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GAVlN
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Posted: Sat Dec 2nd, 2006 10:54 pm |
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whats yours?
mine...(a long way back) is mat oxleys TDR250 review from yugoslavia, long before the war, still makes me chuckle even now.
ahh...them were the days...frobisher and hignetts......and every other month the readers special was either a 350lc or a harris magnum 
pass me my pipe, cant reach me slippers either.... 
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james_christ
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Posted: Sat Dec 2nd, 2006 11:13 pm |
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that cannonball run article has to be up there. It was the second craziest motorbike/car story i have ever read. the ultimate was (and don't hate me for this) was a similar thing in car magazine in the late ninties or early nauties about one of the first gumball rallys when the reporter got chased all over eastern europe by the local mafia and decided to avoid going into russia because he called one of the leaders driving a lambo diablo to see how they were getting. this chap told him not to bother with russia and they were being chased at 165mph by a balck merc s-class out of moscow the wrong way down a motor way! when they hit sweden they were confronted by front page stories in the local press about 200 mph death racers coming into the country. after all that they found the after party in blighty was cancelled. the reporter didn't do the race again. Last edited on Sat Dec 2nd, 2006 11:15 pm by james_christ
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Posted: Sun Dec 3rd, 2006 06:48 pm |
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Rupe (I think) had the memorable, Fawlty-esque "Start, start you vicious bastard!" which made me chuckle.
Forsyth's dazed look having binned the ZZR racing a plane.
All the technical articles by the sadly missed JR which I read, made hmming noises over then completely lost all understanding of when I put the mag down.
Any number of Don't Fear the Cheaper type articles.
Mitch
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wavydavy
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Posted: Sun Dec 3rd, 2006 08:41 pm |
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...Ah...... "Don't Fear The Cheaper"... Now what *was* the best one..... Oh yes.... NS400....
Dave
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Posted: Tue Dec 5th, 2006 09:36 am |
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FZR V Lambo V Racing Truck - Class
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Rompy McPoot
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Posted: Tue Dec 5th, 2006 10:40 am |
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I do remember a particular page, doing long tem tests of the Exup, ZZR1100, and GSXR1100, where everyone (Roop, etc.) was dressed up in straw boaters, blazers, etc. for a jolly riverside picnic - except Si Hargreaves, who was dressed in big frilly dress and parasol - O lordy, that made me laugh.
That and the Burns Monster articles - that bike was sooooo cool. Plus, I reckon just about every bike manufacturer owes that bloke a stack of money, cos they've been copying it ever since. New speed triple, anyone?
We are so old...
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Posted: Wed Dec 6th, 2006 12:36 pm |
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One of my favourites still is Mr Robinson in full tartan regalia and a pipe abopard a ZXR.
Aye, laddy, the breeze it blew that day, and there wasnae a sporran left unlifted.
Good man McKenzie.
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Posted: Wed Dec 6th, 2006 01:04 pm |
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Ah, yes - another classic. I even saw a cartoon in some American bike mag (can't remember which - probably Cycle World) that had two blokes in race leathers with mini skirts instead of trousers, watching a (cartoon) JR ridearound in kilt etc. and saying "Of course! That makes so much more sense than our restrictive mini skirts!"
No, I didn't think it was funny either
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Posted: Thu Dec 7th, 2006 12:48 pm |
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| what about the MR TURBOW bike with the spondome frame
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Rupe
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Posted: Tue Dec 12th, 2006 04:20 pm |
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| What about the "goldwing laden with crap" cover?
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Gavin
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Posted: Tue Dec 12th, 2006 05:04 pm |
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Not the most amazing feat but the articles that made me laugh and still do, the pictures and captions were pure comedy as was the title, were Tip Top Trevs Shit Hot Tips.
Every picture trev's there tab in mouth. Reminds me of my dad, no task too taxing so as to prevent smoking a rollie, including removing the petrol tank off my trumpet. And people say kids take risks, had my heart in my mouth.
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Rupe
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Posted: Tue Dec 12th, 2006 07:11 pm |
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| Talking of Trev, do you remember the trip to Paul Ricard (or the other, littler one, can't remember the name, Circuit de...?) where the chain broke on the (ZXR?) he was on, meaning he had to be towed 50 miles just holding onto the shoulder strap of a sports bag? Hero.
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GAVlN
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Posted: Tue Dec 12th, 2006 10:02 pm |
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| 3 restricted 125's to the bol was another good one. well it was when i was 17. made me go out and buy my tzr!
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Posted: Tue Dec 12th, 2006 10:26 pm |
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Gavin wrote: Not the most amazing feat but the articles that made me laugh and still do, the pictures and captions were pure comedy as was the title, were Tip Top Trevs Shit Hot Tips.
Every picture trev's there tab in mouth. Reminds me of my dad, no task too taxing so as to prevent smoking a rollie, including removing the petrol tank off my trumpet. And people say kids take risks, had my heart in my mouth.
The cartoon of St Trev's (Pwaulo's) patented wanking machine was a good un
Mitch
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Posted: Wed Dec 13th, 2006 09:47 am |
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Taken me a while to fish it out of the shelves of old mags, but finally I have the copy:
January 1996 issue
Mr Nasty/Ms Nice - Test of Doohan's NSR500 and Okada's NSR250
Plus that issue has the bonus of a feature on RC30s , Paul Denning's own big bore GSXR750 *and* a really funny pic of Andy Bone from Pidcock's Nottingham looking like a speccy twat in the Spumph update!
Dave
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Posted: Mon Jan 15th, 2007 10:09 pm |
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Favorite bike featured was Trev almost getting his elbow down on the Carbontek/Two Brothers Bros/Hawk 650.
Funniest,probably Highway to Hull with MG in yellow overpants on that old CZ.
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Posted: Fri Jan 19th, 2007 07:13 am |
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robbo full tartan'd up............... och aye ye canna hand a man a granda spanner
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LordyLawks
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Posted: Wed Jan 24th, 2007 11:34 am |
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Original 'dole bike' (KH250)! Roopadoop's Dole racer!
Nostalgia time, takes me back to the days of a 350YPVS and a full head of hair!
I've still got issues 1 to 100 of PB. D'ya think anyone would be interested in buying..?
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Posted: Wed Jan 24th, 2007 12:31 pm |
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| Depends how much you're asking for them
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Posted: Wed Jan 24th, 2007 12:49 pm |
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I see, Mr. McPoot (do I know your brother Thrappy? Large head, narrow shoulders?). And so, we enter endgame...
Make me an offer. If I don't like it, I'll poo-poo it. If you don't like that, you can poo-poo my poo-poo. Then we'll see where we are.
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