Delurk - arrgh and other matters of an "etc" nature.

Dear UKRM,

It is with a slightly heavy heart, a sense of trepidation and no small
matter of fear, that I write to inform you that having risen this
morning I find that my DAS pass certificate *is* real, and not dreamed.

Of course this is in no small way a cry for congratulations and all that
crap, although I'm quite prepared to be flamed and ignored. Possibly
both at the same time.

This business presents me with a small dilemma: "What to buy?"
I am slight of stature, although not small framed. I did my DAS on a
crapped out suzuki GS500 - a red one, no less. I can't push the back
down on that when it's on the centre stand to perform bar checks (how
embarrassing!)

I'm tempted by the ER-5 sort of thing, but have a suspicion I might be
better waiting till winter to get something respectable in case anything
much happens price wise.

In light of being a skinny wussy girl, my instructor suggested that I
get hold of some sort of scratty 250 in order to do a few miles whilst
it's sunny. I don't know anything about things in between 125 and
500cc... I never looked till now.

What thinketh the font? I be clueless.

Ta,
Cat

 

Well done.

Congratulations, newbie scum.

Gixxer Thou.

Good enough choice as a starter. I wouldn't get anything too
respectable, especially if it's got to get a newbie through a winter.

Oh. Got any friends in a fuller build?

Bandit, Fazer, ER-5, GS500 to start off with. Get through the winter
on it and get something better next year.

 

I read that as "used to be a man"

 

I think he's wise. I got my SO a Divvy 600. She found that difficult
to manhandle for a long time. (In and out of garage, wheeling it about
in carparks etc.)

I'm strongly of the opinion that she would have learned much faster on
a smaller bike.

Whether or not you can find a suitable smaller bike is another matter.

 

What are these 'bar checks' of which you write?

 

Well done and welcome to The Dark Side.

 

<wail>

 

or a 400

 

these things often happen to you?

 

What century are you from Catweasle?

 

Who?

 

Paging Phil L!

 

You'll be lucky. Everything depreciates, except for the shitest of
SOBs, which are surely too shite for you to want. Unless you can find a
great deal somewhere, that is.

Mine's not actually bent. I think.

What I'm trying to say is that if you're not a nutter, you should be
able to ride at an appropriate speed for the conditions, whatever you're
riding. Of course, appropriate is different for different levels of
competence, but if you're shitting yourself, you're going too fast.

Thundercats. They're good. They're not cool. Hence they're cheap.

I don't see why not. Or get some crash mushrooms. I should really have
a 400 myself, amount of time I spend in London. Plus I'm scrawny.

Yeah, that's the down-side. Not that balding is a bad thing, of course.

That's easy, you should use Thunderbird on Linux. Actually something
like slrn is much better but I can't be bothered to learn it.

 

You can do those checks while getting the bike out of the garage.

You want to try something small and light without too much power
so you can get both feet on the ground, comfortably wheel it around,
and afford the insurance premiums.
I suggest a GSXR600 as a good starter bike for a girl.

 

Time for the grown up scooters (me receives Xmax tomorrow)

 

Deja vu ...

heh, http://www.catweazlefanclub.co.uk/index.asp

 

Can't remember the last time I did a u-turn. Although I do push the bike
back into the garage, but I've already been out on it by then.

 

all the useful keys are listed at the bottom of the window.

 

Burn the heretic! Slrn is the one true way! Mind you it's what I've
been using for the last 9 years and I can't be bothered to change
(works nicely in a ssh session, low bandwidth usage, pretty colours,
does decent scoring yadda yadda yadda).

Pan is OK too but I don't have much experience of these newfangled GUI
things..

Phil

 

Something from last century..

Phil