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From: a t e c 7 7 "atec 77 at hotmail dot on 9 Jul 2007 00:02 Theo Bekkers wrote: > Toosmoky wrote: > >> They're almost always at a (Doug-safe) fixed height but I'm always >> warned by shorter people with a different perspective because to them >> down there looking up, I look like I might be hit by one. (I've only >> been hit once when I got up on a chair to check the top of a wardrobe. >> Got a cool scar out of it though...) > > Hmmm, trying the 'jumping off the ward-robe' were we? > > Theo > > Visions of flapping Tea-towls whompp (dust clouds)
From: Toosmoky on 9 Jul 2007 02:58 Theo Bekkers wrote: > Hmmm, trying the 'jumping off the ward-robe' were we? The wardrobe that could take my weight hasn't been built yet... -- Toosmoky Work to ride, Ride to Work... http://users.tpg.com.au/smokey61
From: Knobdoodle on 12 Jul 2007 06:57 "Zebee Johnstone" <zebeej(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:slrnf92maa.hte.zebeej(a)gmail.com... > In aus.motorcycles on Sun, 08 Jul 2007 11:23:29 GMT > Boxer <someone(a)nowhere.com> wrote: >> >> I am 5'7" and it is no problem for me, reaching the ground is really >> over-rated. > > > <flashback to that whole sequence of "no one should buy a bike they > can't flat foot on and look, that woman's horrible crash was obviously > because she couldn't"> > > Come on aus.moto, where are the howls of indignation that he should > even think about it? > Was that real? I thought that was just a NZ trolling attempt. (And wasn't the woman in that thread a novice? John's got more miles on the clock than Alexandre Barros!) -- Clem (I was too busy being a crash-victim myself to pay attention at the time)
From: Boxer on 12 Jul 2007 07:25 "Knobdoodle" <knobdoodle(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:hOnli.6202$4A1.6122(a)news-server.bigpond.net.au... > > "Zebee Johnstone" <zebeej(a)gmail.com> wrote in message > news:slrnf92maa.hte.zebeej(a)gmail.com... >> In aus.motorcycles on Sun, 08 Jul 2007 11:23:29 GMT >> Boxer <someone(a)nowhere.com> wrote: >>> >>> I am 5'7" and it is no problem for me, reaching the ground is really >>> over-rated. >> >> >> <flashback to that whole sequence of "no one should buy a bike they >> can't flat foot on and look, that woman's horrible crash was obviously >> because she couldn't"> >> >> Come on aus.moto, where are the howls of indignation that he should >> even think about it? >> > > Was that real? I thought that was just a NZ trolling attempt. > (And wasn't the woman in that thread a novice? John's got more miles on > the clock than Alexandre Barros!) > -- > Clem > (I was too busy being a crash-victim myself to pay attention at the time) > Hey Clem drop on over and come for a ride, Presidents lunch at Weiss's in Toowoomba on Sunday, lots of food we have booked a private room, come over at 9:00am and we will take the long way and put some miles on the Adventure. The Ohlin's finally arrived today so I will have them fitted for Sunday. Boxer
From: Tim Moran on 3 Aug 2007 05:30
In article <fnCsi.15514$4A1.1435(a)news-server.bigpond.net.au>, someone(a)nowhere.com says... > PS: took me 16 hours to fit the panniers and Ohlins, just about had to pull > the whole bike apart. That says something about bike design, when I recently adjusted the preload on the shock on the 9 it was actualy easier to take the shock off and do it off the bike, admittedly having a rattle gun handy helped, but I recon I could still get the shock off the bike in under a minute with hand tools |