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A few nice bikes on show

Discussion in 'General Chit Chat' started by Mattecube, Aug 5, 2018.

  1. oss
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    oss Somewhere Staff Member

    I was just too young and stupid, I didn't pass my car test until I was thirty and I had my last bike a couple of years before that no accidents on that one :)

    I've only ever had one accident in a car and luckily that didn't involve anyone else...………., and it wasn't my car...………., it belonged to my boss...……., who was my best mate..........., who was on holiday in Switzerland at the time...…………, and I was looking after the business in the UK...…………., it was one of these in this colour...…………, I was very upset...………., he was quite upset :D

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  2. Drunken Max
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    Drunken Max Well-Known Member Trusted Member

    The Classic 250 was the Honda Superdream. Every school boy wanted one [​IMG]
  3. oss
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    Depends on your age, arguably it was the CB250 G5 which came a couple of iterations before it, I had one of these as well (pic below) although I will admit I did spend time in Victor Devine's showroom in Great Western road lusting after that particular variant of the SuperDream

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  4. Mattecube
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    Mattecube face the sunshine so shadows fall behind you Trusted Member

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  5. oss
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    There is only one way to buy a car in this flow chart and that is if you lied and are single.

    The full criteria is :

    I’m a partner-less liar and a loner and I want to die unhappily so I am going to buy a car.

    Which doesn't seem quite right ;)

    It would have been a close approximate description of me when I was 17 but I bought a bike :D

    But I like everything else in the flow chart :D
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  6. DavidAlma
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    DavidAlma Well-Known Member

    My 1939 Ariel SQ4

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  7. OTT
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    OTT Active Member

    Wow , how nice is that .
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  8. oss
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    I've seen the Square Four before but not in that kind of condition, lovely.

    My best friend Smithy, had a back garden full of old bikes, he didn't have an SQ4 but he did have a working Ariel Arrow that he took up to Glasgow Uni every day, he also had a fairly large Royal Enfield in working condition but I can't remember the model.

    He also had two Messerschmitt bubble cars, a lot of the bikes were in bits in various states of repair but he finally got a Kawasaki Z1000 which was the one that put the pins in his arm and I think his leg, he never really had a working bike after 1985.

    The old bikes were lovely though, he never had the money to really fix them up as he spent most of his life unemployed but he had a passion for them, sadly he passed away aged 49 largely as a result of the side effects of smoking.
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