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Cartoon Motorcycle.
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No worse than a turbo hyabusa yet....both seem to exist in concert with the rest of us without the world exploding so i spose somethin works. /Shrug
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Oh it exists but just like a Dodge Viper it's utterly pointless, just like a Chocolate Teapot.
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Vipers aren't pointless if you live someplace with proper road width. Razz emoticon
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Or a race track.
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1.5 hours north of Melbourne:

Cathedral of Moto Guzzi
"largest collection of Moto Guzzi motorcycles in the Southern Hemisphere"

https://www.mcnews.com.au/2022-festival-of-moto-guzzi-heads-for-yea-in-country-victoria/

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Bill Dog I've got a potential candidate to replace your now-departed Guzzi.

You said you liked choppers, right?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/a4OvlCY29dU
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Bill Dog I've got a potential candidate to replace your now-departed Guzzi.

You said you liked choppers, right?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/a4OvlCY29dU
Is that Batman's prototype?!!!😂🤣 That looks dangerous by my standards.😛
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I admit I'd like to give a Chopper a go but that just looks like George Miller had something to do with it.

That poor clutch.
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I have to admit that this is cheering me up today. I think some of you might think it belongs in the other thread, though.

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As a huge Portal fan, this is cheering me up.

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As a huge Portal fan, this is cheering me up.

The cake is a lie
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Not if you get through the game.
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But p_i_e is truth.
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Ordered a fisheye lens to add to the collection. Just a sigma 15mm f/2.8, i'm not a professional just someone who wants to see what it does with ferrets.
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I mentioned a while back that the UK based chopper rag, GKM (Greasy Kulture Magazine), was going to publish an article I wrote on how to assemble a proper tool kit for a long road trip on old iron. I opened the mail today and found my copy of issue #98. This cheered me up!
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Get you. Published n shit.

Proud of you.
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Proud of you.
Shocking for a kid who always had low grades in English/Reading/Composition. 😂
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I mentioned a while back that the UK based chopper rag, GKM (Greasy Kulture Magazine), was going to publish an article I wrote on how to assemble a proper tool kit for a long road trip on old iron. I opened the mail today and found my copy of issue #98. This cheered me up!
Way to go!
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I might need to read that one day. Wink Wink.
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I just heard that one of my new colleagues has a Douglas motorcycle from the early 50's.

I'll have to confess - I didn't even know that such British motorcycle brand exists.
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Finally.
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Hot dang! Longest 15 minutes of yer life, ain't it?! 🤓 🛵

Congrats!
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Finally.
Super! That's always a relief.
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Yay!!!
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Saw this at a second hand store today. made me think of this thread. That cheered me up.
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well that looks......comfy?
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Saw this at a second hand store today. made me think of this thread. That cheered me up.
Did you snag it? A vintage king/queen seat brings a pretty good price these days.
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I just heard that one of my new colleagues has a Douglas motorcycle from the early 50's.

I'll have to confess - I didn't even know that such British motorcycle brand exists.
They built Vespas in Britain for fourteen years:
https://www.veteranvespaclub.com/piaggio-history/2018/12/18/new-forest-hampshire-riding-event
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If you like obscure stuff try Norman Motorcycles.

https://cybermotorcycle.com/marques/norman/
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Interesting piece of history, I didn't know this either!

Also gave good backround to the Lambretta vs. Vespa sales in England.
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https://cybermotorcycle.com/marques/norman/
Never seen one of these either.

Quite a lot of British bikes were imported over here during the old days. I often go to a yearly rally of Finnish British bike enthusiasts. Almost all of the bikes are ridden there, nice cavalcade of the more common old brands like Ariel, BSA, Matchless, Norton, AJS and of course Triumph.

What I especially like in this rally is that many of the riders are themselves 'period correct' - these bikes used to be their daily rides back in the day.

Another nice thing is that these folks are not brand snobs. You can ride a Taiwanese modern Triumph there and they just come to admire a nice looking bike and have a chat...even HD riders are welcomed, but they have to leave their bikes outside the festive area.
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Did you snag it? A vintage king/queen seat brings a pretty good price these days.
They wanted $125 for it and I don't think it would fit on the Stella.

So, no.
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Remembering a quote about the French,

A bunch of Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys.
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Except Pannis. According to Clarkson he was a cheese eating sideways monkey.

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