144393618431

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/HgcAAOSw69hh-Pxl/s-l1600.jpg


It says below it without engine and carbs.. so what do you actually get a few filings of rust Shocked Shocked
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PostPosted: 11:42 - 07 Feb 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
https://www.gumtree.com/p/cars-vans-motorbikes/honda-deauville-2000-647-cc/1425180133?

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PostPosted: 12:03 - 07 Feb 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
Zen Dog wrote:
https://www.gumtree.com/p/cars-vans-motorbikes/honda-deauville-2000-647-cc/1425180133?

Shocked


That might actually be an improvement on a standard Deauville TBF.. Wink
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PostPosted: 12:59 - 07 Feb 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
Keithy wrote:
droog wrote:
Shame about Ogri, I guess the cartoonist must have retired, I can't believe they would have given him the boot after all those years.
He has indeed retired, to sunny Shropshire…
https://www.theridersdigest.co.uk/paul-sample-interview/

Interviewed recently by Henry Cole on 'The Motorbike Show':
https://youtu.be/nV-JELr2Q_s
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PostPosted: 13:19 - 07 Feb 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
A100man wrote:

That might actually be an improvement on a standard Deauville TBF.. Wink


Standard Deauvilles are dull as ditchwater, but they're also comfy, reliable and anonymous so no-one wants to steal them. This guy has managed to successfully replace those worthy qualities with.... other things. Like the aesthetics of a hunchback water buffalo after a road traffic accident.
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PostPosted: 13:40 - 07 Feb 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
Zen Dog wrote:
A100man wrote:

That might actually be an improvement on a standard Deauville TBF.. Wink


Standard Deauvilles are dull as ditchwater, but they're also comfy, reliable and anonymous so no-one wants to steal them. This guy has managed to successfully replace those worthy qualities with.... other things, like the aesthetics of a hunchback water buffalo after a road traffic accident.


I rode a divvy across Europe many years ago. A mate then bought it and he and I rode to Croatia and back, me on my GoldWing, he on that. Cracking middleweight tourers. Cannot fault them for what they are until you do what buggerlugs in Zen Dog's kink has done. That's gross.
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PostPosted: 19:18 - 07 Feb 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
Divvy or Deauville Polarbear?

'Divvys' are the usual parlance for Yamaha Diversions
the 900 of which is/was good shafty tourer.

Honda Deauville or 'dullsville' another shafted tourer
Not sporty or sexy at all but had good rep for reliability
and clocking up miles

'Real bikers' were always rather dismissive about them esp the Honda
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PostPosted: 16:43 - 10 Feb 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
WTAF.. Ford Crossflow injun ? I guess that woud be about 1979 - but no the frame - looks like NTV maybe?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/363715300338?

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/mHEAAOSw8ZBh~YKx/s-l1600.jpg
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PostPosted: 10:39 - 17 Feb 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
Someone actually bought that thing Shocked
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A100man
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PostPosted: 11:35 - 17 Feb 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
Daves gone riding wrote:
Someone actually bought that thing Shocked


Some interesting bits on it I suppose. I googled the hell out of it but can find out no more about the original build - would be interesting. Could be Pumford not Pumpford ..?
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PostPosted: 12:39 - 17 Feb 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
A100man wrote:

Some interesting bits on it I suppose. I googled the hell out of it but can find out no more about the original build - would be interesting. Could be Pumford not Pumpford ..?


Yeah, I spent as little bit of time looking at frames to see if I could identify it. That tank might be NTV but the frame definitely isn't. It's twin spar aluminium (so 1985+), and a swoopy casting (1998+?). Long and low geometry looks cruiser. Swingarm pivot/footpeg is really distinctive, but I still couldn't identify it. My best guess is post-2000 japanese cruiser.
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PostPosted: 20:52 - 17 Feb 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
WD Forte wrote:
Divvy or Deauville Polarbear?

'Divvys' are the usual parlance for Yamaha Diversions
the 900 of which is/was good shafty tourer.

Honda Deauville or 'dullsville' another shafted tourer
Not sporty or sexy at all but had good rep for reliability
and clocking up miles

'Real bikers' were always rather dismissive about them esp the Honda


Deauville, sorry............. The two of us somewhere in Germany

https://i.postimg.cc/K8ZQgfbr/P1110014.jpg
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PostPosted: 00:06 - 18 Feb 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
Polarbear wrote:

Deauville, sorry............. The two of us somewhere in Germany

https://i.postimg.cc/K8ZQgfbr/P1110014.jpg


Subtle paint scheme on that Wing... Very Happy
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PostPosted: 00:23 - 19 Feb 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
Zen Dog wrote:
Polarbear wrote:

Deauville, sorry............. The two of us somewhere in Germany

https://i.postimg.cc/K8ZQgfbr/P1110014.jpg


Subtle paint scheme on that Wing... Very Happy


It was rather Laughing . It was an American import, they didn't do that colour over here.
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PostPosted: 02:10 - 19 Feb 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
Polarbear wrote:
Zen Dog wrote:

Subtle paint scheme on that Wing... Very Happy


It was rather Laughing . It was an American import, they didn't do that colour over here.


I think that's possibly the best colour they ever did them in, if you wanted to make a bold statement, as if riding a Wing isn't bold enough Laughing
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PostPosted: 17:59 - 22 Feb 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
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https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/ODEAAOSwdt1iDP5y/s-l1600.jpg

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/275170336837?_trkparms=amclksrc%3DITM%26aid%3D1110010%26algo%3DHOMESPLICE.DISCCARDS%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D237056%26meid%3D1d868365aa5945b49160e191990c8048%26pid%3D101110%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D2%26sd%3D165350129845%26itm%3D275170336837%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2563228%26algv%3DDiscOrganicBase&_trksid=p2563228.c101110.m1982
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The reason he's got 3-inch chicken strips is because if he turns left, the exhaust hits the ground and the back wheel lifts off the road.

That tail really takes the biscuit. Laughing I don't know why, but it just looks like it belongs on a Hardly or a similar cruiser.

Why is that left exhaust so different from the right? Is it just the angle? It bugs me.
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PostPosted: 23:06 - 22 Feb 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
Polarbear wrote:
Zen Dog wrote:


Subtle paint scheme on that Wing... Very Happy


It was rather Laughing . It was an American import, they didn't do that colour over here.


it certainly passes the bcf custard test

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PostPosted: 03:32 - 23 Feb 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Why is that left exhaust so different from the right? Is it just the angle? It bugs me.


I reckon its because the shaft tube is thicker than the other side
and wont allow for it to be held any closer the frame
Also it's twisted at a different angle to the RH side
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Polarbear wrote:
WD Forte wrote:
Divvy or Deauville Polarbear?

'Divvys' are the usual parlance for Yamaha Diversions
the 900 of which is/was good shafty tourer.

Honda Deauville or 'dullsville' another shafted tourer
Not sporty or sexy at all but had good rep for reliability
and clocking up miles

'Real bikers' were always rather dismissive about them esp the Honda


Deauville, sorry............. The two of us somewhere in Germany

https://i.postimg.cc/K8ZQgfbr/P1110014.jpg


Snotta Goldwing, thassa Yellerwing
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