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i love griff to bits

i like the service his company offers

but the aprilia performance forum is really starting to piss me off

why is it that so many mille owners are twats who cannot use a search function?

or if you do not ride a mille, you are not a chosen one??

or my all time favourite - oh, you ride a falco so know fuck all about real performance....

is it just me having a bad bear head or??

Chill! Take it easy, why would you care? Not worth getting up tight about.

Let the bike and the rider do the talking, then you can your your gob for drinking. You know it makes sense.

I read that last sentence of Pete's as 'bad hair day'.

Thought we were headed for a Jackson Six comment.

Aladinsaneuk wrote: or if you do not ride a mille, you are not a chosen one??

or my all time favourite - oh, you ride a falco so know fuck all about real performance....

Must have missed that one .... though I don't look at that forum so much - I'd got the measure of where it was going at an early stage. That said, there are a fair number of fine, attitude-free people on there too.

We should also consider things the other way round. We do tend to give the opinion on here that the Falco is God's gift to biking (which, obviously it is) and while we try welcome everyone and hope to be all-embracing, we get few non-Falco riders that stick with us for long.


..... and also Falco riders can be just as bad - or even worse. Over on the AF1 forum the treatment dished out to a noobie asking for advice on buying a Falco was mind-bogglingly out of order - all because he was a bit slow coming back to thank everyone profusely for giving up their valuable time to impart their wisdom.

nod - fair comments

guess i was just frustrated that mille owners rule LOL

Join them on a ride out but dont stick to the rules of placement in the queue

paddyz1 wrote:Join them on a ride out but dont stick to the rules of placement in the queue

i agree let the bike do the talking.it's strange when you get off they don't want to talk about bikes.
i remember when i got mine and went to a meet,met up with a mate who was stood with a mille owner.my mate came over to look at the bike and loved it,the other guy shook his head stayed where he was and turned his back.

Any kind of bike snobbery is a bit pathetic - I don't mean the way Falco riders say it's the best but that 'can't talk to you' stuff.

I went down to Poole Quay one day, old woman on an old GT550 (before the 3rd wheel was added) and there were some sports bike riders there, they were much too posh to talk to me.

I just quietly sniggered to myself and thought 'bet you haven't ridden the mountain on Mad Sunday'.

Sniggered even more when I got a look at the speedo on a year old R1 and it had all of 300 miles on it!

Another reason I love the 6T. It's a shed.. It's ridden like it was stolen and kept with an oily rag under the seat to wipe the smears off after a long blast (but only in the garage!). A few times i've been to classic meets where 99% of the bikes are "cheque book" restorations and are better than they came off the line. It really baffles them to see people stood around my pile of old bits admiring it's character. I even joined in a convo once that was all about how bad my bike looked and how I don't take care of it.. blah blah.. they didn't know it was mine until I got on it and burned off!

Bike snobs.. f'kum..

As the AP Forum was started, so I understand, to take up where RSVZone had left off, it's perhaps not surprising that it's dominated by Mille owners.

However, there is definitely a tangibly different atmosphere and tone over there, compared to those of our own dear Site.

Willopotomas wrote:Another reason I love the 6T. It's a shed..

The man protests too much - it's not concourse but it's in nice tidy nick.

...... and some of the electrics have been finely-fettled

D-Rider wrote:

Willopotomas wrote:Another reason I love the 6T. It's a shed..

...... and some of the electrics have been finely-fettled

Strangely enough I was thinking about that today..lol.. No idea why..