10-10-14, 10:18 AM
(09-10-14, 08:57 PM)nick crisp link Wrote: Christo, you don't know what you missed
If you ever get the chance to ride one o' them ol' strokers, jump at it; just remember, they don't handle, have crap brakes and go like stink!
When the LCs first came out, I wasn't quite old enough to have them. But I remember I used to cycle around the country lanes around Epping, and coming around a bend to be confronted with packs of the things haring towards me, clouds of blue smoke trailing in their wake. You could have the 250 on L plates, and there was a proper crazy-gang mentality to it all. And the police weren't quite so hot on speeding then; no cameras, no radar traps; oh yes, you don't know what you missed! :b
I was fortunate enough to have had these bikes during my youth being dragged up in SE London and as Nick says "proper crazy-gang mentality". I wouldn't change it for anything. Best time of my life.
Some say that he eats habanero chilli peppers dipped in oil of capsaicin for extra bite and that his pyjamas are made from Nomex. All we know is, he's called Ad the Bad