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K2-K6:
It's funny that there was more or less herds of CX around London that have all disappeared.
Whole bunches of them at the front of traffic light queues sounding like chinook helicopters., going chobba chobba chobba.
Kawasaki GTs also with those special thin lightweight racing discs (just worn away from thousands of miles use). ;)
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--- Quote from: K2-K6 on December 20, 2016, 08:42:10 PM ---It's funny that there was more or less herds of CX around London that have all disappeared.
Whole bunches of them at the front of traffic light queues sounding like chinook helicopters., going chobba chobba chobba.
Kawasaki GTs also with those special thin lightweight racing discs (just worn away from thousands of miles use). ;)
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The dispatch market was killed by the fax machine and computers. Chasbikes had 125 CX's out on rental at one point. I was building 8 CX engines a week back in 1991/92.
The GT550 discs were crap and wore out within 25.000 miles, the CX would last 200.000. I was stopped by a police check at the favourite place at the bottom of Berkeley Sq, the officer said, those discs look a bit thin and bent down to measure them with his fingers ;D He learnt that day to never do that again :)
And for those who have never seen this >>>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKZ9VoBw654
K2-K6:
It's amusing when something like that happens. The underlying poor attitude to bikes generally shows through at times like that, they seem to feel that we are somehow getting something that they should be entitled to. Perhaps getting a little too political there so I'll not go further with that one.
The irony now with courier trade is that things like amazon have brought something similar back with so much being delivered on fast demand nowadays. The area is teeming with little cars all full of brown boxes, especially at this time of year.
Something else a bit like the CX was, the low emissions zone for commercials passes through locally and there are quite a few Volvo 240 estates used for what I'd call painter and decorator taxis. Plenty of space, not on emissions lists, go through all the width restrictions and visit the local tip without a second glance. It's funny what legislation and circumstances turn up.
MrDavo, I feel the same as you in that a well presented bike of this era just looks better on a tire tread that gives a reasonable assimilation of the originals. I know the delivered tires were treated with great suspicion regarding grip and many people couldn't wait to dump them, but a modern tire looking like that completes the picture for me.
The classic racing sounds interesting, what bikes did you run?
onethumb:
Love the look of mine but starting to think I might of bought them with my eyes not my head.
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Green1:
Definitely not with your head I don't even have them on my Peg
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