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Wack61

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When I was doing my degree the guy from Severn Trent WB said two strokes were more environmentally friendly as they meant people wouldn’t be tipping their used oil down the drain.
No they just squirt it out the back :D
 

Hawk13

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That's why I added Castrol R to mine, so my mates could follow the perfume when I was ahead ;)

I always tried to put Castrol R into my bikes as well - although I failed miserably when overseas and often resorted to any old sh!te.

Which reminds me of a trip I did to Assen in 1992 on a TDR250. I was riding with bigger bikes and was pretty much flat out all the way .... which resulted in me needing a litre of 2T oil every couple of hundred miles .... but guess which f#cktard had forgotten to bring a funnel!!

So we got creative ..........

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Geo

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That's why I added Castrol R to mine, so my mates could follow the perfume when I was ahead ;)

I used to add a couple of eggcup worth of Mazola cooking oil to the petrol in my old Norton. It was vegetable oil and produced the Castrol R smell at no cost. Mum used to wonder how she kept running out of the stuff. :f7:
 

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I remember going flat out down the A34 to make a boring road 'interesting'. Only to have my spider senses tweeked by a faint wiff of Castrol R .
Sure enough a gaggle of scooterists were trundling along at 50 mph so it was worth rolling off just to breathe it all in.
 

Oneball

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Are they supposed to be chatting to girls I thought it was meant to be Kevin Keegan and James Hunt at first glance?
 

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"But it's still good looking enough to ride round to the girl friends" !!!!!
How times have changed

Much excitement in the classroom when they were launched I can remember; two good mates that lived out in Bulphan even go special permission to ride them to school and park them on site! They could rip the skin off custard!
 

philw696

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Yeah we rode ours to school back then as a few of turned 16 in our final year Good times indeed.
 

Hawk13

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My Dad refused to let me have a moped on the basis that they were dangerous and also to have any road bike until I had passed my car test. This monumentally p!ssed me off at the time especially as he (and a lot of my family) rode bikes and I had MX.

But guess what - he was right! I bought my daughter a scooter when she was 16 (we lived in a remote Cotswolds village and she wanted independence) and rode it home 20 miles. NEVER have I been so scared on a bike before ...... everyone wanting to pass me at speed with no space or pull out right in front of me.

I was so pleased when my daughter turned 17 and bout a 125.
 

Scaf

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I remember going flat out down the A34 to make a boring road 'interesting'. Only to have my spider senses tweeked by a faint wiff of Castrol R .
Sure enough a gaggle of scooterists were trundling along at 50 mph so it was worth rolling off just to breathe it all in.
There is a group of men “of a certain age” who meet up for coffee every Sunday close to me, seeing all the lights and mirrors cheers me up, if I happen see them ride off the smell of two stroke is wonderful and reminds me of my FS1E.