Motorised bicycles
- 31 July 2011 11:56117631not often that we see 3 harley davidsons parked side by side in town on a sunday morning.
- 31 July 2011 14:36117643Yummy!!!
- 31 July 2011 20:00117685Lovely bikes, so many different designs, but (to me) all great - thanks Howard.
Roger - 31 July 2011 20:17117687my pleasure roger i know that many members like them, not really a bike fan myself but ended up studying them in detail for about 15/20 minutes.
the craftsmanship and style is absolutely top class easy to understand why the owners treat them with such loving care.
if i owned one i would be a lot happier if it was in a locked garage rather than on a street. - 31 July 2011 20:23117691I'd love one but Jean says I'm too old to start to learn how to ride one, so it's just looking.
Roger - 1 August 2011 07:57117715Terrific heavy metal there. Great stuff. Yes there is a problem with keeping them, keeping them both safe and clean. Thats a problem down here on the seafront for example...no where to keep a hot bike and then the weather gets at it.
It's always good to throw your leg over Roger no matter what age you are !!
email: dover7@msn.com - Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,888
1 August 2011 08:01117718I thought that is what motorbikes were a substitute for PaulB.
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Lincolnshire Born and Bred - 10 November 2012 20:12200693caught my eye in market square earlier - not really the sort of day for it.
- 10 November 2012 21:16200701Unfortunately motorbike take up is not as popular, in these high petrol price times as it should be ,
Because it takes around a week to pass your test for around £700
More H S E crap lining the pockets of the training industry - Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,316
11 November 2012 07:20200720My grandson (parading as a cadet today) has just got his first 50cc hairdrier. His father is an avid motorbiker, I'm more for the comfort of 4 wheels.
TerryQuis custodiet ipsos custodes? - 11 November 2012 07:57200723Ah now..I dont need too much prompting. The mere mention of motorbikes, any excuse and here I am with the pictures..again.
The motorbike above always attracted attention as it looked as if it was straight out of a 1950's hollywood movie. Here we are above visiting the lifeboat station four or five years back. Below shows the same bike resting in Sandwich after a ride through the sleepy hollows of Kent with none other than than that oul rogue himself Phil West. Phil posing there on his Honda. He was showing me rural Kent via motorcycle..down sleepy lanes and cosy nooks we went, down deeper and deeper into darkest Kent. I would have never found my own way out of the inner mangled backwoods again, so relied heavily on Phil. Every time I see that haunted movie Sleepy Hollow I think of this trip with Phil....brrrrr!!
Strange eerie feeling down them deep dark wooded lanes..and that was in the daylight !!
Keith not just the training. The bikes themselves are very expensive now. A Honda Goldwing is near as dammit £25,000 pounds, yes all the zeros are in the right place. Motorbikes used to be a cheaper alternative to cars, utilitarian transport vehicles for the masses, now they are considered toys and expensive ones at that. A whole range of cars are cheaper now..it used to be the other way round.
Good luck to your grandson Terry. It will bring him lots of fun..we all started out on dem 'hairdryers'
PS: Phil is a member here..where have yer been Phil!!??email: dover7@msn.com - 11 November 2012 11:27200744Yes Paul motorbikes at the top end in this country do come expensive
You can get similar in Thailand and surrounding country for a fraction of uk prices its just rip of uk
Smaller motorbikes and scoters come cheep for the motorist as alternative for work transport
The government should encourage ownership and stop the rip of over expensive training restrictions. - 12 November 2012 15:38200950Made from watches...
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing. - 12 November 2012 15:40200952There were seven different one in text form within my post until I posted them. :(Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
- 12 November 2012 15:53200965I could blast up and down the seafront on that yeller one..
..if it was full size of course..
fascinating modelsemail: dover7@msn.com - 12 November 2012 17:59200994Wow! That's some collection!
- 12 November 2012 18:18201005Great models, they must have taken a lot of patience to make them.
Roger
