2011.10.23 13:00 - Of Motorbikes and Jumping Rattlers

The Guardian for this meeting was oO0Oo Resident. The comments are by oO0Oo Resident. Title by Eliza Madrigal.


Korel Laloix: osiyo
Samúð (oo0oo): osiyo Korel
Korel Laloix: Big group today.. smiles
Korel Laloix: Or did you run them all off?
Samúð (oo0oo): last time I saw you here, I had very lagged chat lines and did not see your greeting until after the session, so apologise for not answering then :)
Korel Laloix: Oh now worries, I have that issue as well.
Samúð (oo0oo): Oh, so far just me Korel. You may be the 1st that *can* even run off
Korel Laloix: I am on a cell connection so it is very hesitent.
Korel Laloix: smiles
Samúð (oo0oo): kk
Samúð (oo0oo): no worries
Korel Laloix: You been up to anything fun recently?
Samúð (oo0oo): lets see...
Samúð (oo0oo): recall having some very silly and fun rounds of make believe with a friend... laughing.. kidding knocking shoulders, grabbing the remote back and forth from each other. Very light hearted :)
Samúð (oo0oo): and pleasant conversation interspersed with the sillyness.
Samúð (oo0oo): How about you?
Korel Laloix: Sillyness is underrated.
Samúð (oo0oo): ::sees Korel on cell phone in minds eye:: (no rush there;)
Korel Laloix: Not been having a lot of fun recently.
Samúð (oo0oo): mmm
Korel Laloix: Shopping for a new motorcycle, that is about it.
Samúð (oo0oo): why does that sound like... not just neutral?
Samúð (oo0oo): oh wow!
Korel Laloix: Took a Ninja 650 for a drive the other day.
Samúð (oo0oo): what style of bike? Road, offroad, hybrid?
Korel Laloix: Crotch rocket.... smiles
Korel Laloix: I had a Buell Blast but it got wrecked.
Korel Laloix: So looking for something with maybe a bit more this time.
Samúð (oo0oo): "Crotch Rocket" lol... why does that not surprise me... checking for images
Samúð (oo0oo): Ninja 650 http://images.google.com/search?q=ninja+650&biw=937&bih=846&tbm=isch
Samúð (oo0oo): yup
Samúð (oo0oo): looks speedy ;)
Korel Laloix: My Buell was red. So my riding gear is part red.
Korel Laloix: So looking for a red new one.


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Samúð (oo0oo): Hadn't heard of that make before.
Korel Laloix: Buell is a part of Harley Davidson.
Samúð (oo0oo): I grant you the bike, but will disown you as a friend if I catch you riding with a Starbucks coffee in one hand. ;)
Samúð (oo0oo): Oh OK
Korel Laloix: The Blast is their starter bike..... but it fits me...
Samúð (oo0oo): hehe
Korel Laloix: At 4'9 I don't have a lot of stock bike options.
Korel Laloix: lol
Samúð (oo0oo): what model of Buell did you have?
Korel Laloix: Blast.
Samúð (oo0oo): Buell Blast: http://images.google.com/search?hl=en&biw=694&bih=878&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=buell+blast&btnG=Search
Wol Euler: hello sam, korel
Korel Laloix: A lovely one cylinder small bike... It fit me perfectly. Was a great starter bike for me.
Samúð (oo0oo): Hi Wol.. :) Korel and I are talking motor bikes.
Wol Euler: I gathered :) please continue!
Korel Laloix: Heya
Korel Laloix: So the Ninja is nice, a bit pricey though.
Samúð (oo0oo): Korel is worried that if she gets about on a new shiny red "Crotch Rocket", she may have a hard time attracting chicks. ;) (jk)
Korel Laloix: And there are models that are pretty low with certain seats.
Wol Euler: heheh
Korel Laloix: Oh no, in the right crowd, it would be good for that.
Samúð (oo0oo): I'm sure you don't need the bike for that even Korel, and neither me making up this story. :)
Korel Laloix: grins
Samúð (oo0oo): Wol you need to send the cookies back in the oven for just a wee bit longer.
Korel Laloix: No, cookies are better slightly raw.
Wol Euler: O.O
Wol Euler: what?
Samúð (oo0oo): rebake?
Wol Euler: ah :)
Samúð (oo0oo): hehe
Samúð (oo0oo): not that the simplicity and elegance of the white oval are unbecoming
Korel Laloix: Grey is an underrated color.
Samúð (oo0oo): and Korel... you like cookies on the rare side?
Korel Laloix: Raw actualy.
Wol Euler: remembers eating raw cookie-dough as a kid
Wol Euler: smiles.
Korel Laloix: But ones with no butter in them.
Korel Laloix: OR very litle butter.
Samúð (oo0oo): Drop the baking to see what is raw?
Samúð (oo0oo): This is normally Maxine's session?
Samúð (oo0oo): Is she away?
Wol Euler: yes, don't know where she is today
Wol Euler: did she say she'd be away?


