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Offline pikipiki

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Posted to Craggy Island
« on: October 03, 2015, 03:39:50 AM »
Imagine you are to be posted to a remote craggy island to look after an old mothballed airbase. You will be there 12 months, climate is temporate (seasons). The island has a runway and one road of about 10 miles circumnavigating the perimeter with some nice twisties. You can easily walk to anywhere on island from the road. Offroading is possible but due to islands craggy nature using the road is best way to get around. You will be the only person on the island. There's a workshop at the airbase and ample supply of fuel.
You can take a bike with you to get around and any spares you consider necessary but obviously there will be no-one to help with maintenance, or to show off to or otherwise interact. You will have a job to do so you can't just spend 12 months renovating that old Manx Norton.
What bike do you take and why?‎

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Re: Posted to Craggy Island
« Reply #1 on: October 03, 2015, 04:16:34 AM »
Well, with no one there to see me on it, I might consider a harley due to it's hydraulic lifters and therefore no valve adjustments needed.
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Re: Posted to Craggy Island
« Reply #2 on: October 03, 2015, 07:54:12 AM »
 Heck , curvy road , no law enforcement , off road possibilities , fuel supply , when can we come and visit ? :laugh:

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Re: Posted to Craggy Island
« Reply #3 on: October 03, 2015, 08:04:11 AM »
I'd take my Skorpion. Bullet proof Yamaha single. Great handling. It would be decent off road. Nobody to see me on it.  :evil:
It would be lonely though. I'm a hermit, but a year? I would definitely have to have a project to keep myself occupied.
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Re: Posted to Craggy Island
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Re: Posted to Craggy Island
« Reply #4 on: October 03, 2015, 08:43:08 AM »
One year on an island with 10 miles of road and limited off road? Honda Ruckus. Or a Honda c-70, c-90 or 110 step thru.

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Re: Posted to Craggy Island
« Reply #5 on: October 03, 2015, 10:08:10 AM »
And no one there to rescue you when you crash.  No, I wouldn't take any bike.
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Re: Posted to Craggy Island
« Reply #6 on: October 03, 2015, 11:24:29 AM »
Step 1 - Request a Russian Navy liason to serve on the island with you in the interests of Detente in these tense times.



Step 2 - Have her bring along a Dnepr.

Step 3 - You take a Ural.

Step 4 - Spend some time comparing notes.    Time will just FLY by ....

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Re: Posted to Craggy Island
« Reply #7 on: October 03, 2015, 11:50:37 AM »
Something fun and stone reliable but light enough to push 5 miles home. Ninja 250.
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Re: Posted to Craggy Island
« Reply #8 on: October 03, 2015, 11:52:14 PM »
Something fun and stone reliable but light enough to push 5 miles home. Ninja 250.

Why not a "hydro" Stone?

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Re: Posted to Craggy Island
« Reply #9 on: October 04, 2015, 02:45:54 AM »
A Suzuki DRZ-400 SuperMotard with an extra set of 18/21 wheels with dirt tires. Big fun in a small bucket!
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Re: Posted to Craggy Island
« Reply #10 on: October 04, 2015, 09:15:22 AM »
      I think Lannis has the right idea.
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Re: Posted to Craggy Island
« Reply #11 on: October 04, 2015, 09:26:04 AM »
      I think Lannis has the right idea.

Hum,

Until he discovers the male Comrade she smuggled in, in that side car!

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Re: Posted to Craggy Island
« Reply #12 on: October 04, 2015, 09:29:45 AM »
Rokon

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Re: Posted to Craggy Island
« Reply #13 on: October 04, 2015, 10:09:03 AM »
...The island has a runway and one road of about 10 miles circumnavigating the perimeter with some nice twisties. You can easily walk to anywhere on island from the road....

Don't suppose you can start having flyin's for female pilots....just to support the cause....
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Re: Posted to Craggy Island
« Reply #14 on: October 04, 2015, 10:25:36 AM »
I searched for "Craggy Island" on Google. Got a lot of book references and one reference to a private island being sold by a family.

Coordinates?  Would be interesting to see it on Google Earth.
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Re: Posted to Craggy Island
« Reply #15 on: October 04, 2015, 12:50:05 PM »

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Re: Posted to Craggy Island
« Reply #16 on: October 04, 2015, 12:52:50 PM »
I'd leave the bike home and take the floatplane.

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Re: Posted to Craggy Island
« Reply #17 on: October 04, 2015, 01:13:17 PM »
Hum,

Until he discovers the male Comrade she smuggled in, in that side car!

I don't know.   The few Russian women I've worked with have had it up to HERE with Russian men ... American men are like Shangri-La .....

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Re: Posted to Craggy Island
« Reply #18 on: October 04, 2015, 03:00:19 PM »
Rokon with factory Rokon sidecar, and cute Asian woman who knows how to walk on your back when she is barefoot all over.
 And a steam sauna.
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Re: Posted to Craggy Island
« Reply #19 on: October 04, 2015, 04:30:54 PM »
OK - there is a top secret base on the island, known as the Beaver Bunker, so secret in fact I forgot to mention it. The all female crew of the Beaver bunker are engaged in top secret space agency training in preparation for an all female mission to Mars where they will never meet a man again! They are not allowed out to the surface apart from in an emergengy as they need to prove they can cope cooked up in a space capsule, their only contact with the outside world is through you as you need to maintain their ventilation shafts. They have full space tech medical centre down there. Now you know about the Beaver Bunker don't talk about the Beaver Bunker! Happy now? You goddam should be!

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Re: Posted to Craggy Island
« Reply #20 on: October 04, 2015, 04:50:17 PM »

...their only contact with the outside world is through you as you need to maintain their ventilation shafts.


Is that what the kids call it now?  :rolleyes:
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