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iantls
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Posted: Mon May 12th, 2008 03:25 pm |
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..........would you buy an ulitmate "grand tourer" like a Goldwing, then turn up at a rally with it INSIDE a trailer, towing it with a monstrous pick-up of motorhome?
The Goldwing Owners Club of GB had their rally in my home village this wekend, and several attendees arrived in such a manner...........just what is that all about?
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Posted: Mon May 12th, 2008 07:15 pm |
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Maybe they were on long term holiday and the trailered bikewas for local runs after they had arrived in the area they wanted to stay in for a while?
In the states recently I saw a monster motorhome, towing a 4wd on a trailer, and a second trailer with a Harley Electra Glide.
Some people dont get the idea of restraint at all!
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Posted: Mon May 12th, 2008 07:23 pm |
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| Such people are stupid fuckers and should have been terminated before birth.
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Posted: Mon May 12th, 2008 08:47 pm |
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| Freedom, dont you just love it!
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Posted: Mon May 12th, 2008 09:43 pm |
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boisdevie wrote: Such people are stupid fuckers and should have been terminated before birth.
Come on now,don`t sit on the fence,tell us what you really thinkLast edited on Mon May 12th, 2008 09:44 pm by johnktm
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Posted: Tue May 13th, 2008 05:14 am |
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dave1450 wrote: Freedom, dont you just love it!
What he said. 
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Posted: Tue May 13th, 2008 04:16 pm |
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| I think its possible to be free with a big motorhome and loadsamoney!
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Posted: Tue May 13th, 2008 05:37 pm |
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Isn't a Goldwing a motorhome?
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Posted: Wed May 14th, 2008 11:52 am |
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| It was in an old Ogri strip!
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Posted: Wed May 14th, 2008 07:33 pm |
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| Don't diss old ogri
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Posted: Wed May 14th, 2008 07:45 pm |
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I most certainly would not! Ogri is a true hero and cannot be dissed (is that the correct spelling?)
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Posted: Wed May 14th, 2008 08:15 pm |
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I want to see a Gold wing towing a camper van in a trailer- now that would really worth looking up from my beer for......
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Posted: Mon May 19th, 2008 10:19 pm |
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| There's plenty of Goldwings over here, (US) towing trailer tents and such. And in fairness to them being towed behind motorhomes, (over here anyway) is they often drive from northern states in the middle of winter, thousands of miles to the southern states to cruise around. Same thing happens at places like Daytona and Sturgis with the HDs; although when you see a HD at Daytona with a Florida plate on it... that's when they get the name Hardley Riddensons!
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Posted: Mon May 19th, 2008 10:55 pm |
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I went to a track day once.
Saw plenty of road legal sports bikes being trailored in 
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Posted: Mon May 19th, 2008 10:59 pm |
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r-enegade wrote: I went to a track day once.
Saw plenty of road legal sports bikes being trailored in
What's wrong with that? Maybe they had race tyres on that weren't road legal?
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Posted: Mon May 19th, 2008 11:02 pm |
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TimmyMagic wrote: r-enegade wrote: I went to a track day once.
Saw plenty of road legal sports bikes being trailored in
What's wrong with that? Maybe they had race tyres on that weren't road legal?e
Read the post ffs.
I said road legal.
If a bike had slicks on it wouldn't be road legal would it.
Jeez you really are one of lifes great planks aren't you
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Posted: Mon May 19th, 2008 11:07 pm |
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r-enegade wrote: TimmyMagic wrote: r-enegade wrote: I went to a track day once.
Saw plenty of road legal sports bikes being trailored in
What's wrong with that? Maybe they had race tyres on that weren't road legal?e
Read the post ffs.
I said road legal.
If a bike had slicks on it wouldn't be road legal would it.
Jeez you really are one of lifes great planks aren't you
You inspected them all then? All of them? There were lots of them, don't forget. Maybe you were the track marshall that day?
If you ride on a track you're not insured with your road insurance, so maybe they weren't insured and weren't road legal after all?
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Posted: Mon May 19th, 2008 11:12 pm |
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Again, take a deep breath and read the post
r-enegade wrote: I went to a track day once.
Saw plenty of road legal sports bikes being trailored in
I said plenty, I did not say all.
I saw plenty of road legal bikes being trailored in.
Clear enough for you now.
As regards insurance, that is a very different matter, but I suspect that someone who had no intention of using a bike on the road, would fit it with road tyres, do you ?
Oh and un-insured does not mean not road legal.
I have a bike in my garage that is MOT'd but not insured, but it is road legal, should I decide to insure it.
Do you know what, I don't think I've met anyone who knows as little as you do about bikes.
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Posted: Mon May 19th, 2008 11:17 pm |
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r-enegade wrote: Again, take a deep breath and read the post
r-enegade wrote: I went to a track day once.
Saw plenty of road legal sports bikes being trailored in
I said plenty, I did not say all.
I saw plenty of road legal bikes being trailored in.
Likewise I didn't say if they were all road legal or not. I asked if you'd inspected them to see if they were road legal or not.
Clear enough for you now.
As regards insurance, that is a very different matter, but I suspect that someone who had no intention of using a bike on the road, would fit it with road tyres, do you ?
I think they may swap the wheels to use their road bike on the track. Does that make sense to you?
Oh and un-insured does not mean not road legal.
I have a bike in my garage that is MOT'd but not insured, but it is road legal, should I decide to insure it.
But if you rode it without insurance it would be, hence the need to trailor it to the track?
Do you know what, I don't think I've met anyone who knows as little as you do about bikes.
You've never met me, so how would you know?
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Posted: Mon May 19th, 2008 11:20 pm |
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Most bikes trailered over here are Harleys......... poser-types who trailer to a rally and then unload and sit on 'em....... many, many such bikes are now up for sale. Hard times call for such ridiculous prestige toys to be eliminated forthwith .....
Most Wingnuts, including myself, are true tourers, often with hundreds of thousands of miles on the clock. They often pull small camping trailers; understandable as they are usually a couple in their mid-sixties and the ground they sleep on is gettin' kind of hard! But, please cut them a break..... most are people of the most pleasant kind and would generally give you the shirt off their back and the dollar from their wallet if they thought you needed it.....
Remember, don't laugh at a Goldwing couple! They may be your grandparents!
Last edited on Mon May 19th, 2008 11:22 pm by Cousin Jack Goudger
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