So here I am, looking for a toy to buy for the next time I fly over. I've always been partial to TLS/TLR's but they're sodding rare and expensive over here.
Then I saw THIS.. For a ruined TLR!
https://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/mot...c71ec6b3280627
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Kinky is using a feather. Perverted is using the whole chicken
In the day, the Greeves Silverstone was probably the most uncomfortable. Bert Greeves is alleged to have had very short legs and long arms....
I read somewhere that Peter Williams hated his one so moved seat and pegs to match his Manx. Worth half a second at Brands allegedly.
Worst semi modern would be the '88 era RS250 Honda. Even tighter and more awkward than the 125 of the same era. There were two in ChCh at one point - and I shifted the pegs on both.
Shirley knot! The NF4 is made for midgets. First time I rode mine as a 125 with a block of wood under the seat front I still couldn't change gear . Raised the seat like 50mm so it was the same size as my cut down RG50.
NX4 was much bigger. But I'm a bit too big for these things.
Don't you look at my accountant.
He's the only one I've got.
...back in the early eighties when I got stuck in the UK for some years I lived about a hundred yards from Arthur Wheelers, or his sons bike shop in Epsom...there were three bikes hanging from the ceiling rafters, a couple of Matchless and a Greeves Silverstone, they had kiwis painted on the tanks...they were raced by a fast kiwi who went over there to race in the earlier days...I wanted one of them but the Matchies were too expensive for my budget and I kinda naively fell in love with the Silverstone and negotiated a price of 1200 quid...my budget was dealt a blow and I couldn't do the deal...I ended up with a little Triumph Blazer for half the cost...it was a pain in the arse but probably less so than the Silverstone would have been...I had a bit of a thing for those Guzzi Monzas at the time too, that was quickly cured when I started frequenting the Harris workshop and the Hondaphile in me emerged...
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