Wow, this is the most people I have seen logged in for quite a while, Hi all, hope you are all pumped up for the first race :wave:
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Wow, this is the most people I have seen logged in for quite a while, Hi all, hope you are all pumped up for the first race :wave:
I'm always around, I just don't always have time to post. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by maxu05
This year will be busy again, my program with the Honda Junior team remains the same but I'll also be helping out two of my pupils from last year who have graduated from the junior program (they're too old now, they turned 16). And on top of that I've got Ava to look after and my fiancée and I are looking at moving in to a new place together so a house hunting we shall go and that (plus the required trips to look at furniture, paint and carpet samples and so on) takes up alot of time. I don't get it, I mean wouldn't it make sense to find and buy a house before looking at paint and carpet samples? And why look at furniture when you can't buy it yet? Yes I know, we all look at cars and/or bikes we can't afford but at least they're exciting, paint and carpet are not. ;)
I know all about it Matt, my wife is exactly the same. We are always moving, and the missus is always dragging me off to look at something for a house that we haven't found yet. Good luck with it all, hope you find the house you like. Are you settling in Spain ?
Yep. I mean I've got a great job, a beautiful lady, a sweet little girl, great friends and generally life is good. No need to go anywhere else. Besides Honda Spain pay for me to fly back and forth to Oz a couple times a year so I've got the best of both worlds really. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by maxu05
Btw, what happened to the traditional posting of the gridgirls? Besides mine a few posts back they've really dried up, the posts I mean, not the girls. :laugh:
Well, I am keen to post grid girls, but I am rubbish at doing it :laugh: Perhaps I will give it another try, after all, the more grid girls, the better :D :up:
Great to hear from you young Matthew. I can't believe you don't find carpet and paint exciting. You see those things when you're looking at expensive cars. :laugh:
I spose Ava is growing up fast. How old is she now? I'm sure she keeps you're hectic life in perspective with all the mischief she would get up to. :)
Well, I figured that Summer had finished here in Melbourne after a mild February but yesterday got to 30 degrees, today was 34 where I live and tomorrow is supposed to be 37 with another 4 days in the next week to be around the 35+ mark. Now I like hot weather but that's fairly uncomfortable. And my car has crap air con. :mad:
Good Aussie beer drinking weather :beer: :D
My Chinese sister, (good friend), has moved to Melbourne from China, so she is getting a real taste of Aussie life under the grill. She has just bought a house near Geelong. Anywhere near you Clint ?
It is good drinking weather. Just downed a Pure Blonde (beer that is, people) and am about to go another one.
Geelong isn't really near me, though in the greater scheme of things in Aus she's almost next door! I'm South East suburbs of mighty Melbourne. Sleepy Hollow is a couple of hours away.
I lived in Portsea for 3 years, while serving in the Army. Frankston and Mornington were my regular haunts. Love the Portsea pub :up:
Why aren't there ever any Grid Boys?? :rolleyes: Other than Dani Pedrosa's!!
A few Randy De Puniet look alikes in NO shirts would be GREAT!!! ;)
I will see what I can dig up for you Roby, after all, we have a few female members, so we should be fair and let you girls have a perve as well.
Thanks!! ;)
It's nice in here at the minute, lots of new names popping up!
Nine excellent races between our five main classes already this year - I wonder if F1'll manage one decent race all year? :D
If you're new in, welcome aboard!
I've been watching a bit of the first F1 race here in my backyard (on TV, I'd never pay to see it!) and it really makes me appreciate how lucky we are as motorcycle racing fans. 2-wheel racing is so far superior to open-wheeler racing in particular that it is actually quite funny. The celebrity race with Fiat 500's was far more interesting than the serious stuff! :laugh:
I also started watching the F1, but I fell asleep half way through. Can't wait for the next bike race.
I don't bother to watch it at all.
I heard on the news tonight that only 7 cars finished the race. I don't know how many started though..
I thought I'd watch the F1 today in hopes that it would hold my interest longer than the first few laps. It didn't. I wish there was bike racing next weekend.
When I was logging in, I read the report of the F1 here on motorsport.com. When will these idiot reporters stop calling a racer a Sophomore in his second year ? You idiots :down: He is not studying for a degree. I have seen this so many times, it really bugs me. Perhaps a rookie can be an entre, and a second year driver a main course, anything but a sophomore. Anyway, it's a pet hate of mine as you can see. Oh well, that's my rant for the day :D
You are allowed at least 1 rant per day!! :p
But I understand what you mean. They get a bit carried away with themselves at times don't they. I think they just ramble on so as there isn't any quiet time on air.. :eek:
Are you anywhere near to the troubles over there in China??
