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- From: pv02@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (PETER VOROBIEFF)
- Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
- Subject: Re: FOR SALES ha-ha-ha! CYCLES Trade mark DNEPR from USSR
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.022338.35992@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 02:23:38 GMT
- Organization: Lehigh University
- Lines: 34
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- In article <1ec0ecINNqmb@agate.berkeley.edu>, robinson@cogsci.Berkeley.EDU (Michael Robinson) writes:
- >In article <DLK42-tffq@adis.msk.su> adis@adis.msk.su writes:
- >: FEATURES: REABILITY AND ENDURANCE. MOTORCYCLES ARE DESIGNED FOR THE
- >: HEAVIEST-DUTY OPERATING CONDITIONS (THEY WERE USED IN THE
- >: SOVIET ARMY NOT ACCIDENTALLY).
- >:
- >: We invite young and energetic dealers to cooperation !!!
- >: Do business with us! Together we can do more!!!.
- >:
- >: WE WAIT FOR YOUR REPLAY.
- >: E-MAIL ADDRESS IN MOSKOW adis@adis.msk.su
- >
- >My how the world has changed.
- >
- >Just a few short years ago, this would have been a perfect April Fool's
- >forgery joke.
- >
- >Now, you really can buy the Red Army's finest sidecar on Usenet.
-
- You'd better not - it sucks. I had one in Russia - design and engine have
- not changed much since 1944 (the prototype was a 1944 military-issue BMW) -
- the bike's a two-cylinder four-stroke opposite with 500 cubic centimetres
- and only (!) 30hp, heavy, wobbly and ugly like a senile drunk's head.
- Of course, in winter it doesn't start unless you have a warm garage,
- its battery always leaks and its gearbox... Ok, never mind.
-
- Another particularly unpleasant feature is unavoidable engine overheat
- at high rpm - so you cannot drive it for any considerable time. The only
- possible use of the said motorcycle is to be stored somewhere as a Red
- Army souvenir - but it is dishonestly large and won't fit into any
- cupboard.
-
- --
- Thus spake Kalmoth the Vile, Slayer of the Seven Pigs of the North.
-