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« Reply #15 on: January 26, 2006, 11:04:34 PM » |
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 Maybe it's time to start that novel I keep saying I should write.
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« Reply #16 on: January 26, 2006, 11:13:24 PM » |
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Well, you've got the first line... Beats Snoopy's 'It was a dark and stormy night' into a cocked hat! |
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« Reply #17 on: January 26, 2006, 11:59:59 PM » |
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He's been working on that for about 30 years now hasn't he?
I fancy retiring to a little crofter's cottage, (I'll buy it off the little crofter), beside a Scottish loch & writing a travelogue -"Triking in the Trossachs", "Travels with my Tricycle", "Trikes, tartan & tranquility". Maybe I won't give up the day job just yet.
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« Reply #18 on: January 27, 2006, 12:39:10 PM » |
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I think that sort of travelogue actually depends on having a trike that will travel. Or even go.
*SMACK* ... *OWWWW!*Bugger, you've moved the door....
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« Reply #19 on: January 27, 2006, 01:04:37 PM » |
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Serves you right! I'm getting there -slowly. Still be on the road before Flap's. Just decided to cut off the seat rails & re-do them. I'd planned to re-use my very expensive handmade ally tank from the previous incarnation, but it restricted the shape of the frame & meant I had to have the gearstick coming up through the nose of the saddle as before. Decided to use a standard Sportster tank, (which hopefully I can blag from Critch), & a solo saddle the same as the other Manky trikes cos I like that look. Gearchange will come out to the left under the seat. My own trike keeps getting pushed to the back of the queue though. Back on the road for the Summer -maybe.
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« Reply #20 on: January 27, 2006, 01:06:51 PM » |
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Which summer???
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« Reply #21 on: January 27, 2006, 01:14:45 PM » |
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This Summer, but maybe not this lifetime.
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« Reply #22 on: January 27, 2006, 03:40:06 PM » |
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Decided to use a standard Sportster tank, (which hopefully I can blag from Critch)
I shall bring it with me, possibly mrs critch too depending on babysitters..(you cant keep her though ).. |
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« Reply #23 on: January 27, 2006, 03:42:54 PM » |
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Your fault I've got to cut my frame up & re-do it. I was quite happy with the stretched King Sportster from my previous trike until I tried the Sporty tank Rainbow bought. Now I want one!
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« Reply #24 on: January 27, 2006, 03:44:41 PM » |
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this one is a stock sporty mate....
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« Reply #25 on: January 27, 2006, 03:47:27 PM » |
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Yeah, that's what I'm after. Rainbow picked one up on Ebay. 50 quid, with nice shiny black paintjob, (we'll shotblast that off!), shiny screw-in cap & tap.
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« Reply #26 on: January 27, 2006, 03:56:42 PM » |
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you can get the flush push in caps for just over£20 with the postage from ebay.. they fit in the stock screw in filler ..good for the msva mate
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« Reply #27 on: January 27, 2006, 04:03:32 PM » |
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Hmm, got a link for those? Checked the measurements -the MSVA book says the cap mustn't protrude more than 15mm above the surface of the tank & must have a domed top I think. I wonder if they used a Harley cap for those regs cos it conforms exactly. Might be worth sticking a flush one in for the test though, & I might be interested in one myself.
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« Reply #28 on: January 31, 2006, 06:20:44 PM » |
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no you know me techno phobe and all that... i just looked in ebay under harley filler caps in worldwide search mode
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« Reply #29 on: January 31, 2006, 10:39:32 PM » |
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I'll go & look later.
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