Ape in an Ape

Here you are, then: the Ape in all its glory. As you can see, it's a
tight fit in the cab.

http://www.chateau.murray.dsl.pipex.com/PiaggioApe.jpg

God, it's fun, though.

One thing I've learned: those speed bumps are a problem. On a bike, you
can zoom between them, and in a car you can straddle them, but in a
three-wheeler, something is going to hit them whatever you do.

--
BMW K1100LT 750SS CB400F CD250 SL125
GAGARPHOF#30 GHPOTHUF#1 BOTAFOT#60 ANORAK#06 YTC#3
BOF#30 WUSS#5 The bells, the bells.....

In article
<1i1arq2.1w3dynaeu7a6N%chateau.murray.takethisout@ dsl.pipex.com>,
chateau.murray.takethisout@dsl.pipex.com (The Older Gentleman) wrote:

> God, it's fun, though.

The only thing missing is the boot sale sign and the back full of bike
bits.

--
Mike
DL1000 Black with extra black bits. UKRMMA#22
Skype: mikebothe
I must belong somewhere

In message
<1i1arq2.1w3dynaeu7a6N%chateau.murray.takethisout@ dsl.pipex.com>, The
Older Gentleman <chateau.murray.takethisout@dsl.pipex.com> writes
>Here you are, then: the Ape in all its glory. As you can see, it's a
>tight fit in the cab.
>
>http://www.chateau.murray.dsl.pipex.com/PiaggioApe.jpg
>
>God, it's fun, though.
>
>One thing I've learned: those speed bumps are a problem. On a bike, you
>can zoom between them, and in a car you can straddle them, but in a
>three-wheeler, something is going to hit them whatever you do.
>
I am sure given the right speed and angle of attack you could roll it
over.
--
Tim
http://www.pitfieldbeershop.co.uk/

chateau.murray.takethisout@dsl.pipex.com (The Older Gentleman) writes:

> Here you are, then: the Ape in all its glory. As you can see, it's a
> tight fit in the cab.
>
> http://www.chateau.murray.dsl.pipex.com/PiaggioApe.jpg

Looks like you've parked it in the spot where The Doctor is least likely
to reverse into it.

Let's see if that works.

--
Morini Corsaro 125 | CB450K4 | XL250 Motosport x2 | 900SSD | VFR750
Triumph T-Bird chop | K1100LT | CB400/4 BOTAFOF #33 TWA#10
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muddy cat <muddyDOTcat@gmail.com> writes:

> In article
> <1i1arq2.1w3dynaeu7a6N%chateau.murray.takethisout@ dsl.pipex.com>,
> chateau.murray.takethisout@dsl.pipex.com (The Older Gentleman) wrote:
>
>> God, it's fun, though.
>
> The only thing missing is the boot sale sign and the back full of bike
> bits.

It'll happen, sooner or later.

When I went to meet up with him as he was picking up the latest breaker
400/4, I mumbled something about needed some other parts.

He dived into the boot of his car and proceeded to pull out a couple of
boxes that, amongst other things, also contained bits of 400/4.

--
Morini Corsaro 125 | CB450K4 | XL250 Motosport x2 | 900SSD | VFR750
Triumph T-Bird chop | K1100LT | CB400/4 BOTAFOF #33 TWA#10
The UKRM FAQ: http://www.ukrm.net/faq/index.html
"Je profite du paysage" - Joe Bar

The Older Gentleman wrote:

> Here you are, then: the Ape in all its glory. As you can see, it's a
> tight fit in the cab.
>
> http://www.chateau.murray.dsl.pipex.com/PiaggioApe.jpg

Christ, looks like you'd end up looking like Quasimodo if you stayed in
there too long.

> God, it's fun, though.
>
> One thing I've learned: those speed bumps are a problem. On a bike,
> you can zoom between them, and in a car you can straddle them, but in
> a three-wheeler, something is going to hit them whatever you do.

Do you go that fast to even notice?

--
Cab :^) - I'm dyslex-spic apparently
GSX 1400 - Speedy Zimmerframe.
UKRMMA#10 (KOTL), IbW#015, BoB#4, POTM#3, SKA#1
email addy : ukrm_dot_cab_at_rosbif_dot_org
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Muck <muck@rulex.net> wrote:

> You want to waxoil or ACF-50 the thing before winter. I can see it
> melting like cheese by Feb 08.

