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Post by px166bajaj on Oct 8, 2006 17:09:06 GMT
I am starting full bike test lessons soon and will be moving on to faster things i.e (Suzuki GSXR 400) and will have to get rid of me scoot. Is that a grey import? Didn't think they were an official import. My next door neighbour's got one. Have you got the bike yet? Can we see it? |
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Post by lplatewarrior on Oct 8, 2006 20:32:03 GMT
Not got the bike yet because of cash commitments. I.e I am a poor student working part time at McDonalds. The bike is a grey import. Most 400cc sportsbikes came over from Japan where it is legal to ride a 400cc sportsbike as a learner. Should look something like this. a-magic.com/udbike/img/suzuki/photo/l/77/GSXR400-R.jpg |
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Post by sunburnspain on Oct 8, 2006 20:35:28 GMT
No your absolutely right, I didn't. That's probably why at 17 I ended up in hospital, having 16 pints of blood transfused into me, being in a coma for 18 hours, died 4 times and was brought back, now don't have a spleen, took the flesh off every extremity, bruised every part of my body (yes, including them), was not allowed to look in a mirror for a week and scared the sh*t out of my family and friends. But then hey who gives a nuts, what do I know  Enjoy it but don't be a total tw*t like I was !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Post by lplatewarrior on Oct 8, 2006 20:37:13 GMT
Ok for some reason this thread seems to be turning into a feud between certain forum members. I am going to stop posting in it to avoid further diruptions.
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Post by px166bajaj on Oct 8, 2006 20:52:21 GMT
When you come back, will you be called Fulllicencewarrior?
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Post by sunburnspain on Oct 8, 2006 20:53:35 GMT
But 40 years on, I'm still here and riding a scoot again for the first time in 40 years, and loving every minute
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Post by julietdoll on Oct 8, 2006 21:22:39 GMT
Ok for some reason this thread seems to be turning into a feud between certain forum members. I am going to stop posting in it to avoid further diruptions. Don't be silly it's not a feud. Generally "older" folk can't resist doling out advice to teenagers, and backing it up with either their own bad experiences or those of someone they knew. Generally teenagers don't listen and think they are immortal, and don't listen to a bleedin' word of advice. Generally said teenagers either come a cropper and relate the experience as backup to their own advice when they reach an age to give it, or know someone who does come a cropper and relate their tale of woe likewise. Such is life and so it goes on and will do for evermore. Occasionally some wag like me sees this as funny, especially when all I wanted to know was whether you were sh@gging your crush at last. Occasionally me making a joke of it will be taken personally by a potentially life-saving advice giver, prompting a response such as "hmmmph what do I know I only broke every bone in my body nineteen times and had to receive 300 pints of blood from atlantic sperm whales to keep me alive" or similar. Again, such is life and so it goes on and will do for evermore.   |
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Post by px166bajaj on Oct 8, 2006 21:35:44 GMT
Ok for some reason this thread seems to be turning into a feud between certain forum members. I am going to stop posting in it to avoid further diruptions. Don't be silly it's not a feud. Generally "older" folk can't resist doling out advice to teenagers, and backing it up with either their own bad experiences or those of someone they knew. Generally teenagers don't listen and think they are immortal, and don't listen to a bleedin' word of advice. Generally said teenagers either come a cropper and relate the experience as backup to their own advice when they reach an age to give it, or know someone who does come a cropper and relate their tale of woe likewise. Such is life and so it goes on and will do for evermore. Occasionally some wag like me sees this as funny, especially when all I wanted to know was whether you were sh@gging your crush at last. Occasionally me making a joke of it will be taken personally by a potentially life-saving advice giver, prompting a response such as "hmmmph what do I know I only broke every bone in my body nineteen times and had to receive 300 pints of blood from atlantic sperm whales to keep me alive" or similar. Again, such is life and so it goes on and will do for evermore. Juliet, would you please explain to the class why you are not a stand up comic? ;D ;D ;D |
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Post by larry8 on Oct 8, 2006 23:55:48 GMT
Oh boy, here we go again.
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Post by jialing on Oct 9, 2006 0:28:37 GMT
Its a great pity that teenagers are not given a trip in an ambulance or police car attending accidents on a saturday night. If they were they might see some of the pain and suffering that goes on every weekend by kids involved in accidents.
Whilst the older generation try to give sound advice to youngsters they seldom listen because they forget one thing and one thing only.
They fail to remember they are only mortal thats why the mobile police undertake special training because they see these things everyday of the week and have to approach parents telling them bad irriversible news.
It doesn't matter what the older generation says. When your young you do get that adreniline rush. I got my rush in the army in combat, not that it did me any good. It is a time of my life I'd rather forget than remember.
Human beings are fragile people. they are not super human. they only have one live. It only takes a small error of judgement and its curtain call time.
Personally I dont give a dam what you do with your life, its your life and you are responsible for maintaining it.
Some of us old foggies having seen some indescribable events that they themselves wish they never saw. Try to pass on to todays youth in a way that is acceptable to them that its better to learn to walk before you can run.
I am neutral on this because no matter what I say, people will do what they want to do its their life and they are masters of it... not me or anyone else.
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Post by andyscooter on Oct 9, 2006 6:11:47 GMT
i was only trying to give advise to a younger version of me but it obviously fell on a deaf ear oh well
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Post by julietdoll on Oct 9, 2006 7:45:01 GMT
i was only trying to give advise to a younger version of me but it obviously fell on a deaf ear oh well ...and it always will! Read my post again. What you will find though is that when the younger version of you is the same age you are now he will be doling out the same advice.....and the person he is trying to help won't listen. Rides in ambulances and graphic images of crashes and injuries have no effect on the 17 year old's brain. When I was at school we watched a seemingly endless display of graphic operations and heard extremely harrowing descriptions of symptoms related to the effects of smoking. Do most of the girls who were in my peer group at school, smoke? You bet they do. Did I? Yes. Did I quit because of the horror-filled warnings I had been educated with? No, I quit because I got told twice that my breath smelled like sh*t. PS: Glad you appreciated the humour in the last posting PX.  |
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Post by sunburnspain on Oct 9, 2006 9:16:06 GMT
Que Sera Sera
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Post by andyscooter on Oct 9, 2006 11:07:56 GMT
difference is i must of listened as im still here and only just think im expierienced enough for a bigger bike now after 6 years on the road and a few more on motorcross tracks
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Post by lplatewarrior on Oct 9, 2006 12:54:43 GMT
Whatever will be, will be. The futures not ours to see Que sera sera
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Post by lplatewarrior on Oct 9, 2006 12:55:17 GMT
When you come back, will you be called Fulllicencewarrior? Yes, yes I will or maybe A2StandardRestrictedwarrior |
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Post by Scootin on Oct 9, 2006 13:18:20 GMT
Enjoy your new bike! Stop back & post a pic for us if you would. |
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Post by lplatewarrior on Oct 9, 2006 13:58:00 GMT
I'll post a pic once I get the bike, if I am not too busy riding it. I think it might be a little step up from my little scoot. And a note to all you safety Nazi's out there I always wear a leather jacket, jeans and high quality boots when riding. Also I am not that inexperienced because the first time I sat on a bike was when I was one, the first time I rode one was 3 and ever since then I have ridden a fair few motocross bikes (Kawasaki 250's and I even owned a Rotax 400cc two stroke at one point). If you want to know how quick that is. Imagine a geared 50cc two stroke and then times it.....by eight.
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