Suspicious GS1200.

[Anorak]

Originally Posted by def

Let's see........

1- You drive on the wrong side.
2- Your money used to be pounds, now Euros.
3- Your spanners are Whitworth.
4- Your early motorcycles were positive (+) ground.
5- You eat meat stuffed into a goat's stomach.
6- Men wear skirts.
7- You talk funny.

Even with all that, you're some of the nicest people on earth as long as you're sober (Scotch whiskey.....ugggggghhhhh.....give me bourbon please....lots of it).

The British never converted to the Euro.

Older American vehicles were positive earth.

[Mr. Canoehead]

Didn't Top Gear do a piece on Baltic countries? All the cars that they looked at that came from the UK (ie right hand drive) were stolen from the UK and shipped to the Baltic countries to be sold cheap. You'd have to assume that the bikes got there the same way.

For you guys who think that the UK measures speed in kph, still uses Whitworth size spanners and uses the Euro - you need to get out more! Take a motorcycle trip to the UK - it is motorcycle heaven.

[lhendrik]

Anyone heard from the OP? I think we scared him off, or bored him to death.

[Edventure]

A lot of used UK bikes get exported to Europe, not just lemons!

The pound/euro exchange rate makes it attractive. My local dealer has a Belgian buyer who comes over every couple of weeks and buys the used stock.

[mrt10x]

Originally Posted by WOLVERINE

NOT!

UK as in Britain/Ireland/Scottland, uses KPH....

Originally Posted by def

Let's see........

1- You drive on the wrong side.
2- Your money used to be pounds, now Euros.
3- Your spanners are Whitworth.
4- Your early motorcycles were positive (+) ground.
5- You eat meat stuffed into a goat's stomach.
6- Men wear skirts.
7- You talk funny.

Even with all that, you're some of the nicest people on earth as long as you're sober (Scotch whiskey.....ugggggghhhhh.....give me bourbon please....lots of it).

Wow.. really??

[El Traxo]

Originally Posted by Mr. Canoehead

Didn't Top Gear do a piece on Baltic countries? All the cars that they looked at that came from the UK (ie right hand drive) were stolen from the UK and shipped to the Baltic countries to be sold cheap. You'd have to assume that the bikes got there the same way.

For you guys who think that the UK measures speed in kph, still uses Whitworth size spanners and uses the Euro - you need to get out more! Take a motorcycle trip to the UK - it is motorcycle heaven.

heh, you missed your homework, too. Top Gear never did in Baltics, so the rest part of the story about stolen cars from UK in there is crap. Try one more time, now using key word "Balcans" ;)

[Ragin Rabbi]

Originally Posted by El Traxo

heh, you missed your homework, too. Top Gear never did in Baltics, so the rest part of the story about stolen cars from UK in there is crap. Try one more time, now using key word "Balcans" ;)

I do remember a Polish radio station contest. It challenged listeners to come up with a slogan to encourage Germans to vacation in Poland. The one I remember was, "Come to Poland, your car's already here". As an American Pole, that made me laugh!

[Izzy3]

Originally Posted by El Traxo

heh, you missed your homework, too. Top Gear never did in Baltics, so the rest part of the story about stolen cars from UK in there is crap. Try one more time, now using key word "Balkans" ;)

Fixed it for you.

[SR1]

Originally Posted by Gintaronas

Hi,

I live in Lithuania, which is a neighbor country to Latvia. It is quite popular down here to import used bikes from UK. Most of them are "lemons".

G.

I am betting "lemon" isn't exactly right. More like "liberated from the original owner." I am pretty sure that's what happened to my two week old KTM 990 in London...

[vintagerider]

Originally Posted by def

Let's see........

1- You drive on the wrong side.
2- Your money used to be pounds, now Euros.
3- Your spanners are Whitworth.
4- Your early motorcycles were positive (+) ground.
5- You eat meat stuffed into a goat's stomach.
6- Men wear skirts.
7- You talk funny.

Even with all that, you're some of the nicest people on earth as long as you're sober (Scotch whiskey.....ugggggghhhhh.....give me bourbon please....lots of it).

4/7 :
I've been high, I've been low
I've been yes and I've been oh, hell no
I've been rock 'n' roll and disco
Won't you save me San Francisco?

[rdcyclist]

Originally Posted by Anorak

Older American vehicles were positive earth.

As were British cars prior to 62.

[def]

Originally Posted by Anorak

The British never converted to the Euro.

Older American vehicles were positive earth.

Sorry...I haven't been back to the UK since 1987 so I missed the Euro thing but they now have this tunnel which goes to France. What's that all about? Does anybody use that tunnel thing?

[chasbmw]

The tunnel is a railway tunnel, turn up, park your bike in a railway carriage and in 45 mins or so you are in Calais France.

Very quick and efficient, not that cheap.

It is on the Afgan/Pakistan border that road traffic from Europe changes back from driving on the right to driving on the left, then India SriLanka Malaya Japan all drive on the left. This is one of the reasons why there is a big trade in second hand japanese high end cars in the UK.

[DanVFR]

It still amazes me that people know so little about basics on other countries. We still use MPH here in the UK and while Ireland has moved to Euros, Northern Ireland, England, Wales, Scotland and surrounding isles use pounds. Sterling is still pounds.

[Deanowade]

Originally Posted by Ragin Rabbi

I do remember a Polish radio station contest. It challenged listeners to come up with a slogan to encourage Germans to vacation in Poland. The one I remember was, "Come to Poland, your car's already here". As an American Pole, that made me laugh!

Poles encouraging Germans to come to Poland. Times do change.