Hardcore Biker
Even old ones. Just like old cars, old planes and old trains. If we lock them up in museums (machine zooz?) and never fire them up future generations will miss out on the noise and smell and special performance of these old machines. Look after it, love it, but give it heaps!
One hell of a ride.
Hey I'm with you - I just said 'I prefer apple computers and Triumph motorcycles' in the anzac thread for much the same reason.Originally Posted by Paul in NZ
ps - Thanks Dave - Your reply bought out the stubborn old coot / arsehole in me and really made my mind up....
You wanna try carring a tripod on the ST and see what it could damage if one persisted
Gatvol
Definitely keep the Guzzi. But why not get a second (err, 3rd) bike aswell? I'm sure you could pick up a newish sports bike (or whatever style interested you) for a modest sum, being a modest guy and all
And, when you gonna fix that thing in the corner of your gargre?
Deus ex ukulele
It's a very cool and seriously stylie piece of kit. And that Guzzi exhaust noise is a mystical experience...
"Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]
Deus ex ukulele
Does OOS from working the EFTPOS at Motorad count?
"Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]
Slower than Ixion
When I personally now here the term biker, two things come to mind above all else. One is Motu do his back road tiki-touring.
The other is you. Your write ups about your youth, motorbikes being rebuilt on the coffee table and all, and your witty reparte(sp?) has inspired and entertained many inluding myself.
That person that I've come to "know" rides a motorbike that isn't just a collection of metal and rubber, etc. But a machine that is almost a member of his family. A machine his could close his eyes and describe in detail. A machine he not only enjoys but genuinely loves.
Some of us like the latest and greatest shiney thing that comes our way. You are not one of those people, be proud of it.
The way I see it is, those who go latest and greatest each year (and I'd be one if I had my way) are searching for the perfect bike. Riders like yourself, however, choose a bike not because of it's proximity to perfection, but rather because it captivates them. In a similarly undescribable way as falling in love. The imperfections are then at worst a small price to pay for such a wonderful machine, and at best end up being loved just as much as the good points.
Stay true to being the one and only Paul in NZ.
Hayden - Evidence that even the mediocre can achieve great things.
((U+C+I) x (10-S))/20 x A x 1/(1-sin(F/10))
Forum whore
Just think of the old adage, You don't miss it untill it's gone. But hey Paul I think you know that. But then a new Guzzi................???????? Hhmmmmmm.
Skyryder
Free Scott Watson.
Stabiliser Squad
Paul- you on a new spanky sports bike would be so *very* wrong. You're a legend, and so is that bike.
Besides, it sounds really, really good...
not that I could hear it much from the safe distance I kept behind you going to the rally and back...
The world is my oxter
bikeless
Heheh Yea paul keep yer bike that way when you get lost with a couple of sportbikes behind ya and you take a shortcut you wont have to worry about gravel roads.
Sever
Now and forever
you're just another lost soul about to be mine again
see her, you'll never free her
you must surrender it all
And give life to me again
Disturbed - Inside the Fire
Der gummikuh man
Lol thats a great one with the Beemer too....Heheh Yea paul keep yer bike that way when you get lost with a couple of sportbikes behind ya and you take a shortcut you wont have to worry about gravel roads.
Queiro voya todo Europa con mi moto.... pero no tengo suficiente tiempo o dinero.....
Heavy Metal Thunder
Keep it, you know you'd regret it if you let her go.
Destroy Everything! Destroy Everything! Destroy Everything! Obliterate what makes us weak!
Forum whore
I still have the Stornello I bought brand new in 1978 - who else here has the depth of motorcycling knowledge to even know what I'm talking about....
In and out of jobs, running free
Waging war with society
Forum whore
Stornello is Stork or summat I think but I do know (well I suppose thats a given eh) what you are talking about... Might be a long ride on that to the next rally....
I know 2 people on the aigor list that have or had them.
The Danish site has info / soft copies of brochures....
Paul N
In the riders seat
more dodgy Italian bikes out of the MG factory
Did you buy it new in NZ? I haven't ever seen one in real life
"If you can make black marks on a straight from the time you turn out of a corner until the braking point of the next turn, then you have enough power."
on the up
I reckon you should keep it.
But what's happening with the Triumph? When's the restoration on that baby finished?
Maybe you could just alternate between the two classics just for a laugh.
Besides, I hate to think the rings you'd run around me on a bike that actually handles...
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