Chookie-sick

What the hell is going on here lately?
Doodle doodles around on a GS, JustAl and Marty are posting pro-chook,
Jules on a Peg, Al announcing a TDM....
Even Nev decking a GS12 rather than a budgie.
And that's aside from the "oldtime" XLV and Peg-punters..
C'mon, what the hell's wrong with the yoghurt-tubs??
Certainly looks like a trend, doesn't it?

Is the Euro-trend (where nearly every 2. bike sold is a chookie of some
sort) finally encroaching and "taking over"?
Is Zeebee gonna get onto a Quota next (gotta stick to the Guzzi's , eh?)
PaulH on what??
Conehead on a 3-wheeler with long suspension and spoked19" front wheel
after he's outta the "hotel"?

Buncha old farts you are!!

cheers
pete

 

In aus.motorcycles on Wed, 29 Sep 2004 15:34:31 +1000

Not unless I can get an ADR-certified ladder...

Zebee

 

So perhaps I should hold onto the Peg for another 20,000km knowing it
will appreciate!

Jules

 

Hehe...
About 2-3 years back, waiting to board the ferry at Devonport, saw a guy
with a Quota.
Great looking bike but they shoulda delivered a crane from Guzzi Heavy
Industries with it...
guy who rode was pretty short and what was missing there was more than made
up for in width.
The resulting antics when the queue moved forward were hilarious.

cheers
pete

 

You wanna flog it?
After only one lousy highway run to Adelaide?
Just take her into the hills, maboy and watch her GO.
Best with a group of others so you've got a gauge...
Yep, looks like Pegs are doing pretty well on the 2.hand markets nowadays.
cheers
pete

 

^^^^^^^ Hit the nail on the head there Pete!
Actually; I'm a fraud and my emu-chaser is very unlikely to ever stray
off-road.
I actually wanted an RS or an S but the GS was the proverbial "right
price".
Clem

 

Wonder if Jodie agrees with you...

TB

 

We dragged him up to Tarago at Easter, via Kahncoban, Jindabyne, Charlottes
Pass etc. http://evilurl.com/fecesBOOBJOB

He did a pretty good job of keeping up with a girl on an F650CS

Nev..
'03 ZX12R

 

Dunno about the others, but in my past I've had an R100GS, TDM850, R1100GS
and a Paul Rooney modified R80G/S(This one I wish was still with me), so
it's nothing new really. And then more dedicated dirt bikes TC185, XT550,
CR250M, DR500S, PE175

Al

 

We dragged him up to Tarago at Easter, via Kahncoban, Jindabyne, Charlottes

Might wanna get that autofocus system looked at, champ!

 

You wanna flog it?

Heh it's funny you should say that. I wound up in the Dandenongs
recently and actually found the ride home (cutting through shitty
traffic) more fun than the actual twisty bits.

Not sure if I've got to do some work on the setup or what, but the Peg
seems to be more fun pulling silly stunts between cars.

Still, I can't think of any other bike I'd rather be riding right now.
Was just awfully tempted by a cage when I got back from Europe on the
coldest something day in yada yada

Jules

 

I was after an RS too, but the RT was the right price at the right time.

---
Cheers

PeterC [aka MildThing]
'81 Suzuki GS450-s
'87 BMW K100RT

www.dmcsc.org.au

 

I was reminiscing about this today....
I was at Sundale on the Gold Coast looking at a 1000cc bored-out CB750
which was on display as Honda's answer to the yet-to-be-seen Z1 (but was
actually a bullshit home-made) when the kid I was near said "There's a bike
in Germany that's 1200cc and it's called The Munk Mammoth"....
1200cc?!!? Twelve-frikkin-hundred-cee-frikkin-cee?!!?
I could not imagine a bike that big.

Now they make 1200cc trial-bikes............

 

On 29/9/04 8:18 PM, in article

Me too.

Hammo

(except for the ones I didn't, oh and throw in a CR500, DT175, XT250, XL and
XR250).

 

Hmm---TS185ER,KLR250,XL600RMG,NX650,XL600RMG,NX650,R80G/S,NX650,XL650V (and
the TDM850 and CT110).

Pat (who really should be in Queensland already...)

 

Just surprising what a good road-bike a chookie can make, eh?

pete

 

It's a beaut to ride through twisties etc but I'm actually having a bit of
a problem with my back and the upright seating position.
I'll see if I can get some lower, more forward bars before I'm totally
crippled......
(and maybe rearset the footpegs a bit)
Clem

 

Upper back? I rolled the bars back on mine(allowed my arms to sit lower
where they wanted to be) and sorted out the upper back pain, never did get
over the sore arse, that's why my GS was a 6 month bike. VTR was much more
comfortable.

Al

 

Naah; lower-back with me.
I was just gonna kick the bars forward but then they angle up
strangely.......
(And the seat is a friggin' ROCK)
Clem

 

yes, Im looking for a new bike cos Al is buying a damaged viffer


mh