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| Blimey - I can't stand old looking bikes with no fairings. What's the point? I mean this whole retro thing - what's the point in that? Leave the retro look to all these London ponces who seem to enjoy mincing around in drainpipe trousers I say. Mind you, they'd almost certainly look good on a retro Kawasaki, although admittedly this would probably only be because they're slightly less of an eyesore. Fairings, though - how can you not like a fairing? Much maligned by the establishment of biking, and what a load of nonsense too. Think how good racing could have been if they hadn't banned proper FULL fairings way back in the day - you know - the ones that encompassed the front wheel as well. Made the bikes look like some sort of predatory jelly fish - especially the Hondas - you can pass for a jellyfish if you have 6 tentacles you know. Sort of. Anyway, the point is that anti-fairing opinion is what resulted in these full fairings being banned in racing, resulting in the wanky little numbers that you see now. The result? From a spectator's viewpoint - catastrophic for racing! I mean, have a look at cars - now they've got it right with regard to bodywork. Who can fail to be fascinated by the sight of a vehicle suddenly becoming airborne at 200mph a la Mercedes at Le Mans? Such are the things that have been ripped from bike racing's repertoire by the anti-fairing brigade. Shame on you! Such shortsightedness never did anyone any good. Oh and they do keep the rain off too. Or don't you ride in the rain? Aaaaarrrgh! Fair weather riders! Roadhoover - my buttocks - you're trying to sound like you're a biker by owning something like a ricketty old Zed. But you wrap it up in a large condom filled with cleaning products when the weather turns a bit crap! What are you? Some sort of a weird cross between a housewife and a protestant? Proper bikers don't use either! Zimodile Dunweird.
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| Controversial thoughts Dunweird. What bike do you ride then, obviously some dustbin faired super Moto Nastilini. I fear for your sanity. You'll be telling me soon that if only you had've had the same breaks as Gibbers or Val you would smear them everytime. Stick to your paper maiche aircraft modelling or whatever mundane hobby you indulge in and leave the proper biking to those who can and do, it sounds like you are a can and don't. Do you chuck beer cans at the telly when the racing is on? As for those London bikers you mention, don't knock 'em, you've got have a brave head to weave through that particular concrete and metal jungle, whatever your attire. Next time you visit the big smoke wasting your life in a fat cat company car I hope a drainpipe pantalooned scooterist doesn't accidently glance off the side of your car and then disappear into the fug s******ing. Yes I am a protestant, interested in Kabbalism, admire Buddhists and try to adhere to Crowley's adage 'do as you would be done by' and could even be accused of housewifery on the odd occasion. I won't even begin to cast aspersion about house wifery in your direction. It's about time you opened your garage and wheeled out your venerable motobicycle (if indeed you own one, which it sounds like you don't) and get your heart beating a little faster. If you admire mechanical contrivances of any kind are you telling me the Brutale, Tuono,TNT are dogs?
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| Well it's a shame that the three motorcycles you chose to list there are all pasta burning piles. You might think they look good, but then again, in the 80's lots of people bought lava lamps. I think you'll find they're in the loft now. And if they're not, well, I rest my case. I did a small amount of couriering in London I'll have you know. I lacked a fairing at the time and I swore, never again! Except for the crosser. I mean, that would just be silly, wouldn't it? Would it? Seems to me that the ultimate faired bike captured the public's imagination. Step forward Mr Knievel and Snake River Canyon! Can anyone top that? Tell me there's a cooler bike than that. I mean, did it even bother to have wheels? Didn't need 'em if it did - having Evil on it meant it had to be a bike. Zimodile Dunweird.
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Can't spell Knievel's first name! Did you courier on a bicycle?
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| well of course, the name does allow for constant blurring of the lines between the name and the noun... perhaps I was using it as a metaphor? or perhaps I can't spell... I ain't telling though. Z
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| Horses for courses. A fairing is a fine thing if you have to travel 100 miles in the rain, or 1000 miles across a continent. But that's because it adds to the useability of the bike - it doesn't make it better as such. I like the look of a naked bike, and if all I was doing was short journeys in fine weather, that's what I'd have. For one thing, when you clean a naked bike, it's clean. There are no hidden areas for the grot to accumulate and rot the bike where you can't see. No fragile panels to remove (and risk damaging) when you want to get at the oily bits. Plus, if I'm honest, I think a naked bike looks butch. And if you'd ever ridden a bike with a dustbin fairing in a cross-wind, you'd know why they were banned from racing (and, incidentally, never caught on for road bikes). Lethal on anything other than a calm day. The centre of pressure is so far ahead of the C og G that the effect is similar to trying to throw a dart backwards.
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| marvellous stuff Black Dog - centre of pressure ahead of CG and therefore inherently unstable. Didn't expect that level of detail in a reply - good man! Zimodile Dunweird.
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<blushes> 
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Anyone remember the Bill Roberts Sports Special fairing? Nuff said.
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Number 6 (20/02/2007)
Anyone remember the Bill Roberts Sports Special fairing? Nuff said.Still got your copies of Which Bike ? then? Now there's an opportunity to lapse into nostalgia....
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