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Offline Eric The Viking

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Strom Spotting
« on: March 21, 2009, 20:25:00 »
OK here we go............

Dk blue 02 plate DL1000 on Kings Hill, Sudbury at lunchtime.

Dk blue 04 plate DL1000 (with nice sounding cans!) in Tescos in Sudbury this evening (apparently Mrs Eric said Hello when she should have been getting on with the shopping!)
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Re: Strom Spotting
« Reply #1 on: March 21, 2009, 20:29:16 »
Add to that a silver Strom on the A354 between Salisbury and Blandford Forum at about 10 am this morning...

I was in the car with caravan in tow, so deep undercover....
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Offline Spottyplayer

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Re: Strom Spotting
« Reply #2 on: March 21, 2009, 20:39:25 »
Add to that further, Red 650x at high beach around 15:00 today (Sat) I have spoke to you before at the end of last summer but didn't ask if you where on any fourum's. (The number plate is the next one from mine).

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Re: Strom Spotting
« Reply #3 on: March 22, 2009, 13:12:27 »
58 plate, black & silver, nice sounding cans and loads of extras

A12 london bound..

Oh it was me..just my reflection in the shop window  :neen:  lol
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Offline Ted$91

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Re: Strom Spotting
« Reply #4 on: March 23, 2009, 12:54:02 »
Fri.20th.March.

2 Wee's, 1 blue 1 red, 5 minutes apart, about 5.30pm in Witney town centre heading in off the A40.

Was it you ?

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Re: Strom Spotting
« Reply #5 on: March 23, 2009, 13:44:04 »
I was in Witney around that time on Friday. Mine is Candy Red.

Offline badger 1050

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Re: Strom Spotting
« Reply #6 on: March 23, 2009, 14:35:37 »
blue 650 wee going down the a2 at about 13.40ish going towards london

Offline Ted$91

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Re: Strom Spotting
« Reply #7 on: March 23, 2009, 15:05:12 »
Quote from: "jeyre60152"
I was in Witney around that time on Friday. Mine is Candy Red.

Hello, a hit at last  :clap:

I was in one of the pubs near the crossroads.

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Re: Strom Spotting
« Reply #8 on: March 23, 2009, 15:11:58 »
There was also a black 55 plate in Witney around that time.

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Re: Strom Spotting
« Reply #9 on: March 23, 2009, 18:43:29 »
A13 Londonbound at about 6:45ish am this morning couldn't quite see the colour as the sun was blinding me. I was on the 57plate black and silver 1000 with scorpion's going the other way!!!

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Re: Strom Spotting
« Reply #10 on: March 23, 2009, 20:52:21 »
Add to that a lovely grey 04 1000 at Banbury Cross on Sunday 22nd and a KLV on the A420 west of Oxford at about 4pm the same afternoon...

Wasn't me in Witney jeyre and Ted - I was in sunny Doorzet on me hols.
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Re: Strom Spotting
« Reply #11 on: April 07, 2009, 21:01:08 »
Tuesday morning 8 o'clock ish in Sudbury, Suffolk, either dark blue or black 1000 followed me on Mrs Erics wee up the A131 and turned off towards Hedingham, was it you? Loud pipes? something sounded good and it wasn't Mrs Erics.
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Re: Strom Spotting
« Reply #12 on: April 08, 2009, 20:23:02 »
Dark red '07 650, turning left out of Butcher Row E1 into Commercial Road this morning at 09.53hrs,  (sorry can't be more exact, could have been anyone :shrug:  :neen: )

I was going the other way in a 'company car'
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Re: Strom Spotting
« Reply #13 on: April 08, 2009, 22:05:09 »
Blue strom I held up on Red Lion Lane, Shooters Hill area early this afternoon with my road closure! (sorry)

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Re: Strom Spotting
« Reply #14 on: April 12, 2009, 21:21:01 »
OK, try again.....

Thursday 9th, 16.35 Gallows Corner, Romford,  mint looking 57 plate Black 1000,

or today at about 14.45hrs on the hard shoulder coast bound M20 just after Leeds castle exit... talking to Kent plod......  Black 1000, couldn't see the reg
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Re: Strom Spotting
« Reply #15 on: April 13, 2009, 14:57:43 »
spotted 3 today at ashford classic bike/auto jumble
1 a blue 650 07/57 plate parked in the corner with the guzzi
2 blue 1000 03 plate parked near the entrance was gone when we came out
3 black/silver 1000 parked in the corner with the ackropovic cans and tank cover

waited a while but nobody turned up might of been waiting round the corner till I had gone  :shrug:

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Re: Strom Spotting
« Reply #16 on: April 13, 2009, 17:25:04 »
and....I think....

Someone broken down on the southbound M5 between Weston Super Mud and J25. I think it was a 650, around 2-30 on Easter Sunday.
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Re: Strom Spotting
« Reply #17 on: April 14, 2009, 07:29:26 »
Quite regulary see a Blue v-strom between Toddington and Milton Keynes on the M1 travelling northbound. Usually about 6:20 to 6:40am.
I can be either in the car or on my black 650 heading south. :thumb:

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Re: Strom Spotting
« Reply #18 on: April 14, 2009, 08:00:19 »
Somebody in rural Gloucestershire has a blue V Strom , or was visiting yesterday........ Naunton , lovely area , especially for biking as there are some cracking roads around there .

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Re: Strom Spotting
« Reply #19 on: April 19, 2009, 18:22:37 »
Blue DL650 with top box at the Ace cafe this Sunday lunchtime, parked up near the railway bridge.
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