Unaugural 8.0 - Concise review

Discussion in 'Australian Motorcycles' started by BT Humble, May 9, 2010.

  1. BT Humble

    BT Humble Guest

    It was good.


    BTH
     
    BT Humble, May 9, 2010
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    bikerbetty Guest

    Indeed it was. Thanks heaps BT, Minx. Also special thanks to Bamfy & James,
    Peter, and Pisshead, for the loan of his crutches.

    Blog coming soon :)

    betty
     
    bikerbetty, May 9, 2010
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  3. I had a ball!

    Mumph.

    Actually the good side was that I did find a really good band last
    night so the weekend wasn't a total loss for me.

    Trudging back up the Princes Hwy yesterday arvo with a really heavy
    backpack when the trains were down didn't put me into a good frame of
    mind, but some damn fine music finished the day of much betterer.

    Kev
     
    Kevin Gleeson, May 9, 2010
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    F Murtz Guest

    Good weekend, thanks, and to whomever I said my bike weighed 3 or 400
    kilos I apologize,I weighed it on the way back, 360 kilos with me on
    it,which makes it about 280 with gear packed.(still,heavy to pick up
    when it falls over.)
     
    F Murtz, May 9, 2010
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    JL Guest

    I assume you were sitting down...

    JL
     
    JL, May 10, 2010
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    VTR250 Guest

    This is a repost from the roll call thread. Please ignore the other
    post.

    I had lunch at Albury and was back home by 6:30pm. I decided to do
    the twisty-turny bit again because it was daylight so I came of the
    Hume at Euroa and took the C366 to Merton (it was much better in the
    day), then in to Melbourne via the Yarra Glen a.k.a. the B300. The
    B300 gets steadily busier and busier until Lilydale (which is not a
    gentle hill replete with lillys dancing in the sunlight -- it's just
    a massive conduit into Melbourne). Not many people go TO Lillydale,
    but a hell of a lot of people go THROUGH it, and fast.
    One last mysery solved. Some people noticed I had an overnight bag
    which had been hit hard. A shampoo bottle inside it had come apart,
    somthering my toothbrush (yes it does taste bad) and something put a
    crease in a metal can of shaving foam. It was all OK on Saturday
    morning when I packed it, so how could that happen if the rucksack was
    on my back all the time?
    The answer is it was run over by a 4x4.
    -- Annoyed on
    I stopped for petrol at Gundagai (stopped singing too) on Saturday
    afternoon and refilled.
    NORMALLY I put my gloves on the ground in line with the bowser (so
    it's protected from being kicked) and my helmet on top of my gloves,
    but it was a bit awkward this time, so I put my helmet in between my
    rear wheel and the bowser.
    After paying, when I came out there was an impatient woman in a gold
    Toyota 4x4 that had pulled up near to my bike (my bike was at the
    front bowser, another car was filling up behind me). I wheeled my
    bike to a parking space 10 M away and went back for my helmet, gloves
    and knapsack.
    At first I couldn't work out what had happened. She was already at
    the bowser filling up, one glove was near her rear wheel but the
    helmet was resting on the other glove -- in front of her car. I
    realised her car had pushed my helmet one car-length along the
    concrete and, because I have kevlar knuckle protectors, it just slid
    along the ground.
    I reasoned that she couldn't have shunted the helmet too hard because
    it would have rolled off the glove if she had.
    I said to her "You have run over my helmet" and she said "oh sorry" in
    an off-hand way without looking at me or breaking her stride as she
    walked in to pay. This really annoyed me because she probably thinks
    helmets are indestructable and doesn't know they have to be replaced
    if they get dropped (or that mine cost me $550) so I said something
    about how it's like being kicked in the head and walked off fuming.
    I nearly took her licence plate. If I had known she had crushed my
    knapsack too I probably would have done something very bad and be
    regretting it now.
    What a bitch.
    -- Annoyed off
    Thanks again, BTH.
     
    VTR250, May 10, 2010
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    BT Humble Guest

    Sometime's you're better off just being unhelpful.

    If it also involves inconveniencing an impatient 4x4 driver in a petrol
    station queue, so much the better! :)


    BTH
     
    BT Humble, May 10, 2010
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    TimC Guest

    After all, she's driving a petrol 4x4, which are only driven by
    commuter mums that like to pose.
     
    TimC, May 10, 2010
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    G-S Guest

    It was :)

    Thanks for all your time and effort.

    G-S
     
    G-S, May 10, 2010
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  10. BT Humble

    BT Humble Guest

    Should I be posting you a homebrew care package?


    BTH
     
    BT Humble, May 10, 2010
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    G-S Guest

    Not needed, it's just a sprain and bruising but thanks for the offer :)

    G-S
     
    G-S, May 10, 2010
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    F Murtz Guest

    F Murtz, May 10, 2010
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    BT Humble Guest

    I suspect that she was having as good a time as any 3 of the rest of us
    put together. :)


    BTH
     
    BT Humble, May 11, 2010
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  14. I'm glad it was good, ....... maybe next year I will manage not to pike.

    Though, I did build some brownie points on the mother's day front, so
    have better chance next year :) That and my health seems to be
    improving.

    --



    Cheers
    The Happy Drunk
    Breva 750
     
    The Happy Drunk, May 11, 2010
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