Hands up all those that have never fallen off

Cab wrote

steve auvache, that is /me/ and I live in the uk.


"au" as in: to the or @ the

"vache" as in: cow

 

I was trying to find a domain like "auvache"

 

Cab wrote

something like auvache.force9.wibble.

Got one of those as well I have. I use it mainly to collect spam these
days.

 

Heh, I was looking at auvache.org, auvache.org.uk, auvache.com, etc,
etc.

 

Nope, but there's time yet. Started riding 10 years ago and have had bikes
for most of that period. Not a huge mileage, maybe 25-30K altogether.

 

Cab wrote

check yer mailbox.

 

Gosh, I thought you were older than that. Much older.

Maybe it was the black and white picture of you on a train.

 

Not sure if that's good or bad ...

If it's the picture I think it is, I'm the one without a beard. By a
quirk of fate and BR still, seriously, running steam it was taken in 1988.

Oooh, here it is.
http://www.sweller.co.uk/images/no7vordb.jpg

 

I haven't dropped it yet.

Only 30k miles under my belt, of course.

 

Only once whilst going along - offroad on the DT, went into a rut
concealed by grass and couldn't get back out again. Three other
occasions, I'd dropped the CBR whilst doing a U turn (leave those brakes
alone!)

 

That's where I did mine many moons ago. Now called Elite aren't they ?

 

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:12:36 +0000, Klaatu <>
bored us all completely to death with wittery prose along the lines
of:

Dunno, I did mine years ago and left the UK a few years after.

 

"Nursing his bandaged finger, a trainee driver ponders the indignity of
being used as a locomotive figurehead."

--

Dave

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

 

I never have, I'm too fucking good

 

Oh, I thought he was the werewolf figure at the front of the picture.

 

No. You are not trying hard enough.

 

And also, possibly, hasn't been riding long enough.

 

No, that's my old regular mate, Mick Richards. Who I still see regularly
and taught me a lot about motorbikes and train driving. He retired
(early, he's not as ancient as he looks) from the railway a few years ago
following a serious bike accident.

 

Do / did a lot of train drivers ride bikes?

 

Difficult to say. A lot of the ones I get on well with do and have done
for a long time. But is that a product of them being similarly minded as
me? That they ride bikes or we get on?

In the past it bikes used to be very common form of personal transport
for railwaymen. They cut out the congestion crap getting to and from
work at all hours and were cheap to have as a first/second vehicle and
old habits die hard. In days of yore, younger staff being encouraged
into bikes by the older staff and having a supply of attractively priced
hand me downs.

TBH, I don't think its now any different to other large, reasonably paid
industrial work places.