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Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 5:45 pm
by stevie747
El Presidente wrote:stevie747 wrote:sold it via MCN in 1980 (ish) for £900 to a guy from Bristol I think, he turned up in a van with some mates and took it away with his mates holding it up in the back for 200 miles...
It had a new crank and top end and had about 18K on the clock, chucked in a good set of Denco's as well
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Looks like Paul owned it (and still does!) AFTER you! There is a report in an early KTC newsletter about his "European Adventures" on your ex bike
Nice one, hope I can run into them one day - it'd be mixed feelings though, that bike was a legend in my area and everyone (apart from my mum) thought I was mad to sell it although to be honest I was getting a bit fed up repairing both it and myself all the time - it was the one featured in the first Superbike Hairy Tales - I'll scan it one day (I haven't found it yet
) for Malc for the KTC mag.
Would his European adventure stories be available on-line anywhere ?
:smt023
Posted: Sun May 20, 2012 6:56 pm
by Hucklow Tom
stevie747 wrote:El Presidente wrote:stevie747 wrote:sold it via MCN in 1980 (ish) for £900 to a guy from Bristol I think, he turned up in a van with some mates and took it away with his mates holding it up in the back for 200 miles...
It had a new crank and top end and had about 18K on the clock, chucked in a good set of Denco's as well
.
Looks like Paul owned it (and still does!) AFTER you! There is a report in an early KTC newsletter about his "European Adventures" on your ex bike
Nice one, hope I can run into them one day - it'd be mixed feelings though, that bike was a legend in my area and everyone (apart from my mum) thought I was mad to sell it although to be honest I was getting a bit fed up repairing both it and myself all the time - it was the one featured in the first Superbike Hairy Tales - I'll scan it one day (I haven't found it yet
) for Malc for the KTC mag.
:smt023
Steve, I already did that for you!!!
http://kawaportal.org/phpBB2/viewtopic. ... highlight=
Posted: Sun May 20, 2012 9:47 pm
by stevie747
Hucklow Tom wrote:stevie747 wrote:El Presidente wrote:
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Looks like Paul owned it (and still does!) AFTER you! There is a report in an early KTC newsletter about his "European Adventures" on your ex bike
Nice one, hope I can run into them one day - it'd be mixed feelings though, that bike was a legend in my area and everyone (apart from my mum) thought I was mad to sell it although to be honest I was getting a bit fed up repairing both it and myself all the time - it was the one featured in the first Superbike Hairy Tales - I'll scan it one day (I haven't found it yet
) for Malc for the KTC mag.
:smt023
Steve, I already did that for you!!!
http://kawaportal.org/phpBB2/viewtopic. ... highlight=
Cheers, it was Malc who wanted it scanned to possibly put into the club mag, apparently the font size was too small to reproduce before
Malc, can you use this for your purposes or would you still need a scanned version?
It might not be necessary anyway given it's already on here for anyone to read
