How many real bikers out there?

[Oscar]

Well,they aren't all mine,one is my wife's,one the son in laws,and bikes for my kids....I paid for them,but they belong to them (off road only).And as Oscar points out....they don't all go.But bikes that don't go are bikes that need work,and I'd be kinda lost if I had a shed full of bikes that only needed a polish....where's the fun in that? The bike under the sheet is a Guzzi,not a Ducati...it'll have to go as part of my next clean out.

What sorta Guzzi?

'Bout we went for a ride, isn't it?

[Subike]

um counting bikes in a garage?
err
a local gentleman
bought this farm recently,
to move away from the prying eyes of the big city.
In the past month he has dumped 6 tonnes of parts that are US.
The shed?
Well want your eyes to fall out?
Mine did
Two, industrial sized chook barns full!!!!!
I went to get a clutch pack...err...took my choice from more than 10 XS1100's!
Where? I cannot tell, but he has over 100 RIDEABLE bikes on reg hold according to his records.
This is not a wind up, as he is a retired wrecker from somewhere, these are the ones that got away......He is retired now, and spends his days rebuilding bikes. They appear on the market when he needs more cash.
The farm is a working farm, but you would not guess its secret
Now THAT is what I call a biker
Oh and he drives a truck!

[_intense_]

>> holy F*** Spankme! where the hell did you get that scarey avatar? gave me the creeps.

[Motu]

What sorta Guzzi?

'Bout we went for a ride, isn't it?

A Stornello 160....I've had it from new.But stopped riding it nearly 20 years ago,and it's been lying around since...and looks like it.And that reminds me the owners manual is sitting in front of me...I have to scan it and send it to Pete Kelly.

I'd be up for a blat.

[Ixion]

Ah, Moto-Cuzzy, Ducrappi, all a sama Eytalian , FOREIGN like. Not proper pukka Briddish. Doesn't matter what the badge says, the electrics will crap
out. I drive an Alfa , I KNOW about Guiseppi's electrics. It's their revenge for Monte Cassino.

Have you got that Yamahappy engine showhorned into theh Triumph frame yet?

[Ixion]

A Stornello 160....I've had it from new....

Hey ? You had a NEW bike? You bloated capitalist plutocrat , you . I never had a new bike in my life .

I thought you wuz a fellow bottom feeder, how come you wuz feeding at the top of the food chain? And why'd y' pick THAT bike for a new one!

[Motu]

Hey ? You had a NEW bike? You bloated capitalist plutocrat , you . I never had a new bike in my life .

I thought you wuz a fellow bottom feeder, how come you wuz feeding at the top of the food chain? And why'd y' pick THAT bike for a new one!

Coz I was bottom feeding! They were '74 models lying around in some house/car shark/wrecker in franklin - we bought 5 of them in a folding cash in hand waved under the nose deal....with trailers and pickup around the corner.That was in 1978,and I sometimes see one surface and track down the owner...just keeping an eye on my baby Starlings.It's a nice bike,the engine sort of a V twin turned around....and in it's day was way faster and handled way better than anything made in that other country with precision but no passion.

[Ixion]

Ah, well, that's different. So long as you wuz ripping off the capitalist exploiters, like. Nothing wrong with the BIKES to be sure, except the electrics. But, of course, they wuz FOREIGN. Didn't even have proper nuts n bolts, real spanners didn't fit them. Never take the place of the Bantam.

(We seem to have very successfully hijacked this rather boring old thread) .

And you still haven't let on about the Trimaha . Have you found a jack big enough to force the frame members apart yet? Bet you haven't you've been spending all your time trying to figure out how to make BMW gearboxes change gear like proper transmissions haven't you. I have some of the magic Molyslip magic goo left. Doesn't really make any difference, but you can persuade y'self that the crunch-clonk is less noticeable (from 2 kilometres away) than it was before.

[Motu]

(We seem to have very successfully hijacked this rather boring old thread) .

And you still haven't let on about the Trimaha . Have you found a jack big enough to force the frame members apart yet? Bet you haven't you've been spending all your time trying to figure out how to make BMW gearboxes change gear like proper transmissions haven't you. I have some of the magic Molyslip magic goo left. Doesn't really make any difference, but you can persuade y'self that the crunch-clonk is less noticeable (from 2 kilometres away) than it was before.

Yeah,crap thread about massaging someones ego because they don't know how to drive a car.



The Yamumph is a plaything for my mind in boring moments at this stage....I walk past a bike and mentally fit the forks or rear wheel into the parts I have,things like that.I want to look at Erik's spare Bandit.Need to clear the bike stand - the DT230 has been on it for a month and I've done 2 hours work to it...need to stop helping other people in their troubles and sort myself out instead.Then the Umphaha goes on.I think the R65 shifts really well,certainly better than my /5 or XLV750 did.The wife has completed her German set....a C220 to match her R65.

There is a nice D3 riding around here - with C10 forks and a Suzuki front wheel....good to know free thinkers are still out there.

[Oscar]

Yeah,crap thread about massaging someones ego because they don't know how to drive a car.

Heheheh...brilliant - that needs highlighting.

[Dodger]

I don't feel that I fall into any of those categories. EVERY time I go to work I use the bike and quite often on my days off, depending on what I am doing. I certainly use a car as well. Is there a category for that?

Add me to that as well.
I'm not allowed to transport my 16 month old daughter on the bike

[90s]

Yeah,crap thread about massaging someones ego because they don't know how to drive a car.

This is a young person inexperience thread - add to "I'll never drive a car"

I'll never -
sell out
get a boring job
work 9-5
get married
slow down
stay in instead of go out

Joni might think about all the things she said as a young'un -

I'll -
never like boys
like x music
do (insert saucy thing here)
wear clothes like (mum etc)

Did you keep to them?

Trouble about Liefstyle choices (as Joni put it) - eventually LIFE tends to get in the way ...

Its pretty easy to say "I'll never" from the high horse.

Pretty hard to look back and find you kept to those choices. If you post here in 30 yrs and can say "and I never DID own a car" I'll give you top respect.

However, until then I find those people who keep riding even though life gets in the way - including needing to drive and own cars - get my respect as the real riders ...

[90s]

If you post here in 30 yrs and can say "and I never DID own a car" I'll give you top respect.

Except I'll probably be dead of course ...

[slowpoke]

Aaaaaah, "labels", "pigeon-holes" and "stereotypes", ya gotta luv 'em.....not to mention the self-righteous judgemental types who seek to apply them.

It's ferkin' funny too how people take a holier than thou pride in putting themselves through certain completely avoidable hardships, like my grandmother who took a vicious pride in handwashing dishes, even when a dishwasher was available...or the old bugger up the street who used to battle away for hours every Thursday with an equally ancient push mower, even though he wasn't short of a quid.

Now that I think of it, is it pride...or is it fear?

Never driven a car? So you've never driven around with your hand on the silky skin of your girlfriends' thigh? Or gone through the pre-dawn ritual of checking your bike/trailer and heading off to your first race meeting, your mind ablaze with the possibilities of what you might have forgotten and what the day will bring. You've never driven home from the hospital with your amazing wife/life partner and fresh first-born child in the car, your whole universe seemingly within arms reach?

To me it's a fairly simple life choice, do you want to be a passenger...or a driver?

[terbang]

Well I drive a ute and a jet aircraft... looks like its option 4 for this mere mortal.