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Oct 8, 2011 - 1:55PM

Thank you Dave and Ron.

Just received my copy of the army training film, brilliant! An unexpected bonus is the vehicle film as well. Thanks guys, and bloody well done.
Cheers, Mick.

email (option): mick@motorbikemike.org.uk

Horror

Oct 10, 2011 - 2:19AM

Re: Thank you Dave and Ron.

Thanks Mick, glad you're happy with it

email (option): horror@blueyonder.co.uk

Ron Pier

Oct 10, 2011 - 8:21AM

Re: Thank you Dave and Ron.

Thanks for the thanks Mick. Ron

email (option): ronpier@talk21.com

Lee Davey

Oct 10, 2011 - 10:22AM

Re: Thank you Dave and Ron.

I particularly like the bit where the apprentice DR is practicing balance by being pushed around the parade ground by some poor fella! I suppose there was a war on though......
Best sound-bite? only the foolhardy go show-boating!

email (option): lee@twowheelstested.co.uk

IainB

Oct 14, 2011 - 7:00AM

Re: Thank you Dave and Ron.

Well done gents, my copy just arrived in NZ today.

email (option): braunz@paradise.net.nz

Peter Stowe

Oct 14, 2011 - 8:37AM

Re: Thank you Dave and Ron.

Are you the same Kiwi Iain Brown that I met at the Norton rally in New York state a few weeks ago?
There can't be many New Zealander's named Iain Brown who are into old British bikes can there?

email (option): gasboy@btinternet .com

IainB

Oct 14, 2011 - 11:07AM

Re: Thank you Dave and Ron.

Hi Peter, yes there's only one that i know of.
The USA rally was a great trip, although Russels southern moonshine did dull my senses on a couple of occasions.

email (option): braunz@paradise.net.nz

Peter Stowe

Oct 14, 2011 - 2:41PM

Re: Thank you Dave and Ron.

Great to hear from you.
My God-- that moonshine-- I thought it was going to burn the lining off my stomach, but I couldnt leave it alone. I have a photo of us all around the table outside the bar that night-- I will personal e mail it to you.
I like meeting people from this forum and putting a face to the names, so its pretty amazing that we should bump into each other half way around the other side of the world from our homes.
I met Bennie the Dutch guy at the Begonia rally in Belgium a few weeks ago. (There was a couple of ex WD BSAs there as well).
I have already been back to the states since-- to see Candice.

email (option): gasboy@btinternet .com

Rik

Oct 14, 2011 - 9:05PM

Re: Thank you Dave and Ron.

Peter, were you at the Begonia then ? I never thought to ask if anyone on here was going. My 16H let me down on the day so I turned up late on the Commando (but accompanied by a 16H !).

http://pub37.bravenet.com/forum/static/show.php?usernum=3155626639&frmid=16&msgid=1176120&cmd=show

I'll try again next year !

Ron Pier

Oct 14, 2011 - 9:14PM

Re: Thank you Dave and Ron.

Rik, I knew you'd cir cum and fit pannier bags Next you'll be after a pair of those £200 canvas grips

Ron

email (option): ronpier@talk21.com

Rik

Oct 14, 2011 - 9:26PM

Re: Thank you Dave and Ron.

No-way Ron those are my stitched together throw-overs. I melted my first and last pair of vinyl throw-overs on the Commando exhausts about thirty years ago and have used army surplus ever since.

This is the effect that I'm going for.

Pannier frames ? Who needs 'em ?

Are the canvas grips really £200 ? Thank goodness they hadn't been invented in 1940.

Peter Stowe

Oct 15, 2011 - 2:53PM

Re: Thank you Dave and Ron.

Rik
Yes I was at the Begonia. I was on a yellow BMW GS Adventure, camped in the middle of the field. I know a bike like that is not in the spirit of the Begonia, but my Commando was still on its way back from the USA, and my WM20 is still half way through its B31 engine swap. It was the only bike I had left to go on, and I hate to miss Begomia rallys
Where abouts in the field were you camped?
I wish we had made ourselves known to each other.

The Norton rally in the USA was good, but it cost a lot to get the Commando shipped there and back.
Still-I will only live once

email (option): gasboy@btinternet .com

Mick Holmes

Oct 15, 2011 - 11:38PM

Re: Thank you Dave and Ron.

Hey Rik, that's a super pic. As you say, who needs panniers?
Cheers, Mick.

email (option): mick@motorbikemike.org.uk

Rik

Oct 15, 2011 - 11:50PM

Re: Thank you Dave and Ron.

It's a classic Dunkirk pic taken outside Bastion 32, the French Admiral Abrial's HQ by a French photographer. The British DRs queued up there awaiting mesages to take to the British HQ.

Quite a difference from those nicely packed CMP rear carriers that we see on UK propaganda photos.

Rik

Oct 15, 2011 - 11:56PM

Re: Thank you Dave and Ron.

Peter Stowe

Peter, I picked an empty space in the middle somewhere but I did turn up late, partly as a consequence of having to push the 16H home and start again on the Commando - and I left early on the Sunday due to having to accompany the other 16H on the way home. The Flanders branch are pretty easy on enthusiasts with other makes as long as they don't take over. Too many cars and camper vans this year though, in my opinion.

The outside of Europe rallies are a bit impossible for me until the kids are off my hands.

Kostas

Oct 19, 2011 - 12:59PM

Re: Thank you Dave and Ron.

Dave and Ron,
Thank you for the very well done job!
The most worth spended quid I've ever spent!
Cheers,
Kostas

email (option): ferrarakias@hotmail.com