Thread: Motorcycles

Thanks Sailor, I have just this year sold my '63 Vespa GL ,it never got a look in with the Lammy. The ride is completely different as I'm sure you know.

Originally Posted by diesel

Thanks Sailor, I have just this year sold my '63 Vespa GL ,it never got a look in with the Lammy. The ride is completely different as I'm sure you know.

Yeah i know. While having my Lambretta i always told my wife that 'riding with it, the 'sound' and the 7 hp makes me probably the most wanted married man in the city' lol. Maybe that's why she adapted it pretty quick

But seriously i've been still looking for those Vespas. I've had bikes since i was 13 and cars since 15 (and whole too young to have a license). Mostly Japanese but lately Guzzi California.
This was the first year for about 15 years we didn't get a trip to continental Europe so i've been thinking about selling the bike for good. Some get Harleys when getting 50 yo; i will sell mine before that day (in 7 months).

Along with Vespa i've been looking for 70-75 Porches. Pretty cheap in Sweden and Germany. Have to make my wife convinced why it's really important to have such a scooter and car.

I had a scooter like that in front of me the other day, on the highway. I gave serious thought to running the boofhead over. He was doing 75 in 110 zone and I got stuck behind him when he pulled out from an on ramp without looking. I was driving the wife's 4WD at the time too. All he would have seen when he pulled out, would have been a big black bulbar in his mirrors.


Mick

Ya, folks like that are what drive up the fatality rate of bikers...but it's just a way of nature to thin out the dunderheads.

Yes I know. In this country you don't need to have a bike licence to ride scooters up to a certain cc (ci), but they still count them as motorcyclists rather than car drivers who should have their keys taken off them, or be banned from pulling out of the garage.


Mick

Any of you bike guys heard of the North West 200?
The greatest road race in the world.

Originally Posted by Bigirishkev

Any of you bike guys heard of the North West 200?
The greatest road race in the world.

I've seen some broadcasts from NW 200. Looks great.
For reason i do not know it doesn't have such fame as IOM TT & Mad Sunday.

Seems that late Joey Dunlop and John McGuinness has scored at NW 200 as well

Originally Posted by Sailor

I've seen some broadcasts from NW 200. Looks great.
For reason i do not know it doesn't have such fame as IOM TT & Mad Sunday.

Seems that late Joey Dunlop and John McGuinness has scored at NW 200 as well

I love the IOM TT and it is by far the most famous road race. But it's a time trail and not "proper" racing in my book
Joey of course is a legend round here but it's his brother Robert who holds the record for most NW200 wins.
I haven't missed it in years, even sat in the rain for 12 hours last year and only saw one race!

Originally Posted by Bigirishkev

Joey of course is a legend round here but it's his brother Robert who holds the record for most NW200 wins.

Both of them dead of course.I do the vintage runs at Skerries and Killalane before the big boys go out to play (the courses are my local roads) and I have attended fund raisers for Riders and Riders widows and it always struck me when I see them that they are a peculiar breed of madmen, affable and entertaining but quietly nuts. I like and admire them but their families must go through the mill.

Originally Posted by diesel

...I do the vintage runs at Skerries and Killalane....

Tell more about your vintage runs, diesel.

I met some men back from the 2013 Race of the Century in Alabama. They said it was the coolest weekend they ever spent at a track watching hundred year old bikes racing. I think I gotta go in 2014.

Barber Museum Motorcycle Race Of The Century 2011 - YouTube