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Posted by tomorrow@erols.com on December 29, 2007, 4:17 pm
wrote:
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> On Dec 28, 12:47 pm, .p.jm@see_my_sig_for_address.com wrote:
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> > wrote:
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> > >On Dec 28, 9:15?am, .p.jm@see_my_sig_for_address.com wrote:
> > >> wrote:
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> > >> >You start out buying stuff the leader of the pack likes, and
> > >> >eventually other riders start asking you for advice because you seem=
> > >> >to know the best stuff.
>
> > >> ? ? ? ? And because you're such a free-spirited independent rebel,
> > >> 'being himself'.
>
> > >I'll bet you're so "free-spirited" and "independent" that nobody will
> > >want to ride with you, should you ever buy another motorcycle.
>
> > I bet the LAST thing I want is 'someone to want to ride with
> > me'. So things work out nicely that way.
>
> Whew. =A0 I'm so glad that I have bikes, and I have friends who want to
> ride with me, and with whom I enjoy riding, and that I don't care
> whether they modify their bikes or not, and that they don't care
> whether I modify my bikes or not, but that if they do modify their
> bikes, I'm interested in what they've done, and why, and vice-versa.
>
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>
> As in so many things, there's a lot of 'keeping up with the Joneses' in
> motorcycling. =A0I saw it all the time when I rode off-road. =A0I ignored =
it
> all. =A0I bought the bikes I wanted for me, not for my friends. =A0I modif=
ied
> nothing. =A0I bought what I wanted in the first place. =A0I also found tha=
t
> Yamaha knew more about motorcycles than I did. =A0Every one I had was way
> faster than me.
I make sure my street bikes are way faster than me [1] and I try to
buy track and race bikes that I can ride to *their* limits.
Ergo, a 130hp Ducati Monster S4Rs 998 Testastretta on the street, and
a 59hp Ducati 620 Sport track days and a 75hp Ducati 800SS for racing.
I like it that way.
Tim
[1] Except the Street Glide. We are not above going fast, but we are
not ABOUT going fast!
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