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General Category => Totally Off-Topic Discussions, Rants, Tire & Oil Threads, Etc. => Topic started by: trolle on January 06, 2011, 01:48:18 PM

Title: The ultimate in protective clothing!
Post by: trolle on January 06, 2011, 01:48:18 PM

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greetings from a thawing north
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Title: Re: The ultimate in protective clothing!
Post by: Barry on January 06, 2011, 02:11:07 PM

Well other road users would surely see you well enough due to the sparks flying as you slide down the road.

But would you ever stop ?

Title: Re: The ultimate in protective clothing!
Post by: msbuck on January 07, 2011, 10:07:54 PM

Looks like you have too much time on your hands and non-riding weather. . .  ;)

Title: Re: The ultimate in protective clothing!
Post by: trolle on January 08, 2011, 05:53:38 AM

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Looks like you have too much time on your hands and non-riding weather. . .  

Yes! to both and with two  months to spend before the weather improves sufficiently to permit driving you will see more of this from my hand.

greetings from a wet, sloshy and grey north
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Title: Re: The ultimate in protective clothing!
Post by: Semper Gumby on January 09, 2011, 04:25:36 PM

Trolle,

Who is the short guy on the R65?  It looks like his feet don't even reach the pegs!  (Unless there are resets on the bike I can't see..) ;)

Greetings from Sunny Ft.Lauderdale where I may be trapped trying to get home before the storm in Atlanta.  Could be worse... 8-)

Title: Re: The ultimate in protective clothing!
Post by: trolle on January 10, 2011, 07:35:32 AM

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Who is the short guy on the R65?

He hasn't identified himself probably because he realized that to communicate with the visor down is to waste one's breath (what he had left of it after climbing the bike).

He may be short in our eyes but among his contemporaries he probably was regarded as a tall man.

His mounting of the r65 was really difficult due to the missing foot pegs.

greetings from a sunny and relatively warm, 37F, north
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Title: Re: The ultimate in protective clothing!
Post by: suecanada on January 10, 2011, 10:43:03 AM

SIR RIDEALOT!!!  He was short wasn't he???? ;D

Title: Re: The ultimate in protective clothing!
Post by: trolle on January 17, 2011, 10:18:36 AM

Yeah both he and his trusty squire TROTALONG, whose descendant Hopalong Cassidy was a very able horseman, went through a lot of adventures together of which "The Adventure of the Unreachable Peg" is the best known.

greetings from a "warm" and wet north
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