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I replaced the old fuse box with a modern blade type .when I removed the old one and threw it in the box of old parts .looked what greeted me ! The bike was new to me and purchased at auction.
 

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It`s just a variation on a long established tradition .......

Tadao Baba would walk down to the FireBlade production line , and autograph the insides of the fairing .... ( every one was his baby ... ) .....

For an extra tenner , JAP at Tottenham would stamp PTO on the crankshaft flywheels ....... much more effective than mere paint ........

Tony Scott would scratch his initials on the insides of the Honda V4`s he rebuilt ...........


........... and John Cooper Clarke , when dealing with hecklers , would shout ... " I can`t hear what yer saying mate , your mouth`s full of shit ........ " ......

....... Happy days .................
 
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Larry bought a Caterham Super Seven second hand and under the oil filler cap was the(previous owners name) “is a wanker”
Apparently Larry was in full agreement with scribe who we believe was a disgruntled engine builder!
Les Harris Triumph that blew up with minimal mileage had a laughing cat drawn inside the crank cases..an in joke apparently!
 
Seeing that pic of Sarah Miles with her husband Robert Bolt , and Roger Moore ..........

Miles had an affair with William Donaldson , who has to be one of my all time heroes .........

Once described by a friend ( ! ) as a crack smoking serial adulterer , Donaldson had a privileged upbringing ......... serving as an officer in the Royal Navy , and then worked as a writer , and would be impresario ........ working with the likes of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore during the early `sixties ........

Inherited a fortune in the early `seventies , moved to Ibiza ........ spent the last two thousand quid on a glass bottomed boat , then bummed around on the beaches grubbing for food ......... moved back to London , and stayed with a gilrfriend who ran a brothel on the Fulham Road ........

He then inherited a SECOND fortune , which allowed him to continue with his chaotic lifestyle ........ In the `eighties he also made a fortune from the success of his Henry Root Letters books ...... basically piss takes of the rich and famous and various politicians ....... a little like Ali G , but in written letter form ......... whereupon he then embarked on a ten year crack cocaine habit .... ( although he always insisted he was never addicted ... ) .......

Somewhere in the middle of all this , he started the aforementioned affair with Sarah Miles .... then dumped her and became engaged to Carly Simon ............ ( " every sane man`s dream " , so he reckoned ) ............ but then broke off the engagement to Carly Simon , and went back to Sarah Miles again .........


He was the first person to bring Bob Dylan over to the UK , when Dylan was still relatively unknown .....

Dylan met with Donaldson at his office in London , arriving at about ten in the morning ........ The two of them discussed the forthcoming dates Dylan would play , and so on ........

By about midday , everything was settled and agreed as far as Donaldson was concerned , so he bade Dylan farewell , and set off for lunch ...... ( which was about three hours down the pub , as normal for Donaldson ..... ) ..........

When he returned to his office , at about four in the afternoon , he found Dylan still sat there ........... o_O .......... ! ........

.... " I couldn`t get rid of the cunt " , he said later ...........

All this is in his obituary published in the Daily Telegraph ......... well worth a read if you need cheering up ..............
 
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