Well did you ever?

[guest7]

I went to a friend's 40th birthday party on Saturday and it was hoot. One of the last to leave the party was a bloke who told me that he was a BMW GS1200 rider. This sort of conversation normally goes downhill fast but in this case he was a really nice bloke who did some serious riding, and he knew his stuff.

In recent years he's completed three or four long European tours, two up with his wife. He also does the Bulldog and other biking rallies. By day he's a financial advisor and his wife is in 'HR'. It just goes to show that they don't all live up to the stereotype.

Even more amzingly he hasn't had a single problem with his GS 

GC

[Andy M]

The trick seems to be to use them. The ones that break seem to be modified to **** then left in the garage if it's raining. I'm still not struck with the idea that the computer might decide it knows better than I do. I was talking to a guy who was having endless correspondence with BMW as his wouldn't let him use a tyre compressor (making sure his battery would give enough power for him to limp onto the recovery truck!). Their solution of using CO2 cartridges was fine in Europe, but this chap wanted to head into Russia and couldn't get BMW to send a technician in a 4x4 along for free! Sent him off to fit a CANBUS relay to bypass the computer, which I guess is just the modern way.

Andy

[Mark]

I went to a 53rd birthday party in Llanthony on saturday and the guy was on a 1928 Indian scout, lovely bike even when the kickstart snapped, and to know he also had a Chief was something else. Well done Tim, bl00dy great.

There were also guys there that I spoke to that go to the Elephant and Taurentreffen rallies amongst others.

I know where I'd rather of been.

[Steffan]

By day he's a financial advisor and his wife is in 'HR'. It just goes to show that they don't all live up to the stereotype
GC

Oilhead GS rider, financial adviser (by day), wife in HR, Euro tours.......remind me which stereotype wasn't he living up to?

S

[Mark]

By day he's a financial advisor and his wife is in 'HR'. It just goes to show that they don't all live up to the stereotype
GC

Oilhead GS rider, financial adviser (by day), wife in HR, Euro tours.......remind me which stereotype wasn't he living up to?

S

 

[guest7]

The trick seems to be to use them.
Andy

Yep the same thought occurred to me.

GC

[guest7]

I went to a 53rd birthday party in Llanthony on saturday and the guy was on a 1928 Indian scout, lovely bike even when the kickstart snapped, and to know he also had a Chief was something else. Well done Tim, bl00dy great.

He's a great bloke Tim. I met him via a sidecar forum and he proposed that we ride together to the 2004 Elefant Rally. It was an amusing trip because at almost every stop-over he would tell me about yet another stand-out classic that he'd owned (or still owned). We rode to the '06 rally together too. He's really good company.  Have you seen him doing Karaoke yet? It's a revelation, he's a bit of a Dean Martin  

He's had some mad sidecar outfits too, the one he rode to the '05 Dragon was the tallest sidecar I have ever seen. The bike he rode to the '04 Dragon was a VW-engined Ural. One of his ongoing projects was (and might still be) a Subaru-engined Ural  

I've only seen pictures of the Scout, it looked to be an excellent 'oily rag' restoration.

I know where I'd rather of been.

I couldn't make Llanthony, the party was for the 40th birthday of a friend of ours and I also had to be in Cardiff on Saturday morning to give my brother a CB250RS for his birthday.

GC

[guest7]

Oilhead GS rider, financial adviser (by day), wife in HR, Euro tours.......remind me which stereotype wasn't he living up to?

He wasn't living up to the usual office job, GS-owner stereotype of being ignorant of biking in general and often arrogant to boot. He was a pukka biker and fun to talk to. That was the point of telling the story 

GC

[Mark]

Oilhead GS rider, financial adviser (by day), wife in HR, Euro tours.......remind me which stereotype wasn't he living up to?

He wasn't living up to the usual office job, GS-owner stereotype of being ignorant of biking in general and often arrogant to boot. He was a pukka biker and fun to talk to. That was the point of telling the story 

GC

Or have you changed.

[guest24]

Middle age? Whats that? It seems to be getting further away each year for me 
I blame it on the MT-03, I am more of a hooligan now than I ever was a quarter of a century ago when I started riding. Oops, actually, its more than a quarter now by a few years....

So, no GS for me (still far too young) and I'll stick to the job of fixing the IBM mainframe and being a union rep on Thursdays. Stereotyping? Try it...

[Steffan]

Glad you had a good time GC

Steff

[el vencejo]

Stereotyping :
a guy back in NW England, really scruffy, long hair, straggly beard, best pub-band guitarist I've ever heard, rode a modified 750 Yam in an "interesting" way on our Sunday thrashes and liked to drink vast quantities of ale.
His day job was Professor of Predictive Meteorology, his University department were contracted to supply long-term met reports to RAF.