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Wol Euler: feels guilty about stopping the conversation.
Samúð (oo0oo): 'twas I
Korel Laloix: Was looking at websites.
Korel Laloix: So you did not stop it.
Wol Euler: if I knew anything about motorbikes I would be joining in
Korel Laloix: lol
Korel Laloix: My beck got wrecked on my big roadtrip to the Grand Canyon over the summer.
Samúð (oo0oo): and no... didn't hear from Maxine... though I have not checked email a couple of days.
Korel Laloix: So I am now looking for a replacement.
Wol Euler: yes, you mentioned that when it happened
Korel Laloix: I was lucky really.
Wol Euler: that's an expensive proposition,I fear
Korel Laloix: Not to bad.
Korel Laloix: I am saving up.
Korel Laloix: I won't debt to buy it.
Wol Euler: good!
Wol Euler: brava.
Samúð (oo0oo): Are you a good rider/driver Korel?
Korel Laloix: I think so.
Korel Laloix: But everyone things they are a good driver.
Wol Euler: smiles.
Korel Laloix: thinks
Samúð (oo0oo): Can you comfortably ride a passenger?
Wol Euler: hello zen
Samúð (oo0oo): Hiya Zen
Korel Laloix: I could not on my Buell.
Zen Arado: Hi Wol, Korel, Sam
Korel Laloix: I could on the Ninja with the right set up.
Samúð (oo0oo): Maybe you can give us rides at a retreat sometime ;)
Samúð (oo0oo): Talking motorbikes Zen
Zen Arado: ok
Korel Laloix: That would be nice.....
Korel Laloix: I love scaring passanagers... grins
Wol Euler: raises an eyebrow.
Zen Arado: scared already
Zen Arado: will stay safely on terra firma
Korel Laloix: Of course.
Korel Laloix: But at a nice speed on the highway....
Korel Laloix: I will make sure and bring a guest helmet.
Zen Arado: used to have a friend had a bike and took us from Brisbane to Surfer's Paradise at weekends
Zen Arado: long time ago...sigh
Zen Arado: it was Matchless 350
Zen Arado: no crash helmets in those days
Korel Laloix: NO idea about that.
Korel Laloix: Helmets are warm if nothing else.
Wol Euler: oh, I remember Matchless. Good god :)
Zen Arado: too warm maybe?
Zen Arado: old British firm
Korel Laloix: I very veyr rarely get too warm.
Wol Euler: from the second landing of the staircase of my grandmother's house in Woolwich, we could see the sign on the roof of the Matchless factory at Plumstead
Zen Arado: lie Triumph and BSA
Zen Arado: oh :)
Wol Euler: long gone now, of course
Wol Euler: factory as well as company
Zen Arado: think I saw Triumph bikes lately..new ones
Zen Arado: don't know where they make them
Samúð (oo0oo): Matchless 350: http://images.google.com/search?hl=en&biw=694&bih=878&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=matchless+350&btnG=Search
Zen Arado: Triumph: http://www.triumph.co.uk/uk/motorcycles.aspx
Korel Laloix: Never riden one.
Zen Arado: 2.3 litres? gracious!
Zen Arado: Hi Druth
Samúð (oo0oo): Druth !
druth Vlodovic: hey all
Wol Euler: hello druth
Samúð (oo0oo): 'struth! it's Druth!
druth Vlodovic: :)
Zen Arado: lol
Zen Arado: too right
Samúð (oo0oo): Did you ever go to the Breakfast Creek Hotel in Brissie Zen?
Zen Arado: nah
Zen Arado: lived in digs
Zen Arado: Kangaroo Point
Samúð (oo0oo): I lived in Kangaroo point!!!
Zen Arado: under the Storey Bridge :)
Wol Euler: fascinating :)


