Bandit Alley
REGIONAL FORUMS => AUS/NZ => Topic started by: jbrough7 on April 21, 2006, 05:25:52 PM
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Just kidding!
Actually I wanted to invite all the aussie/nz riders to my place in canada this summer. I live close to niagara falls and toronto so you can come and sight see and use my place as a free b&b.
Toronto, don't forget, has the CN tower , which is the world's largest freestanding pen!s, not a word of a lie. It's because all canucks have small ones, so this one big one makes up for all of those others.
We are pretty relaxed and around quite a bit as we have summers off.
Anybody heading this way?
Jim
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When I finish see all there is to see around this place, I will then think about heading O/S. But don't hold ya breath waiting, but :thanks: anyway.
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Oh, I see how you are... offer up free lodging to the Down-Underers, but not to your kin across the border. :shock:
Fine then... I'll spend my vacation money somewhere else then. :wink:
Aruba sounds nice. :beers:
j/k
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Okay, Paul, you can come, but only YOU! (and it's just cuz you whined so much!)
Freaky how much time I spend on the aussie board. The canuck one is just DEAD - maybe I could email myself?? That way I would always find somebody to agree with! :wink:
Jim
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That's because several of you Canadians keep posting here instead of your own area... :stickpoke:
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The Aussies and Kiwis are a shy, retiring folk. They see all these foreigners posting in their space and get intimidated. They're like squirrels...if you all shut up for a little while they'll come back down out of the trees to forage! :lol:
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Ya know I hadnt noticed that the Aussies were any slower than the rest of us. In fact, there have been times when I thought they were downright smart.
But, I guess everyone has their own opinion :stickpoke:
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Just one word MATT.Not so slow after all.
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We're not slow, just ask all the riders in the AMA and World Superbike championship about how SLOW us Aussies are......... :banana: :banana:
As for being intimidated, again I'll point you to the AMA and World Superbikes.
But, you're right, we have been a bit quiet here. That's because we've been out RIDING in the glorious Autumn weather.
And I think the reason that the Canadians keep posting here is because they get to converse with a better class of person... :lol: :lol:
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well put aussie,if fact i take back wwhat i've been thinking.in fact its ANZACday in the morning..slo
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Yes ANZAC Day, a damn good day to go for a ride. I sure my relo's that gave up their lives, would be smiling down on us and our hard fought for freedoms. I've been in the shed making the bikes all pretty. So we can really take pride in our ANZAC day ride.
Lest We Forget.
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I've been in the shed making the bikes all pretty.
And a damn good thing too, The B6 was a accident waiting for a place to happen. Rear caliper bolts, 1 missing all together, the other loose. Glad I found that, before sometthing nasty happened. phew.
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I'll be doing the dawn service thing....if I get out of bed.....then I'll go and watch the march down the main street....maybe....
Sorry, it's not that I'm not proud to be an Aussie, and it's not that I don't appreciate what the ANZACs did for this wide brown land of ours........
It's just that after 13 years of HAVING to do Dawn Services and ANZAC Day Parades dressed in my nice RAAF Uniform, I'v decided to have a year or two off....
If the finances can bear it, I may take a ride into the hills, or I might just sit down and watch Essendon give Collingwood a football lesson.....
I'm not an Essendon fan, it's just that like every good AFL supporter I follow two teams, mine and who ever is playing Collingwood....
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speaking of a ride in the hills....my youngster talked me into taking his 05 rm 250 suzuki on my first trail ride,at 52 ,on a 75 km ,yep 75km ride through 4 farms in dargaville ,northland,through fast open farmland to 2 lengthy pine forest sections that were wet wet and wetter,with the bike with somebody like me on it basically trying to biff me off all day,i survived but when i walked in the door i went straight to the bandit and took its blanket off and told ot how wonderfull it was,i 'm still hobbling around after 4 days,so take it from me ,i think a bike like that and a rider like mr ,is a definate missmatch...slo
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I'd still love to get an enduro to go along with the bandit...and a cruiser...and a Mustang GT...oh, damn!!
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I'd still love to get an enduro to go along with the bandit...and a cruiser...and a Mustang GT...oh, damn!!
Here's what you need. Highly rated. Inexpensive. Nice lookin', too!
(http://www.suzukicycles.com/images/ProductImages/colorVariations/500/DRZ400SMK6_Black_000000.jpg)
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That is one cool looking bike, isn't it? Hyosung is supposed to bring their version to NA if they ever get around to it.
Jim
(http://www.bikez.com/pictures/hyosung/2005/21712_0_1_2_xrx%20400_Image%20credits%20-%20Hyosung.jpg)
I was going to buy their new 'muscle' cruiser, the Aquila, but it couldn't get certified in Canada in time. Something about the signal lights weren't strong enough. Dealers were very pissed here as they said they could have just made the fix themselves.
BTW - what's your definition of cheap? That suzuki 400 lists for $8300 here in Canada (although you wouldn't pay that)...my 650 bandit lists for $8795 and I got it for $6795. (plus about $8m in taxes!)
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Oh, well by cheap I meant only as in compared to the bigger street bikes. I know it's really not a giveaway. I mean, it's cheaper than a Fazer or a Ulysses or something like that as a second bike.
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You have a 1200, don't ya? It's just over 10 large in canada and that's a good buy. never looked at bikes that big so i never realized they were that cheap.
Jim