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From: EZ on 9 Mar 2010 08:32 On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 20:56:29 -0800 (PST), "Road Glidin' Don" <d.langkd(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Thanks Dean. Yeah, it is nice when your wife shares a love of riding >with you. > >Hey, maybe someday they'll make a special pill you can give, to change >those that don't. Sign me up! My wife rides on the back maybe once a year, and never farther than Roger's. -- EZ Larry from St. Louis '08 FLHTCU
From: snarl on 9 Mar 2010 11:23 On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 05:40:18 -0600, "Old Crow" <walliscrow(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >"Road Glidin' Don" <d.langkd(a)gmail.com> wrote in message >news:17d2a6f2-5397-4f01-9adb-bcab0de7299c(a)19g2000yqu.googlegroups.com... >On Mar 8, 8:02 pm, Philip Nasadowski <nasado...(a)usermale.com> wrote: >> In article >> <ffe28499-8f64-4244-9142-c865ec5d1...(a)k17g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>, >> "Road Glidin' Don" <d.lan...(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > That's what I'm hoping is the case, Harold, but the riders who >> > reported the short tire life aren't the type to ride spirited, so that >> > got me wondering if a softer, stickier rubber compound is being used >> > in the fat tires. >> >> Come on, what's the fun of a big tire and lots of HP if you can't do a >> good smokeshow? :) > >Doin' burn-outs with the wife's new bike and getting caught... I >think I had a nightmare about that once! > > >I remember how big my wife's eyes got when I "accidently" pulled a wheelie >on her old Sporty. The blows started coming about 15 sec after I parked >it...I think she gave me just enough time to get clear of the bike. I can picture that <g>. Snarl
From: Philip Nasadowski on 9 Mar 2010 17:39 In article <hn5c39$l3$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, "Old Crow" <walliscrow(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > I remember how big my wife's eyes got when I "accidently" pulled a wheelie > on her old Sporty. > The blows started coming about 15 sec after I parked it... ^^^^^ So *that's* why everyone's always popping wheelies around here...
From: Harold Gailey on 9 Mar 2010 21:45 "Old Crow" <walliscrow(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message news:hn5c39$l3$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > > I remember how big my wife's eyes got when I "accidently" pulled a wheelie > on her old Sporty. The blows started coming about 15 sec after I parked > it...I think she gave me just enough time to get clear of the bike. > > -- > Old Crow > '82 FLTC(P) 92" > '87 FLTC > '61 F-100 302/C-6 > BS#133, SENS, TOMKAT, SLOB#13, MAMBM That reminds me of a midnight ride about 30 years ago when the wife was just a girlfriend. We were cruising on the freeway when she proceeds the knock me around pretty good hollering to pull over or some such. Apparently I kicked up a wire about coat hanger sized that hooked on her shoe and was throwing sparks all over the place. By the time I got to look back the fireworks were over. But she was still mighty hot expecting me to stop in the middle of the freeway or something. I tried to explain about safety and such but she was having none of it. I think she's still ticked off that I thought it was funny how she freaked out over a little old wire caught on her shoe. -- 74 CB 450 - Stolen; 74 Z1 900 - Traded; 76 FX 1200 - Stolen; 78 FX(E) 86 CI - Daily rider nice weather; 02 FXDX 88 CI - Daily rider other weather
From: Harold Gailey on 9 Mar 2010 21:50
"EZ" <EZ.Rider(a)NOSPAM.sbcglobal.net> wrote in message news:h6jcp515kd7jqqhudkcgrafrrsjn3tsir2(a)4ax.com... > On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 21:43:54 -0600, "Harold Gailey" > <hgailey(a)comcast.net> wrote: > >>Plaids, hehe, I used to own someof them. I had a pea green pair of >>plaid pants back around those years. Not only plaid but some sort of >>synthetic material to boot. Them was the days. > > Hell, I had a plaid polyester sport coat back then. In those days, a > teacher had to wear a coat and tie. > > Didn't John Philip Sousa write a march about it? "Plaids and Stripes > Forever" or some such <g>. > >>Doesn't seem fair to use a very soft sticky compound in a tire that's got >>tons of rubber that should last for years. Especially at the price they >>probably command. It's just not right. > > Mebbe on a crotch rocket, but not on anything I'm willing to ride, > that's for sure. > > Shirley - we're thirsty, and I just pulled out a new card. > I'll get the next round. Let's hoist one to the fashions of the 70's. They're about due for a comeback. Anybody still got any thing from the 70's in their closets that still fits? I've still got a pair of leather pants I got for cold weather riding back in the late 70's. They quit fitting about 25 + years ago. -- 74 CB 450 - Stolen; 74 Z1 900 - Traded; 76 FX 1200 - Stolen; 78 FX(E) 86 CI - Daily rider nice weather; 02 FXDX 88 CI - Daily rider other weather |