Mach 3 summary

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Mach 3 summary

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Interesting page about H1's here.

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"Trouble was that no-one had ever bought a two-stroke triple because they wanted to go on slow-motion camping holidays with their pals on BMWs, delighting in an overall fuel consumption figure of 46.74553mpg."

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I thought this was going to be something about the Mach 3 dvd. Don't see the appeal with those old bikes. :roll: No offence to all you old bike lovers out there :lol:
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I had an identical one to that blue one so I suppose it's nostalgia,perhaps you'll be reminiscing about your bikes in 30 years time when the petrol has run out and its all electric and boring.
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zzzak wrote:..... you'll be reminiscing about your bikes in 30 years time when the petrol has run out and its all electric and boring.
Good call !! and probably quite true.... :cry:
....Don't see the appeal with those old bikes....
None taken mate, it just dates us *old* bastards to our younger days when these bikes were *The King Of The Heap*, and the H1 was way before my time anyway :wink:

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I guess I'll b the same in another 30years talking about the old 12 :lol:
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Gosling1 wrote:
zzzak wrote:..... you'll be reminiscing about your bikes in 30 years time when the petrol has run out and its all electric and boring.
Good call !! and probably quite true.... :cry:
So you haven't seen that electric drag bike then? 8)

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Mick C wrote:
Gosling1 wrote:
zzzak wrote:..... you'll be reminiscing about your bikes in 30 years time when the petrol has run out and its all electric and boring.
Good call !! and probably quite true.... :cry:
So you haven't seen that electric drag bike then? 8)

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Good find. :shock:
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ross79 wrote:I guess I'll b the same in another 30years talking about the old 12 :lol:
I plan on being a 'little' like Gos and still having the 10r in the shed in thirty odd years.

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