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- From: mjs@sys.uea.ac.uk (Mike Sixsmith)
- Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
- Subject: Re: non Re: magnetic tankbags
- Message-ID: <mjs.727960240@zen.sys.uea.ac.uk>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 11:10:40 GMT
- References: <930119171437@tiedye.wco.ftp.com.wco.ftp.com> <1993Jan20.150441.10182@rd.hydro.on.ca> <mjs.727693802@zen.sys.uea.ac.uk> <1993Jan22.151700.21116@rd.hydro.on.ca>
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- jlevine@rd.hydro.on.ca (Jody Levine) writes:
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- >In article <mjs.727693802@zen.sys.uea.ac.uk> mjs@sys.uea.ac.uk (Mike Sixsmith) writes:
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- >>not too much of a problem...but when I went to France last year, I had to
- >>turn the bike round in the car deck of the ferry...the horn button made
- >>constant contact with the tankbag, so the horn was blaring away in the
- >>big echoing cavern of a car deck, making me less than popular with everyone
- >>else on board...unfortunately it took several goes to get the bike pointing
- >>the other way....
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- >I didn't know that they made bikes where the horn worked with the ignition
- >off.
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- They don't...as the deck wasn't level, I was sitting on the bike with the
- engine running...ever tried walking a fully loaded FJ1100 on a slippery
- oily metal ferry deck?? Knowing what it's like to ride your bike on
- snow and ice can come in handy sometimes...
-
- :-)
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