<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">Bill,</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">You may have misunderstood me? I don’t have a disregard for motorcycles at all - in fact quite the contrary. As I recall, my ascerbic comment on the Tail of the Dragon was that to really enjoy the challenges of that road on a proper motorcycle, one needed the likes of a Kawasaki, Moto Guzzi or something both powerful and safely bankable, rather than a Honda Goldwing doing 20mph maximum, taking up far too much road and creating a trail of at least ten or twelve cars in its wake. The little Triumph Tiger Cub I had at the age of 16 would have easily and very effectively run circles round that huge Honda.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Best</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">John</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On 3 Oct 2025, at 16:45, bill beecher <<a href="mailto:notakitcar@yahoo.com">notakitcar@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">John,<div>Somewhere in my archives I have a sound bite of your unkind regard for the motorbikes on the Tail of the Dragon. Need to find that. </div><div>Bill B</div><div> <br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr">“<span style="font-size: 19pt;">If at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving definitely isn’t for you”</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Sep 15, 2025, at 1:53 PM, John Macartney <<a href="mailto:johnbmacartney@gmx.com">johnbmacartney@gmx.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"><style>@font-face { font-family: "Cambria Math"; }
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Don,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Your recommendation for H-D kit took me back many years to when I reported to the list – or was it someone else (?) that two domed and plated nuts and oil proof washers off the Honda Gold Wing were ideal substitutes to the factory fitted hardware that appeared on all the valve covers. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Talking of the Gold Wing, I recall following one with two people on it when I did the Tail of the Dragon in TN in 2009 in a Stag. At the time, I felt and said to the video camera I had running that pushing a concert-sized grand piano along that stretch of road would have been far easier for the pushers than riding a huge bike of that type.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Jonmac<o:p></o:p></p></div><span>** <a href="mailto:triumphs@autox.team.net">triumphs@autox.team.net</a> **</span><br><span></span><br><span>Donate: <a href="http://www.team.net/donate.html">http://www.team.net/donate.html</a></span><br><span>Archive: <a href="http://www.team.net/pipermail/triumphs">http://www.team.net/pipermail/triumphs</a> <a href="http://www.team.net/archive">http://www.team.net/archive</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>Unsubscribe/Manage: <a href="http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/triumphs/notakitcar@yahoo.com">http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/triumphs/notakitcar@yahoo.com</a></span><br></div></div></div></blockquote></body></html>