Thanks for summing up my thoughts Tom, and those folks love to talk about their bike and their poker runs. Ride to live, live to talk about it.

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BRIAN

2008 WR250R 2006 DL1000

Not even close.

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BRIAN

2008 WR250R 2006 DL1000

We are ALL posers, really, just to different people.

One group hates another group. However, people within the same group might dislike another person in their group. One person riding a DL1000 might think the guy on the DL650 is a poser. Two guys on similar DL650s might snicker at each other because of various farkles. Basically, we are all posers... just to different people unlike ourselves, no matter how small the degree might be.

"Hi, I'm Dennis, and I am a poser"

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2009 DL650 'Prime Mover'

"It is better to live alone in the desert than with a nagging wife" - Proverbs 21:19

Looking out the door I see the rain fall upon the funeral mourners.
Parading in a wake of sad relations as their shoes fill up with water. - Jeff Buckley, 1994

http://photobucket.com/mid-life-crisis-tour

I don't think that is posing. That's being Small Minded and full of yourself.

..Tom

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Road Toads Charter Member - 2006 V-Strom DL650: 202,000 km 125,500 miles, 2012 DL650 New March 2012 54,000 km


Why Cars don't see bikes (SMIDSY)
SMIDSY detailed report

RichW hit it, although it hits uncomfortably close to home. I won't say "almost never" but I can recall a lot of "adventures" that were better in the retelling than in the doing, and a few that were utter, abject misery.

And BTW, the reason us 'Murricans have dropped the U from a lot of words (colour, etc.) and simplified Olde Blighty-style spelling in other ways is because of Noah Webster. I hope this information is not tyresome.

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2007 DL650
"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" -- Harry M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927

Very true !!!!
When we North Americans try to be quaint or try to "pose", we try to reinvent Olde Blighty-style spelling and content.
For example, there is the ubiquitous "Ye Olde Jolly Roger Fish and Chip Shoppe"..... or the ever popular "Olde Battle of Hastings Antique Shoppe"

I jst dnt C w@ d big deal S bout sp. WE wrks!

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The frightening thing is not dying
The frightening thing is not living

T Bone Burnett

Go figure.

But then the vast majority who get it wrong are (North) Americans - Fans of the Five Cheese frozen pizza.

They're quite OK not knowing what those cheeses are. It stands to reason 'poseur' wouldn't stand a chance.

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1942 Brick Bungalow
1968 Dream Wife
2007 Retirement Certificate

We have one up here named Twark Might.

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If you stop by the spray-on tanning salon and ask them to hit your bike and riding gear with something approximating Georgia clay, you might be a poser.

If you've spent more money on your motorcycle brand's apparel, cologne and table lamps than on that brand's bikes, you might be a poser.

If you buy used track tires from your racing buddies and fail to correct the assumption that you scrubbed those chicken strips, you might be a poser.

If your trailer has more miles on it than your bike, you might be a poser.

If your American-made bike is 51% chrome-plated Asian-produced aftermarket parts and you look down your nose at metric cruisers, you might be a poser.

If you've taken all brand-identification off your metric cruiser and fail to correct someone when they call it a Harley, you might be a poser.

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Stromin'Nroman NC28729, USA

DL650A K7 (Greywolf Moto Lab's R&D test mule) June 1, 2012 - present
DL650A K7 April 23, 2007 - January 6, 2012, RIP

"Look here brother, who you jivin' with that cosmik debris?" Frank Zappa, 1975