On Mar 16, 1:11*pm, "'Hog" <sm911S...@CHIPShotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> darsy wrote:

> > I suppose it makes no less sense than people buying Skodas, Porsches or
> > Seats as opposed to genuine VWs.
>
> Ace is that you

tee-hee.

FWIW, I've never owned a Skoda, Seat, or VW, but have owned at least 2
[quasi][1] Porsches

[1] I had a 924 which was sort of an Audi, and then a 924S which was
an actual Porsche, at least in theory.

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d.

darsy wrote:
> On Mar 16, 1:11 pm, "'Hog" <sm911S...@CHIPShotmail.co.uk> wrote:
>> darsy wrote:
>
>>> I suppose it makes no less sense than people buying Skodas,
>>> Porsches or Seats as opposed to genuine VWs.
>>
>> Ace is that you
>
> tee-hee.
>
> FWIW, I've never owned a Skoda, Seat, or VW, but have owned at least 2
> [quasi][1] Porsches
>
> [1] I had a 924 which was sort of an Audi, and then a 924S which was
> an actual Porsche, at least in theory.

924. I bet you often come out of the bog with your suit jacket tucked into
your kecks too.

Supercars are so last year anyway.

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Hog

On Mar 16, 1:33*pm, "'Hog" <sm911S...@CHIPShotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> darsy wrote:

> > [1] I had a 924 which was sort of an Audi, and then a 924S which was
> > an actual Porsche, at least in theory.
>
> 924. *I bet you often come out of the bog with your suit jacket tucked into
> your kecks too.

heh. In those days, in NI, it would have been a suit jacket tucked
into a pair of white-with-purple-detailed shell-suit pants. Not
actually on me, you understand, but it was the underlying fashion of
the day. I really only bought the things because they were faster than
my XR2s/Fester 1600S my mum was tooling around in at the time. And my
dad's horrible Carlton 3000gsi.

> Supercars are so last year anyway.

well, sure- why do you think my current car is a Mazda?

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d.

On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:48:26 -0700 (PDT), darsy <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>well, sure- why do you think my current car is a Mazda?

Mid-life crisis.

HTH.

On Mar 16, 1:56*pm, ginge <the.gingeREM...@THISgmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:48:26 -0700 (PDT), darsy <dar...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >well, sure- why do you think my current car is a Mazda?
>
> Mid-life crisis.

no, if that were the case, I'd have gone ahead and bought the Lotus
Elise that A. told me not to.

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"Champ" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:06:31 -0000, "Vass"
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>yep, sat on the S1000R at the show and it felt 'right'
>
>>the RSV4 however, I was on this weekend just gone and I felt I was sat on
>>it
>>rather than riding 'with' it IYSWIM
>>shudder, while it looked great, I thought it was horrible.
>
> Really? I'm quite surprised. I rode the RSV-R, and thought it
> amazing - tiny, powerful, and the best suspension and brakes I think
> I've ever used.


I think it felt too high, the seat was a slab of hard plastic
I didn't feel 'in' the bike, just 'on' it, maybe that's just me (too used
the the R1 I guess)
Very unnerving feel for me.
But the sound from the £ 1000 Akrapovic when in gear was Awesome!
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ginge <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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> Oh, and I wouldn't mind a better tourer with hard luggage. Maybe BMW
> will put the S1000R engine into a Blackbird-and-VFR-killer eventually,
> if so that'd do the trick.

Is it so much better than the 1200 or 1300 K engines?

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Jeremy
R1200RT

darsy <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in news:290c5cb8-7cdb-43db-8e95-
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> On Mar 16, 1:56*pm, ginge <the.gingeREM...@THISgmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:48:26 -0700 (PDT), darsy <dar...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >well, sure- why do you think my current car is a Mazda?
>>
>> Mid-life crisis.

Sounds like he's been doing that for some time.

> no, if that were the case, I'd have gone ahead and bought the Lotus
> Elise that A. told me not to.

Although that sounds like a great idea!

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Jeremy
R1200RT

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, darsy
<(E-Mail Removed)> typed

>sportsbike de le jour?
^^^^^

*Ouince*.

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Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest"

I've always been a man who's open to persuasion

On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:56:14 +0000, Wicked Uncle Nigel
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, darsy
><(E-Mail Removed)> typed
>
>>sportsbike de le jour?
> ^^^^^
>
>*Ouince*.

sorry. I i new it was wrong about 10ms after posting it.

I've just been hanging around with a bunch of frogs this evening, it
might just improve my french un petit peu.

Though, dear god, I've just remembered something I did
earlier[1].

[1] pointed out what everyone else was thinking to a pretty
decent-looking but total **** of a french chick[2]
[2] namely that she'd benefit massively from a good seeing too, but
that it wasn't actually likely to happen[3]
[3] and people call me "unsubtle" - FFS!

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