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luck in the race.
Martin
I think he’d just raided a honey pot! LOL!
Thanks, mate. Cheers, Stuart
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Stirling ACT
We meant travelling on the train,
Robert... not riding across the
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Boys,
What ever happened to Honda’s
‘You meet the nicest people...’ of the
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(including, but not limited to, AMM)
we are assailed by ‘aggressive styling’,
‘aggressively styled tread pattern’,
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normally expect to be applied to
footbrawl, not motorcycling. I
mean, how can a motorcycle be
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tread be aggressively styled? A tread
pattern is just that; indentations in a
rubber ring. It’s time for motorcycleWHAT SAY YOU
journalists to check their
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with new adjectives that don’t imply
all, rather than just some,
motorcyclists are a bunch of
pugnacious morons. Or perhaps
they could ask Boris for some
alternatives, at least they would
be humorous.
Of course, in the aforementioned
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something hot, red and throbbing
between your thighs’ but that was
truly clever and witty.
Jeff Cole
Alice SpringsJeff, the nicest people of the ‘60s have
turned into curmudgeons who write to
the press with complaints that things are
no longer the way they were in the
‘60s... as for the bikes, they’re now
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while ‘aggressive’ can mean ‘ready to
thump someone’, it can also mean
‘marked by combative readiness; marked
by obtrusive energy and self-
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forceful energy or initiative’ which I
think can be applied to both styling and
tyre patterns. But we will check our
dictionaries and I’ll forward your letter
to Boris for a comment! – The Bear$QGTXLFNDVDIODVK%RULVUHSOLHG ́,
addressed Honda’s signature imprecation
some years ago. I swore I would never
buy a Honda since I was profoundly
disinterested in meeting nice people. I
wanted to meet sluts, knife-fighters and
pimps. But I think the issue here is
trying to deal with the society’s general
emasculation of men, who are no longer
allowed to be manly, and so they need to
enjoy their manhood vicariously via a
thuggish tread-pattern. There’s really no
point asking me. It will only end in
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called them uncool on Facebook.” DIs that like aluminium
siding, Robert?The makings of an
insurance job... but Robert
will be waiting for a while
before the train comes.