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<blockquote data-quote="Peter Holmes" data-source="post: 101511" data-attributes="member: 302"><p>Hmm, Sounds like Jim, no longer with us of course, but I am sure he would have made very good use of the spare legit logbook, in the words of Monty Python, "say no more" Jim's health declined somewhat when he managed to run over himself with a Transit type van, he was trying to single handedly start one of his for sale bikes by wedging the accelerator of his van down and in gear, with a piece of wood to drive a set of rollers, whilst sitting on a motorcycle, also on the rollers, and trying to start it, probably for some poor unsuspecting customer, the van wheel jumped out of the rollers, still with the wood jammed on the accelerator and in gear, Jim fell off the bike and ended up trapped under the van after being run over by it, he did survive, Atlantic motorcycles continued for quite a while after, but I think the incident took its toll on Jim, I can almost hear Alyn saying "could not happen to more deserving person"</p><p>I did miss out on one bargain at Atlantic Motorcycles, a rather beautiful Series A Twin, it featured in the Atlantic Website for a few years, when B-C Rapides were approx £20k and Shadows a little more, the Series A at Atlantic was up for £100k, I expressed astonishment but Jim assured me it was a veritable bargain, turns out on this occasion he was correct.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Peter Holmes, post: 101511, member: 302"] Hmm, Sounds like Jim, no longer with us of course, but I am sure he would have made very good use of the spare legit logbook, in the words of Monty Python, "say no more" Jim's health declined somewhat when he managed to run over himself with a Transit type van, he was trying to single handedly start one of his for sale bikes by wedging the accelerator of his van down and in gear, with a piece of wood to drive a set of rollers, whilst sitting on a motorcycle, also on the rollers, and trying to start it, probably for some poor unsuspecting customer, the van wheel jumped out of the rollers, still with the wood jammed on the accelerator and in gear, Jim fell off the bike and ended up trapped under the van after being run over by it, he did survive, Atlantic motorcycles continued for quite a while after, but I think the incident took its toll on Jim, I can almost hear Alyn saying "could not happen to more deserving person" I did miss out on one bargain at Atlantic Motorcycles, a rather beautiful Series A Twin, it featured in the Atlantic Website for a few years, when B-C Rapides were approx £20k and Shadows a little more, the Series A at Atlantic was up for £100k, I expressed astonishment but Jim assured me it was a veritable bargain, turns out on this occasion he was correct. [/QUOTE]
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