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Discussion in 'America, Speedmaster & Rocket' started by dilligaf, Jul 8, 2020.

  1. Hubaxe

    Hubaxe Good moaning! aka Mr Wordsalad :)

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    I always had long hair, but son, grandson, brother, nephew of professional military. And yes we all respect each others.
     
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  2. Kenbro

    Kenbro Noble Member

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    If asked your number and you used letter o instead of 0 you were told ‘There are no letters in numbers in the Army’.
    And here we are now with 2 Service numbers with letters in them.
    Is it/was it just the Army that didn’t have letters, or, was it done to prevent numbers becoming toooooo long?
    Ken.
     
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  3. Bad Billy

    Bad Billy Baddest Member

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    Really don't know mate, but all the lads that joined the Navy at the same intake as me had similar letters/numbers.
     
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  4. Judd Dredd

    Judd Dredd Giver of Drugs, Vaccines and Hard Truths

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    I am not sure for army or royal navy numbers but RAF the position of the letter determined if you were non-comissioned or comissioned rank.

    think navy had letters to determine branch and comission status and army just had numbers.
     
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  5. Wessa

    Wessa Cruising

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  6. Pegscraper

    Pegscraper Elite Member

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    That Tiger will certainly be more usable than the Rocket. :)
    The Rocket is the bike I'd choose to cross America on, mile after mile of relatively straight Interstate/highway but a bit on the unwieldy side for our A's and B's. It's a numbers bike really. If a big Harley and a Boss Hoss had a love child, this would be it. Everyone to his/her own of course but my logic is, on a bike with such power you're going to want to use it, which means going very fast, which necessitates a full fairing IMO. Hence my love affair with a ZZR1400.
    Enjoy the Tiggy, Dilli!
     
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  7. Kenbro

    Kenbro Noble Member

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    Only 1/4 mil behind mine Wessa, musta been mid 60s?
    Ken.
     
  8. Wessa

    Wessa Cruising

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    1968 mate
     
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  9. Streetgirl675

    Streetgirl675 ...otherwise known as Streetgirl765

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    Too expensive for you Kenbro ;):kissing_heart:
     
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  10. Streetgirl675

    Streetgirl675 ...otherwise known as Streetgirl765

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    Very very nice indeed dilli.
     
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  11. Helmut Visor

    Helmut Visor Only dead fish go with the flow
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    The handling will be shite with a front wheel that shape mate.
     
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  12. Helmut Visor

    Helmut Visor Only dead fish go with the flow
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    I'm just not sure that there was any need to drag up a post from 4 years ago, it wasn't particularly helpful or even really relevant to the discussion at the time.
     
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  13. Wessa

    Wessa Cruising

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    Very wise mate.....
     
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  14. dilligaf

    dilligaf Guest

    That’s why I haven’t put mine up :confused:
    I use it for passwords for a few things because I never forget it :p
     
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  15. Don the Don

    Don the Don Bigger Than The Average Bear

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    Ditto,
     
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  16. Don the Don

    Don the Don Bigger Than The Average Bear

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    Dilli, are you having the full package on your bike including all the crash bars. lights ect ect
     
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  17. dilligaf

    dilligaf Guest

    Full luggage system and upper and lower crash bars :)
    The fog lights get moved on to the upper bars with a relocation kit :)
     
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  18. Don the Don

    Don the Don Bigger Than The Average Bear

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    Nice, happy for you mate
     
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  19. SleepyOwl

    SleepyOwl Crème de la Crème

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    Navy numbers corresponded with when you joined. So D175 would be before me until they ran out of numbers and it goes onto the next. Mine was back in 1979 so God knows what they are on now. Will find out in Feb when my son joins
     
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  20. Helmut Visor

    Helmut Visor Only dead fish go with the flow
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    Sorry @dilligaf I must have missed it mate in amongst all the other random stuff on here......when do you do the change over?
     
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