Went for a spin and............................
Went for a spin and............................
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swilly

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9,699 posts

298 months

Monday 3rd March 2003
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lost track of time. On Saturday I took the Chim out topless and headed west from Chester on the A55 into North Wales.

Lost track of time and got very into 'proceeding' along the coastal road and it's tunnels until that is the road stopped and I realised I had arrived at Holyhead in ...........Anglesey.

Anyone else had any similar "lapses of concentration"

thegamekeeper

2,282 posts

306 months

Monday 3rd March 2003
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The road doesn't end there. You drive onto the ferry and cross to Ireland, now that really is good!!

plipton

1,302 posts

282 months

Monday 3rd March 2003
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No such luck living here on Guernsey

25 miles and you've gone right round the coast

>> Edited by plipton on Monday 3rd March 12:27

simon t

2,157 posts

297 months

Monday 3rd March 2003
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So what's your fastest lap?

plipton

1,302 posts

282 months

Monday 3rd March 2003
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simon t said: So what's your fastest lap?


If you're plod, then 25 miles @ 35MPH speed limit = 42.8571428 minutes.

If not then (theoretically, of course ) 28 minutes on a 1979 Z1000 in 1983. (lots of twisties and stop-starting, you see)

robkola

1,589 posts

288 months

Monday 3rd March 2003
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Kawasaki Z1000 - now there's a classic bike . .


plipton said:

simon t said: So what's your fastest lap?


If you're plod, then 25 miles @ 35MPH speed limit = 42.8571428 minutes.

If not then (theoretically, of course ) 28 minutes on a 1979 Z1000 in 1983. (lots of twisties and stop-starting, you see)


plipton

1,302 posts

282 months

Monday 3rd March 2003
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robkola said: Kawasaki Z1000 - now there's a classic bike .

Aye - a Z1000 MkII in a sort of maroon colour complete with Alfa41 noisy zorst and Z900 bars. luverly it was too!

K3NJW

448 posts

282 months

Monday 3rd March 2003
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In 1983 I had a Z650, with ace bars, bellmouths, a yoshimura 4 into 1, rear sets and a single seat ..... ahh boy racers. Now I have a Triumph T509 Speed Tripple to go with the Chimaera.

david beer

3,982 posts

291 months

Monday 3rd March 2003
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Ive a Z650(720) sat in my garage here. 1979 with 30k on the clock, as you can see i dont use it an awful lot!

Plipton

1,302 posts

282 months

Tuesday 4th March 2003
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david beer said: Ive a Z650(720) sat in my garage here. 1979 with 30k on the clock, as you can see i dont use it an awful lot!
I now have a BMW (getting old y'see) R850GS. 2000 with....wait for it....1600 miles on the clock. And you reckon you don't use yours much!! 533 miles per year compared to your inter-stellar (by comparison) 882