Good idea.

--
BMW K1100LT 750SS CB400F CD250 SL125
GAGARPHOF#30 GHPOTHUF#1 BOTAFOT#60 ANORAK#06 YTC#3
BOF#30 WUSS#5 The bells, the bells.....

The Older Gentleman wrote:

> Here you are, then: the Ape in all its glory. As you can see, it's a
> tight fit in the cab.
>
> http://www.chateau.murray.dsl.pipex.com/PiaggioApe.jpg
>
> God, it's fun, though.
>
> One thing I've learned: those speed bumps are a problem. On a bike,
> you can zoom between them, and in a car you can straddle them, but in
> a three-wheeler, something is going to hit them whatever you do.

Does the seatbelt actually *do* anything? I mean, it doesn't look like
you've got far to travel.

--

/Simon

Simon Wilson <siwilson@NOSPAM.hotmail.com> wrote:

> Does the seatbelt actually *do* anything? I mean, it doesn't look like
> you've got far to travel.

Heh. Good point. No, not a lot. And it's not inertia reel, either.

--
BMW K1100LT 750SS CB400F CD250 SL125
GAGARPHOF#30 GHPOTHUF#1 BOTAFOT#60 ANORAK#06 YTC#3
BOF#30 WUSS#5 The bells, the bells.....

"Simon Wilson" <siwilson@NOSPAM.hotmail.com> writes:

> The Older Gentleman wrote:
>
>> Here you are, then: the Ape in all its glory. As you can see, it's a
>> tight fit in the cab.
>>
>> http://www.chateau.murray.dsl.pipex.com/PiaggioApe.jpg
>>
>> God, it's fun, though.
>>
>> One thing I've learned: those speed bumps are a problem. On a bike,
>> you can zoom between them, and in a car you can straddle them, but in
>> a three-wheeler, something is going to hit them whatever you do.
>
> Does the seatbelt actually *do* anything? I mean, it doesn't look like
> you've got far to travel.

Maybe it's for clipping your mobile phone holder to.

--
Morini Corsaro 125 | CB450K4 | XL250 Motosport x2 | 900SSD | VFR750
Triumph T-Bird chop | K1100LT | CB400/4 BOTAFOF #33 TWA#10
The UKRM FAQ: http://www.ukrm.net/faq/index.html
"Je profite du paysage" - Joe Bar

The Older Gentleman wrote:
> Here you are, then: the Ape in all its glory. As you can see, it's a
> tight fit in the cab.
>
> http://www.chateau.murray.dsl.pipex.com/PiaggioApe.jpg
>
> God, it's fun, though.
>
> One thing I've learned: those speed bumps are a problem. On a bike,
> you can zoom between them, and in a car you can straddle them, but in
> a three-wheeler, something is going to hit them whatever you do.

Looks like a phone box. Perhaps you should consider something like
300130357423, and maybe 330144608181.

--
platypus

"enthusiasm and incompetence"

platypus <monotreme@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

> The Older Gentleman wrote:
> > Here you are, then: the Ape in all its glory. As you can see, it's a
> > tight fit in the cab.
> >
> > http://www.chateau.murray.dsl.pipex.com/PiaggioApe.jpg
> >
> > God, it's fun, though.
> >
> > One thing I've learned: those speed bumps are a problem. On a bike,
> > you can zoom between them, and in a car you can straddle them, but in
> > a three-wheeler, something is going to hit them whatever you do.
>
> Looks like a phone box. Perhaps you should consider something like
> 300130357423, and maybe 330144608181.

Ha-bleedin'-ha.

--
BMW K1100LT 750SS CB400F CD250 SL125
GAGARPHOF#30 GHPOTHUF#1 BOTAFOT#60 ANORAK#06 YTC#3
BOF#30 WUSS#5 The bells, the bells.....

