Paul., that's some of the best writing I've read on this site and MUCH better than most of what you see in magazines.
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Paul., that's some of the best writing I've read on this site and MUCH better than most of what you see in magazines.
Kerry
Deus ex ukulele
Moses allegedly rode a Triumph... God's ride would need to be something more omnipotent. I suspect he rides pillion on a Goldwing.
"Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]
e mare libertas
Spooky, Paul.
And I have to ask this.
Has anyone else, aside from me (and now Paul) had the 'regained consciousness and thought "but I didn't eat THAT"' moment?
Mine was kiwifruit.
kiwibiker is full of love, an disrespect.
- mikey
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Save all that worry for imprtant things, there is a pervert that goes around thowing handfulls of(usually carrots) strange food into vomit.Originally Posted by jrandom
. This person is never seen by you or anyone you know but must get some perverse humour from doing it.
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Fristly, can I just say that that is so true about the vege-man.
Secondly, I would like to let you all in on a bit of my knowledge on God's bike: I once read an article (which I cut out and kept), I think it was in Two Wheels maybe, and it was about Plato's theory (of reality?) that everything on earth is just an example of the true thing. For example the chair that we have at our computer is just as much of a chair as the totally different one that we have in front of the tv. They both have the essence of being a 'chair', and we can identify them both as chairs even though they're totally different. This means that there is a kind of 'ideal chair' in theory, of which all chairs are descended from.
Mate - just imagine that with bikes! God would have the 'ideal bike' of which all bikes are merely dull reflections of!! Ohhhh. It would be beyond our imagination.Sorry - just got to go and wipe up the dribble.
Seated in heavenly places
Aha! Now we're getting somewhere...Velox with a vision!...Mate - just imagine that with bikes! God would have the 'ideal bike' of which all bikes are merely dull reflections of!! Ohhhh. It would be beyond our imagination.
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Because he has a scratch free clear visor?Aha! Now we're getting somewhere...Velox with a vision!
I'd rather be thinking
Nice story, Paul (and very well written) but you must have been hallucinating as God would never ride a BMW. As everyone knows God is (or at least used to be) an Englishman, so your friend Mike was probably right about the guy on the Norton.
On the other hand I could imagine St Paul on a BMW...
Age is too high a price to pay for maturity
I'd rather be thinking
Hey Velox (is that as in Vauxhall? Where were you conceived, I wonder...
Hmm... sorry about that...)
Plato's theory about ideal forms is all very intriguing but don't get too excited. The downside is that everything on this side of reality is imperfect, so if you ever do come face to face with the perfect bike you'll be dead. Or at least your body will be gone. You'll have no arse to feel the contours of a perfect seat, no wrist to twist the perfect throttle, and nothing to lean into the perfect curve. As pure spirit all you'll have is the transcendental exaltation of knowing perfect form and perfect oneness with the divine presence. Can't compare with riding an imperfect bike down an imperfect Highway 22...
Age is too high a price to pay for maturity
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There is a great book called Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman.
While it does not specify what vehicle God drives / rides it is very specific about the vehicle Crowley the Demon uses... if you only ever read one book of English humour in your entire miserable life... read this one... It's even got bikers in it...
Some quotes...
Voodoo is a very interesting religion for the whole family, even those members of it who are dead.
(refering to The eight Bikers of the Apocalypse)
Death and Famine and War and Pollution continued biking towards Tadfield. And Grievous Bodily Harm, Cruelty To Animals, Things Not Working Properly Even After You've Given Them A Good Thumping but secretly No Alcohol Lager, and Really Cool People travelled with them.
"This isn't how I imagined it, chaps," said War. "I haven't been waiting for thousands of years just to fiddle around with bits of wire. It's not what you'd call dramatic. Albrecht Duerer didn't waste his time doing woodcuts of the Four Button-Pressers of the Apocalypse, I do know that." -- Armageddon delayed by technical difficulties
It wasn't a dark and stormy night. It should have been, but there's the weather for you. For every mad scientist who's had a convenient thunderstorm just on the night his Great Work is complete and lying on the slab, there have been dozens who've sat around aimlessly under the peaceful stars while Igor clocks up the overtime.
Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a tree full of monkeys on nitrous oxide.
Enjoy....
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Oi - she has a tinted visior, lives in an unlit street and rides at night in the rain (no car). So not a lot of vision! Nah - if it's too dodgy I swap it over.Because he has a scratch free clear visor?
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Ah! A potential Guzzi owner.... You'd fit right in...
There was a book written by a mad Guzzi woman called "The Perfect Vehicle" all about bikin' ridin' lovin and life.... I always thought it a VERY odd title for a book featuring Guzzis???
Afterall... It's the perfect, imperfections that make Guzzis so perfect.. Um, I mean...
Bother...
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But that's great news! If everything's imperfect on Earth - then woohoo - my beeeautiful new stable of RSV's, Blades, R1's, etc... etc... are stilll as amazing as they are, even 'perfect' to us now but then there's still better to come! There's no perfect bike yet anyway since there's always new technology and new models, so we're all trying to work towards this 'ideal' bike, even if we'll never get there. It doesn't make our 'perfect' bike on Earth any less. Yeah well, as for the physical vs spiritual thing - I personally reckon there is a physical element after we die. But that might be taking the thread a bit too seriously getting into that.But if God can make physical stuff then he'll have a physical bike! Knees hugging a tank plastered in carbon fibre, beautiful smooth clutch, not to mention the aerodynamics when you pop down behind the screen! As for the road - corners will be awesome - no gravel, no cars, no shoddy surfaces (aka newly sealed corners up the top of the Rimutakas), and no cops - bliss!
PS - nah, the Vauxhall thing was just a coincidence.
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Ooops, my most 'umble apologies M'am.in large doses to me
Hardcore Biker
Was is the word Mike,now,like other businesses in Britain your prayers get re-routed to a call-centre in Karachi where the guy who picks the phone up will say"Hi,God speaking............"but in reality is a guy called Raj working for the price of a bag of sugar a week.God meanwhile is down at the Job-centre,as a look at any newspaper or news programme will prove.
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