Pity...

I'm with Theo; while absurd humour is common, and while the police-
hairdryer-locks-on-to-fighter-jet story might've started out as such,
you can bet your house against half a turnip it started being told in
earnest from about the fifth retelling.

....I'm getting real tired of people telling me my R1 will do 350kph if
only I'd snip the correct two wires leading out of the ECU, just like
they did.

 

Who cares? There's gullible ppl everywhere. Although in fact I would
think that the vast majority of aus-moto readers would have either a)
smiled and/or b) Thought "Urban Myth".

Made me smile on an otherwise shitty day.

Thanks George.

N/

(and it depends on which order you snip those wires. I have a mate who
told me that his mate........)

 

Well, the Daytona 675 from which it is descended is quite decidedly
female. The Triplet can't *not* be a girl, too.

Besides, there's already a big naked triple in Triumph's lineup. The
675 is the little one - thus, Triplet.

 

Kill yourself.

 

Joke's on him. Of the two, the Triplet is the headbanger - much more
chuck-aboutable and a much more free-spinning engine - I seriously
doubt the 1050 would have an answer for the 675 along a twisty road,
even under power... when Triumph bring out the 675R, ie. a naked
Daytona 675 with the suspension and the brakes not swapped for budget
stuff, that thing is going to, in the parlance of the younger
generation, pwn.

 

They did... in about 1999.

In meatspace, among a group of people, do you try to make yourself
appear witty by going "Hey, everyone, what do you call 50 lawyers on
the bottom of the Harbour/the Yarra/the river (delete as applicable
based on current location)?"

Same principle applies here...

 

Without getting into semantics, I'm not sure that anyone here can
_really_ sit in judgement on a joke given that the effect is both:

a) Wide-spread (aus-moto compared to your "group of people") unless of
course you do stand up routines in your spare time)
and
b) Subjective. (One man's meat etc) (No - not that meat).

Or there again maybe I just have a hangover and bad mood to contend with
today

N/

 

Kill yourself.


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Ooohh, I frightened, another one of the knobless arse lickers has come to
his assistance.

 

That's a bit extreme.

Learning to spell big words that you choose to use might be a better option.

BTW, even if you can only say the word, hippopotamus, it is still a
really useful word, since it takes most people pretty much exactly one
second to say it.


regards,
CrazyCam

 

I have a vague recollection that the word is even bigger than that,
but I could be wrong.

Hippottopotamus anyone?

 

P'raps you're thinking of The Hip-Hopopotamus

 

You're supposed to cut the blue wire, that's the one that's pink in
your model.

Theo

 

You could indeed.

No thanks.

For the benefit of the barbarians amongst us, that is those who don't
speak Greek, Hippo = Horse potamus = of the river, allowing for some
slackness in the ending, probably caused by an ancient naturalist who
confused Greek and Latin.

Just to complete this needless display of erudition, suppose you are on
a small boat, at sea, at night, and you see what you think may be a
lighthouse (remember the lighthouse mentioned earlier in this thread?).

Well, from one flash, you say hippopotamus, hippopotamus, and so on,
until the next flash. The number of times you say the magic word equates
to the number of seconds between flashes, which, you should know from
the chart, assuming you have some vague idea of where you are.

(It's the beer makes me do it.)

regards,
CrazyCam

 

The Dutch don't say Hippopotamus, they say Nijlpaard, literally Nile
Horse.

Theo

 

That's easy for you to say.

regards,
CrazyCam

 

Of course! <rolling eyes>... I don't get it - it must be the bike version of
"Small Man Syndrome"...

I would absolutely LOVE it if they made a smaller version of powerful bikes.
I would LOVE a girl-sized bike that had as much grunt as the bigger bikes,
but in a smaller frame (just like me <snigger>) In a perfect world my SV
would be "betty-sized" - same power but a slightly more compact version for
the vertically-challenged. It would be confidence-inspiring (and probably a
bit less droppable).

I met an extremely obnoxious little bloke once who was about the same size
as me (5'3" - maybe he was 5'5" if he was lucky) who announced loudly and
repeatedly to anybody and everybody that he owned some enormous bloody
touring bike, as if it was some sort of affirmation of his manhood. He'd ask
everyone what they rode, and then sneer... "Yeah, well I ride a Kawasaki
whatever-it-bloody-was" and you could almost hear the unspoken "so my dick's

LOL - no, it was an extremely sexy black Striple - <slaps CC> You and your
stereotypes <snigger> After reading what IK said about the Striple vs the
Triplet on the twisties, though, perhaps I was expecting too much of the
bloke on the Striple (but it LOOKED like a total weapon!

Isn't it just about time we got a report from Jules about her Triplet as
well? Juuuuules, oh Ju-uuuuuuules!!!! She's had plenty of time to run it in
now...

betty

 

How is this different from you strutting the OzMoto stage and
proclaiming, in your best Shakespearean voice, "I ride an SV, you
know. If only I could stop falling off (because it's WAY too big)."

<deem cross-eyed look included><and the exclamation "d-oh">


Onya bike...

Gerry

 

Okay, so I made a misteak and spelled it wrong
but when I typed it I was laughing so hard thinking of knobless and his fat
arse trying to run to the drinks tent

 

Due in Oz by Xmas I'm told.

Review in I think it was this issue of AMCN or the previous one.

Yes, pwn, or Alan Cathcart thinks so after a thrash around the Isle of
Man anyways.

JL
(it's not that I want one, I was just asking out of curiousity,
honestly !)

 

Do keep up Betty, Jules got the 1050 Striple, not the Triplet

JL