It's tough being a biker in Canada

Discussion in 'UK Motorcycles' started by Luc Beauthoaise, Oct 25, 2004.

  1. Luc Beauthoaise

    platypus Guest

    Yeah, but it was 1971, they were ripped to the tits on acid and a few other
    things beside, doing a hundred miles an hour with the top down, the air was
    full of giant bats, and they hadn't started on the ether yet. Not to
    mention the hitchhiker...

    Jesus, they could have been /anywhere/. And so could Barstow.
     
    platypus, Oct 26, 2004
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  2. Luc Beauthoaise

    XS11E Guest

    I never thought he was that good... ;-)
     
    XS11E, Oct 26, 2004
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  3. Luc Beauthoaise

    John Higgins Guest

    Best(?) I managed was -12C, that was enough.
     
    John Higgins, Oct 26, 2004
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    Lady Nina Guest

    It's going to take more than flame.
    heh. Must read that again.
    Only if christofire buys me that strap on.
     
    Lady Nina, Oct 26, 2004
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  5. It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
    drugs began to take hold. I remember "P.Roehling"
    Oh well. Another illusion shattered.

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    FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10
     
    Grimly Curmudgeon, Oct 26, 2004
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  6. so they had GPS then in the olden days then :0p

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    Mark
    ZX12R-B1 (Blue)
    CG125 (hers)
    Blata Ninja 3.4
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    Mark 'work' Derbyshire, Oct 26, 2004
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  7. Luc Beauthoaise

    Rob Gill Guest

    shhhhhh.
    don't tell anyone.
    out here in vancouver I can pretty well ride year round 'cept for the day
    or two that it actually snows.
    decent biking weather is basiclly from late march to late october.

    I agree with this point.



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    Rob Gill, Oct 26, 2004
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  8. Luc Beauthoaise

    Bob Mann Guest

    I'll be doing -4C tomorrow morning according to the forecasts.
     
    Bob Mann, Oct 26, 2004
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  9. Luc Beauthoaise

    Eiron Guest

    Why don't you add the wind chill factor for some really
    impressive numbers? You were doing over a hundred, I presume?
     
    Eiron, Oct 26, 2004
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  10. And unpaid Ebay auctions.
     
    The Older Gentleman, Oct 26, 2004
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  11. Luc Beauthoaise

    Michael Guest

    And yet, without the US, you'd be speaking German right now...

    -- Michael
     
    Michael, Oct 26, 2004
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  12. Luc Beauthoaise

    platypus Guest

    ^^
    "Russians".
     
    platypus, Oct 26, 2004
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  13. Luc Beauthoaise

    Turby Guest

    What else would you call that column of adverts on the right?

    Turby the Turbosurfer
     
    Turby, Oct 26, 2004
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  14. Luc Beauthoaise

    Turby Guest

    Not even the author?

    Turby the Turbosurfer
     
    Turby, Oct 26, 2004
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  15. Luc Beauthoaise

    Turby Guest

    And shrink. The Imperial Valley was a desert not too many decades ago.
    (Still is, technically, if you just want to judge by rainfall.) Then
    we took water from the Colorado river and irrigated it. That water
    turned it into the most productive agricultural land in the world.

    Turby the Turbosurfer
     
    Turby, Oct 26, 2004
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    John Higgins Guest

    Erm, no, couldn't see for the tears. I didn't say it was smart.
     
    John Higgins, Oct 26, 2004
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  17. Luc Beauthoaise

    grimly Guest

    True, but man-made intervention as opposed to a natural process. I was
    intrigued by the theory that millions of man-kept goats over thousands
    of years, in alliance with natural climate change, caused the spread
    of the Sahara Desert to the size it is today. I recall an off-the-wall
    proposal to pave huge areas with black tarmac in an attempt to reverse
    the process.
     
    grimly, Oct 26, 2004
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  18. Luc Beauthoaise

    grimly Guest

    I sort of doubt it... Russian, more likely.

    The US was nearly speaking German as an official language, back in the
    19th century, Herman.
     
    grimly, Oct 26, 2004
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  19. Luc Beauthoaise

    Tud Guest

    Grimly Curmudgeon wrote..
    They don't have any better luck with the British pieces of shit they bought.

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    Tud
    AH#115 SENS BS#111 LFS#32 FLF MISFIT
    '70 Triumph T120R Chopper "The Death Trap"
    '72 Triumph T100R project
    '74 Honda CB550Four "The Reliable One"
    http://ah115.com
     
    Tud, Oct 26, 2004
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  20. Tud wrote
    Selling shit is not exclusively a British pastime you know, at least the
    Canadians have managed to get one to go down. Before you can make a
    Chinook go down though it has to go up.
     
    steve auvache, Oct 26, 2004
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