Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 01:37:41 GMT From: David Eastwood <eatswodonopsami.com> Subject: Re: 9000CD Headlights
"Lineone" <adriannopsamone.org> wrote: >Sorry everyone, a bit of impromptu bike talk here. I'll keep it brief. > >Danny, >Affordable. Indeed it was. If I remember rightly, the CZ (mine was two-tone >green) was £288 on the road in '74 or '75. Even in those days it was really >good value, though I really wanted a Yamaha 200 Electric. A couple of years >later I saved up and bought a Yamaha RD 400 at about £690. I still have a >1959 Velocette Venom 499cc single - fires once every lamp post. It's in >many bits in the garage and hasn't run for over 20 years. I must get round >to putting it back together one day. >I confess that I don't remember the Honda CJ250. Was it a single? The CB250 >twin was very common. > >Any other ex-biker Saab owners out there? >Adrian > > Oh yes - my first bike was a Suzuki 200 twin (don't remember the name) in 1973. I then graduated to a Matchless G3LS (350 single - also firing every third lamp post) nicknamed Hercules - sold it to a good friend who rebuilt it after running it into something. Then I had a Triumph Tiger 90 'cafe racer' - zoom zoom - all done up with rearsets, clipons, rectangular headlight, and a big humpy petrol tank. Alas, everything motorized I've owned since then (apart from lawnmowers and snowlblowers) has had 4 wheels, but I live in hope.... Cheers, David 2000 9-3 ------------------------------------------------------ David Eastwood - eatswodonopsami.com