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    For Aslan, you gotta come out with us young bucks more

    Remembering a comment you made to me on the 42nd.

    Motorcycles help keep you young: software expert

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    Quote Originally Posted by Eddieb View Post
    Remembering a comment you made to me on the 42nd.

    Motorcycles help keep you young: software expert

    http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp...wLJqoe39s4d-Gg
    this must be true

    my wife says I have the mental age of a 12 year old

    unkind bmw riders have also accused me of riding like an 18yr old

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    Sounds like a compliment Mark I know how quick I was at that age.
    Cheers

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    Nice link Eddie, I feel totally justified in getting back into bikes now!
    Cheers, Dave

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    I dunno about this, I reckon bike riding is more likely to age me prematurely.

    In the last 3 months I've had two cracked ribs, a huge number of gorse prickles stuffed into various places, three bloody sore fingers (strains and bruising) almost lost an eye to a tree branch, extensive bruising to all limbs, tweaked my neck a couple of times and done my left knee over twice. I'm still limping around from the last minor altercation with the ground, the brusing is fading and the scabs have almost fallen off.

    And don't get me started about the cost of bike parts, that in itself is enough to send me grey (if I wasn't already).


    Mind you, I do enjoy the mayhem.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Crisis management View Post
    In the last 3 months I've had two cracked ribs, a huge number of gorse prickles stuffed into various places, three bloody sore fingers (strains and bruising) almost lost an eye to a tree branch, extensive bruising to all limbs, tweaked my neck a couple of times and done my left knee over twice. I'm still limping around from the last minor altercation with the ground, the brusing is fading and the scabs have almost fallen off.
    And if you go on a ride you've got even more chances of injuring yourself!


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    Quote Originally Posted by NordieBoy View Post
    And if you go on a ride you've got even more chances of injuring yourself!

    Good, a brother in arms, you've had vaccumm cleaner accidents too.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by merv View Post
    Sounds like a compliment Mark I know how quick I was at that age.
    at 18 there was no connection at all between brain and throttle hand

    I would like to think that some tenuous connection has grown between the two in the intervening years

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    Quote Originally Posted by Crisis management View Post
    I dunno about this, I reckon bike riding is more likely to age me prematurely.

    In the last 3 months I've had two cracked ribs, a huge number of gorse prickles stuffed into various places, three bloody sore fingers (strains and bruising) almost lost an eye to a tree branch, extensive bruising to all limbs, tweaked my neck a couple of times and done my left knee over twice. I'm still limping around from the last minor altercation with the ground, the brusing is fading and the scabs have almost fallen off.

    And don't get me started about the cost of bike parts, that in itself is enough to send me grey (if I wasn't already).


    Mind you, I do enjoy the mayhem.....
    Thats why trail riders become adventure riders

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    Quote Originally Posted by marks View Post
    at 18 there was no connection at all between brain and throttle hand

    I would like to think that some tenuous connection has grown between the two in the intervening years
    If you keep going out riding with your spawn I reckon that connection is never gonna get better than tenuous mate!

    Quote Originally Posted by marks View Post
    Thats why trail riders become adventure riders
    Now stop that or people will be thinking adventure riders are boring, wimpy old farts! That's not gonna attract busty brunette waitresses is it?!!!! (ok so I'm still a bit wimpy but I'm workin on it for the sake of the waitress ya know! )
    Cheers, Dave

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    Quote Originally Posted by Paladin View Post

    Now stop that or people will be thinking adventure riders are boring, wimpy old farts! That's not gonna attract busty brunette waitresses is it?!!!! (ok so I'm still a bit wimpy but I'm workin on it for the sake of the waitress ya know! )
    which gets us to the even more tenuous connection between the brain and the pecker

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    Quote Originally Posted by marks View Post
    which gets us to the even more tenuous connection between the brain and the pecker
    I thought that was a fairly solid connection through the hand, especially when you were young.
    Cheers

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    Quote Originally Posted by marks View Post
    which gets us to the even more tenuous connection between the brain and the pecker
    Quote Originally Posted by merv View Post
    I thought that was a fairly solid connection through the hand, especially when you were young.
    Yep when I'm in Toppys the connection from brain to pecker is unfortunately solid, which is why I sit down and don't walk about too much!
    Cheers, Dave

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    Quote Originally Posted by Crisis management View Post
    I dunno about this.

    In the last 3 months I've had two cracked ribs, a huge number of gorse prickles stuffed into various places, three bloody sore fingers (strains and bruising) almost lost an eye, extensive bruising to all limbs, tweaked my neck a couple of times and done my left knee over twice. I'm still limping around from the last minor altercation, the brusing is fading and the scabs have almost fallen off.
    Mind you, I do enjoy the mayhem.....

    You really should leave those Klondyke Rd wild goats alone

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    Talking fantastic piece of research Eddie!

    Quote Originally Posted by Eddieb View Post
    Remembering a comment you made to me on the 42nd.

    Motorcycles help keep you young: software expert

    http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp...wLJqoe39s4d-Gg
    Fantastic piece of research Eddie - here I was contemplating a weekend of 'domesitc bliss' (read home maintenance) having been away all last weekend on the RRRR - now this authoratative piece of research - not by KTM, BMW, Kawasaki (KLR) or Suzuki (DR) but unbiased Yamaha confirms my own thesis that motorcycling is a 'vital' experience of the senses - so perhaps I'll sneak in a ride with some of you young bucks this weekend - incidentally Junkmanjoe has taken to refering to me as 'dad' out of deference to my advanced years
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