A not uneventful trip..... [long and dull]

You'd think so, wouldn't you, except that spot is in suburbia, on my
regular route home from work!

As much as I would like longer legs, there are limits to what I would
do to get them!

I looked into getting the soles of my boots built up a bit - however,
they're Rossi boots - moulded sole, so no can do. One of these days I
may call into the local Harley dealer and see if there's anything
there that might give me an extra inch...

betty

 

She gained about 40 mm I hear , very long calves ( a blonde of course)

Harley ?
MMM might not be what your looking for
See if you can find some Bata work boots made in unzud they have
changeable soles

 

Not to mention the cost ! IIRC the story above she had to go to
Russia - it was something like a 100K all up or something stupid

JL

 

The papers claim was about 100k but I heard less than 1/2 of that ,
remember she is from the area and had places to convalesce but
personally not for me
I am adverse to pain and am 1.94m tall anyway which has it's own
problems when the world is built for short arses and trolls

 

bikerbetty wrote:

I don't think you are ...ahem..."equipped" for the extra inch that H-D
dealers try to sell.

regards,
CrazyCam

 

Ahhh OK, I'll take your word for it - I recalled seeing it in the
paper and thinking it seemed like a lot of money for not much

JL

 

I have to say with the spike heels she favours the result IS acceptable
but still the discomfort musta been a biatch

 

I am sooo waiting for someone to run with that line.

 

Thank you, Cam. My faith in aus.moto is restored.

 

Good call. It must suck being vertically challenged. My friends girlfriend has
dropped a couple of bikes for similar reasons. I don't have long legs but can
leg press 400 kilos which has saved my arse from similar fates a few times. : )

Fraser

 

Surely you are old enough to have been wearing platform shoes in the
seventies. You should have kept a pair. I tried to but my wife threw
them out. Try a retro shop.

Theo.

 

Some would say unzudders have no sole.

Theo

 

Speaking of rsoles
waves to Theo

 

Surely you are old enough to have been wearing platform shoes in the
seventies. You should have kept a pair. I tried to but my wife threw
them out. Try a retro shop.

Theo.

LOL, yeah, I had some whopping great things that made me all tall and
willowy in my Staggers jeans, bwahahaha! Trying to imagine, though, how a
pair of rope-soled 5' heeled slip ons would go on the bike. I reckon I might
have a few 'issues' getting the toe end of my foot UNDER the gear shifter to
change up... and I suspect my knees would be up my nose most of the time!

betty

 

oh, you are baaaaaad, both of you!

betty

 

In aus.motorcycles on Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:50:37 +1100

Heel toe rocker pedal gear change. As standard on Italian bikes for
years....

Seat height problems, needing a heel toe... you need a Guzzi you do!

(Although not an EV, porky sods that they are.)

Zebee

 

Bloody hell, would you hit your head on the ceiling? Or even low bridges?

 

You don't really get the extra inch; you just think that everyone
believes you have and extra inch (while they really just know you *need*
an extra inch instead.

 

Gutless and revvy too!

 

OMG. Elsie, you evil cow..... I am now so confused.... Perhaps if I go
metric... all of this is starting to feel like 'The Emperors New Clothes'
and everyone (maybe even ME) will feel?SEE that I'm taller if I go to an HD
dealer- or maybe they will think worse of me, and wonder which inch I
actually got - aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh - and all I wanted was for my feet to
touch the ground.

Pffft, what's an inch anyway, between friends???

imperially indescribable, metrically mangled betty