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For somebody who's professional loyalties are nailed firmly to the Sherco mast that might be difficult hey Wayne?

Hmmm..I would be quite happy to park that Ducati in my garage and never ride it. Just look at it.

You serious? First, look above. You'll see there's a special section for Beta. This is where people who like spaggetti and speaking with their hands hang out. They also like pinching girls bums. But they don't dare pinch HL's bum 'cause she'll hit you if you do. Be careful here. Social deviants like r2wtrials also hang out in the Beta section. r2wtrials is trials answer to a psychopathic maniac. If he asks where you live for gods sakes don't tell him. Whatever you do don't make the mistake of accidently going into either the pre-65, classic trials or twinshock forums. You'll never get out. People like Big John will bore you to death on the relative merits of an M48 over an M199A Bultaco. It's like having the life sucked out of you. Second, thank you for providing the frame number prefix. This is a start. Third. It took me 15 mins to figure out what you wanted. Please punctuate and capitilize posts in future. Oh and by capitalize I mean the first letter in a sentence and the first letter in a proper noun. NOT LIKE THIS. This will get you killed. Andy (site owner) is usually very placid but if you do that or use text speak he will send his tame Nigereans after you. Thank you

Javier, looking at the paving in the first pic I can only conclude that this is yours:

Show off....*skulks off in bad mood*

I don't think they'll re badge them at all. Except to say "Gas Gas by Ducati" or some such. Interestingly Ducati used to have a factory in Spain. Also, not all of Gas Gas is for sale. Only about 40%.

I hope not.

Raga & Bou could practice INSIDE that thing.

Tron Guy

*sighs*

Sourcing a sauce? Saucy subject

Noooooooo!!!! Ugly as sin.

I've squashed a puff adder on an RMX250 (I was on the RMX).

Many years ago a coach driver was given the job of taking a group of blind students on a daytrip to Brighton during the summer. The day was a success in that the weather was hot and sunny, no one got lost and everyone enjoyed themselves. On the return journey home to London on the old A23 highway one of the students tapped him on the shoulder and asked if it would be possible to stop for a drink at a pub just outside of Horsham where they had been before and were looked after very well. The driver agreed to stop, providing the pub landlord had no objections to serving a coach load of 40 people at such short notice. On arriving at the pub the driver spoke to the pub landlord who agreed to serve the party and suggested that in order to prevent congestion at the bar the party should sit out in the beer garden where their drinks requirements would be taken care of by a waitress. There were no objections to this arrangement and the party moved outside to the garden where they were duly served. The spokesman for the students approached the driver and advised that when they had stopped here on previous occasions it was usual to have a game of football at the bottom end of the large beer garden. The driver had no objection to this but wondered how they, as sightless people, would be able to keep in contact with a football without knowing where it was at any given moment. He was reassured by the spokesman that they were carrying a football which had a bell inside and with their finely tuned hearing it would allow them to pinpoint the ball with some accuracy during the game. After ensuring that everyone in the party had received their drinks, the driver returned to the bar to enjoy a quiet pint or two away from the noisy students. (No breathalysers in those days). After about an hour the waitress sought out the driver in the bar and told him that his party were causing trouble in the beer garden and would he come and sort them out. Wondering how the previously well- behaved students had now turned into troublemakers he asked the waitress for details. She was unsure how it all started but counted 22 men kicking the sh*t out of the Morris Dancers who had just arrived to give a performance of traditional dancing. The end to what would have otherwise been a perfect day.

I was thinking: "...hmmm Brian May hairdo".

AFAIR that was not standard on the MRR, but it was on later versions of the 348. Somebody has, I suspect, fitted later model fork caps. Standard they came with a rather dinky cover. Mexbiker, what you have is a very clean VGC 348. All it needs is some simple maintainence and a good polish/spray. Well done. Just one thing...the silencer is wrong. That's a 349 silencer T

John the first 349 I had was an '80 and a factory prototype or a pre-production number. It had been used by Ulf Karlsson. It differed from the production in that there was a cross-member behind the bashplate, underneath the motor on the production version. I assume that this cross member was added to reduce the stresses passed up to the headstock. Hence mine cracked the headstock regularly.

The Bulto family withdrew the rights to the name from Marc Tessier. Supposedly for financial reasons but there may be more to it than that (PM me for the other reason). It would be great if the Bulto family gets involved again. Triumph wasn't a dissimilar example. John Bloor bought the rights to the name in about 1980 and leased the rights to manufacture to Norman Hyde (?) who manufactured the parallel twins. In the meantime Bloor was developing the new Triumphs and in 1990'ish he withdrew the rights and commenced manufacturing Triumphs in their present form.

Yamamoto put the ****s up the yanks. He was good, very good. He knew that Japan couldn't hope to win and that an anihilation was inevitable. He worried the US so much they assassinated him. The aftermath of the atom bombs dropped on Japan is that Japan has developed a victim mentality to the exclusion of the terrible attrocities that they committed during the war. They really cannot see what they did wrong during the war and hence refuse to apologise.

Brian, if you're memory's right and it was '75 it couldn't have been Dougie 'cause he was born in March '76. I remember reading Mart's column (probably ghost written ) in "Motorcycle" after he'd won the world championship and he told the punters to wait for a "Martin Lampkin" replica in early '76 and that it nothing to with Bultaco. The replica was of course Dougie. Happy happy Bultaco. We're still waiting for the return of the real Bultaco.

I 'fink you're right Pete. It needs to be copper plated first. Funny that a local engineering concern with whom you're familiar and whom I visited yesterday does nickle plating. The $600 ties in with the quote I got. Did Ian give you the message?

Yeah I had one of them. Good bike but it was competing against the Fantics and it was "game over". Good in a straight line it took a lot of muscle to get it round a corner. The Fantics went straight and round corners. It was a hell of an improvement over the first 349 I had which kept breaking in half.

Not nice what the japs did to the raiders they captured.

To the crew of BA038. Damn fine job guys.

That's a "white wonder" Toni Gorgot won on a red 349 (last model 349). It may even have been the 330 prototype.