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Dwight's posts have got me thinking.
I had a bike once which went through a homicidal phase. Started with me when I got knocked off my BMW R75/6.....
The guy who got the contract to straighten the frame died on the job. When I got it home my brother in law road tested it ..and an ice cream waggon reversed into it.
Sold it to a friend who laid it up...he died a couple of years later and I Inherited it back
Got it home and it fell on me when I tried to manoeuvre it into a small shed to restore it.
I gave up on it then....I can take a hint.
Interestingly I sold it to an aircraft engineer who rebuilt it and it now happily chugs away a few miles from me.
He gave me the option to buy it back....but I've learned my lesson now.
I took the Road Less Travelled.
Now where the ****** am I?
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Worn Saddle
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Interesting story. I'm not sure I wouldn't have set it on fire. Which I've contemplated a time or two with machines like this, even with my love of machinery.
Fidelis et Fortis
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Monkey Butt
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Monkey Butt
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Sort of a two wheeled version of "Christine."
We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.
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My wife said it was because it was green
I took the Road Less Travelled.
Now where the ****** am I?
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Yeah, when I was a kid, green was well known to be an unlucky color for motorcycles. Then, the super fast Kawasaki two strokes came out and that thinking was set aside.
Fidelis et Fortis
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Monkey Butt
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Now that you bring it up. My son fell of my green TBA, two compound fractures, 8 broken bones, and a traumatic brain injury. Maybe I should have let him ride the black one.
I try to aggravate one person a day. Today may be your day.
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Fe Butt
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Quote:
Yeah, when I was a kid, green was well known to be an unlucky color for motorcycles. Then, the super fast Kawasaki two strokes came out and that thinking was set aside.
Oh yeah, Rich. I too remember that old "green bikes=unlucky" thought among us motorcyclists back in the day.
Funny thing though, and your thought that "Big Green"(Kawasaki) changed all that when they came out with the H1 and H2 triples, is that they were notorious back then for being lousy handling bikes.
(...and as I'm sure you also remember)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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