"Triffid" wrote in message
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Keith G wiffled:
"Triffid" wrote


I had a hobby once. Cost me a lot of money. Then came ebay...


Which costs me even more money... :-)

Natch.

IMO the British bike industry died because Joe Public behaved exactly as
the
Yanks still do toward Hardly Capable. The factories saw no reason to
develop
until the Road To Damascus conversion caused by the CB750 and Z1, which
the
Yanks were and are patriotically oblivious to.


By the time the Z1 was on the scene (OK, in the shops) the Japs had wiped
both the Brit and Yank bike industries off its boots - the only countries
left in the frame were Germany with its evergreen Boxers (and a few wacky
little cheapo ringadingding strokers) and the Eyeties who had (sensibly)
banned the import of, I believe, bikes over 400cc and below 50cc (...???
Have I got that right?) thus preserving their own industry.


Yeah I know, but that other thread is sooooo long :8


:-)