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I think it was a VFR and I was on the Gixxer 11 so no excuses whatsoever. And please read my post (although missing the odd letter) I didn't say you were good at writing. 
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| Ah I remember the VFR's I had, it certainly can't have been the FG model I had, must have been that bulky FR model. Anyway we only have your word for itinerant cornering ability, probably just a black hearted remark, usually I ride like a track god and you know it.
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| Ah, the voice of reason: an oft-used description of my good self. Probably only slightly less frequently than you see "Roadhoover" and "track god" in the same sentence...! Defining moments, now there's a tricky one - there have been lots along the way. Probably impulsively purchasing an EXUP 1000 would be the big one, though. The CBR600 that preceded it was a nice bike: certainly better than anything I'd had before, from a 2am run the entire length of the M40/42 with the throttle flat to the stop right through to a frankly embarrassing kerb-to-bike interfacing just oustide the pub. But the EXUP absolutely blew it into the weeds as an adrenaline-rush machine... So, about a week into proud ownership of the bike, there I was tooling along the A283, smugly confident in my obviously superior machine...when some chap - ironically enough on a VFR - tanked past at a surprising rate of knots. He stayed in front, too, despite my best efforts - we had to call it quits after a blind-bend encounter with a Range Rover stopped on our side of the (single-lane) road waiting to turn right and an oncoming car-and-caravan combo. I have no idea how we both got through the gap, but I had 130 on the clock and the dust off the Range Rover's side all down my elbow, so it was a bit of a moment...pulled up at the Water's Edge cafe just down the road for a much needed cigarette and coffee break with VFR man, who turned out to be a really nice bloke. Anyhow, I learned three things that particular day - (1) Don't believe the horsepower hype - it's not really the machine that counts (2) There's no buzz quite like using a fast bike in anger and (3) Sometimes it's best just to be lucky...
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I know a man who had his Exup serviced and the technicians found a small ossified bird in his airbox.
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roadhoover (09/09/2008)
I know a man who had his Exup serviced and the technicians found a small ossified bird in his airbox.I know a man who had his bird serviced and they found.........perhaps not 
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And he admitted it to you? Callous fellow!
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| For the first time in decades, the fate of American foreign aid to Egypt, a total of $1.3 billion annually, hovered over the administration’s deliberations. Because of a new Congressional restriction that requires the State Department to certify that Egypt’s government is committed to democracy.
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