"platypus" <monotreme@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in news:bbwmi.24359$p8.1319
@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk:

> The Older Gentleman wrote:
>> Here you are, then: the Ape in all its glory. As you can see, it's a
>> tight fit in the cab.
>>
>> http://www.chateau.murray.dsl.pipex.com/PiaggioApe.jpg
>>
>> God, it's fun, though.
>>
>> One thing I've learned: those speed bumps are a problem. On a bike,
>> you can zoom between them, and in a car you can straddle them, but in
>> a three-wheeler, something is going to hit them whatever you do.
>
> Looks like a phone box. Perhaps you should consider something like
> 300130357423, and maybe 330144608181.
>

or 220130848204

--
wessie at tesco dot net

BMW R1150GS

In message <bbwmi.24359$p8.1319@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk> , platypus
<monotreme@blueyonder.co.uk> writes
>The Older Gentleman wrote:
>> Here you are, then: the Ape in all its glory. As you can see, it's a
>> tight fit in the cab.
>>
>> http://www.chateau.murray.dsl.pipex.com/PiaggioApe.jpg
>>
>> God, it's fun, though.
>>
>> One thing I've learned: those speed bumps are a problem. On a bike,
>> you can zoom between them, and in a car you can straddle them, but in
>> a three-wheeler, something is going to hit them whatever you do.
>
>Looks like a phone box. Perhaps you should consider something like
>300130357423, and maybe 330144608181.
>
If it looks like a phone box I would have thought that the numbers
should be 0981 ...

--
Tim
http://www.pitfieldbeershop.co.uk/

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember
chateau.murray.takethisout@dsl.pipex.com (The Older Gentleman) saying
something like:

>Here you are, then: the Ape in all its glory. As you can see, it's a
>tight fit in the cab.
>
>http://www.chateau.murray.dsl.pipex.com/PiaggioApe.jpg

You should go to Specsavers, mate.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the
river cleaned out in a day.

The Older Gentleman wrote:
> Here you are, then: the Ape in all its glory. As you can see, it's a
> tight fit in the cab.
>
> http://www.chateau.murray.dsl.pipex.com/PiaggioApe.jpg
>
> God, it's fun, though.
>
> One thing I've learned: those speed bumps are a problem. On a bike, you
> can zoom between them, and in a car you can straddle them, but in a
> three-wheeler, something is going to hit them whatever you do.
>
>

You utter utter bastard.

Having considered carefully the lunacy of owning something like that I
now want one.

It makes perfect sense, according to several articles the average speed
in London is somewhere betweem 7 and 9 mph.

Does it come in Magic Roundabout paint trim because if I owned one I'd
want everyone to be clear that I was *eccentric* .

--
Donald

Donald <Firstname_Surname@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:

> Does it come in Magic Roundabout paint trim because if I owned one I'd
> want everyone to be clear that I was *eccentric* .

No worries on that score, whatever colour you pick. I popped down to
Blockbuster in it the other day. I have never seen so many heads turn,
nor so many faces break into wide grins. And that incuded the brace of
coppers by the take-away pizza parlour.

II'm classifying it in the "nick-free" category formerly occupied by my
Jawa combo.

"If he's trundling round in *that*, Sarge, he's gotta be legal...."

--
BMW K1100LT 750SS CB400F CD250 SL125
GAGARPHOF#30 GHPOTHUF#1 BOTAFOT#60 ANORAK#06 YTC#3
BOF#30 WUSS#5 The bells, the bells.....

"The Older Gentleman" <chateau.murray.takethisout@dsl.pipex.com> wrote in
message
news:1i1et0s.r3e3s23jwqz4N%chateau.murray.takethis out@dsl.pipex.com...

>
> II'm classifying it in the "nick-free" category formerly occupied by my
> Jawa combo.

I read that as "There's no way this is ever going to get stolen...."

--
Dave
ex Motorcycle Maintenance Workshop
http://tinyurl.com/4mhaw

In article <f7j7sd$5r9$1@registered.motzarella.org>, Dave Emerson
<Dave_dot_Emerson@LineOne.net> writes
>
>"The Older Gentleman" <chateau.murray.takethisout@dsl.pipex.com> wrote in
>message
>news:1i1et0s.r3e3s23jwqz4N%chateau.murray.takethi sout@dsl.pipex.com...
>
>>
>> II'm classifying it in the "nick-free" category formerly occupied by my
>> Jawa combo.
>
>I read that as "There's no way this is ever going to get stolen...."

