In article <47837bda$0$22524$8f2e0ebb@news.shared-secrets.com>, CL <flothru@yahoo.com> wrote:

>> (looks around to check if none of my Ducati owning mates are looking)
>
>I'll stick with Nortons, Guzzis, and Beemers, thank you.

BeeMs  I can understand (had a few meself), the others are in a different 
wicker basket (although new Nortons are not to be sneezed at)

>Scooters have always seemed just to gaye to me.  There is something 

yeah, but its fun to drag off a fella on a GSX-R 11 on one (especially when 
rider gets shitty and snuffs it due to lumpy cam and being twitchy on the 
start)


>about that feet forward riding position with nothing to grip with your 
>knees that seems to be a violation of one of the Basic Laws of nature.

that and the 'sitting on a hinge feeling' , but you get used to it.


>My old workhorse is an '89 Honda Baja, purchased new, which has made 
>it's way down several mountainsides on its own.  I have preferred 

is that an XL by another name?

>
>My big proposal to the Iron Butt Association for the 2008 riding season 
>is a Japanese version of the 50cc -- theirs is US or Canada Coast to 

seen a fella who rode across the nullabor on a Vespa turn up to a rally one 
year

deserves a medal of some sort

See Ya
(when bandwidth gets better ;-)

Chris Eastwood
Photographer, Programmer               
Motorcyclist and dingbat

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