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- Subject: Re: CBR600F2 dethroned by '93 ZX-6. Whine......whimper!
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- Date: 21 Jan 93 16:58:55 GMT
- References: <1993Jan15.234919.1637@ichips.intel.com> <1993Jan18.202539.1614@megatek.com> <1993Jan20.154406.4372@gdr.bath.ac.uk>
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- In article <1993Jan20.154406.4372@gdr.bath.ac.uk> bsstrs@gdr.bath.ac.uk (T R Stickland) writes:
- >This summer I was touring in Germany. Two of us on 1986 and 1989 VFR750s,
- >both loaded with tank bags, panniers, tents & sleeping bags etc. strapped
- >down all over the place.
-
- Which means, to the average idiot, that you looked like a couple of boy scouts
- trying to test the abrasion resistance of your tents.
-
- >One was on a GSX-R750, the other on a GSX-R1100. Both had full race-style
- >leathers, race boots, knee-sliders, etc. No luggage or anything.
-
- Which probably meant that they liked their skins and didn't want the impediment
- of having to pick up all the excess padding if they bite the big one.
-
- >We couldn't get past these guys quick enough. They were so slow it was a
- >f***ing disgrace, you could have kept pace on a CB250N! If it wasn't a
- >public road you could have taken them on the inside, the outside, or done
- >one, gone up the road, turned round, come back and done it the other way
- >too.
-
- Maybe these guys saw you two loaded to the gills and decided that they didn't
- want to mix it up with someone they didn't know in a foreign country.
-
- >Of course when the road got straight and we were cruising at a steady 80
- >or 90mph, they came past warp speed. Must have had a throttle lock, their
- >right hands were obviously otherwise occupied.
-
- Doing what? The two things that come to mind are fingering or.. fingering.
- Say what you mean.
-
- >p.s. these two GSX-Rs has 'USA' plates on them. Sorry, Americans, your
- >reputations have been seriously tarnished by these guys!
-
- Right! I am definitely upset that these fine individuals were unwilling to
- speed up to provide some competition for you.
-
- If I were in a foreign country, and saw a couple of native types blasting
- around, I would probably get out of their way, then MAYBE if I was the
- adventurous type try to follow. Probably not, it would depend on how illegal
- it was.
-
- Get a clue. Not everyone is out there to kill corners all of the time.
-
- If they did actually flip the bird, then they must have had a bad childhood
- and decided to take it out on you.
-
- CP "What the hell am I talking about?" Tomes
-
- another ice and snow week in the hell of the midwest
-