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    p.s

    Dangerous is a wanker.....

    and Cook me some eggs Joni

    and learn to wheelie **R1**

    and why is there a condom in my exhaust? stay away from my bike you dodgy dodgy prick!

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    Wink

    Quote Originally Posted by manuboy
    ...Which makes me laugh, cos in my meagre experience, it's the people that don't bother giving you the verbal that you really need to be concerned with.
    To bloody right,generally is more mature.
    Be aware of the smiling assasin

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    Quote Originally Posted by manuboy
    Dangerous is a wanker.....
    and Cook me some eggs Joni
    and learn to wheelie **R1**
    Takes one to know one besides, its mine I will do with it what ever I please

    sunny side down please Joni

    Yeahhhhhhh.............. right

    PS: Manuboy.... why is there a condom dangling out ya left hand SV pipe? told ya before if you come round here to fuk with ya bike clean up my garage after ya please.

    NB: Manu edited his post above after I posted this
    cheers DD
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    Quote Originally Posted by manuboy

    and why is there a condom in my exhaust? stay away from my bike you dodgy dodgy prick!
    why bother with a condom...or was you cock in there first?
    Quote Originally Posted by Drew View Post
    Given the short comings of my riding style, it doesn't matter what I'm riding till I've got my shit in one sock.

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    And unfortunately...

    after saying that the SV1000 forum guys manage to stay on topic, look what i gone and done.

    Sorry Jim2...

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    Self expression.

    Thanks for the outpouring Jim2. :spudwow: You have just done one of the things I like about KB. Expressed yourself in your own words.

    One of the things I was missing most about the loss of most of my old biking buddies to the grim reaper, was all the shit we used to talk!

    Friends don't lose each other just because they disagree or like different things.

    In our case the common denominator is the adventure of motorcycling and sharing them with other bikers.

    We are made up of all shapes and sizes, age, different looks, even different genders now. (nice)

    I don't think differing attitudes should be a bother to such a group.

    Nice rant Jim2. Thank you, John.

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    I think its difficult to compare forums. You cant compare a forum based on a make that serves people from all around the world, with a forum that serves a relatively small geographic region.

    We get to meet each other (thank goodness) at trackdays and rides and share a common culture. SV1000 riders share a common peice of hardware (and perhpas a common state of mind).

    I know I can [generally] rely on the knowledge of my culture and assumption of anothers, before giving them a hard time...even if I havent met them.
    "If life gives you a shit sandwich..." someone please complete this expression

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    Quote Originally Posted by manuboy
    I've noticed the change in flavour recently. I've noticed the absence of some of the peeps i used to enjoy reading a lot. But i haven't formulated any deep theories. The forum still has it's good points.

    I have wondered at the diff b'twixt this and the SV1000 forum. They tend to go about their forum business in a more focused way (okay, so it's limited to one make mainly).

    ..
    Difference is , that is a BIKE forum, this is a BIKER forum. A single model (not even single make) forum is going to attract pretty much ONLY SV1000 riders. Now , they will probably be fairly similar in out look, when it comes to bikes. After all they all chose the same bike. And, probably , in general outlook also. But KB is going to attract all sorts of bikers (and even non-bikers). Crusier riders, off-roaders, squids, sprotsbikers, tourers, commuters. They're going to have a lot of different outlooks, be coming from different places, different values.

    Moreover, I suspect that the demographic of the SV1000 riders is fairly homogeneous. Not many young ones, not many older riders, probably not too many squids (might be wrong there, but I don't see the SV100 as a squid bike). KB spans the age range from pre teens to 70 odd (maybe older).

    Some of the angst on KB is simply that - as it's grown it's attracted a wider variety of people. Not all of whom fit the SV1000 mould.

    I belong to an Alfa Romeo GTV-6 forum. It also is very much on topic. It's about Alfa Romeo GTV 6 cylinder cars. Full stop. I'd never take the mickey on there he way I do here. Boring it is.

    Don't see a problem m'self. 'Tis easy enough not to bother reading stuff you aren't interested in. Maybe the young ones need to calm down a bit, and the old ones need to lighten up a bit, eh?
    Quote Originally Posted by skidmark
    This world has lost it's drive, everybody just wants to fit in the be the norm as it were.
    Quote Originally Posted by Phil Vincent
    The manufacturers go to a lot of trouble to find out what the average rider prefers, because the maker who guesses closest to the average preference gets the largest sales. But the average rider is mainly interested in silly (as opposed to useful) “goodies” to try to kid the public that he is riding a racer

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    You're taking it too seriously now Jim. Log off for a few days or stop opening the rant and vent and grizzle threads.

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    Shite doesn't just fly around here. It's a forum thing in general IMO. There are two Blackbird (bike specific) forums that I sometimes hang about - both of them currently have major issues with members flaming other members, hurling personal insults, making personal threats etc. It's amazing how tough some people are (and the bullshit they spout) hiding behind a PC screen. I mean nobody would guess Dangerous is really a chick who works as a crash test dummy for Tonka toys.

