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<blockquote data-quote="vibrac" data-source="post: 53100" data-attributes="member: 60"><p>Dont get the idea that everything transport wise has improved since then. After all you could fly your bike to the continent in the fiftys from Kent, and any decent train would take your motorcycle in the guards van. I took my G3LS Matchless to IOM like that (Aylesbury Bucks to Douglas IOM 11 miles on the speedo) after my Vincent clutch played up 5 miles into my trip with the ferry booked and time running short. And you did not have to ride to Holland back then to find a moto rail to Italy.</p><p>If there is one thing sillier than the HS2 (I doubt there is) its a channel tunnel train full of cars and bikes that stops as soon as it gets to France</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vibrac, post: 53100, member: 60"] Dont get the idea that everything transport wise has improved since then. After all you could fly your bike to the continent in the fiftys from Kent, and any decent train would take your motorcycle in the guards van. I took my G3LS Matchless to IOM like that (Aylesbury Bucks to Douglas IOM 11 miles on the speedo) after my Vincent clutch played up 5 miles into my trip with the ferry booked and time running short. And you did not have to ride to Holland back then to find a moto rail to Italy. If there is one thing sillier than the HS2 (I doubt there is) its a channel tunnel train full of cars and bikes that stops as soon as it gets to France [/QUOTE]
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