One of the original and best Fun Ways To Die: Rollie Free breaks the US motorcycle land speed record


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Today in Fun Ways to Die:

A man riding a motorcycle. (needs flash, SFW)

The observant may spot that he is riding a Royal Enfield Bullet like mine. No, I have no immediate plans to replicate it...

I will have bored many of you with this already, so this is just for personal diaryism, really.
On 12th April, I ordered a 500cc Royal Enfield Bullet motorcycle (much like this one) from F2 Motorcycles of Banbury. For the uninitiated, this is a 1950s British bike that continued to be built in Madras, India, after the Redditch factory closed ( Read more... )

Today was busy. When I got to the scrutineering necessary before riding my dad's Norton on the track, they took what must've been half an hour examining the bike, tightening this, changing the run of that cable, etc etc. One of the assembled company took pictures of the melêe, and pronounced that this would make the VMCC magazine! As a result of ( Read more... )

Typical, really. :-)

"I stopped, and it was evident the bike wasn't going to go anywhere."

From the locked post here

Fire at the National Motorcycle Museum

650 bikes destroyed.
"The bikes destroyed in the collection traced the history of the British motorcycle industry and many of the museum's rarest exhibits were among those lost."

Very sad.

"The bit I sawed off was a kind of cap, which was forcing the gas to come out of little holes in the side of the pope."

As recommended by jiggery_pokery, a list of 50 things that make me smile (in no particular order):

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