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[agentpineapple]

Taxi driver. Where to governor?

Chinese customer. Hello driver....(must be pronounced in a benny hill style)

Hence why so many Chinese people live in Harrow........

[VTR Phoenix]

Taxi driver. Where to governor?

Chinese customer. Hello driver....(must be pronounced in a benny hill style)

Hence why so many Chinese people live in Harrow........

OK I get that now

Well I just asked him when and why and his response was

Not sure mate must've been the previous owner

[tony.mon]

Taxi driver. Where to governor?

Chinese customer. Hello driver....(must be pronounced in a benny hill style)

Hence why so many Chinese people live in Harrow........

Is that the governor of Hong Kong?

[agentpineapple]

Taxi driver. Where to governor?

Chinese customer. Hello driver....(must be pronounced in a benny hill style)

Hence why so many Chinese people live in Harrow........

Is that the governor of Hong Kong?

nah he got his head chopped off years ago, I think it was chopped off by a cab door....

[agentpineapple]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PFM-Brake-fro ... SwyDxXgkeJ
maybe a cheap way to improve on your brakes

[agentpineapple]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Honda-vtr-100 ... SwMHdXRhB1
now this looks like a great bike for the money, i'd say it was worth nearer £2000 at current prices, and the seller will take an offer. i'd be rushing up there with £900 cash in hand, if only I had the cash

[countrymick]

thats a nice one

[VTRDark]

Notice it has had crash bungs removed from the frame so it may be hiding something. Reflected in the price of course.

[agentpineapple]

could end up being a real bargain.....http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/honda-vtr-fir ... 6016.l4276

[VTRDark]

That's cheap but it's a slow one...no not because it's Yellow though that may have an effect, but because its a Japanese import according to the item specifics. Still it's a good price for a clean VTR.

[Kev L]

I can see the country of manufacture listed as Japan, nothing about it being a Japanese market grey import. To be honest the grey import era was over by the time this bike was manufactured. It appears to have the larger UK market tank on it as well.

[agentpineapple]

I can see the country of manufacture listed as Japan, nothing about it being a Japanese market grey import. To be honest the grey import era was over by the time this bike was manufactured. It appears to have the larger UK market tank on it as well.

grey imports were 400cc iirc. the term import in the bike trade went ballistic in the 90's with cheap bikes from Europe, because we were getting ripped off in the uk with high retail prices.
i'd guess the only time you'd get a jap import vtr, was if a owner privately imported his/her bike whilst relocating from japan to the uk. very doubtful tho

[Kev L]

Grey import was a generic term used for any size bikes intended for another market that ended up over here, for the reasons you suggest Marty.

[agentpineapple]

Grey import was a generic term used for any size bikes intended for another market that ended up over here, for the reasons you suggest Marty.

I always thought it was for the jap 400cc market bikes, I bow to your many many many years of seniority oh blue (rinsed) one

must be boring in Italy as you're always on the forum....

[Kev L]

Well done numpty boy, Santorini is a Greek island! Got back home this evening fella.