Re: [ST] Welcome Paul

["John Petrey, Jr." <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul,

Welcome to the ST/RS List. Enjoyed your post. Your description of old bikes
& old days does bring up good memories of similar bikes/events. They work a
lot better now. I really like that fuel-injection feature. Jetting was/is a
real PITA.

John
Red ' 00 ST

- ----- Original Message -----
From: pauls <pauls@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <st@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 11:10 AM
Subject: [ST] Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 17:09:57 +0100


>
> I'm a new subscriber to the list and as requested here's who I am.
>
> I've got a 99 Red ST bought about 3 months ago, used daily communiting and
> for laughs. I'v covered 7k miles in those three months.
>
> I live in Rochester, Kent. England. I also own a RD250LC (currently
> undergoing restoration) and a XL600R (out of use due to cracked cylinder
> head) and I've previously owned such wonders as a BMW F650 (36000 miles
> from new in 2 years), Kwak GPZ305 (quite possibly the worst piece of shit
> ever to come out of Japan, except that Suz RE5 rotary thing), RD125LC
> (passed my test on this bike, I have the fondest memories about this over
> any other bike I own but it got knicked) and a KMX125 (got stolen a month
> after the 125LC - not a happy period of my life). Also not to forget my
> first bike, a Honda MBX50. Not many of those around then let alone now.
> Now here I am, 10 years down the road, a proper grown up with a grown up
> bike that doesn't let me down. In a funny way I miss the days of the 50's
> and 125's with your mates, pissing people off by not having any baffles in
> yer spannies and bodging the thing back together every weekend and I miss
> the back of my Dads van holding the bike still while he drives me home at
> 2am after another holed piston. I'm sure there are plenty of people who
> feel the same.
> Anyway, sorry for waffling, hope to speak to some of you soon, even meet
> maybe.
>
> Cheers and have a safe one.
>
> Paul Sisley,
>
>
>
>
>
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