Are C90s like push bikes and don't need to stop at lights
Size is everything
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Must admit I have just got off it and pushed it across the crossing a few times to beat the lights….
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Ha ha , fiat panda was mentioned earlier. Loved mine and was a great car off road, ended up cutting the roof off as wanted a cabriolet to take to run to the sun in cornwall mid 90s, it collapsed down the road .)
But yeh cars have got bigger and parking spaces aint!
But yeh cars have got bigger and parking spaces aint!
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Excellent. Love mad shit like that. For a while in about 1985 i had a Fiat X19. Remember them? Minute little car. I flung it round a corner showing off in front of a pub in Holyport mid-summer with everyone drinking outside, and I lost it completely. There were these white-painted rocks at the edge of the common. I ended up on top of one of them balanced like an utter nob. With help from the drinkers I got the car to the side of the road. When I tried to put the targa-top roof back on it fell though the gap! I had bent the car double!Helicoptermanr22 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 26, 2021 8:00 pm Ha ha , fiat panda was mentioned earlier. Loved mine and was a great car off road, ended up cutting the roof off as wanted a cabriolet to take to run to the sun in cornwall mid 90s, it collapsed down the road .)
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Ha ha brilliant, FIAT fix it again tomorrow. But loved em.
My XI9 never started in the rain. Sold it to my sister for a bit more so ever since then she hated me. Still does to be fair!:)))
My XI9 never started in the rain. Sold it to my sister for a bit more so ever since then she hated me. Still does to be fair!:)))
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The Rocket 3 is bloody enormous isn't it? I was stood next to one in Limoges yesterday. If you think back to the big monster drag-strip - type bike of the 1980s - the Yamaha V-Max - that seemed like a really big bike back then but it looks tiny next to a modern Rocket 3 !!
But sports bikes have generally (not always) gone the other way. A GPZ900 of 1984 is much bigger, heavier, FAR less powerful and has hugely inferior handling to a Ducati Panigale. The thing I still can't get completely used to, design-wise, is the vanishing seat unit.... The Aprilia RSV4 kind of kicked it off. A lot of sports bikes pretty much stop behind the seat now and I'm not sure I like that stumpy tail look. If you've ever owned a 92-98 Fireblade you'll know how much can be squeezed inside a nice big tail unit.
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I agree, I hate the cut off,unfinished look of these bikes without rear ends. Also, they are so impractical in wet weather, you get blathered up with spray.daveuprite wrote: ↑Wed Jul 28, 2021 9:50 amThe Rocket 3 is bloody enormous isn't it? I was stood next to one in Limoges yesterday. If you think back to the big monster drag-strip - type bike of the 1980s - the Yamaha V-Max - that seemed like a really big bike back then but it looks tiny next to a modern Rocket 3 !!
But sports bikes have generally (not always) gone the other way. A GPZ900 of 1984 is much bigger, heavier, FAR less powerful and has hugely inferior handling to a Ducati Panigale. The thing I still can't get completely used to, design-wise, is the vanishing seat unit.... The Aprilia RSV4 kind of kicked it off. A lot of sports bikes pretty much stop behind the seat now and I'm not sure I like that stumpy tail look. If you've ever owned a 92-98 Fireblade you'll know how much can be squeezed inside a nice big tail unit.