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your dead wrong, actually!
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Originally Posted by Redboots
Sorry mate but, It sounds like you are a car driver with a bike.
Nothing at all wrong with going camping with your mates and pulling a few wheelies on route. Sitting round a camp fire talking bollocks, farting, belching and swearing, are all natural bi-products of  drinking.
Charley is the one that's got it right. Ewan is just too touchy/feely/girly/anal for me.
John
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sorry Redboots, been a Biker all my life, hate cars, I DONT OWN ONE, only passed car test cos its handy, ride 365, even when I was in the UK ( winter on a Wildstar was fun in the ice!)
I love pulling wheelies, ( I own an XT600 for goodness sake....) have lit the odd fart myself BUT I dont pull wheelies on main roads, in front of kids, pedestrians, crowds... places where if I SCREW UP and fall off SOMEONE ELSE gets hurt.
The point I was making was that this guy posted this..... and I disagreed with him,
Originally Posted by rhunjones
its probably done the world of bikeing more good than harm when it comes to the majority of the public that dont ride.
Idid not say it wasnt OK to pull wheelies, light farts, belch, swear, etc if you wanna do that its up to you. all I was saying is that to the general public the non bike riding plebs, it makes ALL bikers look like Mr C. Boorman, because the general public being lemmings, believe everything they see on the damn TV! and therefore tar us ALL WITH THE SAME BRUSH!!!!!!!
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Originally Posted by Martynbiker
I did not say it wasnt OK to pull wheelies, light farts, belch, swear, etc....
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This whole thing of turning them into bad guys has just got my goat.
I should think there are far more dangerous things in Africa than one guy pulling wheelies.
Do you remember when Barry Sheene was champion? Same thing used to happen. All the anti-Sheene, (and anti-Stephanie), used to really piss me off. Jealousy??
As far as tar and brushes goes, its always been like that and no amount of PC will change it so I never subscribed to it. Now if "they" made ALL drivers take a motorcycle test before being allowed in a car/truck/bus, that might change things... but I digress....
John
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