My first Triump Old Geezer Experience

"Blimey are they still making them? Haven't seen that badge in years. I
had a Trident you know. What'll it do? Never had the Trident over 90 etc
etc"

Thought these were apocryphal, but it was just like I read in every bike
mag review of a Triumph. Kinda nice actually, obviously made an old blokes
day.

 

I get them with the Guzzi from time to time.

The latest marched into the middle of the road as the lights were
changing to tell me that "it looks like a proper bike" and he "had a
Norton years ago"

Bewildering, embarrassing and oddly nice.

 

YEah, I had this quite a few times on the ST. Only seemed to be when I
first got it, mined, so mayhaps I just got used to ignoring the
codgers after a while :-}

 

Ferger wrote

If you really want to make their day just tell that "It isn't like a
proper Trumph, cos it don't leak oil." FFS don't feed them though
whatever you do, what I have said is dangerous enough in inexperienced
hands as it is.

 

Now, when I had my Dnepr ....

 

I have a local codger (lives in the flats next door), gave me a serious
thumbs-up as I trundled the Trophy through town on the test ride, and
manages to stop for a chat every week or so.

 

platypus says...

I keep meaning to ask. WTF is a "balanced scratchcard"

 

Actually "balanced scorecard"[1], we've been having a lot of flak about
these recently, and the distain is seeping out through the pores. Must
change it to something meaningful...

[1]don't ask me wtf a balanced scorecard is, if I could handle that level of
bullshit I'd have a proper job.

 

platypus says...

Ahh right, with you now.

"The balanced scorecard is a management system (not only a measurement
system) that enables organizations to clarify their vision and strategy
and translate them into action. It provides feedback around both the
internal business processes and external outcomes in order to
continuously improve strategic performance and results. When fully
deployed, the balanced scorecard transforms strategic planning from an
academic exercise into the nerve center of an enterprise."

Obvious really...

 

It's not that I can't bullshit, so much as I can't do stuff like that
without gagging.

 

platypus says...

There's no court in the land that would convict you.

I know what you mean. Having just moved from an ex nationalised utility
to a US-megacorp(tm) my BS meter has been off the scale.

 

Thing is, these dicks talk about "fully deployed", whereas in reality the
helots update their BS only at gunpoint, and then only with whatever shit
sounds convincing, in the desparate hours before the quarterly review. The
enterprise glides smoothly forward on a thick layer of finely-masticated
excrement.

We're hoping that Big Blue won't turn out to be quite so far up its own
arse...

 

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

I got the odd one or two with the Army-green CanAm - some seemed to
think it was an old Brit bike; bizarre, to say the least.

When I was running a Yam triple, one specimen buttonholed me and started
wibbling on about how he'd owned a deeohaitchcee 850. At that point I
realised he was simply a loony and made my escape.

--

Dave

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

 

I told one old boy that it was really Japanese as they had bought the
name and the bikes were made in China. Thought I'd killed him for a
minute

 

Where did you dig it up?

 

I had it once when I had the R1150GS, from a 20-something black bloke
on a ZX-6R who hadn't been aware that you could by a BMW /bike/ and
decided there and then to get rid of the Kawasaki...

 

TOG@toil, ,

he's full of them, isn't he?

 

Seems fair enough. Who'd want a shitty old kwacker, eh?

 

When my Grandad (sadly gone) saw my first bike (FZR400) he told me it
looked like something out of Tron and didn't bikes look so much better
now than they had done when he was a lad (30's).

I was impressed he'd seen Tron

 

only a moron.