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Chris Thomas

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Re: Bob crashing his moped!
« Reply #75 on: January 09, 2012, 10:13:51 AM »
Dear Nick

When You say Jean Pool, do you mean the big fish pond at School house farm?

Are you thinking of setting the bench mark at the next open day?

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Re: Bob crashing his moped!
« Reply #76 on: January 09, 2012, 11:11:00 AM »
At the time I was making my Drum Car I did wonder about making a water-borne version, a Drum Yacht perhaps. These jackass comments are giving me an idea...
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Re: Bob crashing his moped!
« Reply #77 on: January 09, 2012, 01:43:52 PM »
I think the Dangerous Sports Club was a product of Oxbridge excess. Nothing to do with the TV.

I dimly remember the great Eel Pie adventure. Steve ate all the pies! It certainly would have made a great news item.
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Re: Bob crashing his moped!
« Reply #78 on: January 09, 2012, 03:21:21 PM »
Quote from: Chris Thomas (Insight) on January 09, 2012, 10:13:51 AM
Dear Nick

When You say Jean Pool, do you mean the big fish pond at School house farm?

Are you thinking of setting the bench mark at the next open day?

Chris Thomas

I think if Nick wore his customs officer uniform we would have no shortage of volunteers to throw him in!
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Re: Bob crashing his moped!
« Reply #79 on: January 09, 2012, 04:04:25 PM »
Oh Bob, that's mean! Every time I bring my juggernaut into UK, packed to the gunwhales with booze, drugs, fake Rolexes, pirate DVDs, Russian and Phillipino Brides etc Nick always waves me through!
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Re: Bob crashing his moped!
« Reply #80 on: January 09, 2012, 05:48:34 PM »
Is he on 10%?
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Re: Bob crashing his moped!
« Reply #81 on: January 09, 2012, 10:12:52 PM »
Suggestion for Bobs next set of Puch wheels.
It will either go round the corner or reach half way across the field next time (if he isn't sucked into the carb first).
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Re: Bob crashing his moped!
« Reply #82 on: January 10, 2012, 08:37:26 AM »
Are those racing mopeds? They look fun.
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Re: Bob crashing his moped!
« Reply #83 on: January 10, 2012, 08:48:01 AM »
When I was sixteen, I had a Honda SS50. It was fine, but my mate had a Puch Grand Prix. It was brilliant. It looked like a proper motorbike, had a rev counter and the speedo needle just about touched 60 ! I was dead jealous. Then I bought a KTM for 50p. All I had to do to get in running was make a woodruf key for the flywheel. A new front exhaust down pipe was £7 though. I used it a lot, including three trips to Bournemouth to strip an Isetta that had been dumped in a car park. I've always had a soft spot for sports mopeds of the late 70's. One I fancied but never got was a Garelli Tiger Cross or Rekord.             
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Re: Bob crashing his moped!
« Reply #84 on: January 10, 2012, 09:26:37 AM »
As Bob has said in the past, there is a lot of common ground between the Microcar enthusiasts and the moped brigade.  We all have a screw loose.
One definite connection is the use of moped engines in Sans Permis 50cc cars

They seem to do much tuning in Canada on mopeds (Tomas and others) and this link could be the answer to getting sans permis cars up to perhaps 40mph for (just about) practical use on UK side roads.

Have a look at 1977mopeds and Britton Bees for all sorts of engine and style info.

www.1977mopeds.com

www.britonbees.com      (Good gallery of modified 50cc from cheap to very expensive)

You will all like these photos

http://www.piccolibastardi.it/galleria_foto.htm

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~pattle/nacc/gallery/pfan.html





(I had a Tiger Cross for about 1/2 an hour!)


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Re: Bob crashing his moped!
« Reply #85 on: January 10, 2012, 09:32:29 AM »
OH it was you then!! ??? I only popped out to buy a paper, went back to the car park and someone had striped my Isetta!!! :D :D :D

My two best mates both rode Garelli Tigercross's in the early seventies, people rave about fizzies but those Garelli's were great little bikes!
I have always fancied a Puch Grandprix too but as an anti smoker would find it hard to justify owning a bike with John Player special on the side!
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Re: Bob crashing his moped!
« Reply #86 on: January 10, 2012, 10:59:30 AM »
How can you be an anti smoker when you own all those two-strokes?  ;D
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Re: Bob crashing his moped!
« Reply #87 on: January 10, 2012, 11:10:33 AM »
Bob "Bill Clinton" Purton: He smokes, but he does not inhale!"
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Re: Bob crashing his moped!
« Reply #88 on: January 10, 2012, 01:08:49 PM »
See 'In Hail Mary and the two stroke Catholic incense burner of Doom' by Enid Blyton and Edger Allen Yingtong Idle I Poe and featuring Beep Beeney, which might be a MIcrocar and a Edwardian Moped called Huffy.
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Re: Bob crashing his moped!
« Reply #89 on: January 10, 2012, 01:34:32 PM »
Quote from: Rob Dobie on January 10, 2012, 10:59:30 AM
How can you be an anti smoker when you own all those two-strokes?  ;D

I just knew that would get a reaction!  For the same reason that I'm vegitarian and still wear leather motorcycle boots!
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