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From: don (Calgary) on 26 Jun 2010 11:54 On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 02:18:24 -0600, "Bob Myers" <nospamplease(a)address.invalid> wrote: >CindiK wrote: >> I was pretty much ATGAATT (All The Gear All The Time). >> >> People at work have watched me suit up to ride. They often say "that >> looks awful warm for this weather". >> >> So it got me thinking. > >Gee, I thought your last attempt at trolling was a whole lot >better; a little more subtle, ya know? > >Bob M. > I thought both were a cut above what we have recently been treated to. The subtle humour brought a bit of a smile to my face. Given CindiK is going into the way back machine I will toss in an image I haven't seen for many years: http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~rblander/PATCH2_15.GIF I came across it while looking up Magna and V-4 information. Anyone remember this gentleman? http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~rblander/moto_long.html Glad to see his page is still there.
From: S'mee on 27 Jun 2010 00:36 On Jun 26, 2:41 am, CindiK <cindi.k...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Jun 26, 3:18 am, "Bob Myers" <nospample...(a)address.invalid> wrote: > > > CindiK wrote: > > > I was pretty much ATGAATT (All The Gear All The Time). > > > > People at work have watched me suit up to ride. They often say "that > > > looks awful warm for this weather". > > > > So it got me thinking. > > > Gee, I thought your last attempt at trolling was a whole lot > > better; a little more subtle, ya know? > > > Bob M. > > This wasn't so much a troll as a post in support of ATGATT with an > ironic twist. > > I had a fun troll in 1997 about the first service for the Savage. I forget that one...but maybe I wasn't on reeky yet. <drags toe in dirt> sorry for being so damn behind the times.
From: Beav on 26 Jun 2010 18:09 "CindiK" <cindi.knox(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:46571b03-7d68-4830-b43c-2c43daaa47fe(a)z10g2000yqb.googlegroups.com... > I was pretty much ATGAATT (All The Gear All The Time). > > People at work have watched me suit up to ride. They often say "that > looks awful warm for this weather". > > So it got me thinking. > > Most of the time, I don't have a collision, lowside, or highside. > > Most of the time I don't need the gear. > > Now, a bike drop about a decade ago taught me that once I'm going > down, I don't have time to go home and gear up. So what I needed to do > was only wear the gear when I was going to need it. > > So first I decided "any time I'm sure I'm not going to need the gear, > I won't wear it". > > That seemed like a good idea until I realized that the times I need > the gear were times I could still get pretty hurt - even with the gear > on. > > I thought about this for a long time. > > I broke out Excel and ran some "what ifs". > > I got a big dry-erase board and wrote some equations. > > I built some scale models in my garage. > > And I finally came to a brilliant conclusion: > > "Only ride when I'm sure I'm not going to have a collision or fall". > > With that decided, I realized I no longer needed protection. I've gone > None Of The Gear Any Time (NOTGAT). > > So I have a few items available to sell because I no longer ride when > there's any risk: > > Two HJC helmets: one black, one silver. > 1 Aerostich Roadcrafter suit > 1 lime yellow FirstGear Kilimanjaro jacket > Two pairs first gear gloves > Two pairs of boots > 1997 Suzuki LS650 Savage > 2010 Honda NT700V Very nicely done ma'am. I read your post to my wife and she's chuckling merrily away in her cage in the corner of the kitchen right now. -- Beav
From: Beav on 26 Jun 2010 18:11
"don (Calgary)" <hd.flhr(a)telus.net> wrote in message news:ma8c26110bo33n6qp3b28utvd98kqd6sl7(a)4ax.com... > On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 02:18:24 -0600, "Bob Myers" > <nospamplease(a)address.invalid> wrote: > >>CindiK wrote: >>> I was pretty much ATGAATT (All The Gear All The Time). >>> >>> People at work have watched me suit up to ride. They often say "that >>> looks awful warm for this weather". >>> >>> So it got me thinking. >> >>Gee, I thought your last attempt at trolling was a whole lot >>better; a little more subtle, ya know? >> >>Bob M. >> > > I thought both were a cut above what we have recently been treated to. > The subtle humour brought a bit of a smile to my face. Subtle as in "Here's a smack in the face" subtle? -- Beav |