Mouthpieces A small change in Mouthpiece but what a difference S80 to Selmer Soloist

[Smiffy]

Cheers Phil

 

[artisticlicence]

Well done Smiffy! Roll on the 5th!!

Ive been to the Ace a few times - worth a visit 8)

 

[Smiffy]

Thanks Artistic

Who is going to borrow me their bike then :whistle:

 

[PaulyT]

artisticlicence wrote:
Well done Smiffy! Roll on the 5th!!

Ive been to the Ace a few times - worth a visit 8)

The next time I plan a visit over there I'll let everyone know what's going on and we can meet for their ?5-55 breakfast - 2 x sausage, 2 x bacon, 2 x egg, 2 x toast, beans and a cuppa!
LUSH!!

 

[Smiffy]

What about the mushrooms

 

[PaulyT]

Theyre extra BOOOOO

 

[old_git]

Congratulations Young Smudger.

Where you going for your practical?

BTW Don't knock pop pops, I could bore you for hours about the eighteen speed Kreidler and twelve speed Suzuki fifty c.c. racing motorcycles. Too fast for me and if you winked, the damn things would swerve across the track. Good cure for constipation.

 

[Smiffy]

Hello mate,. Your area Croydon, I have a mate that had loads of 50's bikes

Last year I was working at a guys house who restores old bikes almost from scratch,

He has been doing some for the motorbike museum up in Birmingham after they have a big fire

The one I saw him doing was a 1923? Brough Superior All chrome they have on show there

he even bores the engines himself

He has a works Brough that he owns himself

He also has a Aston martin db5 (James Bond) convertible (?300k)

He is a real old hells angle about 70,white beard down to his chest and walks out in the road in a 1970's green bathrobe in the winter 😱

You may know him 😉

He does some work for Warrs ( Harley D)

 

[old_git]

Apologies for thread creep.
Come down and have a look around the area especially if the test centre is still in Canterbury Road as it's just by the Lombard roundabout. A busy, large one on the A23. That's made you feel better.

 

[Smiffy]

I did my car test there back in 19... ......... too many years ago 🙁

I am working up in Westminster, they have just started charging for MB parking, ?1.50 a day or ?5 per week, ok not a lot but theses things always go up

 

[Ruby]

I've been away so just caught this thread - more sax playing bikers, and a rally in the pipeline, life gets better! I've a Ducati S2R Monster which sadly goes to someone else tomorrow (needed ? for a garage door to enable winter time tinkering in the garage) but I still have an ER5 left. Good luck with your test on the 5th, you'll be fine. I'm away back down to Dartington now as I'm on the summer school there this week but will check back for rally plans next week. 😉 Does anyone get to the Paignton bike nights in Devon? PS-I had MP fiascos as well - tried all sorts from Runyon to Berg Larsen then went back to the stock MP which is fine!

 

[Smiffy]

Hi Ruby and thank you


All these nice bike and little me with a pop pop :erm:

But it does the job in London

 

[Smiffy]

Funny thing

I tried the Semer 80 c* again today just wanted to have a last go at it before selling it, but now I'm not so sure I will sell it, it played really well with a Rico 2

Not sure why, maybe my chops have change for the better playing the soloist :S

 

[TomMapfumo]

Maybe you should just collect Selmer mouthpieces - Super Session next?
If in doubt do keep a mouthpiece, says the proud owner of a Yanagisawa 6 HR Tenor, which sounds great with V16 2.5's. I have decided not to sell that now,and like it if I want a mellow sound - more Summertime than Cantaloupe Island.

Kind regards
Tom

 

[Smiffy]

Maybe you should just collect Selmer mouthpieces - Super Session next?

🙂 Well I heard they were good on a Tenor 😉

It is all a bit of a nightmare

 

[Moz]

Just seen this bit about the CB500. I had one as my first 'big' bike after passing my test. I kept it for five years and only sold it as I was confident enough to hit the throttle stop more often than not. I bought a VFR800 non-VTEC (which I still have) as an upgrade.

The CB500 is a great bike and if I needed a second bike for commuting and generally having fun then it's the bike I would buy again.

Moz

JonF wrote:
Good luck for the test. Once you've passed, give a Honda CB500 a try. Much easier to ride than a 125, safer, better brakes, more comfy and quite enough (but not too much) power. You can get a really good one for less than ?1500, or a snotter for half that. I've had a couple, sold one with 117,000 miles on it, still going strong. Kept the other as a spare bike.

 

[alan_]

Just followed this thread all the way through. What a laugh. :laugh:

Me too....saxophones and bikes....I have a Honda Steed 600 and a Suzuki Djebel 200 to wiz 'round Vientiane on.

Rekon Dooce is right, definitely something about bikes and saxs. By the way Dooce have you tried one of those soft gig bags with backpack type straps. Really the only way forward if your always on a bike. Before I got mine I had to balance my hard tenor case on my lap with the front resting on the handle bars....really not recommended.....or legal.....but you can do that kind of thing here. Once saw a family of 5 on a bike with 4 bags of shopping (two on each handle bar)...and it was only a Honda Dream 50 :laugh:
Cheers, Al