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| View Poll Results: What's your favourite biking smell? | |||
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5 | 13.51% |
| Old kit (?!) |
  
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0 | 0% |
| My partner's old kit (?!) |
  
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0 | 0% |
| Petrol |
  
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5 | 13.51% |
| My bike (you know, when the engine's all warm) |
  
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8 | 21.62% |
| Bacon buittie & coffee on a winter's day |
  
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3 | 8.11% |
| Victory |
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2 | 5.41% |
| I have no nose (how do you smell? terri...) |
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0 | 0% |
| Other (tell us more...) |
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14 | 37.84% |
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14-07-05, 05:27 PM
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What's your favourite biking smell?
After enjoying the fresh leather aroma of my new Alpinestars summer gloves the other day - I wondered what everyone else's preferences are for nasal arousal...
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14-07-05, 05:30 PM
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Castrol R,Methanol,and er Napalm in the morning.
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14-07-05, 05:30 PM
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petrol/ new leather
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14-07-05, 05:32 PM
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2 strokes lovely smelling blue smoke, cant beat it
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14-07-05, 05:48 PM
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burning WD40 after spraying the engine and warming it up.
reminds me of the days I used to drive a traction engine |
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14-07-05, 06:06 PM
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Cow-poo.
Means that I'm out of town and in the country lanes. Either that or I'm following a muck-spreader down the High Street
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14-07-05, 06:27 PM
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I used to love the smell of burnt Castrol TTS in my Aprillia 
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14-07-05, 06:52 PM
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The exhaust of speedway bikes... No smell like it, it's almost physical- as if you're breathing in solid lumps of exhaust fumes. I think the track dust plays a part too...
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14-07-05, 06:55 PM
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I love the smell of freshly cut grass
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14-07-05, 07:11 PM
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Me, I like the smell of the inside of my lid (not) 
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