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- From: tomes@iastate.edu ()
- Subject: Re: Which scoots offer shaft drive?
- Message-ID: <BxzCu8.Fxu@news.iastate.edu>
- Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
- References: <22411@drutx.ATT.COM> <shk2bdk@zola.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 20:27:41 GMT
- Lines: 19
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- In article <shk2bdk@zola.esd.sgi.com> cj@sgi.com writes:
- >
- >In article <22411@drutx.ATT.COM>, pmr@drutx.ATT.COM writes:
-
- >Isn't calling it a "scoot" in r.m rather like calling it "Frisco"?
-
- Probably, to some people. But when I hear the term, it is usually spoken by
- a friend of mine who was winning hillclimbs on his Triumph 850 (yes, it
- was SERIOUSLY massaged: started as a 600, ended up as an 850 with both cyl
- firing at the same time) in the 1960's and now rides a Goldwing and a
- Kawasaki 750 twin. This despite the fact that he can't feel anything below
- the knees (diabeties and a degenerative nerve disorder) and has major health
- problems due to being blown up in a police action we participated in a couple
- of decades ago.
-
- It occurs to me that people can call a motorcycle anything they want to,
- and I will respect them for the fact that they ride.
-
- CP Tomes
-