Cassington Bike Night

Is on Monday.

Cassingon is a small village just off the A40 between Eynsham and
Oxford.
The place gets invaded by bikes of all sorts, but particularly SOBB's.

Good beer tent, usually a very good turnout.

Be there or, erm, well, be somewhere else...

 

I'll be there, subject to escaping from work early enough.

 

Excellent, email me your mobile number if you like.
There should be a small posse of us

 

It should be public on FB.

 

<starts frantic de-friending>

 

I am going to try to get there, I will be coming back from working in
Upton upon Severn.

 

Not me.

I'll be humiliating my work colleagues at karting.

 

Well *I* was there.

 

So was I eventually.
Unfortunately I didn't have the opportunity to look up you mobile no
before leaving.

Bloody crowded wasn't it.

--
Dan L

Too much time to think, too little to do.


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1992 kawasaki ZXR400 (The one wiv the hoover tubes) Coming soon to a
patio near me.
2003 Ducati 900SS FF (Woo hoo)
2002 Triumph Sprint RS 955i (BTDT)
1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr (Gone, but not forgotten)

BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005/6/7/8)
X-FOT#000
DIAABTCOD #26
BOMB#18 (slow)
OMF#11

 

Wasn't it just. I wish all the Harley riders would just **** off &
stick to their own gatherings though. Couldn't hear meself think most
of the time with those cunts constantly riding up & down making that
godawful noise.

 

well?

IME, weight makes a huge difference when a bunch of incompetents go
karting from work, and so it's usually the chicks that win.

 

Lightweight.

 

[snip]

I've only done karting 2 or 3 times, and was utterly crap at it,
because I couldn't bring myself to lift off enough round corners, and
so kept spinning off into the tyres.

Having said that, I rocked at karting compared to how shit I was at
minimoto.

 

Mea Culpa

Heh, I came across a small tribe of Harleys on the way home.
Having cut in front of the hi vis "Road Captain" **** at the lights at
M40 J9 I then proceeded to show them how a vee twin should accelerate.

The Ducati has an enormous grin factor I have discovered.

--
Dan L

Too much time to think, too little to do.


http://thebikeshed.spaces.live.com/

1992 kawasaki ZXR400 (The one wiv the hoover tubes) Coming soon to a
patio near me.
2003 Ducati 900SS FF (Woo hoo)
2002 Triumph Sprint RS 955i (BTDT)
1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr (Gone, but not forgotten)

BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005/6/7/8)
X-FOT#000
DIAABTCOD #26
BOMB#18 (slow)
OMF#11

 

It really is a case of "go slow to go fast"

heh.

 

I understand competely in theory. I just don't have the right mindset
to do it.

there's something about the geometry of my hips/knees/ankles that
simply prevents me from being able to put my feet flat-down on the
side of the peg-hangers the way you need to to properly ride a
minimoto. So I'm in a constant state of discomfort/pain and of course
this distracts from actually trying the ride the things. It is funny
to crash/fall off a two-wheeler and only fall 10cm onto the floor,
mind.

 

Geometry my arse. Your legs are just too stumpy to reach the pegs on a
minimoto.

 

heh. I actually have relatively long legs for my height (170/80cm),
which is why I can cope with riding a 'motard despite technically
being a shortarse.

Have you ever tried to ride a minimoto? You need to put your feet flat
on the side of the peg hangers, not on the pegs themselves i.e. your
feet are rolled 90 degrees from the plane you'd have them on a proper
bike. For me, it's an uncomfortable position.

 

well, it was about 10 years ago that I last tried. I also doubt I
could manage it these days.

 

Whatever. A bite's a bite.