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I must admit, I've seen your Thruxton earlier in the thread - great looking bike. The engine on the Kwaka is my favourite bit. Chrome plated bevel drive linked to overhead cam - tis bootiful. My statement on build quality was bound to bite me on the arse - I got the bike out of garage this morning, first time since weather took a turn - had a look under the lovely chrome mudguards and noticed little rust spots - only had bike four months, with hindsight I should have sprayed everything with ACF50, which I've now done, but new to the motorbike game.
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I wouldn't bother with the Kawasaki because it's too vintage in execution as well as look, and if you're going down that route why not get a real old Brit classic?
You know I love the Thruxton but sometimes wonder if I'd prefer the more upright riding style of the Bonnie. They are a quite a heavy machine.
I love Guzzis and really must try a V7. They are smaller bikes, and much less powerful, but lighter too, and the look and sound ace. No idea about reliability but my colleague has a couple of 850s that he says have never gone wrong.
I looked at all three bikes last year and opted for the Kawasaki - The Guzzi is far more "vintage in execution" and I was not too impressed with build quality of the Bonnie. The Kwaka is a great bike to ride, a lot of torque at fairly low revs - pulls away nicely in any gear. Really pleased with it. Having said that, the new improved 2012 Guzzi v7, in particular the "storm" model would make the decision more difficult if I was making it now.
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I mistook the Popemobile for an ice cream van today.
I only realised my mistake when I read "wouldn't mind that child" written on the back
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Apparently when detained was on a Langster packed with explosives
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"People ask me whether I actually enjoy cycling. This question surprises me, since the answer is so obvious. Yes, cycling is enjoyable, and one can even give enjoyment to others, at times, but all in all it's a rather banal question.
Or for a different take by Lance Armstrong on a similar question.
"Once someone asked me what pleasure I got out of riding my bike for so long. "Pleasure?" I asked. "I don't understand the question. I didn't do it for pleasure. I did it for pain"
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I look fucking sexy in lycra and I have a string of lovers paid in full to prove it!
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i try not to comment on this thread
as someone who is a bit gay it just annoys me each time i see the thread title crop up
btw i am not sure what kind of freak would find someone attractive when dressed in lycra, i tend to think that my lardy arse when dressed in shiny tight material looks a bit like a sea lion
but then i am likely to call someone an utter fucking joylord so really cant comment
nb i have not bothered to read this thread
So what have you got against sea lions, surely they have the right to resemble your lardy arse without adverse comment. They have rights too you know.
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Auberon Waugh, who really was an unpleasant cove but an amusing one, was very insistent that one should not twist the English language and should refer to people who engaged in homosexual practices as homosexualists; homosexual being strictly an adjective and not a noun.
He also believed that women from SE Asia had no pubic hair and that Prince Charles was secretly married to Princess Marie-Astrid of Luxemburg.
When his son Alexander, after splitting up with a girlfriend, annonced that he would never go out with a girl again - fearing that he may become homosexual, Auberon summoned him to his study and told him “My dear boy, the anus was designed for the retention and expulsion of faecal matter, not for the reception of foreign organs, however lovingly they may be placed there.”
Fascinating reading: I’m sure most of the people who have joined the nasty, spiteful, cruel and callous little bandwagon - crudely celebrating the death of an old lady - are not old enough to have experienced the 70s and 80s, and have little knowledge of political history. Britain in the late 70s was a failed Britain - failed ‘Keynesian demand management’ polices - had caused the ‘Social Democratic’ experiment to implode, and the economy to collapse. Any cure would be difficult and require radical change. Many mistakes were made but without doubt the country was brought back from the brink and is in a better position now because of the changes in political direction.
Moreover, some of the comments on this thread tell us less about Margaret Thatcher, but more about the character, or the lack of character of people (anonymous little no marks) who put such offensive comments on a medium where they are theoretically accessible to the friends and family of somebody who has just died. Would Margaret Thatcher have done that! – I think not.