Lincoln - Just an observation (1 Viewer)

[dabhand]

A motorhome enables the disabled to travel when the alternative might be to be stuck at home. They can carry everything they need, scooter, medical aids, toilet somewhere to rest or stay

Pet owners can travel with their pets, enjoy their company knowing that they haven't had to put them in kennels. I am sure the pets also enjoy being with their owners.

Are there better reasons to buy a motorhome ?

Love this post

 

[dabhand]

Just thinking of buying a large dog and teaching it to drive a motorised scooter, would we and the hound be welcomed at meets ?

Only if it cleans up it's own sh*t as well

 

[Jaws]

I'm flogging a pair of 1985 TY250s soon

Shame they are so late Yorick.. Never get away with them on the pre-70's trials comps !

Yes mate, had one of those as well!! The entire motor was built into the back wheel.......Not very successful, if I remember.
Probably the bestest moped of the era was the Norman Nippy......Two speed!!.

Nahhhhh.. NSU Quickly !! Also two speed and faster !

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[DuxDeluxe]

The only 1970's bike I had was..............

 

[Tootles]

Kin 'ell. It's beginning to smell of wee in here.

It might be your spaniel......I see you got rid of it from your computer....
Either that, or you've started the pre-senility dribble......

 

[dabhand]

..must admit I was too busy looking at lots of gorgeous vans instead of looking where I was going so must apologize and thank all the swerving scooters and agile pets for avoiding me

Now as we are on the subject, just what is the perceived etiquette for the following.

Whilst at Lincoln I too was to busy looking at all the gorgeous vans, well at least 4 anyway, to notice a considerate pet owner who had bent down to pick up her doggies do, and promptly walked into her, knocking her out of the way whilst at the same time squashing her doggies poops twixt shoe and path, therefore making it considerably more difficult for her to pick it up, now I have to admit that I didn't fully realise at the time that I had "mushed" the doodoo, apologised, and carried on walking until my brain had fully assimilated what had happened, upon which my first reaction was to find a "safe" bit of grass to wipe said plop off my shoe.

My predicament, should I have gone back and assisted in the poop scoop? What would you have done? And by the way if the lady ever reads this, sorry!

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[movan]

Don't know ... but you should become a standup comedian. LOL

 

[TheTwoOfUs]

Shame they are so late Yorick.. Never get away with them on the pre-70's trials comps !




Nahhhhh.. NSU Quickly !! Also two speed and faster !

It's funny how everybody remembers the big Vincent, Lightening, Shadow, Rapide and Comet but hardly anyone recalls the Firefly. Very similar to the Quickly.

 

[Yorick]

It's funny how everybody remembers the big Vincent, Lightening, Shadow, Rapide and Comet but hardly anyone recalls the Firefly. Very similar to the Quickly.

I don't remember any of them

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[Tootles]

Also had an Ariel Arrow......Kept seizing up! Took the bottom fairing of, no problems.......Very fast for it's time though.

 

[TheTwoOfUs]

I don't remember any of them

Vincent Black Shadow (I had one) was the fastest production motorbike in the 50's and 60's. 125 mph straight out of the factory. Journalist Tony Rose did over 100,000 miles in one year on a Rapide.

 

[cruiser]

my next bike was the matchless, 750. very fast. but u/s at going round bends.

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[Yorick]

It's like a history lesson on here

 

[Peter & Elaine]

My first bike was a BSA C15
Heap of junk had to fit big end bearing ever month
And would not go round a corner to save its life nor mine I must have dropped the bloody thing 6 times once into a farmers field when it seized up

Best old bike was a RD LC 350 elaine made me sell after doing 120 up a stretch of old A1 I forgot she was on back

Favourite bike triumph adventure 900 from 1996 a pleasure to ride wet or dry

All I have now is the rewaco trike
And a Virgo 550 in bits that I keep promising myself to sort out one day
Possibly next my mate has a old blackbird that I keep offering to take of his hands

The joys of a misspent youth it surprising that any of the old school biker are still around considering some of the junk we used to ride

Ride safe guys and if you can't stay lucky

 

[Bluemooner]

I used to have a Suzuki 500 twin 2 stroke drum brakes and terrible on cornering

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[movan]

and I always wanted one of these but they couldn't afford one....
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[Chris]

I had Yamaha FS1E when I was 16.

Can I join the biker discussions?

50 mph ( if tucked up behind a lorry and getting in the slipstream)

 

[Gorse Hill]

Just a thought but how many scooter users are registered disabled and how many are just plain lazy? Too many times have I seen a scooter stop and a sprightly person get off and walk around as any able bodied person.

Not many and generally fat as well

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[DuxDeluxe]

I had Yamaha FS1E when I was 16.

Can I join the biker discussions?

50 mph ( if tucked up behind a lorry and getting in the slipstream)

Only if you either binned it on a corner or seized the motor. The latter event often resulted in the first event........so they said

 

[cruiser]

it is if like me when you come of and get run over by a tk Bedford.

 

[davidbaldam]

and I always wanted one of these but they couldn't afford one....
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Be careful what you ask for Joy, don't forget we've seen you ride a bike at Lincoln.

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[DuxDeluxe]

Be careful what you ask for Joy, don't forget we've seen you ride a bike at Lincoln.

....and stayed on it longer than most.......

 

[dryad]

all the chatter about m/cycles and the lovely old vinnies has just taken me back to the days of the old biker cafes, johnsons on the A20, the ace, the coffee stalls, ahhhhhh, thank you guys..

 

[movan]

Be careful what you ask for Joy, don't forget we've seen you ride a bike at Lincoln.

I do hope you were told that Jaws had 'doctored' that bloomin' bike so that it was unrideable . (is there such a word!!!!!)

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[Chris]

Only if you either binned it on a corner or seized the motor. The latter event often resulted in the first event........so they said

All my friends crashed theirs but I was lucky.

We were right moped monkeys back in the day.

 

[cruiser]

there is now joy.

 

[Minxy]

and I always wanted one of these but they couldn't afford one....
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I had one of those as a kiddy, but mine had a tipper on the back ... I LOVED that tricycle (I think it must've been given to us as there's no way we could've afforded it!).

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[teddybard]

We couldn't afford one of those either but we used to love the
cardboard box that the posh peoples trike came in.
It fitted into our out house and replaced my previous box
which was named Pickford for some reason.

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[Yorick]

We used to live in a shoe box in t'middle of t'road.

 

[Sue]

I think its just me but did anyone else notice, as they wandered up and down the avenues at the Lincoln Motorhome show, the extraordinary number of dogs and people in motorised wheel chairs they had to dodge to avoid being run over by geriatric speedsters or tripped over by uncontrolled dogs on long leads wandering all over the place.

i am intrigued.....how do you get a mobility scooter in a motorhome?

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