If you are take care..
hey all
Obviously, the F1 result was pretty sweet from a Brit point of view. But I enjoyed watching Lewis (plus Nico, Heikki, Kazuki Nakajima, Nelson Piquet jnr and Timo Glock too) in GP2 in the last couple of years a lot more than seeing them in F1, though, simply because in GP2 you get a decent race with overtaking and stuff. When you get a result like today's F1, it's a case of 'nice result, shame about the action'.
And of course it's a good reminder of why bike racing is far superior :)
^^ :d
Lucky there were so many crashes, it almost made it interesting! Now we have our annual post Aus F1 GP debate about how crap/unlucky Mark Webber is. Oh how we love to nobble our own here down under. :rolleyes:
Has everyone noticed pickem result from race 10 days ago? F1 announced the result of yesterday's race :)
On a different note I have to apologise to anyone riding a scooter that gets stuck behind me. I always move out of the way of bikes to let them pass when I'm driving but have got so p****d off with little ****s with ******* L plates not even raising a hand to say thanks that I have decided to never move out the way of anything that looks like it's got anything less than a 125 engine. Seriously how hard can it be to just acknowledge the fact that I've gone out of my way to let people overtake me safely? So this evening I had a big grin on my face as I kept some t***er behind me for a good mile or so.
BTW I still move out of the way for bigger bikes, nearly all of them have good manners.
I have the opposite problem on my scooter, I get cars waddling along at 40kph, and really getting in my way. I just round em up and give them a polite wave,(that's the one finger wave), :D
Since the beginning of the season, I am happy that we have some new members, but, I must say it has been a little lonely here on the forum. I have often been lazy, by checking the forum, reading the posts and not logging in. Come on all, the more posts, the more opinions, the better the forum gets. I will be here every day, but must admit that when I log in and my post is the last, from yesterday, I feel like there are tumbleweeds blowing down the street :D
Agreed, John. It's a shame it's so quiet.
Admittedly, I've not written a great deal for a while myself - am doing a course with work which finishes in June and takes up a bit of my evenings, and attempting to organise my karting season too amongst other things.
The alternate opinion is that people mostly only make noise when they're complaining (see F1 board :p - they hate everything!), and we've not got much to complain about at present (a few more bikes on the main MotoGP grid, that's about it?) - just getting on and enjoying the racing!
We're always saying that the racing is so good we often don'ty have a lot to write about purely because we all agree that it's fantastic. Much as I like you guys I'd much rather have a quiet forum and good racing than vice versa
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I think one of the problems is the 'lack of stories' - Motorcycling is very rarely in the general press and media- hence the lack of stories and the lack of discussion. There are always stories to report, but they very rarely are. Same thing with WRC, WTCC, for example go on the BBC Sport Motorsport webpage - all F1 stories - updated daily; the other Motorsport is left, only updated sporadically.Quote:
Originally Posted by patnicholls
There is hardly ever anything in the papers here in Queensland about bike racing.. so you could be right..
I will just have to find the stories and get this forum pumping :D Look out motorsport media, maxu is on the job :laugh:
http://www.motormeuk.nl/bekijken/103...ring-2003.html
Aii I miss that machine :( It's absolutely my favourite one, the sound, the drift, the speed it's incredible..
I mean the RC211V uh :p
In case anyone cares I've changed my 'letting scooters overtake' rule because I saw a girl on a scooter who had really cute eyes so had to let her have space :D I don't care if it sounds shallow, they're my rules and I'll do what I want :p :
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Originally Posted by Mr Jan Yeo
Men!!! :) Would you have done the same thing for a fellow with "cute eyes" :)
I hope she waved and or at least winked at you for doing that for her..
Just pretend it was chivalry. ;)
I try to let most riders past except Harley riders, though they usually just muscle their way past anyway. :rolleyes:
It is certainly quiet round here lately. I've been guilty also, struggling to find the time to get on and last year if I missed a few days I had hours of reading to catch up on, today only about 4 threads. I'll have to try harder to make more time methinks.
I think everyone gets caught up in their own issues, and it makes it hard to find the time to post. I had the same problem late last year, I just got caught up with work and neglected the forum. I must say, at least all the regulars seem to be lurking about, and a lot of new names popping up here and there. I am sure as the year goes on, there will be more to chat about. And Jan, I would be a sucker and make way for beautiful eyes, and smile, and tush, and, well you know. Sorry Roby, but I can't see any dude being cute, despite my signature :D
I don't know...I can think of a few cute dudes!! ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by maxu05
Its ok about your sig I understand!! ;)