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    Hi-jack?

    What you saw on this thread earlier this week was a badly-disguised attempt to change the subject.

    It was going the way I wanted it going: I would put down a couple of hundred words of verbal...
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    Herb, I love ya and will buy you the beer of yr...

    Herb, I love ya and will buy you the beer of yr choice!
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    Other Mentalities

    It is great in the first place that we are all motorcyclists. Great that two wheels and a suitable motor are our agreed-upon first choice of locomotion. It is great that each of us can predict and...
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    About MMM generally.

    in confidence of a victory of enlightenment over ignorance, I am always hoping that it will get better.

    About Smout's piece in the April issue, it had me completely mystified. What was his point?...
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    There's a guy in Peterboro', Ontario with the...

    There's a guy in Peterboro', Ontario with the same name you have, Uwe. I had some drinks with him back a few years ago. The uwe I knew was Icelandic and said that there had been a member of every...
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    Speaking of lawyers...

    that's probably a lawyer who needs shooting.

    Joke:

    A hunter out in wild country gets overtaken by a furious thunder & lightning storm.
    He discovers a cave and takes cover.
    Inside the cave are...
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    No doubt!

    It was - is - a very good thread you started. Lots better than glossy-mag advertising, here are riders who (some of whom) have actually had experience with tires that they will happily talk about. ...
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    Yup, deal me in...

    (My message is too short, I have to write some words.) When did I ever have trouble writing words words words...?
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    Knee-Down in the Wet

    There's a title I am going to borrow from you , lady. A story about a rider from BC who just doesn't enjoy riding unless rain is pouring down buckets-full. He isn't happy unless he is cold to the...
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    Oh my god, Lightning,

    you are such a good writer! I have not seen magisteria used in exactly the right way like that for years! And in the proper Latin plural too....

    Are you talking about tires???

    A fella...
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    Very nice post(s), Gerhard:

    I envy you plenty from the couple of inches of fresh snow we just now got.

    You MUST, you MUST, you absolutely MUST stop at stop signs! If not, the buggers will wipe you out. Last year in this...
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    And what about us young guys who are just

    learning how to manage this bunfight? I feel a bit nervous about getting more than a 125 between my knees.

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    Sent from my can of asparagus using crunchastalk
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    MBAs in suits decide

    just by way of dollars and cents, and on a purely fiscal level. What do they know or care about motorcycling? Do they have any sense of belonging? Do they know the ebb and flow of enthusiasm that...
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    I'm still laughing

    at the scene in Cast Away where Chuck Noland, the time-obsessed sysyems analyst for FedEx (Tom Hanks) delivers the one package he has managed to keep over four years on a desert island. The big...
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    Show me how to do this please...

    So why am I sweating out all these @#$%^**! words when it can all be done by one swift graphic? Do you know something which I have yet to discover? Do you think I should flog this stinkin' word...
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    (but Blackie certainly knows how to ride gravel),

    - keep your hands loose on the grips, white knuckles don't help,
    - be in a lower gear than you normally would be at that speed,
    - your...
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    Grendel, how did you come to pick

    tha monicker? Is that the sweet-natured Grendel from Beowulf? The one who ripped into the boys at Hrothgar's hall? The same who pulled of their limbs and chewed on the bloody stumps? You might...
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    Hank straddles a Hayabusa.

    His lady has something equally sort of like a rhinosceros. Hank, when are you going to figure out how to make do with a 250?
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    ...those kinds of inhibitions ...

    You put it very well, my buddy. But I have to tell you that I am surrounded by these dudes. To try to explain 'inhibitions' to this tribe is a complete waste of time. That, and the fact that I...
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    The old guy who lives

    about a half mile west of me here is a STRICT fundamentalist christian. (He says stuff like, "Weren't the black people supposed to be the servants of the white people? It says so in the Book of...
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    Who is this Darwin

    and how soon can we expect him? You mean Charles Darwin, Malks? The scientist guy on The Beagle? No, no I respectfully don't agree!

    These eejits walking around blindly thumbing their gismos...
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    Gracefully put, Slo.

    You are dab hand at this writing thing. When I first read your posts, I had you figured for a Martian with brain damage.

    Marco, what do you do at that time of the morning? Do you drink a lot of...
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    Slo is talkimg about "should"

    and Uwe is talikng about "does". I am sympatheic to both except in the case of the thousand idiots who are talking on their smart phones. I was practicing a strategy of a really hard,...
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    My copy came today.

    Full of goodies like a Christmas stocking. What else? Don't bother me, I'm reading....
  25. Well, its good that we get

    that kind of assurance from a guy who has ridden ten times as many bikes in the last little while than most of us get the chance to (...than to which most of us get the chance. Aha!)

    I know...
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