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BBC Story showing soldier with his Armstrong

Post by bonny21 » Sun Oct 27, 2013 5:26 pm

mt in the news, see bbc wales north west
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Re: bbc news north west wales

Post by ZIP TIE » Sun Oct 27, 2013 5:45 pm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-nort ... s-24627847" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Post by bth2bth2 » Sun Oct 27, 2013 6:03 pm

mt is fitted with trials tyres !
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Post by bonny21 » Sun Oct 27, 2013 6:08 pm

the guys got some guts , good story
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Re: bbc news north west wales

Post by ZIP TIE » Sun Oct 27, 2013 6:13 pm

bth2bth2 wrote:mt is fitted with trials tyres !
Yeah think it was one of the issued options.
Chain looks a bit tight though.
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Re: bbc news north west wales

Post by bth2bth2 » Sun Oct 27, 2013 7:21 pm

'bit sad arn't we :lol:

great story though.

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Re: bbc news north west wales

Post by Bunker » Sun Oct 27, 2013 10:23 pm

bth2bth2 wrote:'bit sad arn't we :lol:
If anyone has frame 00460, thats their bike.....:-)
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Post by truslack » Mon Oct 28, 2013 3:34 pm

bth2bth2 wrote:mt is fitted with trials tyres !
Mine came out of the army with those fitted
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Re: BBC Story showing soldier with his Armstrong

Post by Bunker » Mon Oct 28, 2013 5:30 pm

Just in case it dissapears:

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Re: bbc news north west wales

Post by Minter » Mon Oct 28, 2013 8:53 pm

bth2bth2 wrote:mt is fitted with trials tyres !
Great story but a sad one..

Bike looks like a BAOR version - looks like the side stand is tucked up under the magneto cover.

There were some old Dunlop Trials tyres kicking around in the mid 80's but usually the Regimental bike teams had the PRI pay for them from a local bike shop, usually Pirelli MT43's. When we had to go on exercise we just bolted the panniers back on and left the tyres on as they were better off road than the OEM metzelers! Then asked the PRI for some more for the next 3 Stage Trial! Good ole days!!

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