Honda-SOHC
General => New Member Introductions => Topic started by: basketcase on September 03, 2011, 05:16:45 PM
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Hi basketcase here, just moved down to Somerset and was wondering how many of you peoples are about this area? I`ve seen a couple of sohc 4`s through the village, both very nice. A 400/4 and a 500/4. Does anyone fancy showing me the local rideouts, nothing too fast (!) just a sunday meander through the lanes.
Cheers Nigel.
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Somerset is a big place Nigel. Be more specific?
Steve
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Tell me about it!! Only been down here a month and have managed to find 3 different ways out of Taunton....none the correct way home! I live about 8 miles south of Taunton, 4 miles north of Wellington a small village called Milverton. For now anyway. Have bought a place in Oake but it needs a load of work so staying with the daughter for a few months. Oake is the next village so not too far away. There is a great little place for bike bits just outside of Taunton, near junction 25 of the M5, bitsforbikes I think it`s called. Helped me out when the split link broke on my Matchless. Hoping to meet up with Florence, who lives nearby.
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Welcome to Somersetshire.
The Vintage Motorcycle club (Devon Section) organises a run over Exmoor which takes a lovely route and I have been meaning to go on it for years but never get round to it.
I usually ride....... to the shops or into Devon for work, I don't ride for leisure as it were.
I haven't seen another 500/4 since I saw one in Bristol in 1998. The bike belonged to a French couple who were touring England, but sadly the gearbox failed and they sold their machine to a local bike shop.
I do not know of any other SOHC bikes in the area. The only person I know with a bike has a Laverda Jota.
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\if you want to wave tonight i will be delivering a load of Britvic to lee mills tonight!!
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Bryan drives a truck...
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The only thing that comes down these lanes are tractors....at 2am!!!Combine harvesters with a million watt spotlamps in the fields opposite and 3 tractors running alongside... Bloody countryside!!!
I`ll still wave..hope that you`ve good eyesight!
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I've been out on that bike run a couple of times and it was a very good day out, well worth puting in your calender for the future.
Usually in July I think? and lots of interesting stuff out and about, pre 78 brit/italian/older jap stuff. I went both times riding a friends brit twin (changing gear with brake and the opposite) and had a brilliant time.
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ooh arrrrr, don't complain about tractors if you live in the country, you'll be moaning about the smell of cowshit in the air next! ;D Biggest problem we have in the country is horse shit, right on the apex of a bend where you want your front wheel to be on the racing line! >:( Mind you, horses taste good with chips peas and mustard ;) On a more serious note, down my way (Junction 30, M5) I have seen many wonderful old sohc bikes, a real mint 400/4 in yellow, a 500/4 in dark green with original pipes too 8) If you want to come down sometime, we'll arrange a ride out, Taunton is less than 30 miles away, so very close really!
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Lee Mills is a place nearly in Plymouth and if you buy the pepsi/tango/etc from a machine its delivered from there by a firm called KNDL
The fun bit is the 28 Tonne of cider out of Shepton Mallet on the way back
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Not complaining about the countryside....just the noise!! Thought that I`d escaped that!! Smell???? Always blamed the wife`s cooking for that ;)
Cider.....probably the wrong part of the country to move to as I`m not much for the taste! Did all of the cider reach it`s destination??!!
When I eventually manage to get the K3 running half decent I`ll take you up on the offer of a ride out, the more the merrier! My local ride out used to be the Cat and Fiddle road, from Buxton to Macclesfield. What a road!! There`s me giving it my all, on my Honda, and all of the sports bikes passing me as if I`m standing still! But just to rub salt in a cb250 passed me >:(.