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Julian_Boolean wrote: Fri Nov 27, 2020 10:21 am I've seen one, a yellow one, they're not as ugly in real life, they're still fugly though
I've seen loads, just never one with that fly screen.
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KungFooBob wrote: Fri Nov 27, 2020 10:56 am
Julian_Boolean wrote: Fri Nov 27, 2020 10:21 am I've seen one, a yellow one, they're not as ugly in real life, they're still fugly though
I've seen loads, just never one with that fly screen.
Loads, is there a chapter of the Bimota Mantra owners club in Barnsley?
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I am quite well travelled you know.
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KungFooBob wrote: Fri Nov 27, 2020 11:38 am I am quite well travelled you know.
You've been to Thurgoland?
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Julian_Boolean wrote: Fri Nov 27, 2020 11:44 am You've been to Thurgoland?
I pass through it to get to my sisters house in Penistown.
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Are these places anywhere near Blubberhouses?
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Just in case 1 steering damper isn't enough

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KungFooBob wrote: Fri Nov 27, 2020 12:25 pm
Julian_Boolean wrote: Fri Nov 27, 2020 11:44 am You've been to Thurgoland?
I pass through it to get to my sisters house in Penistown.
My sister used to live in Armitage Bridge before she moved to the Darkside (Wigan)
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weeksy wrote: Fri Nov 27, 2020 1:22 pm Just in case 1 steering damper isn't enough

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WT-A-F ??
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weeksy wrote: Fri Nov 27, 2020 1:22 pm Just in case 1 steering damper isn't enough

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Anyone notice that none of them are connected to the frame, so they're not actually doing anything!
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KungFooBob wrote: Fri Nov 27, 2020 4:20 pm
weeksy wrote: Fri Nov 27, 2020 1:22 pm Just in case 1 steering damper isn't enough

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Anyone notice that none of them are connected to the frame, so they're not actually doing anything!
Never mind that. What's the 2nd throttle on the LH side for?!
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Makes for easier wheelying, the bar rotates in your hand.

A different take on Mods and the extra lights and mirrors fitted to scooters maybe.

There's also something on the rh fork leg.
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Probably just as well they're not connected, might be a bit slow steering otherwise :D
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KungFooBob wrote: Fri Nov 27, 2020 12:25 pm
Julian_Boolean wrote: Fri Nov 27, 2020 11:44 am You've been to Thurgoland?
I pass through it to get to my sisters house in Penistown.

I did my radiograpic testing qualification's* at a place called Penistone, near Sheffield.
The place I trained and tested at was just past the railway bridge.
Same place?


*Long time ago, when I was a weld inspector and before I took up wood butchery.
The training was interesting but the crawling about in pressurised steam boilers inspecting 25% of furnace end seams less so.
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Yup Penistone = Penistown.

..and it's much nearer Barnsley than Sheffield.
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KungFooBob wrote: Fri Nov 27, 2020 5:32 pm ..and it's much nearer Barnsley than Sheffield.
I got a lift there so was in effect parachuted into the place with buggerall navigational clues.
The driver knew the way and I just listened to his Blood Sugar Sex Majik album by the Chilli Peppers.

Anyway, here's a not so random pic I found amongst my Barbon Hillclimb photos.
IIRC the rider had a disability to do with his left hand so didn't have a left bar at all.
Seemed to manage stuff just fine though.
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derek badger wrote: Fri Nov 27, 2020 4:25 pm
KungFooBob wrote: Fri Nov 27, 2020 4:20 pm
weeksy wrote: Fri Nov 27, 2020 1:22 pm Just in case 1 steering damper isn't enough

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Anyone notice that none of them are connected to the frame, so they're not actually doing anything!
Never mind that. What's the 2nd throttle on the LH side for?!
BELLWOOD ! :D
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Skub wrote: Sat Nov 28, 2020 4:18 pm https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/it ... =undefined

Where would you start....
Hacksaw, hammer, skip...
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G.P wrote: Sat Nov 28, 2020 6:05 pm
derek badger wrote: Fri Nov 27, 2020 4:25 pm
KungFooBob wrote: Fri Nov 27, 2020 4:20 pm

Anyone notice that none of them are connected to the frame, so they're not actually doing anything!
Never mind that. What's the 2nd throttle on the LH side for?!
BELLWOOD ! :D
Exactly what sprang to mind when I saw it!!!🤣