The bike I might choose to circumnavigate the globe would probably be a Honda C50 - millions sold all over the worldHi Tim,
While I was at RAAF Butterworth in Malaya, the Honda 50 was the transport of choice of the UK, Oz, and KIWI forces. Out of a military population (not counting family) of 2000, I think 20 were killed while riding their bikes, in thetwo years we were there. My Sergeant (a UK Ministry approved driving test examiner) declared that this was due to them being too big for bikes intended for lightweight Asians. I wonder if the biker who died in a monsoon ditch, under his bike, had time to ponder on the subject?
I watched a UK, or OZ, couple on a Honda 50 ride OVER a goat (who was crossing the road) ... and keep going. Our instructions were, if involved in an RTA, especially if someone was injured/killed, to keep going and report to the next police station. I decided it best if we kept going, too. I doubt that a dead goat would be wasted.
During the monsoons, the locals wore improvised wet weather gear ... large polythene bags with holes cut for head and arms. Barbara and myself had to ride home from the ferry, during a monsoon ... horizontal stair-rods. The bike's ignition was faltering due to the wet.
which still holds the record for a 500 single of averaging 100mph for 24 hours - probably something no Land Rover has ever achieved
Hi, Way back in the 1950s, somebody claimed to have ridden from Purley traffic lights to Thornton Heath Pond (7 miles) without dropping below 100mph.
OT, My mate Stephan, a Hungarian refugee, but by then a (drunken) bus conductor, decided that his bus driver taking a leak at the conveniences at Thornton Heath Pond, was a good opportunity to drive a bus. He, and a bus load of passengers, crashed into a house in Purley. I read about it in the papers, while I was in hospital. I learned later, that Stephan got six months hard labour, working on the sea wall, following the East Anglian floods. He claimed it was the best six months of his life.
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