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IccyV2
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Soupdragon wrote: Wed May 06, 2026 4:43 pm
Okay, this is going to sound ridiculous, but I absolutely promise it's true.....

Apart from Cinelli's, the closest dealership to us were On Yer Bike at Aylesbury. They were utter monkeys and totally hopeless. Anyway, they brought an almost new bike to us that was playing up and they couldn't get to the bottom of it. We used to allow customers to watch us work on their bikes, as long as they behaved, and I got chatting to their 'technician' who'd brought it over. As I was stripping the bike down, he said "whereabouts is the Desmo?". I replied, "What do you mean where is it?"..... "Well these bikes are renowned for being Desmos, but where on the bike is it, or are they not fitted as standard?"..... I rest my case. :P Made I larff!
I'd have sent him out for special smoke to put in the Desmo black box unit, you can get it in packets from most petrol stations but get the green one, it's better. And a new packet of red power bands whilst he's there.
The green smoke adds 15bhp and the red power bands make it wheelie in 7th gear.

I don't have an 888 although if I get within 100yds of one and it's for sale I'll probably end up coming away with it.
I'm currently only buying supercars as investments, but I could fit an 888 in.

We used to have a SoupDragon on VD, but I'm guessing you're a different flavour, of soup or Dragon.
Welcome anyway.
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IccyV2 wrote: Fri May 15, 2026 9:35 am I'm currently only buying supercars as investments, but I could fit an 888 in.
Could one interest sir in a 12 year old Toyota Auris,or should I just trade it in? Don't wait too long. :thumbup:
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Skub wrote: Fri May 15, 2026 10:46 am
IccyV2 wrote: Fri May 15, 2026 9:35 am I'm currently only buying supercars as investments, but I could fit an 888 in.
Could one interest sir in a 12 year old Toyota Auris,or should I just trade it in? Don't wait too long. :thumbup:
I had a Toyota Yaris in the Bahamas as a company car, the US version with the boot, that little car did absolutely everything and unfortunately got trashed by my drunken colleague driving it into the side of a house. I still had to carry on using it afterwards but it was totalled and I can't imagine what they did with it when I left and gave it back :lol:

I then moved to Aruba and wrote off a Camero.

I didn't have much luck with cars over there.
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