2011.10.23 13:00 - Of Motorbikes and Jumping Rattlers

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[13:05] Korel Laloix: osiyo
[13:05] oO0Oo Resident: osiyo Korel
[13:06] Korel Laloix: Big group today.. smiles
[13:06] Korel Laloix: Or did you run them all off?
[13:06] oO0Oo Resident: 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 :)
[13:07] Korel Laloix: Oh no worries, I have that issue as well.
[13:07] oO0Oo Resident: Oh, so far just me Korel. You may be the 1st that *can* even run off
[13:07] Korel Laloix: I am on a cell connection so it is very hesitent.
[13:07] Korel Laloix smiles
[13:07] oO0Oo Resident: kk
[13:07] oO0Oo Resident: no worries

[13:08] Korel Laloix: You been up to anything fun recently?
[13:08] oO0Oo Resident: lets see...
[13:09] oO0Oo Resident: 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 :)
[13:10] oO0Oo Resident: and pleasant conversation interspersed with the sillyness.
[13:10] oO0Oo Resident: How about you?

[13:11] Korel Laloix: Sillyness is underrated.

[13:11] oO0Oo Resident: ::::sees Korel on cell phone in minds eye::: (no rush there;)
[13:11] Korel Laloix: Not been having a lot of fun recently.
[13:11] oO0Oo Resident: mmm
[13:12] Korel Laloix: Shopping for a new motorcycle, that is about it.
[13:12] oO0Oo Resident: why does that sound like... not just neutral?
[13:12] oO0Oo Resident: oh wow!
[13:12] Korel Laloix: Took a Ninja 650 for a drive the other day.
[13:12] oO0Oo Resident: what style of bike? Road, offroad, hybrid?
[13:13] Korel Laloix: Crotch rocket.... smiles
[13:13] Korel Laloix: I had a Buell Blast but it got wrecked.
[13:14] Korel Laloix: So looking for something with maybe a bit more this time.

[13:14] oO0Oo Resident: "Crotch Rocket" lol... why does that not surprise me... checking for images
[13:14] oO0Oo Resident: http://images.google.com/search?q=ninja+650&biw=937&bih=846&tbm=isch
[13:14] oO0Oo Resident: yup
[13:14] oO0Oo Resident: looks speedy ;)
[13:15] Korel Laloix: My Buell was red. So my riding gear is part red.
[13:15] Korel Laloix: So looking for a red new one.
[13:16] oO0Oo Resident: Buell: http://images.google.com/search?q=buell&biw=937&bih=846&tbm=isch
[13:17] oO0Oo Resident: Hadn't heard of that make before.
[13:17] Korel Laloix: Buell is a part of Harley Davidson.

[13:17] oO0Oo Resident: I grant you the bike, but will disown you as a friend if I catch you riding with a Starbucks coffee in one hand. ;)
[13:17] oO0Oo Resident: Oh OK
[13:17] Korel Laloix: The Blast is their starter bike..... but it fits me...
[13:18] oO0Oo Resident: hehe
[13:18] Korel Laloix: At 4'9 I don't have a lot of stock bike options.
[13:18] Korel Laloix: lol
[13:18] oO0Oo Resident: what model of Buell did you have?
[13:18] Korel Laloix: Blast.
[13:18] Wol Euler: hello sam, korel
[13:19] Korel Laloix: A lovely one cylinder small bike... It fit me perfectly. Was a great starter bike for me.
[13:19] oO0Oo Resident: Hi Wol.. :) Korel and I are talking bikes.
[13:19] Wol Euler: I gathered :) please continue!
[13:19] Korel Laloix: Heya
[13:20] Korel Laloix: So the Ninja is nice, a bit pricey though.

[13:20] oO0Oo Resident: Korel is worried that if she gets about on a new shiny red "Croth Rocket", she may have a hard time attracting chicks. ;) (jk)
[13:20] Korel Laloix: And there are models that are pretty low wiht certain seats.
[13:20] Wol Euler: heheh
[13:20] Korel Laloix: Oh no, in the right crowd, it would be good for that.
[13:21] oO0Oo Resident: I'm sure you don't need the bike for that even Korel, and neither my making up this story... :)
[13:22] Korel Laloix grins
[13:22] oO0Oo Resident: Wol you need to send the cookies back in the oven for just a wee bit longer.
[13:22] Korel Laloix: No, cookes are better slightly raw.
[13:22] Wol Euler: O.O
[13:22] Wol Euler: what?
[13:22] oO0Oo Resident: rebake?
[13:22] Wol Euler: ah :)
[13:22] oO0Oo Resident: hehe
[13:23] oO0Oo Resident: not that the simplicity and elegance of the white oval are unbecoming
[13:23] Korel Laloix: Grey is an underrated color.
[13:23] oO0Oo Resident: and Korel... you like cookies on the rare side?
[13:24] Korel Laloix: Raw actualy.
[13:24] Wol Euler remembers eating raw cookie-dough as a kid
[13:24] Wol Euler smiles.
[13:24] Korel Laloix: But ones with no butter in them.
[13:24] Korel Laloix: OR very litle butter.