    Oh - and I'm 6'9", 180Kgs of pure muscle and a second dan in Tofu.
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    A genuine meeting of the minds is indeed a rare occurance. While I do claim anything in here that I would say 'in real life' I equally take what is said here with a touch of realism. Photoshop not only exists in pictorial form, forums such as this are the quasi verbal sense of it. Some comments here and invariably the people behind them are as honest as you see, others unfortunately are not. It's funny thouigh how the thruth of the personality isn't too far away from the comment. As in life there are people here that you would associate with and people you would not. The commonality here is an interest (of varying degrees) in biking and bike related subjects. Elocution does not belie the person but manners do. It costs nothing to be polite.
    Well said Jim2 (not even any criticism for making my brain work)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim2
    ... syntagm...
    I'm impressed with that effort Jim... only one word I had to Google. But there was a spelling error Jim, so marks deducted.

    The written forum is a challenging place for communicating. I don't recall the specific figures from a communications publication I read recently, but some horrifically high percentage of communication was developed not from what was said, but how it was said. That included vocal tone, facial expression and body language. How does one accurately express that online?

    A person's online persona may or may not bear any resemblance to their true personality. Anyone tried hooking into a 14yo girl online? Bet they've got a hairer chest and deeper voice than anyone here... Who would know that in real-life Jim's a fat old bald guy who talks normally? Well, when he's not logged on as LilBritney14fromUtah...

    Misunderstandings will always occur, people will always take things the wrong way, particularly in a diverse place like KB.

    But just so those who don't know Jim or I don't misunderstand my post, Jim is OLD and since I'm catching him in the other two departments, he knows I write it with a smile on my face...
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    Yeah, well said Jim. I've had many a time when I've gotten pissed off at some of the crap that people speak on here, and I have to go away for a while.

    And being a biker site, we will get all types here. Some of whom I can't stand - and some of whom I jump at the opportunity to read their posts.

    Best threads of 2005 in my opinion:

    Frosty's race reports
    Paul in NZ's memoirs
    Badcat's street-tracker project (saga)
    Jim2's new bike reviews (gosh there's been a few)
    Motu's discussions on getting away from it all.
    Big Dave's reviews

    and as for things I could do without -
    pretty much everything in pointless drivel...
    And I to my motorcycle parked like the soul of the junkyard. Restored, a bicycle fleshed with power, and tore off. Up Highway 106 continually drunk on the wind in my mouth. Wringing the handlebar for speed, wild to be wreckage forever.

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    I belong to computer software forum where off-topic banter happens, but anything unhelpful is deleted by the mods (the post stays there but the mods replace the text with "This message was unconstructive and was deleted."), and/or the thread is locked. Agitators soon get the message and moderate themselves, or leave.

    I never see threads locked here but the PD thing is unique in my experience and has some merits.

    The only apparent criteria for ongoing entry to this forum is that you can consistently spell your username and password, and have access to a computer. 90% of knuckle draggers can now meet that criteria.

    Linking status to post counts can be useful for newer forums to generate posts, but it's a two edged sword. For a well established site like this, it encourages newbies to sign up and post any piece of crap that comes into their empty little heads (take this post for example) - so there is lots of noise and very little signal, so the old hands get fed up.

    In my opinion, the alternative to what is going on is a much higher level of moderation - but I am assuming that the current level is how the senior people here want it - that's their choice.

    In the meantime, I learn so much and occasionally get a laugh so you can expect to see me around for a bit longer yet

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    Yah

    Quote Originally Posted by Ixion
    Don't see a problem m'self. 'Tis easy enough not to bother reading stuff you aren't interested in. Maybe the young ones need to calm down a bit, and the old ones need to lighten up a bit, eh?
    Yes yes - all very valid points (even that fact i don't have enough squids).

    BUT

    Make as much sense as you want, defend whatever you like about the forum. Mention the fact that you can opt-in / opt-out whenever you like. Hey. Great!

    Then read some of the PM's (and i've only seen a VERY SMALL portion of them), and all the well made points and logic can take a flying fucking leap - cos there is no way people for any reason should be sending other people that shit.

    No matter how well they know them / don't know them.

    No matter what the circumstances are.

    No matter what drugs / downers/ uppers / trips they were on.

    No matter what backgrounds / bikes / age differences there are.

    The line has to be drawn somewhere.

    Take it to one logical conclusion. All the well meaning mods / senior members / people with an iota of decency slowly opt right out.

    Whats left? The people with thick enough skins to throw as much crap as they can take?

    I don't have a problem myself, but after getting let into the picture i'm not about to turn a blind eye to what Jim2 was getting at (in a wordy sorta way).

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