And even if it is, "driven away at speed" will not be appearing in any
eyewitness statements.

--
steve auvache
A Bloo one with built in safety features

steve auvache wrote:
> In article <f7j7sd$5r9$1@registered.motzarella.org>, Dave Emerson
> <Dave_dot_Emerson@LineOne.net> writes
>> I read that as "There's no way this is ever going to get stolen...."
>
> And even if it is, "driven away at speed" will not be appearing in any
> eyewitness statements.

I've got visions of it being carried away on four big blokes' shoulders,
like a coffin...

--
Eddie eddie@deguello.org

http://www.last.fm/group/ukrm

"Eddie" <eddie@deguello.org> wrote in message
news:0qovm4-dtc.ln1@deguello.org...
> steve auvache wrote:
>> In article <f7j7sd$5r9$1@registered.motzarella.org>, Dave Emerson
>> <Dave_dot_Emerson@LineOne.net> writes
>>> I read that as "There's no way this is ever going to get stolen...."
>>
>> And even if it is, "driven away at speed" will not be appearing in any
>> eyewitness statements.
>
> I've got visions of it being carried away on four big blokes' shoulders,
> like a coffin...

Back when I was an apprentice, one for the other guys had a Bantam outfit -
3rd wheel platform with a beer-crate bolted on.

He went to go home one day and found the outfit neatly parked on the roof of
the works bike shed.

"Must 'ave been the wind lad"

--
Dave
ex Motorcycle Maintenance Workshop
http://tinyurl.com/4mhaw

	#1
The Older Gentleman	Ape in an Ape Here you are, then: the Ape in all its glory. As you can see, it's a tight fit in the cab. http://www.chateau.murray.dsl.pipex.com/PiaggioApe.jpg God, it's fun, though. One thing I've learned: those speed bumps are a problem. On a bike, you can zoom between them, and in a car you can straddle them, but in a three-wheeler, something is going to hit them whatever you do. -- BMW K1100LT 750SS CB400F CD250 SL125 GAGARPHOF#30 GHPOTHUF#1 BOTAFOT#60 ANORAK#06 YTC#3 BOF#30 WUSS#5 The bells, the bells.....

	#2
muddy cat	Re: Ape in an Ape In article <1i1arq2.1w3dynaeu7a6N%chateau.murray.takethisout@ dsl.pipex.com>, chateau.murray.takethisout@dsl.pipex.com (The Older Gentleman) wrote: > God, it's fun, though. The only thing missing is the boot sale sign and the back full of bike bits. -- Mike DL1000 Black with extra black bits. UKRMMA#22 Skype: mikebothe I must belong somewhere

	#3
Tim	Re: Ape in an Ape In message <1i1arq2.1w3dynaeu7a6N%chateau.murray.takethisout@ dsl.pipex.com>, The Older Gentleman <chateau.murray.takethisout@dsl.pipex.com> writes >Here you are, then: the Ape in all its glory. As you can see, it's a >tight fit in the cab. > >http://www.chateau.murray.dsl.pipex.com/PiaggioApe.jpg > >God, it's fun, though. > >One thing I've learned: those speed bumps are a problem. On a bike, you >can zoom between them, and in a car you can straddle them, but in a >three-wheeler, something is going to hit them whatever you do. > I am sure given the right speed and angle of attack you could roll it over. -- Tim http://www.pitfieldbeershop.co.uk/

	#4
Timo Geusch	Re: Ape in an Ape chateau.murray.takethisout@dsl.pipex.com (The Older Gentleman) writes: > Here you are, then: the Ape in all its glory. As you can see, it's a > tight fit in the cab. > > http://www.chateau.murray.dsl.pipex.com/PiaggioApe.jpg Looks like you've parked it in the spot where The Doctor is least likely to reverse into it. Let's see if that works. -- Morini Corsaro 125 \| CB450K4 \| XL250 Motosport x2 \| 900SSD \| VFR750 Triumph T-Bird chop \| K1100LT \| CB400/4 BOTAFOF #33 TWA#10 The UKRM FAQ: http://www.ukrm.net/faq/index.html "Je profite du paysage" - Joe Bar

