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Never forget this one, either. The RAF don't have enough planes to risk one these days. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_Hunter_Tower_Bridge_incident

Some smoke, mirrors and healthy dose of bullshit, but I'd always hoped the next breakthrough in propulsion would be from a bloke in a shed. https://thedebrief.org/nasa-veterans-propellantless-propulsion-drive-that-physics-says-shouldnt-work-just-produced-enough-thrust-to-defeat-earths-gravity/

On the GS, I fitted a Bosch wideband and a controller from 14.7 in Canada. The installation is just hooked up temporarily until I finally nail the SU down properly and can be easily removed and transferred to another bike. The bung is about 6" after the entrance to the Delkovic muffler, where it...

Form over function (or common sense).

Wasn't that type of jack a bit on the deadly side when it got just a slight bit worn?

Taking no chances with that firetruck right behind it, too.

Nah, it's just a cloth bunnet. Speedsters wear them arse for elbow.

I do believe he did, a couple of times.

Yeah, I got a pair of tin covers for my 79 Spec and they just fitted straight on. No mods necessary, iirc. It was a few years ago. Luckily, my seat isn't as weirdly shaped as the Special from the following model, so the room was just about right for the rectangular metal tins.

Full set, there. No man needs more, except possibly, a slightly larger hitter.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-somerset-28167901

When I see the tell-tale green of Athena base gaskets peeking out of the bottom of barrels, I expect trouble in store for somebody, too. They had a very bad rep for creeping out under load. Might be Athena have fixed that, by now.

Hah, you won't find the missing third member of the ex-TG team on a bike.

As soon as a retailer says that to me, I immediately think of them as lying abstards.

I always suspected the hand of Moscow played at least a peripheral part in the cancellation of the TSR-2. Who kows, maybe even the Arrow, too. Without a doubt the useful idiots and agents in place played a part in bringing down large sections of manufacturing industry in the cold war.

Remember to take a video of that. Friend of mine did it that way and ended up with "an amusingly-shaped potato".

Cold or hot I ease mine past compression and up to the next compression, then turn the ignition on and whack the boot down firmly. It's near enough a first-kick starter.

Relatedly, one bike (or the engine) I always wanted was the Honda CBX750 with its hydraulic tappets. https://www.classicbikeguide.com/honda-cbx-750/

Also make it slightly easier to pop up on the centre stand.

He makes it sound like it was chiselled from a block of raw steel. "No calculators", my arse. There were desktop calculators for the repetitive mundane stuff, and thousands of guys doing calcs by hand, too.