tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763772100015353700.post3572688407015699888..comments2023-10-11T14:18:03.816+01:00Comments on Works Well: A cold-weather pot-pourriRoderick Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763772100015353700.post-14540258615863670282010-12-01T14:48:28.813+00:002010-12-01T14:48:28.813+00:00Avus: Re. "Horrible" judgement. This inv...Avus: Re. "Horrible" judgement. This involves two viewpoints: horrible in retrospect, thereby driving out any tendency towards nostalgia, and inferior to most of the contemporary Villiers-engine bikes such as Francis-Barnett and James.<br /><br />DQ and Nat Serv recommendation. Let me put it another way: in both cases I suffered, as a result I'm recommending that other people should suffer with me.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763772100015353700.post-28217023897840757802010-12-01T12:35:45.825+00:002010-12-01T12:35:45.825+00:00Babble:
I agree. I am not deaf, it's just all ...Babble:<br />I agree. I am not deaf, it's just all the "surround sound" that makes focussing hard. However, I guess a lifetime's motorcycling has not helped the hearing (wind noise). Especially as ear plugs did not become de rigeur until the late '70's. Which brings me neatly to:<br />Horrible:<br />My first bike was a BSA Bantam, too. I guess that many of us started our riding on them in the '50s. However, mine was the "swish" 150 model with rear springing and a dual seat. It was no better or worse than the other offerings at the time. The cynical, self-satisfied British motorcycle industry deservedly disintegrated when the meticulous Japanese machines began to be imported - serve them right, too.<br />DQ:<br />I never managed to finish Don Quixote, but did finish my 3 years in the army (twice the pay of a National Service 2 year enlistment). I agree with your recommendation, but why for the same reason as reading DQ?Avushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16512540148378201058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763772100015353700.post-87975716282366316412010-11-27T13:11:53.403+00:002010-11-27T13:11:53.403+00:00Hattie: When I was young I was far more cynical th...Hattie: When I was young I was far more cynical than I am now. In fact a thick core of cynicism, plus an unfailing and impolite form of curiosity were the only qualifications I brought to a working life in journalism. Now I'm an aged fuddy-duddy, ripe for any of Fyodor's extreme suggestions. But it's the length rather than the contents that may discourage me.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763772100015353700.post-8303506415380774342010-11-26T20:03:48.278+00:002010-11-26T20:03:48.278+00:00I think you have to be young to read the Brothers ...I think you have to be young to read the Brothers K, because it asks you to believe so many things that life experience tells you aren't true.Hattiehttp://hattie.typepad.com/hatties_web/noreply@blogger.com