"80% talent free"

Ben says...

It's very different when you're dealing with enthusiasts, which most
motorcyclists are. I expect the person behind the counter to be as clued
up about what they're selling as me. You only get that level of
knowledge through using the things you sell.

 

Lozzo emerged from their own little world to say

A rather utopian view.

 

wessie says...

It's generally the way things are. I don't know that many people working
in the trade who don't ride.

 

I don't have a lot of time for them, either.

 

she looked a bit of a heifer to me.

 

Yeah, but I'm with Lozzo on this. Enthusiastic bikers make for nicer
shops. Unfortunately, they don't always make for better businesspeople.
Their enthusiasm can cloud their judgment.

 

darsy says...

Well it's not like you're gods gift to women is it? Hardly one to talk
really.

 

Champ says...

No?

http://www.pikeynet.com/02/05/03/nring296.jpg

or

http://www.pikeynet.com/02/05/03/nring258.jpg

 

the old "takes one to know one argument".

I'm sure she's a lovely person, and clearly a Driving God; I was just
making the observation that those things wouldn't make me be "in love
with her".

But, sure, **** objectivity.

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

"Gerrourof deway yercunt!"

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

Ho ho ho.

http://home.t-online.de/home/rolf.lettmann/s_car01.htm

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| ___ Salad Dodger
|/ \
_/_____\_ GL1500SEV/CBR1100XXX/KH500A8/TS250C
|_\_____/_| ..73063../..17005.../..3180./.19406
(>|_|_|<) TPPFATUICG#7 DIAABTCOD#9 YTC#4 PM#5
|__|_|__| BOTAFOT #70 BOTAFOF #09 two#11 WG*
\ |^| / IbW#0 & KotIbW# BotTOS#6 GP#4
\|^|/ ANORAK#17 IbB#4
'^'

 

In software, most enthusiasts are actually fucking annoying hobbyist
geeks, the kind you don't want to be working with 95% of the time.

Especially the ones that keep some kind of toy penguin on their desks.

 

In

and for anyone who wants to see her do a lap...

http://www.jackals-forge.com/lotus/movies/sabine.WMV

Be warned it's about 100mb, bandwidth pikeys beware!

--
Pete M - "Hater of FWD Vauxhalls"

Mercedes 260E
Ford Capri (ressurection starts soon)
COSOC #5
Scouse Git extraordinaire. Liverpool, Great Britain

 

Stinky. Very stinky.

 

I have toy dinosaur on my PC at work (as do most of my colleagues).
We are gui^H^H^Hresponsible for the heritage systems we run.

 

I (almost) felt guilty posting, 'cause I knew you'd say something like
that.

I reckon I'm competent enough, and I ride within my capabilites.

But I ride *well* within my capabilities and those of my bike. Loads of
room for improvement, particularly my cornering.

Not so far. :-(

 

Is taking your own bike an option, or do you specifically want a loaner
in case you bin it or something?

 

I don't recall it.

I *do* rememeber being stood in the PB office (early 90s) chatting to
Mark Forsyth, and they had the latest batch of 600s, and wondering
what they could do with them, and I suggested they entered them in a
club race. Which they did. The headline was, I think "We've really
done it this time".

 

Bear says...

My mate Murff and I went to the PB Donington Frenzy in 1998. There was a
track-day organised for the same weekend and we watched Ronnie Smith
(RIP) and Gus Scott obliterate so many bikes through the Foggy Esses
over the day on a yellow R1100GS.

Neither Murff nor I could believe that something so ugly could do so
well and make sportsbikes look silly. I mean the bike, not Ronnie or
Gus, though that comment could apply to them too.

 

Bear says...