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Mach 3 summary
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 1:03 pm
by zzzak
Interesting page about H1's
here.
"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."
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 3:46 pm
by ross79
I thought this was going to be something about the Mach 3 dvd. Don't see the appeal with those old bikes.
No offence to all you old bike lovers out there
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 5:44 pm
by zzzak
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.
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 6:08 pm
by Gosling1
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....
....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
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 12:11 pm
by ross79
I guess I'll b the same in another 30years talking about the old 12
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 12:18 pm
by MickLC
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....
So you haven't seen that electric drag bike then?
http://www.killacycle.com/
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 12:37 pm
by zzzak
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....
So you haven't seen that electric drag bike then?
http://www.killacycle.com/
Good find.
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 3:23 pm
by photomike666
ross79 wrote:I guess I'll b the same in another 30years talking about the old 12
I plan on being a 'little' like Gos and still having the 10r in the shed in thirty odd years.
"You know young-un, I've had her since she were new - fastest of the pack in her day. O'course, she'll still keep up with the new fangled monstrosities they call motorcycles...."