Hi from Scotshire

[OldBadger]

Hi just registered and saying hello.
Had bikes back in the 70's (FS1E, YCS5E, RD250 Dunstall, RD400) then had a break of 33 years and bought an R6 in 2013.
I am a bit slower now, of that there is no doubt, but the Bikes are not.
OldBadger

[petepassion]

Hi and welcome to the forum.
Must have been quite a shock, riding a modern bike after 33 years.
Have you tried an R1 yet?

[LOCKE]

Welcome in mate. There is a good few Scots on the forum. That was a long break you had from bikes, you will have noticed things have moved on.

Colin

[R1Clarky]

Welcome aboard pal


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[samr1]

Hi welcome some classic old strokers u had there ,enjoy ur r6 and the forum


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[jompy]

Welcome in Finlay

[Steve R1]

Welcome to the forum Finley and I hope you are enjoying your R6. You are not alone, pod and me were posting the other day that we all get slower as we get older, the thing is I was never that fast when I was younger

Welcome to the mad house, join in with the banter and enjoy the forum, there are a good bunch if guys on here

Welcome

Stephen

[Scrapman]

Welcome heid the baw.

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[Bub]

Welcome to the forum mate

[jompy]

Welcome heid the baw.

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WTF !
Bloody sweaty socks

[Scrapman]

You're just not intellectual enough to understand bastardized English monkey boy. [WINKING FACE]

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[OldBadger]

Hi welcome some classic old strokers u had there ,enjoy ur r6 and the forum

Yes still miss the twosmokes but there is no doubt the market has moved on and the bikes are far better in reality.
Would still kill for a 500 two stroke but alas can never see that happening again.

[OldBadger]

Welcome heid the baw.

WTF !
Bloody sweaty socks

It's a strange way we communicate indeed, but hey we do understand it

[OldBadger]

Thanks to all for the welcome.

Yes it was a long long time away from bikes but I never ever lost the desire to have one again.

Just never happened until.....

An unusual event.

The young lad, lives and works in London but was wanting to go touring in Scotland on his GSXR600. He needed some Kreiga bags so we all went to a bike shop in Balam to get them for his birthday. Family event, with the old guy (me) just going for a wee wander round the bikes while Mum and Son picked the relevant item.

Sitting there is a beautiful R6 in the WGP 50th anniversary colours. Now as my last bike was an RD400 in the white / red colour scheme, I was hooked. Add to that my previously trustworthy Son had mentioned that nowadays a 600 was really just a wee bike (about equal to my old RD250 - being a four stroke and all that:)). Now it is true that possibly this last bit of information had been mentioned just before he suggested getting a 600 himself but then maybe not.

All I can say he is a lying wee s.....

None the less I had made the leap and although early days I struggled to keep up with grannies in their corsas I can honestly say I am getting there now and have done 11,000 miles since May 2013.

Loving every minute of it.

So long story short but thanks for the welcome again.

OldBadger

[jompy]

Thanks to all for the welcome.

Yes it was a long long time away from bikes but I never ever lost the desire to have one again.

Just never happened until.....

An unusual event.

The young lad, lives and works in London but was wanting to go touring in Scotland on his GSXR600. He needed some Kreiga bags so we all went to a bike shop in Balam to get them for his birthday. Family event, with the old guy (me) just going for a wee wander round the bikes while Mum and Son picked the relevant item.

Sitting there is a beautiful R6 in the WGP 50th anniversary colours. Now as my last bike was an RD400 in the white / red colour scheme, I was hooked. Add to that my previously trustworthy Son had mentioned that nowadays a 600 was really just a wee bike (about equal to my old RD250 - being a four stroke and all that:)). Now it is true that possibly this last bit of information had been mentioned just before he suggested getting a 600 himself but then maybe not.

All I can say he is a lying wee s.....

None the less I had made the leap and although early days I struggled to keep up with grannies in their corsas I can honestly say I am getting there now and have done 11,000 miles since May 2013.

Loving every minute of it.

So long story short but thanks for the welcome again.

OldBadger

Brilliant

[OldBadger]

Thanks to all for the welcome.

Yes it was a long long time away from bikes but I never ever lost the desire to have one again.

Just never happened until.....

An unusual event.

The young lad, lives and works in London but was wanting to go touring in Scotland on his GSXR600. He needed some Kreiga bags so we all went to a bike shop in Balam to get them for his birthday. Family event, with the old guy (me) just going for a wee wander round the bikes while Mum and Son picked the relevant item.

