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Phil Perry

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Oh, what a car! My partner is atrocious when I am driving - not because I am a crap driver, but she feels so out of control. I can be 200 feet from the car in front and she is already telling me to brake and allow more room... There was a time I was giving my partner and the mother of a friend of my daughter who lives in the same village a ride into town for a school play, and it was a nightmare. Even the mother said to me as she got out, "Thanks, Lance.. I felt very safe.".

 

If they still make them, I am buying one! (Although, I rarely drive with her anymore)

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Re the Dickey seat ("Rumble seat" in the U.S.), there's usually a small step just above the bumper, and another one on top of the rear mudguard.

You do have to be pretty fit, though - not for oldies with stiff joints, and unsteady on their feet. Here's a great thread (below) on the procedure, on the AACA forum.

There's some superb photos there of early 1930's Chevys and Model A Fords, clearly showing the steps on the Chevs and Model A's. The Chysler Imperial had a design with a small door to the Dickey seat.

 

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/291250-how-to-get-in-rumble-seat/

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Sadly, I don't have a picture of it, but yesterday, walking doen the high street of Taunton, our market town, I heard this annoying noise coming from a small bike that sounded like it's muffler had fallen off. I turned arounf, and there was a big (20+ stone) bloke in full outlaw bikie gear riding a rather small 150CC with his "L" plates. Big tough man on small bike. Looked like padding right up to play a game of cricket with a tennis ball.

 

(L platers are restricted to 150CC bikes in the UK).

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I can remember when there was a class for 50cc bikes at the Isle of Man races.

 

11 hours ago, nomadpete said:

A clear case of cruelty to dumb motorcycles.

I think that the Macquarie or Lonsdale Street legal eagles who deck themselves out in full black leather on the weekends  in imitation of some of their clients, and ride their Harleys and Indians to trendy coffee shops in the rural outskirts are quite simply dorks. 

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