Ben, how come your profile shows 0 posts when that's patently not correct! Are you a magician too??

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Mike


www.singapore-scotland.blogspot.com
www.argentina-alaska.blogspot.com
My little Vid: India/Pakistan

BMW R1150GS
Suzuki DR650 SE: Ride it like ya stole it. Oh, somebody just did...

Funny you ask that; I get the feeling some around here would like to see my disappearing act.

You never get posts added when its 'In the HU bar'

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'He who laughs last, was too slow to get the joke'

Officially now in a minority living in London!

Ben, Its unfortunate that your first posts have got you into numerous flame rows, I too, have also been there in the past, and sometimes even now get close!
There is a guy who will remain 'nameless' but is English, and resides in France now, well him and I got into some really big flame wars to the point where the site owners and moderators were giving infraction notices, 'badboy' points and deleting posts.........ah, those were the days!. The point is, that guy and I often PM each other for friendly chat and when we finally see each other at some meet, we will have a drink together. Chris, is a Moderator, and I can vouch for him that he does have a dry wit, I consider him to be a friend, but that does not make me immune to being told if he considers I am out of order.
I am in fact envious of Chris, he can polish his head, where I can't because I still have hair!.
Welcome to HU and get involved in other threads and I am sure you will fit-in just fine.

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'He who laughs last, was too slow to get the joke'

Officially now in a minority living in London!

Is this thread becoming territorial?
Canadians of the HUBB unite verses Yorkshire? Pleases don't include me in either of these 'groups'!

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'He who laughs last, was too slow to get the joke'

Officially now in a minority living in London!

English ?

Not old







Surely not !

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Blessed are the cracked, for they let in the light. - Spike Milligan
"When you come to a fork in the road ,take it ! When you come to a spoon in the road ,take that also ."

When I were a lad we 'ad nowt but a C50 'wi bald tyres 'an an old paper bag full 'o pre-used petrol instead 'at carbueretter.........

Possibly, I'll hazard a guess that the ratio of guys who look like E&C and ones who actually use their stuff is related to local bike culture for weekend riders (Cruisers in Canada? Sports bikes in Yorkshire but becoming impossible as the authorities crack down on speeding), the number of people per square mile (lots of space in Canada to use the stuff, you can cross Yorkshire in a day by pushbike so long as you can live with suicidal bus and truck drivers crammed onto roads designed for horses) and the weather (a road tyre equipped GS ridden by an ex-sport bike rider in Yorkshire will lose maybe eight Sundays a year, in Canada twenty?).

I think we have a problem with weekend riders who are making life hard for all riders. Having ruined sports bikes (we have a Police Hayabusa with cameras essencially to stop a Sunday morning run known as the Helmsley TT where these clowns crash their CBR600ZZZRZRRRRZ's around a small village) and having seen E&C on the telly this guys have turned to our kit and will muck that up too.

Oddly, I was looking at another site yesterday and was thinking that it might be interesting to try and get a bit more go out of the Bonneville as it main use right now is short rides as and when I fancy it. The result would no doubt be a poor copy of a '60's cafe racer. I'm sure real rockers would hate it, but copying the look wouldn't have been my aim.

Andy

Dooh, sorry I need 5 posts to reply on PM.

agree they started off good, i still like the lads but their programmes are all cooking and not enough biking these days.

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dave

That’s correct. Grant’s rule is that you only get “credit” if you post in the main body of the HUBB. The Bar is for “no useful content”.

I recon accusing your Scottish friend of being English is the ultimate insult for him and all Scots.

I may be able to use a sponge to wash my head, but at least I don’t look like one of the Village People




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Brighty's website: TheBrightStuffDotCom

Summer 2012 RR: http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hubb/ride-tales/adventures-between-cliff-wet-place-66414

I only came 2nd in the 'look alike'.....you won it! and you requested that pose in July09, I am flattered you kept the picture(on your bedroom wall maybe?
Are you sure the person we are talking about is a Scot?

This is why the 'HU bar' don't score credits.....no useful content

A M Y C for the dyslexic, this is why we do9n't get credits in the 'HU bar'...........NO useful content!

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'He who laughs last, was too slow to get the joke'

Officially now in a minority living in London!

I am a big fan of Long "Way Round", "Long Way Down" and "Race to Dakar". I bought all three DVD's and thereby support those guys with $ (Just like I bought HU DVDs - Great stuff BTW )

Why is it so hard to take the LWR series for what it is? ...entertainment (drama) with a motorcycle topic. In the process there is some fantastic travel footage and cultural interaction to see. What's so wrong with that...? So, they are "rich" and have sponsors. Great for them .

The movies have given some folks the possibility to enjoy an adventure, which they will never do, from an armchair. It has inspired others to start riding motorcycles or, as in my case, inspire me to go on a RTW trip. That's why I ended up at HU in the first place...

Can it be all that bad...? Or, as previously posted, is there a lot of jealousy involved...?


P.S.: Also, I do ride to Starbucks for a cup of joe on my GS...

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Thomas

"Hey, ...I'm just ridin' shotgun"

Yeh, the pic is next to the one of Michael Jackson and Noddy (of Noddy and Bigears fame). They have pride of place in the alotment shed.

Yes, he is definitely from north of Hadrian's Wall.

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Brighty's website: TheBrightStuffDotCom

Summer 2012 RR: http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hubb/ride-tales/adventures-between-cliff-wet-place-66414

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Nick and his 2010 Yamaha XT1200Z Super Ténéré

1. If you don't like the TV series turn your tele off.
2. Stop judging people by the bike they ride, the gear they wear, and just talk to them! There are w@nker bike riders and there are great bike riders, but you will not be able to tell this by the bike they ride, the gear they have or even where they have ridden!

Simple me thinks. This thread can now be closed

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Ollie

www.jollyfollies.com

Land's End to Sydney 2009