Holiday Greetings

 Season's greetings and best wishes for the new year to all the die hard
regulars here in RMR.
                  Tom

 

Hey Tom,

I'm a diehard regular lurker - the voyeuristic approach seems
preferable to getting caught in the Mark/Julian/Pab/T3 crossfire! :)

Congrats on the new car/bike/girlfriend, have a great holiday and
thanks to you and the rest of the vocal regulars for making it a
mostly entertaining year. Hopefully 2006 will be even more
entertaining and hopefully slightly less bitchy?

Cheers and Merry Christmas to all!
Shel

 Shel wrote:

If we couldn't bitch, we probably wouldn't bother! However, lately some"
   seemed to have started taking things waaay to personally, hopefully
all that will work itself out...( My the eternal optimist role, as it
hasn't changed much in the ten years or so I've been hangin' out in this
joint....)
Btw, dumped my 02 Trans AM and traded my 03 Acura RL in on a new loaded
Acura TL, sold my Blackbird and got a 05 fjr 1300(no bags) with a whole
1700 miles on it and my new friend is a certified hottie!

  Amen, peace and all those good things.........

                  T3

BTW- are you somewhere around Ottawa? Just to let you know,(not really
trying to rub it in either) it's 78 and not a cloud to be found here on
the Space Coast.........

 

Eh, personalities differ. Mark obviously follows racing WAY too closely
and obsessively. I'm not enough of a racer to have an opinion. I just
watch.


JPEG! JPEG!

A friend just retired his '82 (?) Trans Am with 239,000[1] miles on
it. He's the original owner.

I just bought a DL650 V-Strom a month ago. Same engine as my SV-650
except fuel-injected and hotter cams.


Yup, I played hooky and blew off work at noon, to ride around in the
nice weather and hide air horns in the DL650's fairing.

The Japanese engineer that designed that must have had a master's thesis
in Origami. You can't just take one piece off, it ALL comes off, plus
piece A is overlapped with piece B, which is overlapped with piece C,
which is overlapped with piece A. I also now have an enormous cupful of
fasteners now, all of which are unique pairs.

I'm spoiled by my naked SV-650 maintenance-wise, but that fairing and
hand guards sure do keep me warm.

<tip brandy&eggnog!>

-gc

[1] yes, the average distance between the Earth and the Moon. "I drove
    it to the MOON, baby!"

--
"Cheer up, things could be worse." So I cheered up, and sure enough, things
got worse.

 Gene Cash wrote:


It looked cool and was pretty quick but was a nightmare to work on! Oh
yeah, it got 17 miles per gallon downhill...


You should look at a Trans Am, to change #8 you have to remove the
exhaust, loosen the motor mounts and jack the engine up. They put the
ignition under the water pump, did I mention that sometimes, it would
get 17mpg?

<tip brandy&eggnog!>

Now we're talkin'!