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by bok
Tue Mar 25, 2008 4:48 pm
Forum: Total Motorcycle Talk
Topic: Please critique me...constructively
Replies: 21
Views: 11587

i'll just say that pushing your butt over to the outside of the turn gives you a bit more stability. sure you could do the tight stuff with yourself just bolt upright in the saddle, but by putting yourself off to the side a bit you counteract the forces a bit better...of course the exact opposite is...
by bok
Tue Mar 25, 2008 4:41 pm
Forum: Start Your Engines - Introduce Yourself
Topic: not entirely a new guy but HI
Replies: 3
Views: 2584

thanks :) i'll try not to be a stranger, but i am still strange :)
by bok
Thu Mar 20, 2008 3:44 pm
Forum: Start Your Engines - Introduce Yourself
Topic: not entirely a new guy but HI
Replies: 3
Views: 2584

not entirely a new guy but HI

it's been a while since i have had time to pop in and say hi to all my TMW friends.

Maybe this year i will have time to type more than one sentence

Hope everyone is doing well and it's good to be back :)
by bok
Thu Mar 20, 2008 3:41 pm
Forum: Local - Motorcycle Rides, Events and Rallies
Topic: Calgary TMW Pub Nights
Replies: 65
Views: 45988

Damn, no pub nights for a while...i see a direct correlation to me losing my mind and not being around here....

who wants a pub night!?!?!
by bok
Fri Sep 08, 2006 9:08 am
Forum: Suggestion Box
Topic: More smilies added than you can shake a stick at!
Replies: 38
Views: 44470

i guess it would work for either, but usually for when a user gets their new bike
by bok
Fri Sep 08, 2006 9:05 am
Forum: Beginning Bikers
Topic: Zongshen
Replies: 19
Views: 7595

given time i'm sure their production standards on bikes will get better, kind of like the Hyundai cars used to be cheap pieces of crap that would get 1 star ratings...now they get good reviews since they fixed a lot of their quality issues. If the Koreans can do it, i'm sure the Chinese can get it t...
by bok
Fri Sep 08, 2006 8:27 am
Forum: The Soap Box
Topic: Homebrew!
Replies: 17
Views: 6186

last time i tried "home brew" it was actually home brewed 'shine....i think mead would taste good after that, no matter how disgusting mead is heh
by bok
Fri Sep 08, 2006 5:21 am
Forum: The Funny Farm
Topic: you can't have one
Replies: 2
Views: 2783

you can't have one

Every day a 4th grade boy walks home from school past a 4th grade girl's house. One day he is carrying a football, and he stops to taunt the little girl. He holds up the football and says "See this football? Football is a boys game and girls can't have one!" The little girl runs in the hou...
by bok
Fri Sep 08, 2006 4:46 am
Forum: Total Motorcycle Talk
Topic: Motorcyclists other hobbies?
Replies: 79
Views: 26350

for me i combine my love of photography with motorcycling, and i have fun teaching people, so i combined that with motorcycling as well....hm, non bike related, i guess XBox and my MINI
by bok
Fri Sep 08, 2006 4:38 am
Forum: Beginning Bikers
Topic: Steering the wrong way?
Replies: 24
Views: 9140

not riding until taking the course is not bad advice really. Since you have no real training, you might start making some bad habits that will be tough to correct when you get to the course. I've seen it many times where someone wants to "get the feel for riding" ends up in an accident (us...