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Paul Marx

Paul Marx

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Facebook throws old posts at you over breakfast along with the reminder that it's the birthday of long dead friends. They don't need birthday wishes, they at least aren't getting any older.

This morning's offering was a photo of my TT2 whilst in the possession of Phil Todd.
I modified it a bit and had the engine totally rebuilt, old race bikes have knackered engines, only to find out that I'm not a racer. That is a real race bike. No steering lock and nothing under 6000 revs.
I also learnt the bikes history from the regretted Gianni Sperotto who along with Toni Rossato and Toni Cavazzin built and maintained this bike in an abandonned room at the factory.

It was then further modified by some kids who tried to burn it before throwing it in a pond. I might get round to rebuilding it when I get older.

Can't wait for breakfast tomorrow.

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chrisk said:
When you get older???
Paragraph one may temp you to get your tools out.
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I have a restoration list and that one isn't near the top.
First, a 125 Sport in honour of Massimo, was running but front end burnt, and then a 650 which needs a thorough going over but basically ok.
That will bring me to my 70th birthday if all goes well.

Paul
 
What is it with Todd F2 bikes and fires. The ‘Superbike Magazine’ Monty ended it’s life in a warehouse fire a few years back.
 
I am not surprised, when I raced my Monty in '79/'80/'81 I was regularly wiping very nearly neat fuel from the side panels due to the valve overlap, it was worse on the faster circuits, like Snetterton pre the shorteneing and then subsequent remodelling, that 'old' long straight, which was used once a year in my days was a terrifying engine worrier, with correct gearing for everywhere else (important) it was touching ball breakeage at about halfway down that one mile straight, backing off to preserve the engine???? I dont think so! but unlike everyone else I didn't suffer any blow ups., must have been my dad insisting that I changed the oil at the end of every days racing, even two day meets!
CLEM
 
You’re not slow Cam, you’re too quick… you’ve skipped Paul’s first post 😉
(And you obviously don’t do Facebook…)

Is sugar beet season when the combine harvesters leave dirt all over the roads? Happens here too, although you risk a fine and a clean-up bill!
 
not only is it dirty on the roads (there is a processing factory in my mums home town in France) but its slippery, and if it gets wet its bleeding lethal
CLEM
 
I rode all the way up the Gillies Range NQ one night on the wrong side of the road because my side of the road was thick with molasses from leaking out of trucks delivering from the sugar mill to the dairy farms.
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Andy said:
You’re not slow Cam, you’re too quick… you’ve skipped Paul’s first post 😉
(And you obviously don’t do Facebook…)

Is sugar beet season when the combine harvesters leave dirt all over the roads? Happens here too, although you risk a fine and a clean-up bill!
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Yep, farmers risk a fine here as well but we just learn to be wary when the weather is damp. Part of the fun really.
Sugar beet season is Autumn and I think that France is one of, if not the, world's largest producer.

Paul
 
Paul Marx said:
Sugar beet season is Autumn and I think that France is one of, if not the, world's largest producer.

Paul
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One man's sugar cane is another man's maize or hops.

We in Bavaria also have dangerous polluted roads at harvest time. A lot of maize is grown here, which is needed in biogas plants. With the wide handlebars of the Eagle, you can still save yourself relatively well after a slide in a dirty curve. Things don't look so good with clip-ons.

Thomas aus LAU
 
I've never seen a sugar beet. I'm quite partial to its red cousin beetroot (betterave in Paul Marx's part of the world). I like the sweet flavour of roasted beetroot, which got me wondering whether roasted sugar beet would be similar, but without staining everything red. Motivated by curiosity, I ordered some seeds on line and will try growing a few in my veggie garden. Tassie has a similar temperate climate to France, so they should grow OK here. I doubt my little backyard experiment will muddy the local roads though.
 
Piles and piles of them appearing on the fields here too, middle of harvest time. They're harvested similar to potatoes, only they're deposited on the field boundaries where they are then loaded into giant box trailers and carted to the local sugar plant, around the corner from OCT. Then, depending on the wind, it can get a bit smelly.

Don't hit a sugar beet with a bike, it's hard as a bloody brick and will bend a rim easily!

piet

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Not sure you'll find quite the connection b/w beetroot and sugar beet as a comestible item, Cam. Could be wrong ... I'm sure Google is your amico.
 
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