	#5
Timo Geusch	Re: Ape in an Ape muddy cat <muddyDOTcat@gmail.com> writes: > In article > <1i1arq2.1w3dynaeu7a6N%chateau.murray.takethisout@ dsl.pipex.com>, > chateau.murray.takethisout@dsl.pipex.com (The Older Gentleman) wrote: > >> God, it's fun, though. > > The only thing missing is the boot sale sign and the back full of bike > bits. It'll happen, sooner or later. When I went to meet up with him as he was picking up the latest breaker 400/4, I mumbled something about needed some other parts. He dived into the boot of his car and proceeded to pull out a couple of boxes that, amongst other things, also contained bits of 400/4. -- Morini Corsaro 125 \| CB450K4 \| XL250 Motosport x2 \| 900SSD \| VFR750 Triumph T-Bird chop \| K1100LT \| CB400/4 BOTAFOF #33 TWA#10 The UKRM FAQ: http://www.ukrm.net/faq/index.html "Je profite du paysage" - Joe Bar

	#6
Cab	Re: Ape in an Ape The Older Gentleman wrote: > Here you are, then: the Ape in all its glory. As you can see, it's a > tight fit in the cab. > > http://www.chateau.murray.dsl.pipex.com/PiaggioApe.jpg Christ, looks like you'd end up looking like Quasimodo if you stayed in there too long. > God, it's fun, though. > > One thing I've learned: those speed bumps are a problem. On a bike, > you can zoom between them, and in a car you can straddle them, but in > a three-wheeler, something is going to hit them whatever you do. Do you go that fast to even notice? -- Cab :^) - I'm dyslex-spic apparently GSX 1400 - Speedy Zimmerframe. UKRMMA#10 (KOTL), IbW#015, BoB#4, POTM#3, SKA#1 email addy : ukrm_dot_cab_at_rosbif_dot_org UKRM Firefox Extension: http://www.rosbif.org/ukrm/ukrm.xpi The gingeometer: http://www.rosbif.org/ukrm/gingeometer/

	#7
The Older Gentleman	Re: Ape in an Ape Muck <muck@rulex.net> wrote: > You want to waxoil or ACF-50 the thing before winter. I can see it > melting like cheese by Feb 08. Good idea. -- BMW K1100LT 750SS CB400F CD250 SL125 GAGARPHOF#30 GHPOTHUF#1 BOTAFOT#60 ANORAK#06 YTC#3 BOF#30 WUSS#5 The bells, the bells.....

	#8
Simon Wilson	Re: Ape in an Ape The Older Gentleman wrote: > Here you are, then: the Ape in all its glory. As you can see, it's a > tight fit in the cab. > > http://www.chateau.murray.dsl.pipex.com/PiaggioApe.jpg > > God, it's fun, though. > > One thing I've learned: those speed bumps are a problem. On a bike, > you can zoom between them, and in a car you can straddle them, but in > a three-wheeler, something is going to hit them whatever you do. Does the seatbelt actually do anything? I mean, it doesn't look like you've got far to travel. -- /Simon

	#9
The Older Gentleman	Re: Ape in an Ape Simon Wilson <siwilson@NOSPAM.hotmail.com> wrote: > Does the seatbelt actually do anything? I mean, it doesn't look like > you've got far to travel. Heh. Good point. No, not a lot. And it's not inertia reel, either. -- BMW K1100LT 750SS CB400F CD250 SL125 GAGARPHOF#30 GHPOTHUF#1 BOTAFOT#60 ANORAK#06 YTC#3 BOF#30 WUSS#5 The bells, the bells.....

