duffster 3:45 Tue May 19
Motorbiking
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Any more bikers on here? I'm about to pick up a kawasaki versys 650.
Smooshed my Deauville last month. What you got?
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Cheezey Bell-End
4:04 Tue May 19
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I'm planning to get one when I eventually get out of lock down.
Was thinking of a Versys 650 as a learner bike, or maybe a CFMoto MT 650.
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gph
4:10 Tue May 19
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When my Dad had his first knee replaced, over half the people in his orthopaedic ward were motorcyclists, including one bloke who had weights attached to his legs to slowly pull the tops of his thigh bones out of his pelvis.
I decided I wasn't going to get into motorbiking.
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Alan
4:22 Tue May 19
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gph 4:10 Tue May 19
As the medical pros call bikers in wet weather - Donors
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Bungo
4:25 Tue May 19
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I felt like proper fraud when I was once on an orthopedic ward full of blokes who'd mostly smashed themselves up after coming off their bikes at 90 mph or something, and I was there because I'd smashed my ankle falling off a bouncy castle at 0 mph.
Amused the staff though.
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Northern Sold
4:29 Tue May 19
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HAD.... 1967 Lambretta SX150
Best years of my life...
... would need to remortgage the house to rebuy my old scoot back...
https://www.classic-trader.com/uk/motorcycle/listing/innocenti/lambretta-sx-150/1967/145379
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Bungo
4:38 Tue May 19
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Northern Sold 4:29 Tue May 19
I know nothing about scooters. Is that one special in any way over and above your obvious emotional attachment?
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Northern Sold
5:04 Tue May 19
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Bungo… the classics are the ones that hold and exceed their money… if you got a half decent condition Lambretta LD/LI/TV/SX/GP(non Indian build) you are looking at decent wedge… same with Vespas GS/SS etc. Was plenty of good money to be made 20 odd years ago popping over to Italy looking in people’s back gardens and offering them a few lira and then shipping them back home to make a packet… I think they have all been exhausted now so it’s all top dollar now…
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Northern Sold
5:06 Tue May 19
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Should have stipulated from early 60's to early 70's... that's the range that people want... before Piaggio started making half the scoots out of plastic and all the tools and manufacturing for Lambretta got shipped out to India...
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dirtyden
5:22 Tue May 19
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Husqvarna 701 Supermoto.......
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BigDingus
5:31 Tue May 19
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Movin' on the queens' highway
Lookin' like a streaky bacon'
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Hugh Jampton
5:43 Tue May 19
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Chopped Triumph Speedmaster
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Bungo
6:04 Tue May 19
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Northern Sold 5:04 Tue May 19
Cheers. Reminds me of a Fiat 500 I couldn't give away 35 years ago, which are now collectable (if heavily restored that is).
Anything 100% original now would just be a large pile of rust.
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Far Cough
6:09 Tue May 19
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I've had 2 Lis and 2 LDs
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Cheezey Bell-End
6:16 Tue May 19
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The thing that's always put me off has been the safety issues. I've been watching a couple of channels dedicated to rider safety, and I know I wouldn't do the things most of the accidents are caused by. Unfortunately, I would have no control over car drivers.
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Bungo
6:43 Tue May 19
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I was put off by a surgeon I know.
Most of the serious post-accident messes he deals with are blokes who had a moped or a small bike when they were young, got a car when the wife and family came along which they drove for 20+ odd years, and then had a bit of spare money when the kids were grown, and went out and bought a superbike that they weren't used to. They then often end up wrapping themselves and the bike around a tree.
I saw myself very clearly in that description so have steered clear!
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Cheezey Bell-End
6:54 Tue May 19
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My mother's late husband was previously a prosthetis technician for a maxillofacial surgeon in the 60s. He told me most of his work was for people who had face planted in the road in the days before full face helmets were common.
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Bungo
7:30 Tue May 19
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Nasty!
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bruuuno
7:58 Tue May 19
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My job involves working with disabled people and invariably finding out how they became disabled. I’d never get a motorbike
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