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Re: Super Rocket Mascot.
« Reply #1 on: 05.02. 2013 06:10 »
That price is a bit better. An original is around the $250AU mark.
Looks like your dressed for some painting or have KKK relaxed their dress code  *smile*.
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Re: Super Rocket Mascot.
« Reply #2 on: 05.02. 2013 10:53 »
KKK near in the northwest of england , never , no it's HM govt latest cost cutting excercise , thats an  radiation suit which all bikers are being urged to wear since they can't get anyone to store there spent nuclear waste and have decided to repair the roads with it! I eagerly await mine if they can get a very large one that is ,regards BobH 
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Re: Super Rocket Mascot.
« Reply #3 on: 05.02. 2013 16:41 »
It's nice, but off an old Yank motor surely?
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Re: Super Rocket Mascot.
« Reply #4 on: 05.02. 2013 16:48 »
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can't get anyone to store there spent nuclear waste and have decided to repair the roads with it
hahahahahaaa++

About the 'mascot' was this really fitted to some models?

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Re: Super Rocket Mascot.
« Reply #5 on: 05.02. 2013 16:53 »
Muskrat at that price it's no wonder I've not seen one before! *smile* I changed the picture just to see if it was possible while we were changing over to the new site. It's my spraying attire from the week I did the frame and tank, without it little flakes of metal get everywhere. *rant*
Topdad as for repairing the roads with nuclear waste, you might not be far off the mark. The stuff I ran through a couple of months ago has left marks on my casings that will not polish out. Still really p*ssed off about that, in 34 years riding the A10 I have never seen anything like it. *angry*
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Re: Super Rocket Mascot.
« Reply #6 on: 05.02. 2013 21:09 »
For you doubters,
                                That was fitted to Road Rockets which were sent to countries where riders preferred to spear pedestrians rather than slice them, viz. Australia & the U.S.  *ex*

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Re: Super Rocket Mascot.
« Reply #7 on: 05.02. 2013 21:17 »
"riders preferred to spear pedestrians rather than slice them".......... *yeah*
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Re: Super Rocket Mascot.
« Reply #8 on: 05.02. 2013 21:36 »
Here are a couple of examples I spotted in Ballan last year..
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Re: Super Rocket Mascot.
« Reply #9 on: 05.02. 2013 21:37 »
Beautiful!
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Re: Super Rocket Mascot.
« Reply #10 on: 05.02. 2013 22:43 »
Art Deco ?
they would be an ideal candidate for that spray chrome featured in another mail         
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Re: Super Rocket Mascot.
« Reply #11 on: 17.03. 2013 11:23 »
And I tink that the Newcastle rail depot made more of them than BSA did.
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Re: Super Rocket Mascot.
« Reply #12 on: 17.03. 2013 20:53 »
Why do you think that, Trevor?
Which rail depot would that be?
I spent 2/3 of my life working in the rail industry and never saw or heard of any Rocket ornaments being made.

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Re: Super Rocket Mascot.
« Reply #13 on: 17.03. 2013 21:23 »
I reckon you could probably get something pretty similar at Sexpo, & spray it with chrome paint!!

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Re: Super Rocket Mascot.
« Reply #14 on: 18.03. 2013 10:08 »
Because just about every rocket I have seen in Newastle has the rocket on it and most of the owners referred to them as FO's.
I was led to believe they all came from the workshops somewhere.
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