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Another 'don't do it' reason I can give ya. The rims don't recover shape when you hit a moersa rock at speed like I did yesterday. :eek: Just racing my mates on a twisty pass as you do, when you're 80 and still waiting to grow up.

You know when an old song keeps recurring in your head and won't go away? Chuck Berry, "Too much monkey business" that's what I keep hearing.

All I can say is you'd need the foot/ankle strength and balance of a ballet dancer to stand up on the pegs whilst on tippy toes. 'Cos I have to ride mine with tiptoes on the pegs sitting down on the tarred roads in order to save my boots! Lack of cornering clearance, that's my only complaint...

Just a minor semantic thing that I may have got wrong. Wasn't that BMW 310 actually a TVS? And didn't BMW just come along and look at the completed Indian machine and say "We want to stick our badge on that and market it?"

The GS1000e. I had one, terrific bike. Fast for it's time, superbike in it's day, gave a good account of itself on the track, But look.......... a seat that would pamper your ass from here to Cairo and back!

'Zactly. Logic, innit?

Should have used the bridge.....:unsure:

Mine has advanced dementia, but she still tells me she loves me. Probably it's the dementia talking...:unsure:

It's no longer a case of lifting fallen motorbikes any more, I think that any fallen bike would defeat me. At 80 it's pitiful what a weakling I've become, and makes me so bloody angry too! At least I no longer have the terror of wheeling my bike backwards out of the garage on to the uneven...

You're a ham-fisted twat. I've never done such a stupid thing in my life. Well........ of course, when I say never, I mean................:cautious:

During the early 1970's a bitterly complaining article was written in the British bike press from a J Lucas engineer about how they were being screwed by the manufacturers into producing really cheap and nasty electrics. This because alternative high quality stuff was available at equally low...

Call it retro if you like, but if, as it looks possible, certain maintenance and servicing tasks can be performed easily without an hour or more of stripping, that's what I'd call progressive retro!

As a staunch advocate of open minded acceptance of all tastes may I just say that I hate the fuckin things. 😖

Having a spare clutch cable installed alongside the existing one is an old idea, but a spare fork leg? Just in case of a leaking seal?? :unsure:

Got a couple of mates who still have DSTV. Yeah, they say, but Formula one, and Moto GP. Purleez, how boooring! One of them even took me to task for pronouncing his hero's name Bine-der. How was I supposed to know?

I gave one away and then found that the recipient skimmed it and re-used it. Didn't know whether to feel bummed about it, but then I found a good used one.

Does nobody read properly? The man says it's a 4 stroke.

Old school I am, and old school I'll remain. I'll never wear a helmet with any kind of peak because Mike and Ago never wore them so that settles it for me. ;)

Gave DSTV the boot awhile ago. Wasn't worth it, and couldn't afford it. And it may not be much longer until I too, don't have a TV in the house. Doubt that I'll miss it.

Can't say that I'm necessarily in love with their sense of style, but it's reassuring to see that in Japan they don't all ride the latest technobikes but there are some who still ride older machines. And maybe they even still have some old farts like me still wobbling around.