	#10
Timo Geusch	Re: Ape in an Ape "Simon Wilson" <siwilson@NOSPAM.hotmail.com> writes: > The Older Gentleman wrote: > >> Here you are, then: the Ape in all its glory. As you can see, it's a >> tight fit in the cab. >> >> http://www.chateau.murray.dsl.pipex.com/PiaggioApe.jpg >> >> God, it's fun, though. >> >> One thing I've learned: those speed bumps are a problem. On a bike, >> you can zoom between them, and in a car you can straddle them, but in >> a three-wheeler, something is going to hit them whatever you do. > > Does the seatbelt actually do anything? I mean, it doesn't look like > you've got far to travel. Maybe it's for clipping your mobile phone holder to. -- Morini Corsaro 125 \| CB450K4 \| XL250 Motosport x2 \| 900SSD \| VFR750 Triumph T-Bird chop \| K1100LT \| CB400/4 BOTAFOF #33 TWA#10 The UKRM FAQ: http://www.ukrm.net/faq/index.html "Je profite du paysage" - Joe Bar

	#11
platypus	Re: Ape in an Ape The Older Gentleman wrote: > Here you are, then: the Ape in all its glory. As you can see, it's a > tight fit in the cab. > > http://www.chateau.murray.dsl.pipex.com/PiaggioApe.jpg > > God, it's fun, though. > > One thing I've learned: those speed bumps are a problem. On a bike, > you can zoom between them, and in a car you can straddle them, but in > a three-wheeler, something is going to hit them whatever you do. Looks like a phone box. Perhaps you should consider something like 300130357423, and maybe 330144608181. -- platypus "enthusiasm and incompetence"

	#12
The Older Gentleman	Re: Ape in an Ape platypus <monotreme@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: > The Older Gentleman wrote: > > Here you are, then: the Ape in all its glory. As you can see, it's a > > tight fit in the cab. > > > > http://www.chateau.murray.dsl.pipex.com/PiaggioApe.jpg > > > > God, it's fun, though. > > > > One thing I've learned: those speed bumps are a problem. On a bike, > > you can zoom between them, and in a car you can straddle them, but in > > a three-wheeler, something is going to hit them whatever you do. > > Looks like a phone box. Perhaps you should consider something like > 300130357423, and maybe 330144608181. Ha-bleedin'-ha. -- BMW K1100LT 750SS CB400F CD250 SL125 GAGARPHOF#30 GHPOTHUF#1 BOTAFOT#60 ANORAK#06 YTC#3 BOF#30 WUSS#5 The bells, the bells.....

	#13
wessie	Re: Ape in an Ape "platypus" <monotreme@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in news:bbwmi.24359$p8.1319 @text.news.blueyonder.co.uk: > The Older Gentleman wrote: >> Here you are, then: the Ape in all its glory. As you can see, it's a >> tight fit in the cab. >> >> http://www.chateau.murray.dsl.pipex.com/PiaggioApe.jpg >> >> God, it's fun, though. >> >> One thing I've learned: those speed bumps are a problem. On a bike, >> you can zoom between them, and in a car you can straddle them, but in >> a three-wheeler, something is going to hit them whatever you do. > > Looks like a phone box. Perhaps you should consider something like > 300130357423, and maybe 330144608181. > or 220130848204 -- wessie at tesco dot net BMW R1150GS

	#14
Tim	Re: Ape in an Ape In message <bbwmi.24359$p8.1319@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk> , platypus <monotreme@blueyonder.co.uk> writes >The Older Gentleman wrote: >> Here you are, then: the Ape in all its glory. As you can see, it's a >> tight fit in the cab. >> >> http://www.chateau.murray.dsl.pipex.com/PiaggioApe.jpg >> >> God, it's fun, though. >> >> One thing I've learned: those speed bumps are a problem. On a bike, >> you can zoom between them, and in a car you can straddle them, but in >> a three-wheeler, something is going to hit them whatever you do. > >Looks like a phone box. Perhaps you should consider something like >300130357423, and maybe 330144608181. > If it looks like a phone box I would have thought that the numbers should be 0981 ... -- Tim http://www.pitfieldbeershop.co.uk/

	#15
Grimly Curmudgeon	Re: Ape in an Ape We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember chateau.murray.takethisout@dsl.pipex.com (The Older Gentleman) saying something like: >Here you are, then: the Ape in all its glory. As you can see, it's a >tight fit in the cab. > >http://www.chateau.murray.dsl.pipex.com/PiaggioApe.jpg You should go to Specsavers, mate. -- Dave GS850x2 XS650 SE6a Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the river cleaned out in a day.

