burgman 400
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burgman 400
Theory test passed taking delivery of a burgman 400 tomorrow thanks to zoom zoom grandad for riding it back from oldham for me now get some lessons and pass my test... Then I can sell my pcx..
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burgerman
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Re: burgman 400
Well done that man!
One part out of the way.
One part out of the way.
As I grow older, my mind doesn't just wander......sometimes it buggers off completely!!
You can't avoid growing up, but you can be immature all your life!
You can't avoid growing up, but you can be immature all your life!
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Data
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Re: burgman 400
Well done buddy! Nice feeling to be motoring towards a goal like that eh! 
Probably not ugly enough for the 'Ugly Bunch'! 
Been riding for 55 years & owned too many bikes to list here...
Been riding for 55 years & owned too many bikes to list here...
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Re: burgman 400
nice one Pete 
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Never ride faster than your guardian angel can fly,
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Re: burgman 400
Well done Pete. That's one step out of the way.
Getting a license seems so complicated these days - I'm glad I did mine back in the days when you just had to ride around the block keeping an eye out for the examiners hat sticking up from behind the parked cars where he was hiding
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Getting a license seems so complicated these days - I'm glad I did mine back in the days when you just had to ride around the block keeping an eye out for the examiners hat sticking up from behind the parked cars where he was hiding
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Re: burgman 400
+1. I remember my mate was taking his scooter test in the rain (back in the sixties). He was coming down the road and there was a crowd of people in the road, scooter on the deck, rider limping around and the poor examiner was laid in the road, HE HAD JUMPED OUT IN FRONT OF THE WRONG SCOOTER ON THE EMERGENCY STOP
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Cookie
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Re: burgman 400
I remember being pretty nervous about the emergency stop bit as the examiner did actually step out in front of you and hold up his clipboard (although, to be fair, most of them did give a fairly generous stopping distance if only for their own self preservation).
A friend at work managed to lock up both wheels, hit the deck and slide past the examiner. As did his bike but the battery, which was bungeed onto the side of the bike, parted company and stopped short.
The examiner looked at him and said "sorry you failed that test... as did your bike... but your battery passed ok".
My cousin listened carefully to the instructions - i.e. "go down this road then go first right, right again, right again and right again then keep riding around the block until I tell you to stop". Unfortunately he took the wrong turning and it took him ten minutes to find the examiner again who wasn't best pleased!
They often picked a block with an alleyway between two of the roads so they could nip through the alley and catch you out on the other side of the block where you weren't expecting to see them - devious so and so's.
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A friend at work managed to lock up both wheels, hit the deck and slide past the examiner. As did his bike but the battery, which was bungeed onto the side of the bike, parted company and stopped short.
The examiner looked at him and said "sorry you failed that test... as did your bike... but your battery passed ok".
My cousin listened carefully to the instructions - i.e. "go down this road then go first right, right again, right again and right again then keep riding around the block until I tell you to stop". Unfortunately he took the wrong turning and it took him ten minutes to find the examiner again who wasn't best pleased!
They often picked a block with an alleyway between two of the roads so they could nip through the alley and catch you out on the other side of the block where you weren't expecting to see them - devious so and so's.
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newscooter
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Re: burgman 400
I remember those days even though it was along time ago !!