Hairy Bikers and Other Petrol Heads

[Peter Cross]

Alan Millyard was on the Motorbike show with a replica Honda 6 last week...

He'd built it himself "always wanted one, but they're something like a million quid and I can't ever afford that, so I built one"

Alan is man who do more with a hacksaw and file, than most can do with fully equipped machine shop.

 

[alastairq]

Teaching young students of EV's what a real engine sounds like !

I've just played that on my computer...with two of my Not-mi-cats sprawled across the compy desktop....Now being glared at with one and a half pairs of eyeballs....Most disgusted with me, they were.

 

[simond]

Just a Benelli Sei - wouldn’t bother with the race rep stuff - lovely

I nearly bought a Cagiva Elefant some years back but common sense got to me..

 

[Peter Cross]

Just a Benelli Sei - wouldn’t bother with the race rep stuff - lovely

I bought one in about '78. Fortunately I had a rider policy, or I would not been able to insure it. Lovely bike, but rusted while you watched it.

 

[Eastsidepilot]

After what seems likes weeks of rain finally a dry day and just back from a run on the 5T to check the refurbed carb, new wheel bearings and start bedding in the front brake shoes. Time for a Guinness before dinner .

 

[Neil]

OK it's electric, not petrol, but mighty impressive if impractical.

3000 horses, 300 mph.

 

[simond]

“It’s constantly negotiating with physics and winning the negotiations”

who writes this drivel?

ok, he does, and he’s driving the fancy car, and I’m not…

it is a bit of hoot though, 3000 hp & 300 mph…

 

[3 LINK]

I think I’ll settle for my V8, 510 bhp which is fast enough at my age…

 

[cmax]

I think I’ll settle for my V8, 510 bhp which is fast enough at my age…

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Very Nice.

 

[3 LINK]

Very Nice.

Cheers, my wife calls it the male menopause mobile !

 

[Eastsidepilot]

I think I’ll settle for my V8, 510 bhp which is fast enough at my age…

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Yep V8's....no substitute for cubes
This was my last V8.


And another one I played with at work moons ago.

 

[3 LINK]

Very nice, I use to drive a 143R 450 back in the nineties. Beautiful truck ate up the miles effortlessly, never missed a beat.

Martyn.

 

[Eastsidepilot]

Driver's are not happy with the F1 cars for 2026 !

We are seeing the demise of real cars

 

[RichardG]

We are seeing the demise of real cars

Cheer up!

We saw this at Heybridge Basin last week:

 

[simond]

Utterly daft, and rather lovely. I wonder what’s underneath. Something absurdly quick would be hilarious.


I have just realised that the pole in the middle is for an umbrella…

 

[RichardG]

A 1988 Volkswagen, according to the DVLA. So this could be a Beetle at heart.

 

[Eastsidepilot]

Ah ! a wood beetle !

 

[Dangerous Davies]

I thought it might be a Cooper?..................I'll get my coat!

 

[AllenM]

Roll out the barrel, we'll have a barrel of fun
Roll out the barrel we'll get the blues on the run

OK I'm leaving
Allen

 

[Peter Insole]

Oooh-err, i wouldn't fancy an even minor front shunt in that thing... not unless I actually wanted to loose my head?!!

Pete.