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Stig
17-11-08, 08:26 AM
I'm in a 'can't be arsed' mood this morning so...

Is you? Or is you not?

Devil Biccy
17-11-08, 09:23 AM
snap on the mood front! Mondays bah!

Grinch
17-11-08, 09:30 AM
I want to come, but can't spare the fuel... plus I'm not on my own bike so I'll leave it this week.

ogden
17-11-08, 10:46 AM
Not a fan of the public poll?

Stig
17-11-08, 12:53 PM
Not a fan of the public poll?

I forgot. :roll: I'm still in a 'can't be arsed' mood, so can't be arsed to rectify.

Lucky dip again I guess.

I assume you voted no.

Stig
17-11-08, 12:54 PM
Who is the other 'I is' then :?:

sam anon
17-11-08, 01:22 PM
Me now!

philbut
17-11-08, 02:16 PM
Me - I will be without the wife this week too ;-)

ogden
17-11-08, 02:24 PM
I assume you voted no.

I opted for Maybe.

Possibly the mother of all maybes.

sandman
17-11-08, 03:20 PM
I should be there this week
i will be coming straight from work so may not be there till about 7.30ish?

FG1
17-11-08, 04:16 PM
I did vote yes but............................................... ..........

See my thread about having a high side...oops

Hopefully I will still get there somehow, I have to give the boots to Phil after all.

KnightRider
17-11-08, 04:22 PM
Feeling ill so a maybe.

philbut
17-11-08, 04:41 PM
Tony - you don't need to worry about coming just to give me the boots - I think a high side gives you the choice of whether to come or not! (even if it is Tont Tuesday). I hope carol Nash get it sorted quickly for you - poor bike :-(

Stig
17-11-08, 05:27 PM
Tony - you don't need to worry about coming just to give me the boots - I think a high side gives you the choice of whether to come or not! (even if it is Tont Tuesday). I hope carol Nash get it sorted quickly for you - poor bike :-(

Well he better start f'k'n walking then. The meet was changed just for him. He better be there. :rolleyes:

StreetHawk
17-11-08, 06:40 PM
If I come along do you all promise not to mention motorbikes as I no longer have one....

Tony, sorry to hear bout the off.. :-(

Stig
17-11-08, 07:19 PM
:laughat: If I come along do you all promise not to mention motorbikes as I no longer have one....


But your still aways welcome Nick. :wink:

ogden
17-11-08, 07:23 PM
Well he better start f'k'n walking then. The meet was changed just for him. He better be there. :rolleyes:

I realised today that the meet now seems to be on The Wrong Tuesday. So I almost certainly won't be there.

Stig
17-11-08, 07:36 PM
I realised today that the meet now seems to be on The Wrong Tuesday. So I almost certainly won't be there.

Well its been that way for a couple of months or more now and you only just noticed. I rest my case. :wink:

ogden
17-11-08, 08:09 PM
No sir. I rest mine!

flibble
17-11-08, 09:00 PM
I voted.... :)

kat_s1
17-11-08, 09:34 PM
If I come along do you all promise not to mention motorbikes as I no longer have one....

i promise nothing ;)

tony sorry to hear about your off, but glad you'r ok.

Sosha
18-11-08, 06:30 PM
Hmmm 14hour trip home followed by day at work....

See y'all in a fortnight









TVSF Official Lightweight.

flibble
18-11-08, 07:21 PM
Am still at work.. but if I was there I'd have the apash taglettelli :chef:

walkaboutandy
18-11-08, 07:42 PM
Mmmm.....yeah....and if I were there I'd have a Steak and Ale pie.....with a pint of Pride!

sam anon
19-11-08, 01:05 PM
Good meet last night, and a nice little ride to and from the Shire!

My end can arrived today, so will be fitted minus decibel eater in time for the next meet!

FG1
19-11-08, 01:43 PM
It was a bit chilly on the way home, so I turned the heating up in the car a tad.
I would still have preferred to be on two wheels and cold though.

sandman
19-11-08, 03:15 PM
nice to see you all last night
and the designated driver too
Quality ride their but hairy ride back

KnightRider
19-11-08, 03:40 PM
If I come along do you all promise not to mention motorbikes as I no longer have one....

Tony, sorry to hear bout the off.. :-(

million dollar question - did you actually show up?

Tony - hope your okay. Is this the excuse you need to get something different?

Stig
19-11-08, 06:35 PM
million dollar question - did you actually show up?




hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

That is all.

Stig
19-11-08, 06:43 PM
I ran out of petrol on the way to work this morning. I blame the extra few miles I did last night.

I went down the A4 toward Reading as I normally do. Decided to take the motorway instead so went up the A339 to the M4. For some reason unknown to me, I took the wrong ramp and ended up going back down the motorway toward London. Bugger. So had to go all the way down to the A404 before turning round and heading home again. So much for me leaving early to get home early. :roll:

Well I had the throttle open lets say enthusiastically and as a consequence burnt a substantially more amount of fuel than I normally do. I normally get 200 miles out of the tank but ran out on 188.

Upside was I actually conked out at the gates into work so coasted to a stop in my normal parking space. Result. :lol:

DanAbnormal
19-11-08, 07:40 PM
But how did you get home again?

Stig
19-11-08, 08:37 PM
But how did you get home again?

I sent someone to the garage with a petrol can to go get me some fuel. :wink:

DanAbnormal
19-11-08, 09:20 PM
I sent someone to the garage with a petrol can to go get me some fuel. :wink:

Now THAT is delegating. Good show.

philbut
20-11-08, 11:04 AM
Very smooth. Last time I ran out it was in the fast lane of a dual carrage way with no hard shoulder in the dark :-( not so cool, plus I had to push it up a hill to get it off the road. A ZZR with full load of clobber is a heavy beast.

Sosha
20-11-08, 11:41 AM
Last time I ran out was a country lane, couple of miles from work.

Sent the boss out for gasoline, speaker cable and wire strippers :rolleyes:

(Speaker cable and wire strippers inhabbit the stationary cupboard so no biggy there)

ogden
20-11-08, 01:30 PM
Last time I ran out was about 20 feet from a petrol station. Even managed to pull the clutch in and coast to the forecourt. There's stylish.

DanAbnormal
20-11-08, 01:53 PM
Well................the last time I ran out was just coming off the slip road at juntion 3 of the M3. Then a kind biker riding a Thundercat stopped and gave me a lift to Sainsburys to fill up a jerry can and took me back. What a guy!

Stig
20-11-08, 02:16 PM
Last time I ran out was about 20 feet from a petrol station. Even managed to pull the clutch in and coast to the forecourt. There's stylish.

I've done that in an 8 ton truck. Unfortunately the pump was on the wrong side so still had to buy a can, then fill the can, then pay for the fuel, then put the fuel in the truck, then prime the whole fuel system, then start, drive round and refill the tank. So maybe not quite as stylish. But at least I didn't have to push 8 tons of truck to the garage up a hill.
:wink:

Sosha
20-11-08, 02:26 PM
I've done that in an 8 ton truck. Unfortunately the pump was on the wrong side so still had to buy a can, then fill the can, then pay for the fuel, then put the fuel in the truck, then prime the whole fuel system, then start, drive round and refill the tank. So maybe not quite as stylish.
:wink:

You're right - that's not at all stylish....

Stig
20-11-08, 02:27 PM
You're right - that's not at all stylish....

It nearly was. :lol: