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Post by 92220 on Mar 27, 2019 19:30:57 GMT
You may mock but it is the most sensible and comfortable bike I have ever ridden. BUT at the same time the maddest when you open the throttle wide. 197BHP and 200MPH capability Hi Andy. No mock intended. Car rallying was my sport, after I gave up cycling, so I know nothing about motorbikes, but that sounds like some bike!!! WOW!! Bob.
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Post by andyhigham on Mar 27, 2019 19:54:40 GMT
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JonL
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Post by JonL on Mar 27, 2019 20:33:12 GMT
I have to say I agree about Black Prince, it wasn't of a class that was typically named in service (except for one!) so it doesn't seem right to name it, but as you say its their right.
I have done the opposite of the 9F class; rather than having a whole class where only one was named, I'm adopting the only Class 7 which never received a name...
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Post by doubletop on Mar 29, 2019 4:58:29 GMT
My Rob Roy is “Harry” after my dad who had started it in the 80’s, had another go in the 90’s and sent it to me unfinished in the early 2000’s. It sat on a shelf for around 10 years before I got the confidence to try finishing it. Unfortunately, Dad passed away in 2016 but he got to see it finished and me running it in NZ. Last year I took it back to the UK for the Andover MES Rob Roy rally, as that would have been a club he would possibly have run it, had he been able to finish it. When I refurbished my Simplex, not long after completing the Rob Roy, SWMBO asked “what are you going to call it?” A nod is as good as a wink, that became “Maggie”. The Northumbrian hasn’t got plates, but is known as “Junior”. The Dart is 1466, as that’s at Didcot and I'm from that area. My first summer job was at Dicot power station, if I hadn't joined the RAF I'd most likely have ended up at Harwell. Pete
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Post by suctionhose on Mar 29, 2019 6:45:59 GMT
I've been holding off on this one but the mention of wives epitomised by models I have the following tale.
During late 80's / 1990 I built two engines, one for myself and the other on spec. A fellow unknown wrote me a letter one day in search of an engine to which I replied with a couple of options from the workshop that he could choose from.
Not long after, we met up again and the fellow presented me a brown paper bag full of money and said "I want that one"! I said, "Where's this money from?" to which he answered "Wife's Piano Fund" Inevitably, for stealing his wife's Piano money, he had to put his wife's name on the engine! (call her Elizabeth...ha!)
There was no way I was going to be so impaled so I named mine after a popular underwear model of the day and even obtained her autograph to make very clear I was married but still had freedoms other guys could envy. What happened to me after that I care not to think about...! However, since the day of the brown paper bag, throughout the ups and downs of life, we have remained the best of friends!
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Post by runner42 on Mar 29, 2019 7:37:50 GMT
My Rob Roy is named Rob Roy since Martin Evans named her (a gender mix up here), I thought all locomotives are female. Thomas the tank engine says no. Anyway my customization is in the locomotive number which is 4145 the years me and my wife were born. Rob Roy by Brian Leach, on Flickr My Doris is Doris in gratitude to LBSC. But again the locomotive number has some significance being 45747. 45 was the age I ran a PB in the Big M (Melbourne) marathon of 2 Hrs 35 mins and my race number was 747 and like the aircraft I new I was going to fly. Brian
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