Went to tge Norfolk Motorcycle Museum yesterday

[crofty1984]

It's brilliant!
Basically an old dusty rail shed packed out with loads of old bikes in various states of love/disrepair/patina. A proper old-school workshop and a very friendly and knowledgeable owner. Mostly Pre-1960s stuff and some oddities. A good load of 1920s bikes too. So thanks to my girlfriend for getting me the tickets.

[crofty1984]

HD Adam said:

Do you mean the one in North Walsham?

It's good (and about 10 miles from where I live)

Yup, just by the train station. Am I rght in thinking they sometimes have a bike meet in North Walsham?

[crofty1984]

nervous said:

crofty1984 said:

It's brilliant!
Basically an old dusty rail shed packed out with loads of old bikes in various states of love/disrepair/patina. A proper old-school workshop and a very friendly and knowledgeable owner. Mostly Pre-1960s stuff and some oddities. A good load of 1920s bikes too. So thanks to my girlfriend for getting me the tickets.

Just re-read this and realise that this post is actually just about mentioning you've got a girlfriend and not at all about motorbike museums, isn't it? Damn. Hang on, I'll write a review of her too, including the times she's also humiliated me in a barren, dusty environment filled with pre-war rats.

You've got me. I've never even been to the museum, if there is one. But now you mention it I DO HAVE A GIRLFRIEND! A REAL ACTUAL ONE THIS TIME, NO, REALLY!

I kind of like the set up. I can see your point about it being a bit of a stretch to call it a "museum" but I think that's part of it's charm. Then again, I lament the passing of old scrappys where you could clamber up the stacked cars (jumpers for goalposts, lived in a lake, etc, etc).

[crofty1984]

nervous said:

crofty1984 said:

I kind of like the set up. I can see your point about it being a bit of a stretch to call it a "museum" but I think that's part of it's charm. Then again, I lament the passing of old scrappys where you could clamber up the stacked cars (jumpers for goalposts, lived in a lake, etc, etc).

I too lament this. But I am quite the lamenter, as you know. Sometimes even wistfully.

The problem with your analogy here is that ultimately when scrapyard sifting you would probably be able to find what you want, and if you couldn't it's because it wasn't there. If these folks ran a scrap yard they'd charge you to get in, then once inside would only grant you a look at the bit you wanted. From underneath 7 duvets and a broken urinal. In a hole. With an owl.

Plus, you're really, really short. There. I've said it.

First you call my house a barren, dusty environment filled with pre-war rats. Now you're calling me short! Take that back or I'll bite you on the tits. And not in a good way.
Anyway, Fast Show - Rambling Hiker sketch. Plagiarist!
In other news - Hope you're doing well, not seen you in a bit due to other people's inability to sell me a house for 6 months.

[crofty1984]

Me-ow! That one was original at least.

[crofty1984]

Captain Muppet said:

I think we owe it to the two miserable old men who were the only people who turned up to that engineering talk we all gave (albeit probably because they were looking for the toilet, they certainly smelled like they were looking for the toilet) to try to get on.

Although nervy is really tall, and crofty owns a fleet of boats and a Lotus in the sort of extreme neglect that mine could only dream of, whereas I'm just an averagey bloke with a sort of a beard who is inoffensively sarcastic a bit. So without the two of you for colour (not racist) I don't seem quite as dull.

Also nervy is hugely spoilt by having what is basically a bike museum at home, and crofty probably wasn't paying attention to the possible slight rubbishness of the museum because of having a girlfriend will to not only go to a bike museum but pay for tickets too.

I think that's just their standard smell.

Well said Mr Muppet Want to buy a boat?
Though I went with a mate rather than Mrs Crofty. She bought me the tickets, but it was one of those "I will go with you if you ask me to but you're going to owe me for dragging me round looking at bloody motorbikes."