Getting one's knee down ?

<thunderous applause>

 

Dave Swindell says...

 

I was standing on the desk singing Land of Hope & Glory while I typed
that

 

That reminds me of a story about a Harley, a stick and the helmet.

 

Give over, you're nowhere near the edge.

You just put the bike up when that happens. It's just like when you're
racing.

 

Yes.

HTH

 

Nods in agreement.

 

Ben says...

<thinks> One less tyre to buy than a car, Don't need to put your feet
down at traffic lights...

That's it as far as I can see.

 

Yo digo tomate.

 

Io dico pomodoro

 

Dave Swindell wrote

Sounds like fun. I'll come.

 

<fx: convinced>

 

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

Better off with a trike. At least they tend to go where you point them.
If a motorcycle combination was a new type of vehicle today, it's
urm..interesting handling properties would ensure that it never saw the
tarmac of a public road.

--

Dave

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

 

Horses for courses. But first forget the car, haven't got one, don't
want one.

How many grandchildren have you got, and how do you take them all out
for a ride on your bike?

When you go camping, where do you put the gerbil?

Come to that, where do you put the tent, SO, picnic box, kids' sleeping
bags, your sleeping bags, SO's 14 changes of evening gear for the three
days you will be away, kids' computer games, TV to play them on ..... ?

How do you carry a full week's shopping on a solo?

How do you carry a crate of beer on a solo?

Got a working meeting somewhere you've never been before, and need to
have a good-looking, uncreased suit for it, and it's sheeting with rain?
Put nice, waterproof suitcase in sidecar.

How do you carry loosely packed bags of mushroom compost on a solo? Or
paving slabs? Or picnic tables? Or a ladder? Or a bidet? Or .....

How does an untidy sod like me carry the tools, spare can of petrol,
spare gallon of oil, pump, laptop, sandwiches, thumber, etc etc etc etc
on a solo?

What happens to your pillion passenger when they fall asleep? Stick 'em
in the sidecar and problem solved.

Touring long distance? How do you stop the passenger papering half of
France with maps? No problem in the sidecar.

How do you carry the other bike's wheel with the knackered tyre to the
tyre depot on a solo?

Need to get somewhere far away, quickly, with two of you can ride? Go
for days on end with one of you sleeping in the chair and swapping every
other tank fill.

Got a vestibular or perceptual problem that makes you fall off your
bike? Put a sidecar on it. (Seriously no joke, it happens!)

Habitually drop the bike and your insurance has gone through the roof
replacing those acres of pretty GRP? Put a sidecar on it.

Wanna meet all sorts of interesting people, but fed up with being
classified as a greasy, faggy, law-breaking, smelly, chicken-eater? Get
an outfit, you wouldn't believe the dishy people who have amazingly
nostalgic memories of their dads' outfits And you can still eat
chickens.

Sick and tired of every solo bike looking the same? Wanna be different?
You know it makes sense.

Wanna really put the shits up the other bikers at your regular illegal
(?) bikers' meet? Pull a wheelie on an outfit!

Like doing it standing up in a hammock? That's a sidecar, man

etc

etc

etc

--
Dave Remove my gerbil for email replies.

Bike's are bosh, PC's are pointless, and the 1990's are nuts!
Bikes are great, PCs are super, and the 1990s are the time to be!
Save the apostrophe! Get 'em right! If in doubt, leave 'em out!!

 

An interesting, if unprovable speculation, but wouldn't life be boring
if it were so :-(

Thank goodness they were invented (well, patented anyway) in time, by an
Englishman, 101 years ago last February )

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Dave Remove my gerbil for email replies.

Bike's are bosh, PC's are pointless, and the 1990's are nuts!
Bikes are great, PCs are super, and the 1990s are the time to be!
Save the apostrophe! Get 'em right! If in doubt, leave 'em out!!

 

You adore dick porn ... ?

 

So you should have been.

I may have it tattooed about my person.

 

Pip wrote

Well, it's a big enough canvas

HTH

Paul.