[13:25] oO0Oo Resident: Drop the baking to see what is raw

[13:29] oO0Oo Resident: This is normally Maxine's session?
[13:29] oO0Oo Resident: Is she away?
[13:29] Wol Euler: yess, don't know where she is today
[13:29] Wol Euler: did she say she'd be away?
[13:32] Wol Euler feels guilty about stopping the conversation.
[13:32] oO0Oo Resident: twas I
[13:32] Korel Laloix: Was looking at websites.
[13:32] Korel Laloix: So you did not stop it.
[13:32] Wol Euler: if I knew anything about motorbikes I would be joining in
[13:32] Korel Laloix: lol
[13:32] Korel Laloix: My beck got wrecked on my big roadtrip to the Grand Canyon over the summer.
[13:32] oO0Oo Resident: and no... didn't hear from Maxine... though I have not checked email a couple of days.
[13:32] Korel Laloix: So I am now looking for a replacement.
[13:33] Wol Euler: yes, you mentioned that when it happened
[13:33] Korel Laloix: I was lucky really.

[13:33] Wol Euler: that's an expensive proposition,I fear
[13:33] Korel Laloix: Not to bad.
[13:33] Korel Laloix: I am saving up.
[13:33] Korel Laloix: I won't debt to buy it.
[13:33] Wol Euler: good!
[13:33] Wol Euler: brava.
[13:34] oO0Oo Resident: Are you a good rider/driver Korel?
[13:34] Korel Laloix: I think so.

[13:34] Korel Laloix: But everyone things they are a good driver.
[13:34] Wol Euler smiles.
[13:34] Korel Laloix: thinks
[13:34] oO0Oo Resident: Can you comfortably ride a passenger?

[13:34] Wol Euler: hello zen
[13:34] oO0Oo Resident: Hiya Zen
[13:35] Korel Laloix: I could not on my Buell.
[13:35] Zen Arado: Hi Wol, Korel, Sam
[13:35] Korel Laloix: I could on the Ninja with the right set up.
[13:35] oO0Oo Resident: Maybe you can give us rides at a retreat sometime ;)
[13:36] oO0Oo Resident: Talking motorbikes Zen
[13:36] Zen Arado: ok
[13:37] Korel Laloix: That would be nice.....
[13:37] Korel Laloix: I love scaring passanagers... grins
[13:37] Wol Euler raises an eyebrow.
[13:37] Zen Arado: scared already

[13:37] Zen Arado: will stay safely on terra firma
[13:37] Korel Laloix: Of course.
[13:38] Korel Laloix: But at a nice speed on the highway....
[13:38] Korel Laloix: I wil make sure and bring a guest helmet.
[13:38] Zen Arado: used to have a friend had a bike and took us from Brisbane to Surfer's Paradise at weekends
[13:38] Zen Arado: long time ago...sigh
[13:38] Zen Arado: it was Matchless 350
[13:39] Zen Arado: no crash helmets i those days
[13:39] Korel Laloix: NO idea about that.
[13:39] Korel Laloix: Helmets are warm if nothing else.

[13:39] Wol Euler: oh, I remember Matchless. Good god :)
[13:40] Zen Arado: too warm maybe?
[13:40] Zen Arado: old British firm
[13:40] Korel Laloix: I very very rarely get too warm.

[13:40] 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
[13:40] Zen Arado: lie Triumph and BSA
[13:40] Zen Arado: oh :)
[13:40] Wol Euler: long gone now, of course
[13:41] Wol Euler: factory as well as company
[13:41] Zen Arado: think I saw Triumph bikes lately..new ones
[13:41] Zen Arado: don't know where they make them
[13:42] oO0Oo Resident: matchless: http://images.google.com/search?q=matchless+motorbikes+OR+motercycles&biw=937&bih=846&tbm=isch
[13:42] Zen Arado: Triumph:
[13:42] Zen Arado: http://www.triumph.co.uk/uk/motorcycles.aspx
[13:42] Korel Laloix: Never riden one.
[13:43] Zen Arado: 2.3 litres? gracious!
[13:43] Zen Arado: Hi Druth

[13:43] oO0Oo Resident: Druth !
[13:43] druth Vlodovic: hey all
[13:43] Wol Euler: hello druth
[13:43] oO0Oo Resident: 'struth.. it's Druth
[13:43] druth Vlodovic: :)
[13:43] Zen Arado: lol
[13:44] Zen Arado: too right
[13:44] oO0Oo Resident: Did you ever go to the Breakfast Creek Hotel in Brissie Zen?
[13:44] Zen Arado: nah
[13:44] Zen Arado: lived in digs
[13:44] Zen Arado: Kangaroo Point
[13:45] oO0Oo Resident: I lived in Kangaroo point!!!
[13:45] Zen Arado: under the Storey Bridge :)
[13:45] Wol Euler: fascinating :)
[13:46] Zen Arado: it was 1962 tho
[13:47] Zen Arado: got a ferry straight into city
[13:47] oO0Oo Resident: sure :)
[13:47] oO0Oo Resident: I lived on Toohey near Main... not far away
[13:47] oO0Oo Resident: but many years later
[13:47] Zen Arado: remembers the Gabba
[13:47] Zen Arado: cricket grond
[13:47] oO0Oo Resident: yes near the Gabba!

