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Title: Motorbike museum in Austria destroyed...
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 24 January 2021, 17:25:36
https://www.autoblog.com/2021/01/19/austria-alps-motorcycle-museum-fire/
Title: Re: Motorbike museum in Austria destroyed...
Post by: Migv6 le Frog Fan on 24 January 2021, 18:14:42
Thats a shame. I would imagine quite a few of the exhibits will be irreplaceable.  :(
Title: Re: Motorbike museum in Austria destroyed...
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 24 January 2021, 18:17:41
Indeed. Would have been a good place head for a road trip :-\
Title: Re: Motorbike museum in Austria destroyed...
Post by: dave the builder on 24 January 2021, 18:17:55
Another nice insurance payout for a company not getting much footfall  :)
Title: Re: Motorbike museum in Austria destroyed...
Post by: STEMO on 24 January 2021, 18:21:47
Another nice insurance payout for a company not getting much footfall  :)
Why would anyone pay to look at old bikes?
Title: Re: Motorbike museum in Austria destroyed...
Post by: dave the builder on 24 January 2021, 18:27:43
Another nice insurance payout for a company not getting much footfall  :)
Why would anyone pay to look at old bikes?
Google "GILF" It must be popular  :D
Title: Re: Motorbike museum in Austria destroyed...
Post by: Migv6 le Frog Fan on 24 January 2021, 18:29:30
Another nice insurance payout for a company not getting much footfall  :)
Why would anyone pay to look at old bikes?

Same reason people pay to watch a load of grown men kick a bag of air around a field I suppose. They find it interesting for whatever reason.
Title: Re: Motorbike museum in Austria destroyed...
Post by: STEMO on 24 January 2021, 18:42:17
Another nice insurance payout for a company not getting much footfall  :)
Why would anyone pay to look at old bikes?

Same reason people pay to watch a load of grown men kick a bag of air around a field I suppose. They find it interesting for whatever reason.
Touché  ;D
Title: Re: Motorbike museum in Austria destroyed...
Post by: STEMO on 24 January 2021, 18:43:50
Although I won't be watching it for much longer.
Title: Re: Motorbike museum in Austria destroyed...
Post by: dave the builder on 24 January 2021, 18:46:50
Although I won't be watching it for much longer.
Are you still googling "GILFS" then Uncle Stemo   :D
Title: Re: Motorbike museum in Austria destroyed...
Post by: STEMO on 24 January 2021, 18:49:34
Although I won't be watching it for much longer.
Are you still googling "GILFS" then Uncle Stemo   :D
I don't need to Google it, I have it in my bookmarks.  :-X
Title: Re: Motorbike museum in Austria destroyed...
Post by: dave the builder on 24 January 2021, 18:53:32
Although I won't be watching it for much longer.
Are you still googling "GILFS" then Uncle Stemo   :D
I don't need to Google it, I have it in my bookmarks.  :-X
Fair play  :y
beats Opti's "monkeys and dolphins" search history  ::)
Title: Re: Motorbike museum in Austria destroyed...
Post by: Lizzie Zoom on 24 January 2021, 18:57:20
Another nice insurance payout for a company not getting much footfall  :)

The cynical part of me thought that immediately as I read the report! ::) ::) :D

Whatever, it is a terrible loss of replaceable machines :'( :'(
Title: Re: Motorbike museum in Austria destroyed...
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 24 January 2021, 18:58:49
Surely, if they were replacable, it wouldn't be a terrible loss ???

 ::)
Title: Re: Motorbike museum in Austria destroyed...
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 24 January 2021, 19:47:42
Another nice insurance payout for a company not getting much footfall  :)
Why would anyone pay to look at old bikes?

Same reason people pay to watch a load of grown men kick a bag of air around a field I suppose. They find it interesting for whatever reason.

There may be a homoerotic element to this. Although the viewer may be unwilling to accept it. :)
Title: Re: Motorbike museum in Austria destroyed...
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 24 January 2021, 19:50:17
Bikes are much more interesting than football.
Title: Re: Motorbike museum in Austria destroyed...
Post by: Broomies Mate on 24 January 2021, 21:14:44

There may be a homoerotic element to this. Although the viewer may be unwilling to accept it. :)

Bikes are much more interesting than football.

If wearing lots of leather and comparing helmets isn't homoerotic, I don't know what is.  ;D
Title: Re: Motorbike museum in Austria destroyed...
Post by: STEMO on 24 January 2021, 21:48:43

There may be a homoerotic element to this. Although the viewer may be unwilling to accept it. :)

Bikes are much more interesting than football.


If wearing lots of leather and comparing helmets isn't homoerotic, I don't know what is.  ;D


Yeah...."Grab me around the waist, really tight. The tighter you squeeze, the faster I'll go"  :-*
Title: Re: Motorbike museum in Austria destroyed...
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 24 January 2021, 21:50:37
Footballists were wearing leather hats long before motorbicyclists... So there's that ::)
Title: Re: Motorbike museum in Austria destroyed...
Post by: STEMO on 24 January 2021, 21:58:15
Footballists were wearing leather hats long before motorbicyclists... So there's that ::)
He didn't say leather hats. Motorbicyclists don't wear leather hats, they'd be useless. ::)
Title: Re: Motorbike museum in Austria destroyed...
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 24 January 2021, 22:17:49
Footballists were wearing leather hats long before motorbicyclists... So there's that ::)
He didn't say leather hats. Motorbicyclists don't wear leather hats, they'd be useless. ::)
They used to...

Once the footballists had made it fashionable  :P
Title: Re: Motorbike museum in Austria destroyed...
Post by: Kevin Wood on 25 January 2021, 07:12:39
Bikes are much more interesting than football.

So is stamp collecting, train spotting... etc. ;D
Title: Re: Motorbike museum in Austria destroyed...
Post by: Rangie on 25 January 2021, 09:10:22
Everybody has to have a hobby/interest we know of someone who has a collection of nailbrushes ! Strange but we can't all like the same things , apart from Vauxhall Omegas of course..😀
Title: Re: Motorbike museum in Austria destroyed...
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 26 January 2021, 19:00:01
Everybody has to have a hobby/interest we know of someone who has a collection of nailbrushes ! Strange but we can't all like the same things , apart from Vauxhall Omegas of course..😀

That doesn't sound very ambitious.... ;D ;D ;D