On Mon, 18 Jun 2018 08:09:02 +0100, Indy Jess John wrote:


And when I turned the petrol pump back on at the bottom of the hill,
there was no BANG.

There wouldn't be a bang without any juice left in it. I used to do it
*with* the petrol on down Mt. Pleasant in Tunbridge Wells when I was a
callow youth of 20; got a really *loud* report towards the bottom when I
switched the ign back on. One day I did this in a 3.8 Jag and blew the
silencer box wide open. I didn't do it any more after that. Still, it was
fun while it lasted. One bloke I'd sized-up waiting at the road side to
cross managed to jump backwards up an 10" curb he was so alarmed (and
that was the one that blew the silencer).




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On Tue, 19 Jun 2018 17:24:59 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom
wrote:

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One bloke I'd sized-up waiting at the road side to
cross managed to jump backwards up an 10" curb he was so alarmed

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A mate used to do that to girls but just by blipping the throttle on
his Gixxer as he was about to pass them.

I was following him once and saw a couple collapse in fits of
laughter, like yours, after they jumped 10". ;-)

Cheers, T i m

On Tue, 19 Jun 2018 22:18:40 +0100, T i m wrote:

A mate used to do that to girls but just by blipping the throttle on his
Gixxer as he was about to pass them.

I was following him once and saw a couple collapse in fits of laughter,
like yours, after they jumped 10". ;-)

I didn't worry about the throttle.

I had a Honda CB72, and managed to fit a pair of Maserati air horns to it.

That worked very well. One pair jumped *into* the road, though.

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On 19 Jun 2018 21:31:49 GMT, Bob Eager wrote:

On Tue, 19 Jun 2018 22:18:40 +0100, T i m wrote:

A mate used to do that to girls but just by blipping the throttle on his
Gixxer as he was about to pass them.

I was following him once and saw a couple collapse in fits of laughter,
like yours, after they jumped 10". ;-)

I didn't worry about the throttle.

I had a Honda CB72,

That was going back a bit. A predecessor to my CB250 Nighthawk.

and managed to fit a pair of Maserati air horns to it.

Hehe.

That worked very well.

I bet!

One pair jumped *into* the road, though.

Ooops. ;-)

Cheers, T i m

On Tue, 19 Jun 2018 22:53:16 +0100, T i m wrote:

I had a Honda CB72,

That was going back a bit. A predecessor to my CB250 Nighthawk.

I bought it in 1967. Kept it for about 6 years, but had a car for the
last 3.

I pretty well stripped it down and rebuilt it, engine included.

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