Too Much Thinking.....

[idb]

....... in the days when PVC was a modern wonder....

Aaaah yes, the seventies!!!
I still have my PVC jump suit with the spaceman shoulder pads.
I was king of the disco I was!!!

[BIHB@0610]

Well what can I say? I don't know much at all about the technicalities of motorsickles but I love a beer (just the one ...) and a yarn. Let the young blokes do their own thing if they want to, you come sit with us hot young chicks down in Tauranga. We even have real men (and I'm sure wimmin!) down this way who can talk to you about engines and wheels and all that complicated stuff.

And contrary to popular opinion (we're often known as God's waiting room) while we have 31 rest and convalescent homes, 28 retirement villages, and 11 elderley care services providers we also have incredible beaches, great motorsickling, 19 restaurants, 39 bars/brasseries, and .... ok this statistical analysis didn't go the way I thought it was gonna - we got more rest homes and retirement villages than bars .......... shuttin up now

[F5 Dave]

New-fangled water cooled rubbish

Not bad, not bad at all.


S'funny motorcycling always draws a wide audience. Just today I saw a couple of cockheads riding their snoozukis around the hutt with virtually no gear, one had no gloves. Jerkly swapping lanes. Then one pulls a wheelie right across the lights at a busy intersection & by a bus stop. Didn't look largely in control & despite the danger to themselves or a wayward pedestrian (Caarrrry on my wayward pedestrian. . hmm maybe there's a song in there) the image they portray is cockhead. But the sort that is likely to make the public hate us & law enforcement crack down.

So I see no bond with them. Chances are they won't be riding in 3 years time. Fortunately I later bumped into another chap who I do relate to & had a laugh about riding in the weekend (despite the fact he owns a Harley, ok & a few other bikes). It reminded me that in any sport there are titheads & goodkunts & also a bunch in between. Possibly a few in transition.
KB reflects this but you can't ban those who won't be riding in a few years. Sadly.

[madmal64]

Shit Paul you must be joking!
You can still deal to the new fandagled crew. Anyone that can comfortably fang their trummpy down Dalefeild road and still kick arses is still up with the play.
And... and ... and... The FZR project was another achievement that I know many of the whippersnapper brigade would not be able to achieve. I know its not a modern bike but a huge step from your usual stuff.
I know what you mean about feeling like the world is leaving you on the outer. Hell I find it hard to get people to ride if it LOOKS like rain let alone if it is raining. WTF?
It is a changing place and even at my tender age of 43 I get told from time to time Im too old to ride a sports bike. Once again WTF?
Hey as long as Im enjoying the journey Im happy on the road and sometimes I find that Im riding by myself because others dont want the same experiences. If people want to trailer the bikes to rallies, so be it, but for me its the getting there and getting back that is a big part of it.

Ah fuck it..... save me a seat in the corner with the old codgers will ya?

[F5 Dave]

.... save me a seat in the corner with the old codgers will ya?

Me too, but as long as we don't have to drink Tui.

[MIXONE]

Shit Paul you must be joking!
You can still deal to the new fandagled crew.

Ah fuck it..... save me a seat in the corner with the old codgers will ya?

It'll have to be a fucking big corner cause us old fucks are still out and about in numbers.
Saw a young dick head in Porirua tother day riding new 250 something wearing good helmet and jacket but on his feet Fijian safety shoes(jandals)WTF

[Ixion]

I hate young people!!!

You *is* a young people.

[idb]

You *is* a young people.

You're a very nice man.

[Ixion]

met a chap at the taihape bp a couple months back with a '73 zooki GT750 3-cyl 2-stroke....now THERE'S an interesting machine....

Wasn't me. But "interesting" is a good word . I think of quite a few others.

New-fangled water cooled rubbish

'Twill never come to anything. Scott couldn't make it work n' they tried for years. Same as this mania for having suspension at the back . What's the *point* of it, I'd like to know. Just more things to go wrong.

[Pwalo]

Save me a seat in the corner with the old codgers will ya?

Sod that for a joke. You've just got further to go to get to the loo when you need it.

Besides who wants to be stuck in a corner with a bunch of old farts. Actually who wants to be stuck in a corner.

[GSVR]

Hardly anyone rode their old Meriden bikes any distance, even fewer people knew just whats involved in doing that and I found myself, in short sitting with the old codgers talking about hard rides on hard bikes in the days when PVC was a modern wonder.

Must be hard riding long distances on a bike that was built before countersteering was invented.

Your rapidly becoming an elitist motorcycling eccentric there Paul.

Those Hinckley owners are something else they might as well be riding Jappas.

[martybabe]

mate I met a guy at whangamomona, wangamomod, the forgotten highway place a while back, 5' 2, 60 something, big grin on his leathery sun beaten face. I was people watching as I do cause no Fugger ever talks to me for fear of being eaten or sommat and I noticed amongst 50 odd bikers this little fella stood alone as if he didn't exist. i said hi,cause it's the right thing to do and we got chattin.
This geezer that had gone all but unnoticed took me on a whistle stop tour of his bike and his life and it was spellbinding.Too long a tale for here but let me tell ya,this geezer knew everything there is to know about the shrimping business, more man and more biker than most of us gathered there that day.
If I hadn't of spoken to him he would still have ridden off into the hills with a big grin on his face because he didn't give a toss about the right bike to ride,gear to wear, he just rode because he wanted to and talked to those that wanted to listen.

Stick at it youngster,it wont always fall on deaf ears.

signed MB older than you.

[James Deuce]

Must be hard riding long distances on a bike that was built before countersteering was invented.

Or upside down forks.

Which I don't believe in anyway.

[F5 Dave]

What you don't believe they exist?

Your RC30 had upside down forks. . . Well, after you'd finished with it it did

[yungatart]

Paul, you are just hanging out with the wrong crowd. Those jerks wouldn't know style or quality if it jumped up and bit them in the face!
I remember the first time I saw your gorgeous bike, and how I wanted to stand around and drool, but, it just ain't that easy when you are on crutches..
We are having a party...details on here somewhere..come up, bring that bike of yours, we'll have a yarn or two, a beer or three, and see if we can't change your mind!

Bring Vicki too!