Monsieur L'Smart tells me you are a friendly bunch (even to Triumph riders!). I'm part of a local British / European bike group here in DFW, but looking to go on more rides. I like beer. [drink] [moto] Will that help me get accepted?
Quote from: Sticky Fingers on August 31, 2008, 03:01:44 AM
Monsieur L'Smart tells me you are a friendly bunch (even to Triumph riders!). I'm part of a local British / European bike group here in DFW, but looking to go on more rides. I like beer. [drink] [moto] Will that help me get accepted?
Welcome to the forum! With a referral from L'Smart, there's no doubt that you'll be welcome! He's a discriminating sort with the highest standards and if he invited you, we know you're top shelf material! (oh, and the drinking helps too!) [laugh]
Seriously though - welcome!
Let me get the first two questions out of the way...
1) Got pics of your bike?
2) Dallas or Fort Worth?
Great to have you here.
[beer]
Welcome and cool avie [thumbsup]
BTW--some members of our group have a secret love affairs with British bikes ;)
Welcome! This is indeed the best bunch of hooligans around [thumbsup]
Glad to have you! [thumbsup]
Quote from: Sticky Fingers on August 31, 2008, 03:01:44 AM
you are a friendly bunch (even to Triumph riders!)
Please don't let this get around :P
We're secretly ferreting out non-Ducati riders so we can shoot them at dawn [laugh]
Glad you found us, Charles [thumbsup]
Cyclone rides a beemer.
I've got 2 beemers & a Vespa :-\
Fastwin has more bikes than sense, & only 3 or 4 are Ducati's ;D
Looking forward to seeing you soon (BTW, cigars are welcome too!) [moto] [beer]
I have a Speed Triple and an America (for carting the "old goat" around when she wants to go riding). I'd post some pictures but this website is too hi tech for me!
Pool party today if you can make it...
Nice, the America is a badass bike. I love the S3 too. Welcome to the group
my lime green speedo is at the ready. must pop into the five n dime first though, but will try to make it if local. address?
Quote from: Sticky Fingers on August 31, 2008, 08:55:26 AM
my lime green speedo is at the ready. must pop into the five n dime first though, but will try to make it if local. address?
oooh, lime green?!?
I'll send you a PM.
Bring cigars!
PM sent...
Hey look, another post ;D
Someone have a cigar for me.
Oh, and welcome. This group welcomed me with open arms, and I have a H-D. So make of that what you will!
FTR, Phoenix needs more hooligans and fewer squids.
Quote from: NorDog on August 31, 2008, 09:40:35 AM
FTR, Phoenix needs more hooligans and fewer squids.
& cooler weather ;D
How's school?
Quote from: Monsieur L'Smart on August 31, 2008, 09:48:13 AM
& cooler weather ;D
How's school?
Yes, cooler weather please!
School is good. Just finished the 3rd week of the 6 week classroom theory portion. It gets tiring.
First of all, most of it I already know, but I hang in there for the very important nuggets that I need. We just finished power flow through the transmission. I kinda new this before, but now I can just look at any old transmission and figure it out. Also, we went over drive and gear ratios. I had a basic understanding of all of that, but the numbers always made my eyes glaze. Now I know what the numbers mean and how to use them. So I got that going for me.
Also, we went over two-strokes, of which I knew next to nothing. What amazing machines they are.
The second trying thing has been the overwhelming percentage of students who are brain-dead 18 year old knuckleheads with attitudes (i.e., squids). The instructor has to keep half of these in check while re-explaining everything for the umpteenth time to the other half. [bang]
Dropped by the Early Model H-D program the other day. I'll be attending class there eventually. Lot's of cool bikes in various states of restoration (the specialty of that program). There's a very sweet and fully restored 1947 Knucklehead that I'll get to work on. When I asked the instructor if I could walk around and look at the different bikes (all on lifts) he said, "Go for it! Touch them! They are yours!" Cool.
I love it here, but I can't wait to get out of the classroom and into the shop. Three more weeks and I'll be there!
man, no offense, but sounds less like a school and more like a freaking retreat! i'm pretty envious...my last traing was SQL...and you're tinkering on '47 harleys. very nice man [thumbsup]
Quote from: ♣ McKraut ♣ on August 31, 2008, 11:09:25 AM
man, no offense, but sounds less like a school and more like a freaking retreat! [thumbsup]
[laugh]
Well, yeah, there is that!
[cheeky]
Hey Sticky Fingers, sorry for the thread jack, and again, welcome.
Your nom de plume is one of my all time favorite albums btw.
Fingers:
Yeah man, pretty much what everyone else has said ..."Welcome!"
I've still got a Triumph ( but with two Ducs, it doesn't get ridden much.)
Not bad bikes.
So what kind of Duc do you think you'd like? ;D
It's only a matter of time... [evil]
Nordog:
Keep having fun learning cool stuff!
(edit) the SMALL type above accidentally got edited LARGE originally -thus I seemed (to me) to be much more of a pompous ass than I really am.
Welcome Charles [thumbsup]
Hope to meet you at our next meet up.
Lisa
Oh yeah, almost forgot: we're all teetotalers. Hope that's O.K.
[evil]
Welcome to the group! Looking forward to meeting you!!!!!!!!!! [thumbsup] [moto]
[moto] Triumph GOOD ! [thumbsup]
The Ducatisti have been very nice to me ! It's a little slice of La Dolce Vida here ! [beer]
Quote from: Monsieur L'Smart on August 31, 2008, 07:41:55 AM
Please don't let this get around :P
We're secretly ferreting out non-Ducati riders so we can shoot them at dawn [laugh]
Glad you found us, Charles [thumbsup]
Looking forward to seeing you soon (BTW, cigars are welcome too!) [moto] [beer]
Another Charles! Maybe he is ....
"Charles the younger".
Anyway,
Welcome Charles! Good name, if I must say so myself. ;D
cdc
Quote from: cdc on September 03, 2008, 12:48:15 PM
Another Charles!
Ain't you goin' by "Chuck" these days? ;)
Quote from: Cher on September 01, 2008, 07:31:50 PM
Oh yeah, almost forgot: we're all teetotalers. Hope that's O.K.
[evil]
Blasphemy. Speak no more of it. :-X [laugh] [drink]
Welcome!! This IS the best bunch ever!! And since you are the new guy, isn't there a rule that the new guy buys the first and second and last round? ;D
Quote from: caffeinejunkee on September 03, 2008, 01:36:50 PM
Ain't you goin' by "Chuck" these days? ;)
No because there is a commandment that says:
"Thou shalt not call out Chuck Norris' name in vain". (or any part of it)
I, for one, would not want to be karate kicked to a pulp by "him" who's named cannot be spoken.
hence, Charles or cdc or *** or APW (or maybe not). [laugh]
Quote from: cdc on September 05, 2008, 01:22:46 AM
No because there is a commandment that says:
"Thou shalt not call out Chuck Norris' name in vain". (or any part of it)
I, for one, would not want to be karate kicked to a pulp by "him" who's named cannot be spoken.
hence, Charles or cdc or *** or APW (or maybe not). [laugh]
or
LATE !! [laugh]