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<blockquote data-quote="Peter Stokes" data-source="post: 25095" data-attributes="member: 781"><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000">Excellent. The young pillion passenger looks pretty chuffed too – what a treat that would be. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000">Who has tried towing a bike with another bike? I have, two or three times, years ago. One was getting a friend’s BSA B40 (not a bad little bike) home after it packed up. Another was in the days when, quite often, you came across a rider fiddling with a broken-down bike and stopped to help. First, I would have to go and ‘find’ a bit of rope, then tie one end to the bike’s carrier. I remember doing this with the Velo, but not Vincents. The other end would go round the forks of the towed bike; we didn’t tie it on, but let the rider hold it on one of the handlebar grips so that it could be released if necessary. Either bike could get the other into trouble if things went wrong, but we had no problems.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000">More memories of a bygone age!</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000">Pete</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Peter Stokes, post: 25095, member: 781"] [FONT=Arial][COLOR=#000000]Excellent. The young pillion passenger looks pretty chuffed too – what a treat that would be. [/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][COLOR=#000000]Who has tried towing a bike with another bike? I have, two or three times, years ago. One was getting a friend’s BSA B40 (not a bad little bike) home after it packed up. Another was in the days when, quite often, you came across a rider fiddling with a broken-down bike and stopped to help. First, I would have to go and ‘find’ a bit of rope, then tie one end to the bike’s carrier. I remember doing this with the Velo, but not Vincents. The other end would go round the forks of the towed bike; we didn’t tie it on, but let the rider hold it on one of the handlebar grips so that it could be released if necessary. Either bike could get the other into trouble if things went wrong, but we had no problems. [/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][COLOR=#000000]More memories of a bygone age! [/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][COLOR=#000000]Pete[/COLOR][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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