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shit - that'd be a bit of a puzzler.

 

I think if you slung it down the road, you'd find yourself paying the
dealer for a new set of plastics.

At least that's what the bit of paper I've always had to sign before a
test ride has said.

 

Funny, I've _never_ been asked to sign anything for a test ride.\,
even for stuff like hayabusas, blackbirds, blades, etc. etc.

 

I've always needed to sign a "bend it, mend it" agreement.

 

You obviously look like you're going to, then.

What's the norm on this? As I said, I've _never_ signed owt, and I'm
going way back to the early 80s and up until (in the UK) four years
ago. Is this a recent change, d'you think?

 

Never had to sign anything. Our guys have been quite trusting so far - but
also so far I've managed not to drop anything down the road........is that
asking for trouble!

 

I've never signed anything up here, the dealers here just give me the keys -
but I guess we know each other quite well here too, Harrogate's not really a
big place.

But when we took a couple of bikes out when we lived in the Midlands, we had
to hand over driving licences while we took the bikes out and we signed
summat about being on their insurance I think, for the ride out.

 

Thats right, I'll at least get some time to play on it before Paul gets it.

 

Pip posted:

*ding*

Oh, no - shit - that was my triangle of the week entry.

 

So you've gone from implying you were a riding god sliding it round corners
to now saying it was unexpected?
Which lead on from locking the rear wheel with the back brake in the first
place, thus leading to the conclusion the brakes were good.

Could I ask that you not for care me? Thanks.

Equally I think you're either a) tolerant and thick skinned or b) as
oblivious as a blind person standing in a foggy field in the middle of the
night. [1]

[1] high contrast version not withstanding.

 

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And in next week's lesson folks, the Harrogate IAM will be teaching us how
to back it in into corners.

 

LOL

Cheeky.

 

Half of the MotoGP boys don't seem to be able to back it in, so we
should get them along - I'm sure they'd be glad of a few tips.

 

What, the possible reasons to give up biking?

 

Heh, "I hear ya, brother!"

I'll always "push" a demo or loaner bike, given the opportunity, buty
personally, my skills and talent don't extend to controlled, "on-demand"
wheelies or controlled power-slides. Speshly when I've signed a bit of
paper which sez I'm liable for the first however-many gazillion pounds
worth of damage, etc...

YMMV.
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I actually wouldn't push a demo bike. Not any harder than I would my own
bike, anyway. I would try to ride it in the same way as I would if I were
to buy it: what's the point of doing anything else if you're seriously
interested in the bike, and not just a time waster?

 

Alrighty, missus so-called-not-very-tall-person, how is it that elsewhere
you describe the new bike as being taller than the old, hmm, hmm?

I only ask coz I understood they (Yamaha) had raised the bars and lowered
the pegs but that the seat was about the same...?

Suze (once more) slung her leg over a new R1 recently and it was
definitely more compatible than the 2003/4 R6 that was tried at the same
time...

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| Wik -UKRMHRC#10- 2003 R1150GSA -DC#1 -'FOT#0 'FOF #39 - BOD#12 BOB#12
|# You don't believe me | "Experience is the worst teacher.
|That the scenery | It always gives the test first
|Could be a cold-blooded killer. | and the instruction afterward."
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