[13:48] Zen Arado: remember steam trains crossing the road
[13:48] oO0Oo Resident smiles.. before my time ;)
[13:48] Zen Arado: big jugs of beer
[13:48] Wol Euler smiles.
[13:48] oO0Oo Resident: lets seee
[13:48] oO0Oo Resident: 4x
[13:49] oO0Oo Resident: or
[13:49] Zen Arado: and mossies biting during the day
[13:49] oO0Oo Resident: too right mate!
[13:49] Zen Arado: too close to Brisbane River
[13:50] oO0Oo Resident: When i lived in Brisbane, there was a backpackers under the story bridge
[13:50] Zen Arado: moved back to Sydney again tho
[13:50] Zen Arado: oh?
[13:50] Zen Arado: I lived there about a year
[13:51] Zen Arado: preferred Sydney

[13:51] oO0Oo Resident: Funny thing is... there is no beach, and really hardly any access to ocean in Brisbane itself
[13:51] Zen Arado: yeh true
[13:51] oO0Oo Resident: Yes Sydney is nicer IMHO
[13:51] Zen Arado: had to go to Surfers
[13:51] Zen Arado: Gold coast
[13:51] oO0Oo Resident: yes
[13:51] Zen Arado: lived in Sydney 7 years
[13:52] oO0Oo Resident: Sydney is a gorgeous city
[13:52] oO0Oo Resident: and beaches
[13:52] Zen Arado: hitch hiked up to Cairns one time
[13:52] Zen Arado: yeh
[13:52] oO0Oo Resident: plenty of beaches
[13:52] oO0Oo Resident: me too!
[13:52] oO0Oo Resident: Pacific highway
[13:53] Zen Arado: jumped a goods train from Townsville to Brisbane on way down again
[13:53] Zen Arado: me and a mate
[13:53] oO0Oo Resident: hehe
[13:53] oO0Oo Resident: nice
[13:53] Zen Arado: jumped a rattler
[13:54] oO0Oo Resident: always nicer to look back on those ones
[13:54] Zen Arado: it wasn't very comfortable either
[13:54] Zen Arado: :)
[13:54] oO0Oo Resident: Northern New South Wales is nice.
[13:54] Zen Arado: Queenslander much more laid back tho
[13:54] oO0Oo Resident: ah ya

[13:55] oO0Oo Resident: Was Sir Joh in office lol?
[13:55] Zen Arado: hey Bob Menzies
[13:55] Zen Arado: pig iron Bob
[13:56] Zen Arado: he sold iron to Japanese or something
[13:56] druth Vlodovic: hey wol
[13:57] Wol Euler smiles.
[13:57] Wol Euler: hello druth :)

[13:57] oO0Oo Resident: Here's who i was thinking of. Not federal politics, but a long standing controversial figure in Queensland politics. :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joh_Bjelke-Petersen
[13:57] Zen Arado: ah ok

[13:57] oO0Oo Resident: Not to get political of course ;)
[13:57] Zen Arado: he he
[13:58] Zen Arado: it's not allowed :)
[13:58] Wol Euler raises an eyebrow.
[13:58] oO0Oo Resident: Sees only white egg
[13:58] oO0Oo Resident: hehe
[13:59] Zen Arado: wasn't much interested in Aussie politics
[13:59] druth Vlodovic: g2g, have fun guys
[13:59] oO0Oo Resident: Sir Joh became premier of Queensland in 1968 I think
[13:59] Zen Arado: bye Druth
[13:59] oO0Oo Resident: so
[14:00] oO0Oo Resident: Bye Druth
[14:00] Korel Laloix: Take care
[14:00] Wol Euler: bye druth
[14:00] Wol Euler: take care
[14:00] Zen Arado: 68 - 2005
[14:00] Zen Arado: wow
[14:00] Zen Arado: no 1987
[14:00] Zen Arado: died 2005

[14:00] Zen Arado: better get to Bert's meditation
[14:01] Zen Arado: g'day all
[14:01] Wol Euler: oh yes
[14:01] Wol Euler: gooodnight all those who aren't going along :)
[14:01] oO0Oo Resident: G'day Zen!
[14:01] oO0Oo Resident: "Bjelkemander," a play on the term "gerrymander".
[14:01] oO0Oo Resident: OK... no more politics
[14:01] oO0Oo Resident: zips
[14:02] oO0Oo Resident: Bye Wol
[14:03] oO0Oo Resident: ::breathes::: some fond memories
[14:03] Korel Laloix: Was a good little chat.
[14:04] oO0Oo Resident: ;0
[14:04] oO0Oo Resident: ;0
[14:04] oO0Oo Resident: ;0
[14:04] oO0Oo Resident: :)
[14:04] oO0Oo Resident: 4th time is a charm as they say

[14:04] Korel Laloix: Of to another chat now.
[14:04] Korel Laloix: Of course.
[14:04] oO0Oo Resident: kk Korel gtsy
[14:04] Korel Laloix: Take care... smiles
[14:05] oO0Oo Resident: u2 :)