2009 motorcycling highs and lows
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From: Jeweller on 31 Dec 2009 14:45 The Older Gentleman wrote: > Just thinking. > > My highs this last year: Still enjoying the galleon in full sail. Acquiring the Pegaso. > The lows Getting a NIP within a week of acquiring the Peg. Realising I'm not brave enough, or quick enough, to join the big boys on a continental fun run. -- R100RT Aprilia Pegaso 650 IE "The Flying Mythos" Formerly: James Captain, A10, C15, B25, Dnepr M16 solo, R80/7, R100RT (green!) www.davidhowardjeweller.co.uk
From: Salad Dodger on 31 Dec 2009 15:01 On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 12:05:47 +0000, totallydeadmailbox(a)yahoo.co.uk (The Older Gentleman) wrote: >Just thinking. I take it from the time this was posted, that it wasn't your Speed Trip parked outside our office this lunchtime. > >My highs this last year: CB1300: every time I get on it, I enjoy it. Pithiviers. Pip's joy at simply being there was most uplifting. Scotland on the Wing. Especially Dornoch to Wick and back. 100% allrounder's on the RBR (again)<smug> Getting the Wing sorted in double quick time in France. The day out on the CBX. >The lows Bouncing down the A13 in January. The speed and efficiency of the MIB. Discovering a deformed front Michelin on the Wing, in Tours. On a Friday night. >Anyone else?
From: Salad Dodger on 31 Dec 2009 15:05 On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:45:03 +0000, Jeweller <dghoward(a)GEEmail.com> wrote: >Realising I'm not brave enough, or quick enough, to join the big boys on >a continental fun run. Depends which type of fun run, but I've never let being slower than Ginge on Prozac stop me from going along. Neither has Spete.
From: The Older Gentleman on 31 Dec 2009 15:29 Salad Dodger <salad.dodger(a)idnet.com> wrote: > I take it from the time this was posted, that it wasn't your Speed > Trip parked outside our office this lunchtime. Nope, but you must HAGM. -- BMW K1100LT Ducati 750SS Honda CB400F Triumph Street Triple Suzuki TS250ER GN250 Damn, back to six bikes! Try Googling before asking a damn silly question. chateau dot murray at idnet dot com
From: Dr Ivan D. Reid on 31 Dec 2009 15:20
On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:22:57 +0000, Wicked Uncle Nigel <wun(a)wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk> wrote in <t2z1uaLBwOPLJAhl(a)wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk>: > Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, darsy ><darsy(a)sticky.co.uk> typed >>On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 08:32:20 -0700, vulgarandmischevious >><vulgarandmischevious(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>>totallydeadmailbox(a)yahoo.co.uk (The Older Gentleman) wrote: >>>>The lows >>>Haven't ridden a bike this year. Been busy. >>hey, you could have lied and had anyone who dared to disagreed with >>you extraordinarily renditioned. > "extraordinarily rendered", Shirley? <Heh!> Nearly happened to my father once, when his flensing knife got caught up in a piece of blubber he was feeding into the intake hole down to the boilers. ISTR he ended up holding himself up by his elbows until his workmates rescued him. They used to use spikes in their Wellingtons to try to keep balance in the slippery whale-blood. And milk -- which they explained to the tourists as whales having white blood... -- Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration, Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005 WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon) KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty". |