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Welcome - Getting started & FAQs - Read Here First... => Introduce Yourself & Your Bike => Topic started by: Bluey on August 04, 2012, 10:23:53 AM
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Hi everyone. I'm not a seasoned "poster", I've been a computer nut for decades, but never saw the need to share with others. Silly me. I now see the error of my ways.
I'm an old bloke - not as old as some, but older than most. My first experiences on two wheels were as a pillion on my older brother's Lambretta 250 scooter, way back in 1967. Those were cold and exciting trips in England's snowy winters. After we moved to Oz, my brother bought a Norton 500 and I started to ride that, when he let me, but still didn't have a licence. Naughty. Just local trips - "around the block" - but it gave me a taste that has never left me.
As soon as I could legally ride, I bought a Honda CL90. I did many, many thousands of K's on that machine. They are collectors items now, I believe. This was followed by a succession of Japanese machines, two strokes, four strokes. I rode many more than I owned as I was the un-official mechanic for my friends and the labour component of any work I did was often taken as a few days temporary "ownership".
In the 80's, I ended up with a Yammy XS1.1 - this bike sold me on the idea of shaft drives, but the pressures of having young children took me away from bikes for a few years until having moved from Adelaide to Burleigh Heads, I thought - so many great roads - this is motorcycle heaven. I bought a Suzuki Burgman 400 - what a great machine, but this was just the start of the slippery slope back to my old addiction - then I bought a 1988 K100 Beemer, but the handlebar buzz was killing me, so I bought a new Suzuki DL650A. That was after a lot of research, a purchase I have not regretted (Istill have the bike, but it doesn't get ridden much at the moment). I put about 38K K's on the Strom in 2 1/2 years and loved every one of them, but the call of the shaft was still in me. I test rode an ST1300 and fell in love. Budget wouldn't allow a 13 with ABS, so looked around for an ST1100 with ABS (a must, in my mind). Bought it over the phone, rode it up from Sydney. I wouldn't be surprised if somebody on this forum knows the bike. It is a small world.
Enough of my rambling. I am looking forward to meeting new people. Since moving from down South, I've not met a lot of people other than those I work with and it will be good to meet some people with a common interest (other than work!).
My thanks go to those who have made this forum possible.
See you around.
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welcome Bluey.
They are a good bunch in here, and most tend to be slightly eccentric. (or just plain nuts)
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Hi Bluey & a Warm Welcome from the Wild West. :hatwave :runyay
:grin :blk13 :grin
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Hello Bluey and a big welcome to the beST website around not to mention a world where your STeed is the focal point of attention. The rides are fun but the comaraderie is even better.
Ruben (a young whipper snapper to you) :dred11
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Welcome Bluey :hatwave
They're all nuts on here................... Run away.............Run away :p
I'm sure you'll enjoy being part of the zoo. There's a lot here that I've never met but I'm sure that when/if I do meet them we'll all get on like a 'house on fire' ( :hijacked Never quite understood that saying. Any purveyors of trivia who can assist?)
Take care,
Dave :wht13
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Great to have you aboard Bluey, the whole group are a fantastic bunch of people, this lot amaze me all the time with the effort and time they put aside to help each other with our wonderful Machines :beer
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A google search reveals not much, it seems no - one knows the origin of the saying
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From one ex-Pom to another ex-Pom welcome the funny farm. I too moved up here from Adelaide, about 12 years ago, and find the weather and life-style far more agreeable.
Enjoy the insanity that is OzSToc!! :hatwave :hatwave
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Welcome Bluey, enjoy the forum :beer
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Welcome Bluey. You'll enjoy the banter and the knowledge here. There are some legends contributing on this site. I gather from another post you reside in QLD. Check out the OzSTOC shop section and get yourself fitted with an OzSTOC shirt so you can enjoy the fame of being part of the World Title Holders that is QUEENSLAND. If you are south of the border, please disregard previous advise. :-[
Hope to see you at the Duggandan Hotel for lunch on the 12th. Fingers crossed. Still working on my planned attendance.
Cheers.
Skip.
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Hi Bluey
Although recently new myself, a very warm welcome. This is a great site with a great bunch of people. Your from Queensland, North or South?
Sabie
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Welcome Bluey :hatwave
Glad to hear you found your way to one of the beST bikes in the world :grin (ST1100 & ST1300... and the newly introduced ST1800 :wink1)
You'll definitely find many people around here that will love to talk bikes and all things bike related :runyay
We can talk work too but only for short periods of time :CB--
Cheers
Shiney
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Welcome Bluey, :hatwave hope you enjoy the site. :blk13
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Welcome Bluey, look forward to meeting at the Doog (what the locals call it) for lunch. Will be my first time meet up too.
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A google search reveals not much, it seems no - one knows the origin of the saying
Being a lover and perpetuator of :hijacked threads, I am enbolddend by our fearless Spanker's hijack ramble...
This site usually knows these things:
http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/9/messages/74.html (http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/9/messages/74.html)
But it's silent.
I deduce it's simply a case of an obvious meaning, with no definite origin.
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G'day Carl - great to see you out at Inverell and to say G'day there. You looked to be keeping some very good company.
Anyways - nice to have you aboard - keep posting and showing up at these events - because a great time, as you know, is almost guaranteed.
Hope to see you again soon ol mate. :thumb
Cheers, Diesel
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Welcome Bluey
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Thanks for the various "welcomes". I think the Inverell RTE was great, with everybody being very accepting and welcoming.
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Welcome Bluey from South Oz, the home of the 2013 ST MuSTer.
Hope to see you in March next year at Middleton. Looks like it will be great turn out and look forward to meeting everyone.
I guess to get on 'like a house on fire' is a figurative expression for a dynamic release of energy and theres certainly alot of energy in this website along with dynamic members
:blu13
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Welcome to the nut house Bluey, (a nice nut house)
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Welcome Bluey.. Obviously you have taste in bikes. Seems you've picked the right year..... it's a pity you weren't able to find it in the right colour.. bwahahahahaha.. :rofl :crackup