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Hey Vegas, I used to live out there in 96-97. Kind of miss it. I'm a Surveyor and Seven Hills was one of my jobs, it was just taking off back then. Here are the offending passages.

"But don't expect speed. Or handling. I have no idea how our Motoring Correspondent managed to get the thing up to 100mph. At 70 I was in a flat panic, weaving all over the place, my innards roiling as each tiny surface contour travelled up the Bonnie's frame. I bottled out, and I suspect he is lying anyway.

When I started the bike for the first time and pulled away, both engine note and power delivery conspired to put me in mind, unfairly I accept, of the legendary Honda 250 Superdream, dubbed "Wet Dream" by riders unimpressed by its performance. If you buy a new Bonneville, see what you can do about de-restricting those exhausts. The noise restriction Nazis have a lot to answer for.

The machine wheezes up hills and is positively treacly two up. And for God's sake make sure you acqaint yourself with those authentic, old-fashioned braking distances before entering urban traffic.

Keeping the twin on the boil takes enormous amounts of revving and footwork. And it simply laughs at you if you try and open up the throttle in high gear at low speeds. "