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Author: Miles ReadingMiles Reading Date: Apr 29, 2008 12:02
Went up to the nationanal motorcycle museum in Birmingham last monday
to celebrate turning "firty two" and what a truly great shrine to
british motorcycling and engineering it is.
I was surprised how many bikes there were in there from the real
humble beginnings of strapping an engine into a bicycle frame to the
v8 norton nemesis.
There were loads of bikes from James, Brough, Royal Enfield, BSA,
Triumph, Velocette (spelling?) etc etc - it is amazing what a great
industry we once championed - there were even bikes made by Rover and
Raleigh, Rover....bikes...!!!
The 60s and 70s race bikes were great to see too, it was mad to see
how skinny the tyres were, about the same width you would expect to
see on a modern 125 and all the fairings were made of sheet metal
instead of plastics and the brake discs were massive thick solid metal
things about 1cm wide, tou forget that back then there was no such
thing as vented discs/wavy discs/x-drilled discs.
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Author: Radbert GrimmigRadbert Grimmig Date: Apr 29, 2008 12:56
Miles Reading schrieb:
>only thing that slightly saddened me was that of all a manufacturers,
>(afaik) only Triumph is still going in the UK, it is sad to see such a
>decline.
Triumph isn't STILL going, it's going AGAIN after a rich man who made
it elsewhere bought the name and, for the sheer hell of it, built
himself a factory that doesn't need to turn a profit.
--
Gruß
Radbert
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Author: ChampChamp Date: Apr 29, 2008 13:10
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 03:02:19 -0700 (PDT), Miles Reading
hotmail.com> wrote:
>All in all it was a great day and I would highly recommend it. The
>only thing that slightly saddened me was that of all a manufacturers,
>(afaik) only Triumph is still going in the UK, it is sad to see such a
>decline.
Conversely, I found its appeal limited by the fact that it only
contained British bikes. Looking at several decades of twins and
singles, while knowing that in the same era the Italians were making
amazing fours left me feeling disappointed.
--
Champ
I don't know, but I been told, you never slow down, you never get old
ZX10R | GPz750turbo | GSX-R600 (race)
neal at champ dot org dot uk
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Author: osvifosvif Date: Apr 29, 2008 13:12
On Apr 29, 11:02 am, Miles Reading hotmail.com> wrote:> Went up to the nationanal motorcycle museum in Birmingham last monday
[snip]
> All in all it was a great day and I would highly recommend it. The
> only thing that slightly saddened me was that of all a manufacturers,
> (afaik) only Triumph is still going in the UK, it is sad to see such a
> decline.
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Author: Miles ReadingMiles Reading Date: Apr 29, 2008 14:03
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Cool, I didnt realise AJS are still going - fair play to them.
It is a shame BSA aren't making bikes anymore - their logo on the tank
looked cool - ho hum.
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Author: M J CarleyM J Carley Date: Apr 29, 2008 17:05
--
Differenza fra il rivoluzionaro e il cialtrone. Il rivoluzionario
rompe l'orologio e invece di presentarsi alle nove si presenta alle
nove meno cinque. Il cialtrone rompe l'orologio e si alza alle undici.
Michael Carley: http://people.bath.ac.uk/ensmjc/
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Author: CharlieCharlie Date: Apr 29, 2008 17:15
> AJS are cheap Chinese shit.
Tautology squared.
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Date: Apr 29, 2008 18:10
On 29 Apr, 11:56, Radbert Grimmig wrote:
> Miles Reading schrieb:
>
>>only thing that slightly saddened me was that of all a manufacturers,
>>(afaik) only Triumph is still going in the UK, it is sad to see such a
>>decline.
>
> Triumph isn't STILL going, it's going AGAIN after a rich man who made
> it elsewhere bought the name and, for the sheer hell of it, built
> himself a factory that doesn't need to turn a profit.
>
Ignorant twat. Have a look at The Times' current Rich List at see what
it says.
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Author: ChampChamp Date: Apr 29, 2008 18:20
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:10:20 -0700 (PDT), "TOG@Toil"
yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>On 29 Apr, 11:56, Radbert Grimmig wrote:
>> Miles Reading schrieb:
>>
>>>only thing that slightly saddened me was that of all a manufacturers,
>>>(afaik) only Triumph is still going in the UK, it is sad to see such a
>>>decline.
>>
>> Triumph isn't STILL going, it's going AGAIN after a rich man who made
>> it elsewhere bought the name and, for the sheer hell of it, built
>> himself a factory that doesn't need to turn a profit.
>>
>Ignorant twat. Have a look at The Times' current Rich List at see what
>it says.
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