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Newbie yorkshireman.
Hello, Im on various bike forums but am brand new on here. I have never said hello properly anywhere else so this is a first. I ride an oilhead rs and work all week 48 weeks /year with no prospect of retiring with any money ever so my travelling is limited to 2 weeks at a time So, when i do go anywhere i go quite quickly!
I am interested in contacting some others in a similar position so as to arrange a bike share , one of us can ride it out and the other ride it back. This should theoretically double the range achievable in 2 weeks although one snag with this is that i dont particularly like to use planes either (on principle as they pollute so much but there again i have flexible principles ).
So ,hello every one!
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1 Apr 2008
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Hello Spot and welcome, just a pint of best for me please.
And I see that Dave08 has just joined as well and he's also from Yorkshire.
Small world eh.
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2 Apr 2008
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hey up spot,
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2 Apr 2008
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hey up fella!
hows the tues stints at squires going?
I swapped my beemer for a ktm - its ok, i'll let you punch me when we next hook up
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Welcome...
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Originally Posted by spot
Hello, Im on various bike forums but am brand new on here. I have never said hello properly anywhere else so this is a first. I ride an oilhead rs and work all week 48 weeks /year with no prospect of retiring with any money ever so my travelling is limited to 2 weeks at a time So, when i do go anywhere i go quite quickly!
I am interested in contacting some others in a similar position so as to arrange a bike share , one of us can ride it out and the other ride it back. This should theoretically double the range achievable in 2 weeks although one snag with this is that i dont particularly like to use planes either (on principle as they pollute so much but there again i have flexible principles ).
So ,hello every one!
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Hello Spot!
If your principles get reaaaallly flexible, you're welcome to fly to Cape Town, use one of our XTs, ride it for 2 weeks across Southern Africa, and fly back. We've managed to do 5,000kms in 2 weeks - check out our website.
One snag: no chance of bike share because we wouldn't be seen dead on, in, on the back of, or near a BMW...
Also we're Londoners, so we don't really travel north of Camden... (isn't Sheffield some sort of cutlery set?)
[only kidding, ofcourse, except about using our bikes]
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Eh up!
Can't help with the bike swap, the outfit tends to frighten people who aren't used to it and Leeds isn't somewhere you'd choose to ride to, but thought I'd say hello.
Andy
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Eh up newbie!
Very funny impasto..... Where's your nearest twisting country a-road??
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