Sitting there is a beautiful R6 in the WGP 50th anniversary colours. Now as my last bike was an RD400 in the white / red colour scheme, I was hooked. Add to that my previously trustworthy Son had mentioned that nowadays a 600 was really just a wee bike (about equal to my old RD250 - being a four stroke and all that:)). Now it is true that possibly this last bit of information had been mentioned just before he suggested getting a 600 himself but then maybe not.

All I can say he is a lying wee s.....

None the less I had made the leap and although early days I struggled to keep up with grannies in their corsas I can honestly say I am getting there now and have done 11,000 miles since May 2013.

Loving every minute of it.

So long story short but thanks for the welcome again.

OldBadger

Brilliant

Not sure the wife agreed

She is ok now though, very supportive just a little concerned.
She had bikes too which is another story but I will stop now.

[R1Clarky]

Don't stop now pal - we do like an interesting bike related yarn on here (especially if it involves piss-taking of any kind )


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[jompy]

Don't stop now pal - we do like an interesting bike related yarn on here (especially if it involves piss-taking of any kind )


Sent from somewhere in the midlands by Paul

+1 so why doesn't the wife ride anymore , my wife rides & at least as fast as me when the mood takes her

[OldBadger]

Ok, will get in too trouble for this one though.

Date/Time is Summer 1976 and I am a 17 year old with an RD250 King Kenny replica (or the best you get in those days) clad in Dunstall 3/4 fairing. Normally the best you got was a small quarter fairing so I am the bees knees with this one.
It also had quite pronounced dropbars and rearsets (important for this story) and this is my world.

This is my complete wealth all wrapped up in King Kenny's clothes.

I am at the local motorcycle club, mostly big hairy bikers with big posh bikes and me just the wee scheme based toe-rag.

So anyway sitting at the table is this girl who then says 'gees a wee shottie of your bike then'

So me being super brave I throw the keys across the table (never thinking she will go through with it) and then transcend into blind panic when she grabs keys and heads for the car park.

So now imagine this collection of burley bikers all heading out to see how this transpires.
Me, I am still being cool (ish) even when she climbs on the bike (still on centre stand) starts it up all revving and burbling as only two strokes can.

Big smiles from her sort of forced smile from me!

Now this is 1976, and nobody really had leathers in those days but the fashion for girls did have a popular option of full length denim jump-suits.

Similar to leathers but lets just say designed for standing up straight!

So now picture the situation as she carefully takes the bike off the centre stand (while still astride the bike) only to find that she cannot actually reach the bars/pegs due to the denim suit restricting her movement.
Cue the bike then ever so slowly tipping over and crashing to the side with me desperately still trying to look ever so cool whilst inside seeing my whole life savings heading for the deck.

Luckily for me it was on grass so no major damage and ultimately I got big man points for my overall lack of reaction.

Not sure I would hand over keys now though:)

Maybe that is why she is supportive now a days.

OldBadger

[OldBadger]

Don't stop now pal - we do like an interesting bike related yarn on here (especially if it involves piss-taking of any kind )


Sent from somewhere in the midlands by Paul

+1 so why doesn't the wife ride anymore , my wife rides & at least as fast as me when the mood takes her

Suppose just because we needed a car to get through life. She never passed her test back in the day (had a 250 Yamaha herself) so would need to do all the tests.

Maybe when we retire though.

[jompy]

nice one bud good read that
but you still haven't explained why she no longer rides
and for posting pics
get yourself a free photobucket account & follow the idiots guide to posting pics from your pc
posting.php?mode=reply&f=6&t=10659
or you can post direct from your not so smart phone using tapawank (tapatalk) it's great for posting pic's & notifications but wank for viewing the forum

[R1Clarky]

Awesome - I can almost imagine the forced 'it's alll goood' look - as ya see yer pride 'n' joy laying on it's side & to top it all of -- ya got the girl


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[OldBadger]

nice one bud good read that
but you still haven't explained why she no longer rides
and for posting pics
get yourself a free photobucket account & follow the idiots guide to posting pics from your pc
posting.php?mode=reply&f=6&t=10659
or you can post direct from your not so smart phone using tapawank (tapatalk) it's great for posting pic's & notifications but wank for viewing the forum

Can't remember for sure but I think she stopped shortly after an off on ice where she got a sore one.
Nothing broken but lots of pain at the time.
It was 35 years ago so a bit murky as to memory but I think that was a big part of it.

[jompy]

Fair play buddy , glad your happy with your six

[OldBadger]

If you have been following these posts carefully you may now just begin to understand a serious dilemma that I now have.

Further clue, it relates to a very recent announcement from Yamaha.

Doing my brain in right now so it is.

OldBadger