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- From: npet@bnr.ca (Neil Harrington)
- Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
- Subject: Re: First Bike Opinions
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.145600.9446@bnr.uk>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 14:56:00 GMT
- References: <1993Jan19.154158.19621@rtsg.mot.com>
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- David Svoboda (svoboda@rtsg.mot.com) wibbled:
- : Gosh, do *you* ever have a skewed sense of fun. Who could possibly have
- : any fun leaning the wrong way in turns, and trying to stop hard when the
- : slightest bit of oil on the road makes you fall down and die, so you have to
- : go around with your eyes glued to the road? And smelling all that exhaust!
- : Those awful helmets look SO uncomfortable. *Fun* is riding in a nice car,
- : safe, with air conditioning and four wheels, like God intended.
-
- : This motorcycling, I swear, doing it in third-world countries where you have
- : no choice, that makes sense. But in the civilized world it is so unpleasant,
- : and so dangerous, it is a silly thing that is endured, not endorsed.
-
- : Dave Svoboda, Ford driver.
-
- Quite right too!
-
- I'm currently saving all the money I save by riding my BMW masochistic form/
- function moped in order to purchase a _real_ vehicle. I'm going to get a new
- SAAB.
-
- Now a SAAB is what I call a _real_ vehicle (it's true, I did just above). It
- has decent seats (made by a top Swedish furniture manufacturer) with heating
- elements in them, headlamp-wipers and power-steering. When I get my SAAB, I
- will be able to get rid of my stupid moto and charge around all day in my
-
- SAAB (Scandinavian Automobiles Against Bikes)
-
- When I've saved all my money up.
-
- No more getting cold, no more headaches from the buffeting wind, no more
- wet tee-shirts (won't be able to go to MAG events anymore) no more having to
- put lots of nice leather on and big black boots and accelerate faster than any
- sports car and slip between the traffic and park anywhere and pay half the
- road-tax and make my women's hearts beat a bit faster and pull wheelies when
- pulling away from junctions and and and and hang on a minute.....
-
- Perhaps I'll keep the bike. Just in case, you know.....
-
-
- Nick (the car driver) DoD 1069 <-- Don't tell anybody, please!
-
- M'Lud.
-