Advice required from any forum motorcyclists please.

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Newportnobby

Quote from: Lindi on July 08, 2018, 07:51:17 PM
Quote from: Newportnobby on July 08, 2018, 12:57:16 PM
Quote from: Newportnobby on June 28, 2018, 01:23:31 PM
I really thought the killer would be the insurance owing to the health issues in my past but, on recommendation, I tried Hastings Direct and it was far more reasonable than I'd thought.
Hastings stated they did not have the Grand Tourer model listed,


They were telling you porkies. It is listed on there website!

You're quite right!
:censored:


REGP

Very Nice!

Suitable for a run down to the NGF SE event?

Ray

Newportnobby

Not sure Hookey (seen in the 1st pic) would fancy being crammed into the top box :no:
Mind you, by 2019 I might just have mastered the bike ;D

REGP

I thought "she" was sizing it up for a pillion ride.

Train Waiting

Congratulations, Mick.  I wish you the joy of it.

Hookey appears impressed.  Rightly so.


Stay upright.

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dannyboy

I have never been into bikes, (I prefer 4 wheels), but your machine does look smart - good luck with it Mick and to quote the brilliant 'Hill Street Blues', "Let's be careful out there".  :thumbsup:
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Black Sheep

Bikers meet up at TINGS?

I'll be there on my CB600FS Hornet :D
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It'll make a change from rucksacks in the aisles!
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Quote from: Railwaygun on August 09, 2018, 10:51:03 PM
It'll make a change from rucksacks in the aisles!

Panniers are just as bad!

I'll have to be careful with my tank bag, one side of it is magnetic!
Black Sheep's workbench, where models go to be made grubby or be taken apart: https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?topic=57548.0

Milliedale-on-Sea, 1940's seaside splendour, if it ever gets finished! https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?topic=35646.0

Family layout project, Billund in L-9 scale :)  https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?topic=59467

Newportnobby

Sorry, but I'll not be going to TINGS.
As an aside, the panniers on my bike weigh 4kgs each............empty

Black Sheep

Quote from: Newportnobby on August 10, 2018, 09:40:39 AM
Sorry, but I'll not be going to TINGS.
As an aside, the panniers on my bike weigh 4kgs each............empty

how much would they weigh if you were on your way home from tings?  :smiley-laughing:
Black Sheep's workbench, where models go to be made grubby or be taken apart: https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?topic=57548.0

Milliedale-on-Sea, 1940's seaside splendour, if it ever gets finished! https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?topic=35646.0

Family layout project, Billund in L-9 scale :)  https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?topic=59467

themadhippy

QuoteNot sure Hookey (seen in the 1st pic) would fancy being crammed into the top box
so  buy hooky a bike,this little chap seems happy enough with his ride

freedom of speech is but a  fallacy.it dosnt exist here

Newportnobby

Quote from: Black Sheep on August 14, 2018, 12:38:14 PM
Quote from: Newportnobby on August 10, 2018, 09:40:39 AM
Sorry, but I'll not be going to TINGS.
As an aside, the panniers on my bike weigh 4kgs each............empty

how much would they weigh if you were on your way home from tings?  :smiley-laughing:

That would be, erm, 4 kgs then :P

Quote from: themadhippy on August 14, 2018, 01:04:20 PM
QuoteNot sure Hookey (seen in the 1st pic) would fancy being crammed into the top box
so  buy hooky a bike,this little chap seems happy enough with his ride



Hookey has similar colouring but I fear the sound of the 'zorst might make him leave a little something on the bike :uneasy:



Train Waiting

That's a brilliant photograph of Hookey and @tutenkhamunsleeping posted a marvellous one of Kato driving an ex-GWR 'Grange'.  Thank you both.

Maybe Hookey will like the motorcycle, Mick.  When I was 17 (not last year, then), our family cat was called Korky and I had a BSA 250cc single fitted with a Gold Star silencer.  When I arrived home, Korky would jump up on me before I had even stopped the engine.  I'd then put the BSA on its centre stand (who remembers these?) and she would happily sit on the seat for ages enjoying the sounds and smells of a British motorcycle cooling down.  Some day I'll get the Vincent out from below a decrepit 'H0' layout in the garage and see what Poppy makes of it...

John
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The Table-Top Railway is an attempt to create, in British 'N' gauge,  a 'semi-scenic' railway in the old-fashioned style, reminiscent of the layouts of the 1930s to the 1950s.

For the made-up background to the railway and list of characters, please see here: https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?topic=38281.msg607991#msg607991

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