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A photo you took, today
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Re: A photo you took, today
Just along for the ride.
Husqvarna 901 Norden. Husqvarna 701 Enduro. Moto Guzzi LeMans II.
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Re: A photo you took, today
wOOw cool photo of your M.Guzzi, love that. Is it the 850 Le Mans at all...?
Beautiful.
Regards;
Peter
Beautiful.
Regards;
Peter
"Progress is not possible without deviation".
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Yes, Mark 2 with a few modifications. Had it since 1981.
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Wow, that's ages! And I thought I was doing well with my Honda 750-4 of 27 yrs and XJR1300 of 22 yrs. My Africa Twin I've had a paltry 19 yrs! I do like getting to know a bike well over the years. Do you do much or even all of the maintenance yourself?
Here's my Le Mans..... ! I would swap with yours, but it would be a hard call
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It's pretty hard to not take a cool picture of a red Guzzi Le Mans. Beautiful things. The essence of an italian café racer. Line one up with a Laverda Montjuic and a Bevel 900SS and you can keep heaven - it just won't match up.
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The van in the distance had conked out, so the Highways Officer decided to let it freewheel to the next exit, which was a couple of miles down a slight incline. So it was stop/start for everyone at the speed of the freewheeling van. With no hard shoulder- taken away as the motorway is supposedly 'smart' - it was deemed too dangerous to overtake the sloth-like van.
One thing made it worthwhile, though - there was a chap on an MT07, just out of view on the left, who pulled the most massive wheelie when we were finally allowed to proceed. He must've had it up for at least half a mile.... I wish that had been me! I suppose it's not big or clever but, man, it was awesome!!
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It is big and it is quite clever. Love a good wheelie. Nothing to be ashamed about. If motorcycling isn't about fun, we'd might as well just all sit in cars.
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Re: A photo you took, today
I was driving on the M5 a week or two back and a couple of cop cars pulled right in front of me with flashers on and slowed down.
Shit! I’m nicked.
Then a couple more came up, spread across three lanes with one car now slowing all three lanes of traffic down to about 40.
Suddenly, off the hard shoulder, a civvie car belted out and tried to jink and weave past them. The cop cars manoeuvred the normal car to one side and then folded back to envelope him.
As they slowed, our cop slowed us down.
Wow, I thought, they’ve just knocked some guy right in front of us, but they slowed him right down, boxed him perfectly although he was jinking and trying to get off the hook.
Then, when he was clearly doomed, they all unlocked and flew off up the road, presumably to practice again. Our guy waved us forward and the show ended.
Good skills Bill.
Shit! I’m nicked.
Then a couple more came up, spread across three lanes with one car now slowing all three lanes of traffic down to about 40.
Suddenly, off the hard shoulder, a civvie car belted out and tried to jink and weave past them. The cop cars manoeuvred the normal car to one side and then folded back to envelope him.
As they slowed, our cop slowed us down.
Wow, I thought, they’ve just knocked some guy right in front of us, but they slowed him right down, boxed him perfectly although he was jinking and trying to get off the hook.
Then, when he was clearly doomed, they all unlocked and flew off up the road, presumably to practice again. Our guy waved us forward and the show ended.
Good skills Bill.