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Donald	Re: Ape in an Ape The Older Gentleman wrote: > Here you are, then: the Ape in all its glory. As you can see, it's a > tight fit in the cab. > > http://www.chateau.murray.dsl.pipex.com/PiaggioApe.jpg > > God, it's fun, though. > > One thing I've learned: those speed bumps are a problem. On a bike, you > can zoom between them, and in a car you can straddle them, but in a > three-wheeler, something is going to hit them whatever you do. > > You utter utter bastard. Having considered carefully the lunacy of owning something like that I now want one. It makes perfect sense, according to several articles the average speed in London is somewhere betweem 7 and 9 mph. Does it come in Magic Roundabout paint trim because if I owned one I'd want everyone to be clear that I was eccentric . -- Donald

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The Older Gentleman	Re: Ape in an Ape Donald <Firstname_Surname@hotmail.co.uk> wrote: > Does it come in Magic Roundabout paint trim because if I owned one I'd > want everyone to be clear that I was eccentric . No worries on that score, whatever colour you pick. I popped down to Blockbuster in it the other day. I have never seen so many heads turn, nor so many faces break into wide grins. And that incuded the brace of coppers by the take-away pizza parlour. II'm classifying it in the "nick-free" category formerly occupied by my Jawa combo. "If he's trundling round in that, Sarge, he's gotta be legal...." -- BMW K1100LT 750SS CB400F CD250 SL125 GAGARPHOF#30 GHPOTHUF#1 BOTAFOT#60 ANORAK#06 YTC#3 BOF#30 WUSS#5 The bells, the bells.....

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Dave Emerson	Re: Ape in an Ape "The Older Gentleman" <chateau.murray.takethisout@dsl.pipex.com> wrote in message news:1i1et0s.r3e3s23jwqz4N%chateau.murray.takethis out@dsl.pipex.com... > > II'm classifying it in the "nick-free" category formerly occupied by my > Jawa combo. I read that as "There's no way this is ever going to get stolen...." -- Dave ex Motorcycle Maintenance Workshop http://tinyurl.com/4mhaw

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steve auvache	Re: Ape in an Ape In article <f7j7sd$5r9$1@registered.motzarella.org>, Dave Emerson <Dave_dot_Emerson@LineOne.net> writes > >"The Older Gentleman" <chateau.murray.takethisout@dsl.pipex.com> wrote in >message >news:1i1et0s.r3e3s23jwqz4N%chateau.murray.takethi sout@dsl.pipex.com... > >> >> II'm classifying it in the "nick-free" category formerly occupied by my >> Jawa combo. > >I read that as "There's no way this is ever going to get stolen...." And even if it is, "driven away at speed" will not be appearing in any eyewitness statements. -- steve auvache A Bloo one with built in safety features

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Eddie	Re: Ape in an Ape steve auvache wrote: > In article <f7j7sd$5r9$1@registered.motzarella.org>, Dave Emerson > <Dave_dot_Emerson@LineOne.net> writes >> I read that as "There's no way this is ever going to get stolen...." > > And even if it is, "driven away at speed" will not be appearing in any > eyewitness statements. I've got visions of it being carried away on four big blokes' shoulders, like a coffin... -- Eddie eddie@deguello.org http://www.last.fm/group/ukrm

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Dave Emerson	Re: Ape in an Ape "Eddie" <eddie@deguello.org> wrote in message news:0qovm4-dtc.ln1@deguello.org... > steve auvache wrote: >> In article <f7j7sd$5r9$1@registered.motzarella.org>, Dave Emerson >> <Dave_dot_Emerson@LineOne.net> writes >>> I read that as "There's no way this is ever going to get stolen...." >> >> And even if it is, "driven away at speed" will not be appearing in any >> eyewitness statements. > > I've got visions of it being carried away on four big blokes' shoulders, > like a coffin... Back when I was an apprentice, one for the other guys had a Bantam outfit - 3rd wheel platform with a beer-crate bolted on. He went to go home one day and found the outfit neatly parked on the roof of the works bike shed. "Must 'ave been the wind lad" -- Dave ex Motorcycle Maintenance Workshop http://tinyurl.com/4mhaw