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Nearly 20 years ago now Phil!

My money's on mass vote switching from Buck to Tango at the last moment!

Yeh.....so am I!

Fred is trolling more than @Six30 at the moment!

So now we've got the situation where @Buckster' Harley is winning, while me and @Six30 have no votes?

Well vote FOR Vote Switching then Fred!

How's it going out there @Earache?

I can't remember what it was like to ride a scooter.....it was 50 years ago after all. I only did 6 months on them before switching to bikes......and I don't remember having any difficulty in adapting to them. Course I did 9 months then with gear change and kickstart on the right (Brit bikes).......then when I went to the Suzuki 250 Hustler it was left hand side for gear change and kickstart. When I got the GT380 in April 73 it was then left hand gearchange and right hand kickstart from then on.

I wouldn't like to be onboard at any speed!

You never started.......why not begin by taking it out of the van!

I haven't done a YouTube search for balance exercises yet......those may well help. The other thing in your case is style of bike......19" front wheel, longer travel suspension etc.......it may not be a good fit for you considering your previous history. It is for me, and if I get on a standard bike with a 17" front wheel now it just doesn't feel natural to me.

Here's another one: Balance due to ageing. I've only recently become aware of this so I may need to look at exercises to offset it.

I'd have to do another fucking poll to vote on that one then!

Good thread Bob! Here's my experience with this! About 3 years ago when I sold the red XT I honestly thought it was game over. Reason being was that for a few years prior to that point I felt things weren't right.......it wasn't coming naturally to me anymore. Driving a car was harder too. I didn't lack confidence as such.....it was a case of I was having to work much harder to do things that always came easily. I spent about a year or so without a bike and accepted that it was probably time to call it a day before something went wrong out there. Then one day I had a moment of enlightenment because I jumped in the car and drove off forgetting to take my reading glasses off. Immediately everything became so much easier and I felt like I always had. Incredible I know......that for many years I'd been riding and driving round with my vision impaired and didn't know it. The loss of distance vision just crept up on me slowly. Age has a habit of doing that! But would the same transformation happen if I got on a bike? I just didn't know! After some deliberation I took the plunge and bought the Strom! And I was a bit nervous getting on at first with glasses on because I just didn't know if the impaired vision had been the only cause of the difficulties I'd faced for some years! I was only going to take it just up the road for a quick 5 minute test to see how I felt......and what adjustments I'd need to make as I was now wearing glasses. Well the quick trip up the road ended up in going out for about 45 minutes and blasting the shit out of the thing......in a way that I hadn't been able to do for over 5 years! I was back! I literally came back from the dead! Because I could now see where I was going at last! You sure vision isn't a factor with you?

@boboneleg has put forward a motion that Vote Switching should not be allowed in Polls because it brings it into disrepute. My feeling is that it adds a bit of excitement because anything could happen, and decreases the possibility of a "one horse race" where people lose interest. So what do you think......should Vote Switching be allowed? And for this one.......no vote switching! Poll runs till this time tomorrow!

OK......let's put it to a vote! With no switching allowed in it!

The old fucker is still whinging about me stealing his teeth Terry!

Eventually! And they said "Thank fuck you're not with that toothless old cunt this time".

Lot of vote switching going on now!

Get your votes in!