Greetings from the Shire...

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Re: Greetings from the Shire...

Postby martine » Sun Mar 19, 2017 9:16 pm

Surprisingly cool looking car - is that matt black?

Nice bike...shame you haven't got it any longer (I've got a 1979 Kawasaki Z650 but it's been tucked up in the garage for far too long). The Harley is just plain evil...I can see the attraction.
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Re: Greetings from the Shire...

Postby RiK » Sun Mar 19, 2017 10:40 pm

martine wrote:Surprisingly cool looking car - is that matt black?

Dark grey metallic, gunmetal-ish.

martine wrote:Nice bike...shame you haven't got it any longer (I've got a 1979 Kawasaki Z650 but it's been tucked up in the garage for far too long). The Harley is just plain evil...I can see the attraction.


When I had the last bike I had something of a conflict of interests as another one of my past hobbies was skydiving, and whenever the weather was nice I was usually throwing myself out of planes which meant the poor bike was often sitting getting lonely. No longer skydiving and fast approaching 50 so the Harley's definitely more my kinda thing these days.. ;-)
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Re: Greetings from the Shire...

Postby RiK » Sun Mar 19, 2017 11:08 pm

M1ke H wrote:Hi Rich, and greetings from another BAM-er and Cotswoldian.

Cheers! I'm in Dursley, how about yerself?

M1ke H wrote:Possibly meet you at a local meeting or at an event some time.

I'd imagine so, I've been reasonably active since I joined. Been to a couple of monthly meetings, did the group overtaking day (after only one drive out with Geoff :lol: ) and went up to Worcester for John G (Reg Local)'s talk last month too. Really enjoying myself so far.

It's going to be a bit of a challenge to get to a lot of the monthly meetings as I have regular teaching commitments three evenings a week but I'll be around for anything where I don't have a clash. :-)
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Re: Greetings from the Shire...

Postby GTR1400MAN » Mon Mar 20, 2017 8:29 am

What's a Group Overtaking Day? How to overtake 6 cars at once? :)
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Re: Greetings from the Shire...

Postby M1ke H » Mon Mar 20, 2017 6:16 pm

RiK wrote:Cheers! I'm in Dursley, how about yerself?


Aha - our paths must have crossed as I was also at the Worcester meeting.

Small world - I'm quite close to Geoff (as the crow flies!)

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Re: Greetings from the Shire...

Postby ChristianAB » Mon Mar 20, 2017 7:19 pm

Hello Rich,

Welcome and happy that you are enjoying it so much. Hopefully I will get to meet you in person at an event soon...

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Re: Greetings from the Shire...

Postby RiK » Mon Mar 20, 2017 10:50 pm

M1ke H wrote:
RiK wrote:Cheers! I'm in Dursley, how about yerself?


Aha - our paths must have crossed as I was also at the Worcester meeting.

Small world - I'm quite close to Geoff (as the crow flies!)


Ahh yes indeed I do remember. Nice to put people into context.
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Re: Greetings from the Shire...

Postby sussex2 » Tue Mar 28, 2017 8:02 am

Welcome

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Re: Greetings from the Shire...

Postby Horse » Tue Mar 28, 2017 11:07 am

RiK wrote: Getting a bit twitchy in the mid-life crisis stakes so I'll undoubtably end up buying another bike at some point soon. Probably not another projectile like the last few though, more likely go for something entirely different this time round..


Ah . . . the male menoporsche . . .
Your 'standard' is how you drive alone, not how you drive during a test.

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Re: Greetings from the Shire...

Postby RiK » Tue Mar 28, 2017 7:37 pm

Horse wrote:Ah . . . the male menoporsche . . .


Hey, I resemble that remark!

Oh, wait...
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