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Zen Arado: it was 1962 tho
Zen Arado: got a ferry straight into city
Samúð (oo0oo): sure :)
Samúð (oo0oo): I lived not far away
Samúð (oo0oo): but many years later
Zen Arado: remembers the Gabba
Zen Arado: cricket grond
Samúð (oo0oo): yes near the Gabba!
Zen Arado: remember steam trains crossing the road
Samúð (oo0oo): smiles.. before my time ;)
Zen Arado: big jugs of beer
Wol Euler: smiles.
Samúð (oo0oo): lets seee
Samúð (oo0oo): 4x http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XXXX
Samúð (oo0oo): or
Zen Arado: and mossies biting during the day
Samúð (oo0oo): too right mate!
Zen Arado: too close to Brisbane River
Samúð (oo0oo): When i lived in Brisbane, there was a backpacker's under the story bridge
Zen Arado: moved back to Sydney again tho
Zen Arado: oh?
Zen Arado: I lived there about a year
Zen Arado: preferred Sydney
Samúð (oo0oo): Funny thing is... there is no beach, and really hardly any access to ocean in Brisbane itself
Zen Arado: yeh true
Samúð (oo0oo): Yes Sydney is nicer IMHO
Zen Arado: had to go to Surfers
Zen Arado: Gold coast
Samúð (oo0oo): yes
Zen Arado: lived in Sydney 7 years
Samúð (oo0oo): Sydney is a gorgeous city
Zen Arado: hitch hiked up to Cairns one time
Samúð (oo0oo): and beaches
Zen Arado: yeh
Samúð (oo0oo): plenty of beaches
Samúð (oo0oo): me too!
Samúð (oo0oo): Pacific highway
Zen Arado: jumped a goods train from Townsville to Brisbane on way down again
Zen Arado: me and a mate
Samúð (oo0oo): hehe
Samúð (oo0oo): nice
Zen Arado: jumped a rattler
Samúð (oo0oo): always nicer to look back on those ones
Zen Arado: it wasn't very comfortable either
Zen Arado: :)
Samúð (oo0oo): Northern New South Wales is nice.
Zen Arado: Queenslander much more laid back tho
Samúð (oo0oo): ah ya
Samúð (oo0oo): Was Sir Joh in office lol?
Zen Arado: hey Bob Menzies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Menzies
Zen Arado: pig iron Bob
Zen Arado: he sold iron to Japanese or somethng
Zen Arado: Japanese
druth Vlodovic: hey wol
Wol Euler: smiles.
Wol Euler: hello druth :)
Samúð (oo0oo): Here's who I was thinking of. Not federal politics, but a long standing controversial figure in Queensland politics, Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joh_Bjelke-Petersen
Zen Arado: ah ok
Samúð (oo0oo): Not to get political of course ;)
Zen Arado: he he
Zen Arado: it's not allowed :)/
Wol Euler: raises an eyebrow.
Samúð (oo0oo): Sees only white egg
Samúð (oo0oo): hehe
Zen Arado: wasn't much interested in Aussie politics
Samúð (oo0oo): Sir Joh became premier of Queensland in 1968 I think
druth Vlodovic: g2g, have fun guys
Zen Arado: bye Druth
Samúð (oo0oo): so


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Samúð (oo0oo): Bye Druth
Wol Euler: bye druth
Korel Laloix: Take care
Wol Euler: take care
Zen Arado: 68 - 2005
Zen Arado: wow
Zen Arado: no 1987
Zen Arado: died 2005
Zen Arado: better get to Bert's meditation
Zen Arado: g'day all
Wol Euler: oh yes
Wol Euler: gooodnight all those who aren't going along :)
Samúð (oo0oo): G'day Zen!
Samúð (oo0oo): "Bjelkemander," a play on the term "gerrymander".
Samúð (oo0oo): OK... no more politics
Samúð (oo0oo): zips
Samúð (oo0oo): Bye Wol
Samúð (oo0oo): ::breathes:: some fond memories
Korel Laloix: Was a good little chat.
Samúð (oo0oo): ;0
Samúð (oo0oo): ;0
Samúð (oo0oo): ;0
Samúð (oo0oo): :)
Samúð (oo0oo): 4th time is a charm as they say
Korel Laloix: Of to another chat now.
Korel Laloix: Of course.
Samúð (oo0oo): kk Korel gtsy
Korel Laloix: Take care... smiles
Samúð (oo0oo): u2 :)