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Thread: McJim is accursed....bin on Twilight road - no one hurt

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    Sorry to hear of your off gijoe!! Glad that you are okay!
    What is it about riding with McBin??
    He is heading off down our way soon and I thought it would be nice to go riding with him. However, I am fast changing my mind after recent events... he is one scary dude and I've done enough "offing" lately.
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    Welcome to the February bin affiliation.

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    That sounds exactly like the accident where I wrote my ZZ-R off :/
    That first hairpin you come to, and the front coming out from under you suddenly. Was it damp when you guys were riding?

    I was unlucky enough to have a horse truck coming in the opposite direction that ate my bike for a snack...

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    Quote Originally Posted by yungatart View Post
    What is it about riding with McBin??



    should have repainted ya bike... much less likely to bin it then
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    Quote Originally Posted by gijoe1313 View Post

    Finally, I hear his unmistakeable v-twin, pootling around the corner. He was looking down the bank obviously trying to find the plonker who couldn't ride a bike properly!
    Dude, sorry to hear of ya off. Hope you get back riding soon.

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    Quote Originally Posted by McJim View Post
    I've been picking a few people up off the tarmac of late and I don't mind telling you - I ain't enjoying it. I said, in all seriousness, that I was thinking about selling the bike and going back to the cage coz one of these days I'll be picking up a friend with more than a broken bone or cuts and bruises.
    The problem is that you can't decide whether your friends will keep riding or not, so all you're doing is choosing whether to be there or not. You've already made the decision to start, you've already made the friends. It's too late.

    gijoe is a fairly competent rider - he is bloody exceptional when you consider how long he's been riding (not long - just really far) he had a moment where he didn't do the right thing - that was all it took - one moment.
    That's all it ever takes. One moment, one patch of black ice, one unseen light-jumper.

    Good news is that he's okay. He should get a few free beers out of it, maybe more if he's lucky.



    Be careful.
    It's not the bullet with your name on it that you have to worry about, it's the one addressed "to whom it may concern." Being careful will lengthen the odds, but it won't make riding safe.

    But the only way to avoid the danger completely is to avoid motorcycles. And beer. And women. And going out when it's dark. And going out when it's light. And going out without a scarf on. And sneezing chickens.

    Personally, I dread living life without bikes, beer and my woman. I could probably get by without scarves and chickens, though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by yungatart View Post
    What is it about riding with McBin?? He is heading off down our way soon and I thought it would be nice to go riding with him. However, I am fast changing my mind after recent events... he is one scary dude and I've done enough "offing" lately.
    Pff! Just bad luck, I say. I rode with Macbeth and lived to tell the tale. In fact, to paraphrase Victor Kayam, I liked it so much I went out and bought a bike.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kneescraper View Post
    Slow down......now why would we want to do that. Next thing you will say is...lets grow Mullets and buy Harleys..and yeah and old Ford V8 utes.

    They dont call them sports bikes for nothing.
    I would have thought 'bin-bikes' would have been a more appropriate name to call them given the number that do......
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    Quote Originally Posted by terbang View Post
    Welcome to the February bin affiliation.
    GIJOE

    Glad to hear your ok, as Terbang said welcome to the club it seem's to be growing at a hell of a rate!!


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    Yikes

    Glad to hear that you're OK GIJOE. Here's hoping that the bike is in decent nick? Your tale had my imagination on overdrive ... something like this
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    heya man luck was on your side,
    must be the biker god was on your side that day

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    Glad you are OK, GI....think you shoulda fitted the special levitating neons???
    Do you realise how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?

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    Really glad to hear you are ok mate, as for the 'scottish rider' perhaps there is something to that hmmmm....
    Big ups to those who were able to provide some swift assistance, KB spirit alive and well, good on you guys.
    Enjoy the fixing GIjoe.

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    Quote Originally Posted by McJim View Post
    I think I should stop being named - from now on refer to me as "The Scottish Rider".
    Ah yes, "The Scottish Rider", a suitable epithet indeed it seems.

    MacD is short for MacDuff by the way, perhaps we should avoid riding together!?

    Glad to hear GIJoe came throught the experience relatively unscathed.

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    Good to see you are ok there GI . Fear not , a few of us have had bins whilst riding with McJim
    There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.

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