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[DaveCox]

I thought that at least Canada would have upheld their end of the traditional motorcycle market.
Honda, Yamaha, Kwakizaki, Suzuki - sound like the sort of noises you make after 10 pints of best bitter with cider chasers. Is it true they run on rice extract instead of petrol?

I had a motorcycle as full time transport for many years, only passed my car test when the kids came along. Passed my 'bike test on a Harley Davidson (Aermachi) 2-stroke, had a japcrap for a couple of months ( 95mph into a ditch trying to follow a 20-year old Norton round a bend!) Triumph Bonneville, then a Norton single-cylinder cafe-racer. No electric starts or overhead whatsits, the Norton even still had a decompression lever so that you could start it without breaking your ankle!; as a jap-loving friend found out when he nearly castrated himself on the steering damper, in this case a 2 1/2" wide wing-nut............change a head-gasket by the side of the road in 15 minutes with just a 9/16 whitworth spanner.......
and of course the help of a couple of LOL
With a high-compression head fitted the smell of Castrol-R in the nostrils....