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Pack you macs kids, as you may have seen from Wimbledon, the weather is crap
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No worries mate. You chaps have rain. We are in the tropics and we have RAIN. (lol)i.e. 12" of the stuff in 20 mins.
I will post something with a few days' notice if I can with location etc.
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Growlette, I think your first concern is to watch out for anyone who hijacks your thread to arrange for a booze up with his mates!!!
That will be why he is wanting you to drive...
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Oh yes I know that. He has made plans to meet up with old pals that's why he wants me to drive. One thing he loves his beer and get him started with his mates really you don't know, anything can happen.
No Mustang in UK. I hate that thing. Noisy and oily and smelly inside, he wastes his money on it. Harleys are OK, I love them.
Really I hope i get that visa friday, still they say come back to the Embassy I don't know what they want. So much paperwork. If it was Philippines embassy just give someone lunch money and something under the table and you get it in a couple of hours.
I'm a working girl and I'm with him and he says he'll sponsor me, return ticket, got property in UK also. I'm not mail order bride, we've been together 5 years. Really I'm so nervous about it all.
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I think I speak for everyone when I say a nice place in Lancashire would be great! Of course I live there but that has no bearing on my suggestion whatsoever.
Lancashire it is then?
;-)
Adam
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Lancashire it is then?
Isn't that near Yorkshire?
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Todmoden then - a place in Yorkshire with a Lancashire post code ;-)
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Espada III - well if you have a family and need a Lamborghini, what else do you drive?
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Fellow BR-ers
For totally selfish yet entirely practical reasons on my behalf London is the only place I could make it. Has to do with time and commitments I have to attend to back here in our glorious Republik. Anywhere central London will work for us, let's say pub/dinner?. For my account. Suggestions? Just give me some space to post some dates.I will do that once we arrive in UK.
Right now we are on tenterhooks hoping my Filipina partner can get that visa from HMG's representative in the colonies on Friday. Otherwise I will bring my equally (oops) beautiful daughter who is half Brit.
Either way you'll get some eye candy. That's what you all want anyway.......be honest..... personally I would just like to make sure I don't upset Mark and an investment in a few pints of his preference plus a decent steak and kidney might prove a good strategy.....
Now then, motoring it must be, so I'm off to book a class B on the 'net via Hertz.
Salamat po at ingat ka.
Growler
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an investment in a few pints of his preference plus a decent steak and kidney might prove a good strategy.....
I can be bought, and that seems a fair price.
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I suppose for Growler, really it should be the Ace Cafe.
Yup, give me my Triumph Bonnie, stick sixpence in the jukebox and I\'ll do the ton-up down the N. Circular and be back before Chuck Berry finishes Maybelline...............
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suggestion to hj & mods:
how about changing the title of this thread to include reference to the potential meet-up under discussion?
i only ask that because i had missed reading this post until now.
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Hopefully this'll work. Not used TinyURL before...
tinyurl.com/3agr7
...is the location. Just about where the arrow is.
www.ace-cafe-london.com
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ace cafe location and history; alternative to e34kid\' s location link: -
a thorough explanation how to get to the Ace Cafe site, either by road or public transport
www.ace-cafe-london.com/f1_10.htm
THE ACE CAFE LONDON - A Short History
www.ace-cafe-london.com/f1.htm
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Stonebridge Park station is about 35 mins from Oxford Circus on the Bakerloo Line. ( I used to go to the dentist there and counted every minute). Not sure about the Sunday service
Also good access for M25, M1, M4, A1 and M40.
If the date fits I would go.
Regards DougB.
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Good luck GRowler and GRowlette.
I am a lucky guy, very happily married to a Czech girl, but boy did we go through the hoops with endless interrogation and petty officialdom to get here. Even got caught up in the IND computer fiasco, which got used time and time again as an excuse for what was actually Head Office versus Consulate politics and rivalry. The only positive side was that the pain, heartache, and yes, near rifts on a few occasions, really proved that the relationship was the right one, and that it worked! We laugh about it now, but it was not so funny then!
Hope you can look on a similar positive side, and sorry we won't get the chance to meet (I would have happily ridden the Hornet in to the Ace Cafe, with Mrs SjB pillion) as it's just an hour from here, but we will be on holiday in Sweden (As if I don't see enough of the country with my work!)
Enjoy your trip.
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Second that Gr, HJ & SJB - our trip overseas to get Mrs V's marriage visa was a nightmare in the planning for all the reasons mentioned BUT the official we dealt with at the British Embassy in Bratislava made the whole thing painless for us in the end. He was extremely polite, efficient and above all considerate of our siuation - no interrogation whatsoever! A different story here though at times and as has been said those who follow the rules always face a more onerous task than those who seek to evade them. Anyway I sincerely hope it all goes well for you in the end HJ and that Growlette doesn't find good ole GB quite as awful as GR says it is :) Good luck.
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Ace Cafe, N. Circular, dates to follow. Pencil in 26 - 27 July -ish to be confirmed. I don't have me Bonneville any more but I'll bring me Harley vest and tattoos. Just so hope we can get my old lady's visa Friday. She would be mortified to miss such an event. She would charm you all I(males that is).
