Hear I am

[FROSTY:Me]

pull up a pew. siddown, our gargre is your gargre.
a man of impeccable taste. a rider of the best bikes around.

[Fryin Finn]

Thanks for your welcoming messages. The Indian dinner invite is tempting but I shall be winging (whinging?) my way to the UK. I'm off to give Ben and Josh a pat on the back at the Irish MX GP.
All my bikes are garaged but I'm reserving the lounge for an MV Augusta F4 1000 in case I win Lotto. The TV will have to make way.
My Helmet Cam arrived yesterday - so if an XJR comes up behind you you may be caught on film

[pete376403]

HI and welcome. I also have an old Yamaha 400, mines the IT.Not precisely sure what year but its the one with the steel swingarm. How wrecked is the YZ? Were YZ brakes and better that the SLS drum on the IT?

[Fryin Finn]

I owned the first IT 175 E in 1978. All the It models then had a steel swingarm
The YZ's went to aluminium swingarms on the F model but I'm not sure when the IT's wnt alloy - probably the G model as I know the 175 model had an alloy swinger (I nearly bought one but got a PE instead)
The YZ in the basement is missing a swingarm and monocross unit. And the engine and gearbox is in bits so probably plenty of parts missing there to.
As I recall YZ brakes were better than IT brakes (less weight to stop?)

[scumdog]

My bro-in-law is in the TV industry (used to work for NZBC, then South Pacific) and the Christmas out-take tapes they used to get from the UK of the likes of Kenny E were quite outrageously funny.
I liked the skit Kenny got into mucho hot water over, something like: "When we were ruled by an emperor, we were an empire; when we were ruled by a king, we were a kingdom; but now we're ruled by Thatcher, we're just a country".

And who could forget the "and now for the naughty bit.."

WELCOME to the KB gargre of idiots, pompous twats, religious bigots and other self opinionated riders of horses of steel - they're all a great bunch but you don't want to take 'em TOO seriously.

[SPman]

Particularly that guy called....um ...er...Scumdog..yeah, thats it.

[FROSTY:Me]

And who could forget the "and now for the naughty bit.."

WELCOME to the KB gargre of idiots, pompous twats, religious bigots and other self opinionated riders of horses of steel - they're all a great bunch but you don't want to take 'em TOO seriously.

Idiots indeed --we all think everything we say through thouroughly.
Noone jumps to conclusions or makes smart alec comments here.
You can always rely on getting totally correct information at all times.
--OMG what was that --a flying pig??????

[magnum]

a belated hello and welcome

[inlinefour]

Welcome and enjoy