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I've never had a prob with the wireless ones. Its out of range for the signal if the speedo is handlebar mounted, so i have a bracket on the fork leg (coming off the mudguard bracket lugs on a Norton leg). Been there 6 years without a prob. 100% accurate too.
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Here's a handy link-
http://www.motinfo.gov.uk/internet/jsp/ECH...ory-Request.jsp
Just put in your Reg no and V5C ref no, and all MOT history including mileages since computerisation comes up. Works for Cars and Bikes too.
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Loughborough car club has a summer series near me. There's several classes but most use their everyday saloon car as its pretty much non damaging and i suppose some are company cars anyway! You need to take a tyre pump as its best to let your tyres down a bit for the event. Its hilarious if youv'e not been before, seeing modern cars used for something not intended. I used my mother in laws car once- luckily she never found out,but she did remark the following day that the car seemed to go better.
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In 1977 i stayed at the Alt Nan Ross hotel at Onich while riding the Scottish.The owner of the hotel had Daves Bantam in his garage. I believe he eventually sold it back to the family. Bet BJ knows for sure...
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Belongs to Eddie Bull, who builds grass and speedway engines. His workmanship is excellent. It was for sale, if he still has it.
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Pykett alloy barrels had one less fin than the genuine ones, resulting in the fins having larger than normal gaps between them. That looks to be the case with this one.
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Its hard to see how it can survive in the long term. My main purpose for buying it was to see the results of an event i'd ridden in. As often as not the results were either a week late or didnt appear at all. That was if you managed to get a copy in the first place. In my area it often arrived late at the newsagents, meaning a return visit usually on the Monday, by which time you had ridden another event anyway.
Every club i ride with now post the results on the web and its getting commonplace for them to be posted on the same day. As Totalshell knows, Yorkshire Classic results are waiting for you before you get home.
So they will never be able to provide a decent results service, which leaves the adverts and the bike tests.
The bike tests are legendary, but for the wrong reasons. Its obvious they are so grateful to have a bike to test that they daren't say anything bad or they wont be getting one at all next year. My favourite was when the editor, i think, 'tested' a four stroke trials bike and actually managed to make light of the fact that it simply refused to start when hot- rendering it useless!
Which leaves the adverts..
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Front mudguard looks to be back to front to me, should wedge up with mud nicely though..
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Yes, a shame but they have been really unlucky with the weather. A couple of years ago there was rain like i've never seen before. My lasting memory was a bloke with Graham Jarvis who kept pushing the bikes around in their marquee,apparently for the sake of it,doing little stoppies, then looking around to see if anyone had been watching!
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Very convincing,well done..... I ,for one thought it was a real situation- calling on others for urgent advice to resolve a real issue..
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They didnt seem to ride very often,but if it was an east midland championship round or one of the harder trials,they would turn up, clean up and disappear again!
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Yes pretty good. Some more old pics of Ted Breffitt,Howard Doncaster,Bruce Melville,Rob Moor etc would be good...
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Ariel road bikes had frame numbers with the XG prefix from 1939-1941. Its likely that a previous owner has had a log book from one and stamped the number on the replica frame so it can be used on the road.
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Pictures of a remarkable (and lucky) bloke..
http://photos.tt-2007.com/v/TT/album/album_001/album/
(By kind permission of Richard Dawson photography)
Waterworks,IOM
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A reduction in fuel duty, although very welcome would be made up from increased taxes elsewhere, and if there was increased administration involved in collecting it, we could be even worse off. The fact is,as we all know, Britain is seen worldwide as a haven for easy handouts and we have too many people taking out of the system and not enough paying in. Added to this we have outrageous saleries for the chosen few, such as your local GP- on up to 250K per annum, despite opting out of out of hours work and resisting any changes which could benefit the public.
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Hiya Charlie, A bit of speculation is better than nothing- Theres talk that Tony Calvert has won it (on 2), nobody's sure 'till the official results are posted,but if correct,well done to Tony and John Holmes, who built and maintains the bike.
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Thats a rare bike now-Not sure if its a MK1 or a MK2, both had big hubs. MK3 was the first with small hubs, and, more importantly, the clutch operating arm was moved to the top of the crankcase,instead of underneath the engine.
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Nice bike. Gone very quiet from those who seemed to think
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Several posts have been deleted,presumably to negate the responses from others,which is a shame.-spoils the thread.
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I too , along with others, it would seem, have decided not to respond directly to his posts. Most are not worthy of a response anyway, although posting inaccurate technical information,if deliberate,is a matter for others. In this same thread he is advocating mixes of both 80:1 and 40:1.-Unhelpful at best. Granted the latter figure appears to be because he has picked up that a steel liner was refered to,as most do rather than cast iron, but chooses not to say that.
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I had an excellent day out with the Midland Classic club,which i've been a member of for 32 years. 80 riders for a road trial doesn't quite back up your wishful vision that the sport is finished,i'm afraid.
Its a friendly club and i'd normally say you would be made very welcome . The club has several classes to accomodate most people. They dont,however,have a troublemakers class, which would appear to be the only one you would fit into.
Whilst you may continue to disrupt these pages (for now) ,you wont be doing the same at our club.
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He catches up on Sundays while the rest of us are out Trialling...
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I was waiting to see what i'd missed. I went and viewed the bike and had a bid on it. It was new unused from what i could see. Sure the tyres were grubby, but new original Michelin X1'S. I suppose
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It looked new to me, Whats the giveaway?
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Bad luck, your lucky they have left the ECU alone,obviously just repair parts. The only thing i've see that looked sadder than that was a nearly new Sherpa Van which had the front end cut off with a Stihl saw and the engine and box nicked. A neighbour once had the drivers door and wing of her Rover nicked while it was on the drive overnight..
Looking on the bright side,if its ready for a service,nows the time to do it...
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