What Have You Being Doing With Your Non-triumph Today?

Hahaha…

 

It is - we used to go to the Mason's Arms regularly. Great beer selection!

 

Another new manager in there atm… sound lad, head screwed on right! Great food, but don’t believe him if he tells you to go for the “large” ribs as a starter… unless you are an abnormal gannet!!! (I only finished them to display the length of my appendage to passers by… as I am the manliest of men and will not be defeated by food… ahem!!! )

 

you crossed a Ford or a ford ?? ;-)
also: be wary of fords like that - i watched a walker tread boldly in to one. before she knew what was happening, her feet were at waist level and she slammed down on her backside. and broke both wrists.

 

I like the whisky part, Vulpes. But what are "grockles"??

 

This conversation reminds me of a law we have in Arizona. Evidently it's not enforced all that consistently. But the reason for the law happens a lot during our monsoon season!

 

@Sandi T - I like the whisky part, Vulpes. But what are "grockles"??

Touroids…
Coach rats…
Johnny Foreigner… (doesn’t matter where they’re from)
Etc…

 

sorta like DFLs...... down from london(ers)

 

https://www.lexico.com/explore/what-is-the-origin-of-the-word-grockle

 

As my other bikes (including the Trumpet) are now SORNed and tucked up in the garage, it fell to the VFR to be modus transportus today in the mild autumn sunshine. As always, the 23 year old bus doesn't disappoint, although I will be renewing the tired OE rear shock when the weather turns really bad. There were lots of people out and about on two wheels this afternoon presumably the same as myself, taking advantage of the good weather.

 

VFR - one of the very finest bikes from soichiro's boys imo. apart from the version one, with 'gear driven cams' which, i gather, used to chew themselves. but they did come in a totally tasty pearlescent white! oooo missus!

 

Not quite, the VF was the one with chocolate cams, chain driven. The gear driven VFR’s were/are bulletproof, I had a VFR 750 FJ, E reg, bloody lovely bike. And an 05 reg VTEC, nice, but over complicated

 

ah ok, my mistake. i stand corrupted

 

Now now Adrian, remember the well known phrase
You can always tell a Yorkshireman, but you can’t tell him much
I actually had a VF for a short while as well, I was looking for another big bike after a spell on mid size trail bikes and bought a Y reg one of a mate and yes, the cams were made of chocolate. One day out of the blue as I was getting near home it began to sound like everything had come loose in the motor and was about to fall out the bottom so after some investigation I found massive clearance in the exhaust cams on the rear bank of cylinders, basically the hard surface on the finger lifters had worn away. Trouble was, it was an engine out job to rectify which I did myself and soon after that sold it for about what I’d paid so not too bad.
Anyway, back to the subject of this thread, I’ll be out on the pump today thrashing about in North Yorkshire with a mate on his white Speed Triple so if you’re around Ripon, Masham, Kettlewell give us a wave.

 

Picked up a new toy yesterday

 

That'll be in the "this made me laugh" thread soon.....
Gorgeous bike. Love to get one!

 

Not all VF's suffered from the cam weakeness issues. These had bulletproof motors like the VFR but the bikes themselves were very heavy. I think they held the title of worlds fastest road bike for a short time until eclipsed by Kawasakis GPZ900.

 

They do look nice though don’t they.

 

Nice