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#691 Unread post by sv-wolf »

Oh come on blues! Look at those mudguards for a start - they look like something someone found in a scrapyard on an old Ford. And what's happened to your running boards? I think they must have fallen off!

A motorcycle should not look like a motorhome. It should be lean and mean and stripped of all essentials. :wink:

Why the need to make the thing look so unnecessarily heavy?

See! I bet you eat Coco-pops or whatever they are called.

I think we have just hit the great cultural divide here.

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#692 Unread post by jstark47 »

sv-wolf wrote:A motorcycle should not look like a motorhome. It should be lean and mean and stripped of all essentials. :wink:
I think you mean 'stripped of all inessentials' ??

Stripped of essentials, it probably won't run well. Heck, it might not even roll.......

Although, heaven forbid I should tutor an Englishman on the English language! :mrgreen: :laughing:



sv-wolf wrote:A motorcycle should not look like a motorhome.
Nor should it look like a bit of Tupperware with wheels. :biggrin:
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#693 Unread post by sv-wolf »

jstark47 wrote:
sv-wolf wrote:A motorcycle should not look like a motorhome. It should be lean and mean and stripped of all essentials. :wink:
I think you mean 'stripped of all inessentials' ??

Stripped of essentials, it probably won't run well. Heck, it might not even roll.......
Oh good lord! A humorist! :roll:
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sv-wolf wrote:A motorcycle should not look like a motorhome.
Nor should it look like a bit of Tupperware with wheels. :biggrin:
Then you clearly never appreciated tupperware's potential for aesthetic and aerodynamic development well beyond its humble beginnings. Sigh! We have no visionaries any more!


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jstark47 wrote:
sv-wolf wrote:A motorcycle should not look like a motorhome.
Nor should it look like a bit of Tupperware with wheels. :biggrin:
:roll2: :LOL2: :LOL2:
That could be a sig
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#695 Unread post by ceemes »

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Oh my god! You don't have to endure Jeremy Clarkson too, do you? I feel your pain! The guy is such an opinionated prat - especially on the subject of motorcycles. He's probably done more to give motorcylists a bad name here in the UK than the whole of the bloody anti-bike establishment put together.

(OK, I sometimes enjoy watching him in a sneaky sort of way, but he is such a w***er. Opinionated people are only OK if they share the same prejudices as you do, but mostly they are too up themselves to share anything with anyone. JC is more up himself than most.)

Good to talk to ya, anyway.

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Clarkson is a right prat, I got a good laugh when I watch their Vietnam adventure and he pranged his little scooter TWICE!!!!!!

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You still planning on visiting NA this year? If so, I am sure Blue's and I can convince Doc to lend you his Yellow Beast, I'll sit on him and she can tickle him into submission. :mrgreen:
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#696 Unread post by dr_bar »

Yellow beast will be up for sale in the next few weeks so he better get here soon... :mrgreen:

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#697 Unread post by ceemes »

dr_bar wrote:Yellow beast will be up for sale in the next few weeks so he better get here soon... :mrgreen:

(Do you think he can handle that flat 6 and 700 lbs of steel? :roll: :laughing: )
You did didn't you?? :party:
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dr_bar wrote:Yellow beast will be up for sale in the next few weeks so he better get here soon... :mrgreen:
Eh? What??!! Ya still haven't sold that thing?????
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#699 Unread post by blues2cruise »

sv-wolf wrote:Oh come on blues!
Look at those mudguards.....
I love that old style look.
Why the need to make the thing look so unnecessarily heavy?
It only looks heavy...it's actually quite nimble.
See! I bet you eat Coco-pops or whatever they are called.
I don't eat chocolate....and I don't eat cereal full of air..... :P I cook myself a bowl of oatmeal for breakfast quite often.
No cultural divide I can see. :mrgreen:


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poet wrote:
jstark47 wrote:
sv-wolf wrote:A motorcycle should not look like a motorhome.
Nor should it look like a bit of Tupperware with wheels. :biggrin:
:roll2: :LOL2: :LOL2:
That could be a sig
Hi Poet

Ya mean, like a badge of shame? Yeah I can understand that.

Tupperware, guys, is an unfortunate necessity to ensure that a bike does what a bike is meant to do. I prefer the classic roadster/cafe racer look myself, but prefer not to have my head torn off in the windblast.

All the chrome and tassels and extra weight that get stuck on those other things are, well... just lumber.
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