I don't think I have quite enough hair any more to grease it up into the obligatory duck's-tail, and the waistline isn't quite as Wild One-esque as it was once, but I'll do my best. Hopefully with some Del Shannon on the jukebox we'll cope.
If anyone out there has a Norton Dommy 88 or a Beeza Goldie in need of a workout, do let me know.........I'd love to get a ride in UK, seriously. Or a Velocette Venom Clubman, now you're talking. No other bike I've ridden ever since held the road like that did.
This may work. Let me talk dates when i get sorted in UK.
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"This may work"
Hope so - esp. for Growlette...
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>>Norton Dommy 88
Funny you should say that.
The good news is that its actually a 99SS, one of the first with the slimline featherbed frame - 1955, I believe, since before that they had a rather peculiar lump of iron as the frame - 600cc of lots of noisy fun.
The bad news is that its been 15 years since I last had it in one piece and running and I can't see it getting fixed this side of a long time from now.
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You mean you still have it? Silver or red paint? Give it to me, I'll fix it. Engines were crap,all full of rattles but roadholding A1.
So far this thread looks like Rockers 3 Mods nil.
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Aww... You beat me to it! GMTA.
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Silver with black lining.
The featherbed frame was so far ahead of its time that its still a lovely frame to use.
I like the engine - pre-unit construction & dead easy to work on. The only thing I don't like is the little caps just below the rocker covers, but I've only stripped them about a thousand times each. I know people prefer the triumph engine in the featherbed frame, but I've always liked the Norton engine.
I like the fact that I not only still own tubes of hermatite, I still need them !
And give it to you ? With all due respect, I don't think so !!!
It'll be my retirement hobby if I don't get to it before. It came off the road partly because I was leaving the UK and partly because I had frankly neglected it for a year or two and it needs a substantial amount of minor work - rubber shocks in the rear hub, primary drive sproket, clutch, oil leaks and the like.
The final straw was when the dynamo (no alternator) went toes up. But like I say, I'll get back to it and in the meantime I like it being in the garage - it keeps the box with the Matchless G12 (complete and original) company - naff frame, great engine. Although that's younger, its 1959.
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Ahhh! Velocette Venom. Buying clutch corks by the bag, fishtail silencer, best sounding single ever. Did not have the clubman though.
Travelling to work when I was a 17 year old apprentice. Scrawny little kid that I was, had difficulty kicking the old girl over. Swapped it for a 1953 Singer Hunter (Bad Move)
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I'm sane, it's the rest of the world that's mad.
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Yes, clutch corks! Every 3 months or so take down the plates and replace the corks. Velos were definitely idiosyncratic. They stuck with that wretched Miller dynamo belt-driven as I recall which gave lighting power roughly equivalent to that of a candle in my local church. Their engines were superbly hand-built though and the sound they made.......
Kick starting was an art. Tickle the carb, Retard the magneto, pull the compression lever, find TDC, take a deep breath, leap up in the air and jump on the kick-start for all you're worth. I'm sure my left leg is longer than my right to this day.
If anyone sometimes asks me what happened to the UK motorcycle industry I always say it was a simple stroke of genius by the Japanese -- fit electric starters......
Well, Dad signed as guarantor and I got a Bonneville. £320.16.3d
OTR. Which brings us back to the Ace cafe. I used to live in Stanmore so it wasn't that far away.
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You are right Growler, The starter motor on a bike changed it all. My current machine, a 1982 Honda CX500 is easy to start, easy to ride and super smooth. But not as much fun as the old Velo.
Think we had better stop this reminiscing, otherwise one of the Landrovers might get sold and a bike of known make will end up in the garage. (I sense a divorce threat on it's way)
Hope to meet up with you but it depends very much on the date
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Alyn Beattie
I'm sane, it's the rest of the world that's mad.
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>> an investment in a few pints of his preference plus a decent steak and kidney might prove a good strategy..... I can be bought, and that seems a fair price.
I seem to recall the going rate used to be a ploughman's lunch ... I suppose inflation comes to the backroom eventually.
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>>used to be a ploughman's lunch
"Used to be" is right.
And when are you going to get your sorry self over here ?
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Sheesh - given the weather reports I see, of you guys sweltering in 19C degree heat with monsoon, while I'm freezing my nads off at 24C under clear skies, maybe I should wait ...
But seriously, a whisltestop trip is planned for later this year.
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So If I turn up on my Lambretta Li150 I shall be laughed off the forecourt then?
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Shame - we do not arrive in the UK until 11th August. I remember the Ace Caff, junction of the Harrow Road & the North Circulasr isn't it?
Roger in Spain
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If it's a blue and beige Lambretta and reg 1862 BP then it belonged to my fiancée Sandra with impregnable Aertex knickers (c. 1961)
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"Any tips PLEASE! HELP!"
Greetings, and have a great time here!
Sorry about the weather, we can't arrange that to order.
There was a thread not too long ago about advice to a new lady driver. I was very impressed with it at the time. I'm not good at finding these things, terrible memory, worse technique. Perhaps Mark will point it up for you.
If you get into any problems make sure that Himself is next to you. A smile from him should sort things out.
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Bearing in mind the recent report on spelling & word meanings (and today's article by Lynn Truss in the Daily Tel.), I am glad to see that GRowler knows the correct meaning of "impregnable".
Roger in Spain
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