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Title: Bizarre handlebar choice
Post by: guest7 on May 10, 2012, 05:18:03 PM: Hmmmmmm, not sure about this one:
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1Lr8DAACsfA/T6NCjzIk8dI/AAAAAAAAKto/8t7hLozpIvQ/s640/vertigo_caferacer.JPG)

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Title: Re: Bizarre handlebar choice
Post by: SRXweb on May 10, 2012, 07:04:26 PM: Hmmmmmm, sure I have an answer ! ;)
Title: Re: Bizarre handlebar choice
Post by: themoudie on May 10, 2012, 09:48:43 PM: Bondage!

Tour de Force! ???

I bet the exhaust sounds flatulent! Made from the handrail out of the un-occupied shopping mall in 'any EU currency state', near you!

Hideous really and waste of a good donor.

Bill.

(Bit perfunctury folks, apologies, resisting a soap box moment! :-X )
Title: Re: Bizarre handlebar choice
Post by: Andy M on May 11, 2012, 05:22:21 AM: About as much use as a Sheep in Formaldihyde or an unmade bed!

Andy
Title: Re: Bizarre handlebar choice
Post by: JOOLZ on May 11, 2012, 07:09:00 AM: Not a motorcycle I like, quite bizarre really
Title: Re: Bizarre handlebar choice
Post by: SRXweb on May 11, 2012, 04:51:53 PM: I'd like to see the hands of the pilot.

long fingers to reach the brake lever :-X
Title: Re: Bizarre handlebar choice
Post by: squirrelciv on May 11, 2012, 07:55:59 PM: Pooh!
Title: Re: Bizarre handlebar choice
Post by: guest564 on May 12, 2012, 05:54:27 PM: Quote from: SRXweb on May 11, 2012, 04:51:53 PM
I'd like to see the hands of the pilot.
long fingers to reach the brake lever :-X

Probably not worth reaching for it, it looks like it would get air in it when you lean to the right.
Title: Re: Bizarre handlebar choice
Post by: guest146 on May 12, 2012, 06:50:03 PM: My God

See the sight glass on the fuel tank. Effective but not for me

Ken
Title: Re: Bizarre handlebar choice
Post by: guest40 on May 13, 2012, 11:20:46 AM: That fuel guage was extremely effective. Std equipment Suzuki T20 and T500 Cobra.

Never seen one leak, split or cause problems.
Title: Re: Bizarre handlebar choice
Post by: guest40 on May 13, 2012, 11:22:40 AM: Oh, I nearly forgot, I had a bike that looked just like that.... after pranging it!
Title: Re: Bizarre handlebar choice
Post by: SRXweb on May 15, 2012, 06:03:52 PM: I can't find the definition of "pranging" on the net.
Can you explain for a poor lonesome french, please ?
Title: Re: Bizarre handlebar choice
Post by: guest7 on May 15, 2012, 06:39:37 PM: A prang is a crash.

Prang = crash
I pranged it = I crashed it
After pranging it = After crashing it

It's the sort of word that you will hear 'stiff upper lip' RAF pilots using in 1940s war movies. Other archaic terms that we use are:
I had a bit of an off - I fell off
I bailed out - I jumped off
I binned it - I crashed it
it let go - I crashed it but I'm blaming the bike for losing traction ;)

GC
Title: Re: Bizarre handlebar choice
Post by: SRXweb on May 15, 2012, 09:29:55 PM: Thanks a lot for this english lesson. I thought the verb was "to prange". No way to find it on dictionnaries on the internet.

I thought "bail out" was an american term. I'm used to it because I have often been shot by these bloody Me109 and others FW190 in air combats simulations when I was young :o

Now I know how to turn on the easy mode and invicibility in softwares ::)