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That's getting my vote!

You and @Skippy should get together, get Scotch mist and and have a right old knees up! Do a bit of blagging with the snout on your manor while you're at it.

I wonder if we'll get any more incoming today cos it's getting like the WWE Royal Rumble now. We're just waiting to see who comes in next!

I'm tagging the analytical Guru @Lone Amigo for his opinion on this. Cos he understands this stuff far better than me. For the first couple of years on bikes 71-72 I was dragging everything cos I had no idea how to ride. I'd just belt into a corner, slam on, and drop the bike over. And on many occasions me and the bike would be right over....onto the ground. So I decided to start thinking about what I was doing a bit more and remembered the years as a kid in the mid 60's watching Mike Hailwood on TV. What he did was always so effortless......he never looked like he was going fast, but he was. So I read up everything I could find on Hailwood and how he rode. Then looked at all the general riding advice stuff I could find. At that time, pre Jarno and Kenny eras where racing styles changed, Hailwood was always the gold standard for everything. So I started braking earlier into a corner, using a lower gear and then take a continuous loop that would allow me to turn the corner into more of a straight, while continually accelerating. So there was no late braking at the apex and drop......it was a smooth wide loop through the bend. That actually suited me better, it felt natural to me. And a couple of elite racers still continued to use that method in later years, most notably Eddie Lawson and Jorge Lorenzo. And they ended up with 9 World Championships between them so it's still effective. I've been behind guys on the same bike as me in corners and seen them scrape everything (and sometimes bin it), when I'm touching nothing down and actually maintaining a higher corner speed than them. So it's always worked for me. Never touched anything down and never binned it on a bend since the early years. No scrapes on pegs and usually big chicken strips too. I've always felt that this chicken strip thing on the road was always more of an indication of riding style than actual cornering speed. As I said I aspired to ride in the classic Hailwood style (in a very limited way obviously).......cos nobody could ever ride as smoothly and as quickly as he could. Just look at this and be in awe........

I eat anything.....as long as it doesn't contain fish. Don't like fish.

I was quoted €1300 here from a BMW dealer for a 1200 clutch replacement.

Pedro volunteered to sacrifice himself.......and he could show them his food!

His head would explode in 30 seconds with the interaction here. He'd get too stressed!

Well @Clive hasn't been nuked yet.....maybe he could broker a trade there? So if we offered Pedro as a trade.......which of their members should we ask for? The Human Spellchecker doesn't seem to want any part of this place (and who can blame him)......so who's over there that has any value to us?

That's basically it. But we can all learn something from it can't we?

And am I right in thinking that they don't have to split the later model in half to do the clutch now?

Let's have more entries! If you've got a pic taken this month then get it posted!

So can some longtermers answer Rich's question? Is he going to get screwed over for sending a PM with a forum link or anything trivial of that nature? My personal feeling is we've never operated that way. Everything has always been very transparent. Yes....I know I've banned loads over the years......in fact I've retired more men than Social Security. But that was only as a last resort when all other attempts at reasoning with them had failed. I mean, how many chances did Flouncing Floater get FFS? I've banned people who are actually members here now, I've demoted people who are here now! They were all friends of mine but I had no other option. Essentially, everybody has to conform to the same standards.....including me! But let's be honest......we don't set the bar particularly high do we?

How much is a service on that?

Right! I'm not that familiar with Hanoverian slurs!

What's a Mackem cunt?

And him having to take his pants down for the injection with me and Phil watching! Then doing this when he saw the needle..... And after they examined him they told him he was a fucking Negro! Where's that toothless fucker @Renegade when I need him?

Dell fell off his Strom 1000 on the 2nd day he was here......busted his ankle. I wasn't there at the time......Ren (in the picture) was on my bike.

It does look like him doesn't it. The two in the pic from 2007 are members here as well......see how the lineage goes a long way back?

I wish this bunch would join other forums......and never come back. I've been lumbered with most of this lot for nearly 20 years! And not just on Forums......on Facebutt as well. There is no escape! Wherever I go......they're there! They even come out to Spain and end up hospitalised and I get stuck with them for even longer.......then leaving their broken bikes filling my garage. It's a fucking life sentence I can tell you! So no.....you won't get screwed over! You'll end up as another Twat that haunts me into Eternity!

From Bournemouth......you know what their kind are like!

He's English.....so even worse!