For all a long time(about a year now) i have been looking to ride with some people in College Station Area,,,,,, My mistake--Didnt look at right places.Still dunno whether this is it.... Are there people here who want to ride ..organise rallies etc etc By the way i have a Suzi Katana 750.... I have seen many Katanas on Campus Do any of ya here ride them??? Anybdy wnats to go for a long ride tomorrow??? So Long Krishnan
Any other interesting and valuable advice u have to offer "o great one" As always the meat of the matter is forgotten and a trivial matter such as language which serves as a sole purpose of communication and nothing else is taken to the forefront... Thank you very much Duh!(pun intended) regards Krishnan
Some years ago, this newsgroup was mostly about sportbikes and generally the riders were thoughtful and helpful. Now this NG is primarily the cruising crowd and as you can tell, they sometimes lack social skills. Nevertheless, there are still some riders who monitor this NG from the Waco, Austin, & College Station areas, but they seldom post here anymore (including myself). Perhaps some of those riders will recognized your email address and be able to send you note. In addition, if you check with the some of the bike shops in the College Station area, they'll be more than pleased to tell you about organized rides that originate from their shops or from within the area. Good luck Amigo!
Sure is nice that you had the "grace" not to get real specific.. You must be a genuine "old" hand in this newsgroup.. I don't seem to recall the group being dominated by one or the other of the biker groups.. Be that as it may, I doubt that one group lacks or possesses more or less "social skills" as the other.. Lurkers are a given, on any newsgroup.. Contributors are always helpful., as well..
Do you suppose he might have been exercising his "social skills"... Damn... Waco.. you and I need to take dead aim on that stuff and "improve" ourselves.. LOL.. missed you yesterday.. You gonna hafta co-ordinate maintainance and repair on that Springer, so that it doesn' t interfere when Fullstate and me decide to run a bit... Your friend in Irving Bill Walker
I wanted to get it "extra gucci'd" for my return from Minnesota next Friday. IMS is next Saturday. Who all is going?
We went yesterday.. son.. Damn.. keep up.. Just me and him.. Your Springer was in the shop being Gucci'd and I don't know where the hell everybody else was... Jeez.. we had a good time, in spite of the weather and lack of bikes on the road.. We all need to gather for the big show.. Let's do that and intimidate the whole bunch when we pull up... OK.. Your friend in Irving Bill Walker
ya know, if someone doesn't post, they lose by abdication. i hardly qualify as part of the cruising crowd (and don't see any worse characteristics there than with the squid crowd), my social skills are reasonable and i think my posts are generally thoughtful, respectful, helpful and occassionally humorous. this is hardly a homogeneous group of people except for the fact most ride motorcycles. to expect other than that is ignorance of usenet group or even general human norms. if you want to see a real circus, check out reeky any day of the week. that trainwreck makes this place look like a kindergarten class compared to the non-stop bashing and trolling that goes on over there. the very first paragraph of your post is a bash on the people who actually take time to post here, then you go on to proclaim your lack of participation while bemoaning things as they seem to you. perhaps you can see the disconnect in your thought process and go on to participate more and contribute constructively in here more often. please do. i see a pretty diverse group of riders here on all sorts of machinery, hardly dominated by any one group or style. as for the rider in College Station looking for something to do, most shops have flyers about groups and events as well as ragsheets that talk about current happenings around the state. there are likely riders groups within the A&M campus too. hit a shop that services the marque you ride and see if there are riders groups for that. just poke around a bit and you will find stuff to do. just riding around solo will find you things to do too. looking out the window right now, there's more rain is coming. this was the weekend i was tentively planning on going to arkansas, but that was a washout. i don't mind riding in rain, but to spend a whole weekend in it isn't the pinnacle of fun. -- jm '73 R75/5 Toaster (not for sale) '99 R1100RT (in use) '00 FLHRCI (sold!) Iron Butt Assoc, WATR 3X, EIEIO, AEIOU etc blah blah
You shoulda, coulda got out with the Fullstate and me, yesterday.. We'd have let you lead up the rear, or something... However, I must add that our expertise in the fine art of motorcycle handling is superb and intimidating to many... LOL... Come on out, next time.. we'll show you how to "whiteline" or some other damfoolery... Your friend in Irving Bill Walker
Yeah! You know, I am not afraid to take my bike somewhere. And I am almost ALWAYS the oddball, even amongst sportbikes. ;-) We all ride, we may ride different machines, and we made ride differently, and we may ride for different reasons. I liked some of the other posts I read. Seems that this guy's comments were quite unwelcome here. I have to agree with just about everything I read from everyone. There are plenty of people on here with all different kinds of machines. And if you don't want to post, that is fine, you don't have to....but if you want to, then by all means join in the conversation. it is NOT a private party. --Fullstate
if i was gonna go to dallas, i'd just go the couple more hours to arkansas as originally planned. i can ride in a city any damn day. was supposed to have left last thursday but bidness and weather forecasts weren't on my side at all and it's just as well, got a couple of pressing problems finally resolved on friday. if i could figure out a way to make moolah by riding..... tell ya what, you got lots of time to start planning now, can i see you in the Waltz Across Texas Rally next April? don't have to answer me now, just consider it. benefits Scottish Rite Hospital for Children and attracts some of the best distance riders from across n. america and europe. -- jm '73 R75/5 Toaster (not for sale) '99 R1100RT (in use) '00 FLHRCI (sold!) Iron Butt Assoc, WATR 3X, EIEIO, AEIOU etc blah blah
of course there are, but lurkers don't respond if they are really lurkers, now do they? i bet you haven't read your usenet manual, have you? tut tut... <vbg> -- jm '73 R75/5 Toaster (not for sale) '99 R1100RT (in use) '00 FLHRCI (sold!) Iron Butt Assoc, WATR 3X, EIEIO, AEIOU etc blah blah
Krishnan, Have you tried the A&M Motorcycle club? They meet at the Sonic on Harvey around 8:30pm on Thursdays. I went on a few rides with them, including one with a group of sportbikers nice enough to let my slow cruiser tag along. The group has changed quite a bit recently, but it seems to have changed for the better. More leathers, less flip flops. They used to meet on Sunday morning for serious rides, but I don't know if they still do that or not. There's also a group that leaves from Russ Welch Harley on Wednesdays around 6:30, but I don't know how open they are on to non-harleys. Good luck! Casey
How about those social skills from Casey! Decent boys and girls ... decent. Much more helpful than some off-the-wall comments about use of the grammer when all a dude wanted was to find a few riding partners. From Deep in the Heart of Texas ... take care.
o yah, definite squid, you should see those things wheelie. only way a shaft drive can wheelie is with a hack. corialis effect ya know... -- jm '73 R75/5 Toaster (not for sale) '99 R1100RT (in use) '00 FLHRCI (sold!) Iron Butt Assoc, WATR 3X, EIEIO, AEIOU etc blah blah
