Hi All,
Just joined the forum and this is my first post. This was the first thread I read as I've just started looking at the GS as a possible addition to the garage.
Got to say I'm really surprised to see this thread as a sticky. I haven't read it all as it's 15 pages long after only a couple it made me start to cringe. (In actuality the first post did that on it's own).
Looking at the list of topics and threads, I thought "wow this is the perfect place to find out more about the GS and for post purchase chats and support" but after reading some of this thread i'm beginning to wonder if I was wrong!
Someone please re-assure me that there are normal folk here who love bikes and love riding them regardless of what badge they have on them. Maybe I'm naive but I still ride around thinking of helping and protecting other bikers regardless of what they ride or how they ride it. Sure some ride faster than me and others ride slower, but who cares as long as we all get there in one piece!
I found myself in the opposite position of that described in the first post the other day. I was riding a lovely back country road and caught up with a couple on a bike (Fazer or something like that), it was one of those twisties where there really aren't many places to pass, after a minute or so behind I noticed the guy started to seriously up his pace, that's fine his choice to do. But after another minute or so it was apparent that he was beginning to ride a little raggedy, so I simply chose to back right off. There was little opportunity to pass, it wasn't achieving anything to sit on his backside so just slowed right down for a few seconds to let him disappear and then carry on as normal.
My thought process was that if he and his pillion came off and were hurt, okay by his choice of riding so his own fault, I would have felt terrible and wasn't the point of my journey to be racing him.
I hope this doesn't read as a rant by a newbie, it's certainly not intended that way, to be honest I just found it a little disappointing that I thought I'd found the perfect place to chat GS stuff and was greeted by a sticky thread that really doesn't welcome a newbie. I really hope this is the place I hoped it to be and that I do buy a GS and that I can get stuck in with the GS chat!
Andy.
Just joined the forum and this is my first post. This was the first thread I read as I've just started looking at the GS as a possible addition to the garage.
Got to say I'm really surprised to see this thread as a sticky. I haven't read it all as it's 15 pages long after only a couple it made me start to cringe. (In actuality the first post did that on it's own).
Looking at the list of topics and threads, I thought "wow this is the perfect place to find out more about the GS and for post purchase chats and support" but after reading some of this thread i'm beginning to wonder if I was wrong!
Someone please re-assure me that there are normal folk here who love bikes and love riding them regardless of what badge they have on them. Maybe I'm naive but I still ride around thinking of helping and protecting other bikers regardless of what they ride or how they ride it. Sure some ride faster than me and others ride slower, but who cares as long as we all get there in one piece!
I found myself in the opposite position of that described in the first post the other day. I was riding a lovely back country road and caught up with a couple on a bike (Fazer or something like that), it was one of those twisties where there really aren't many places to pass, after a minute or so behind I noticed the guy started to seriously up his pace, that's fine his choice to do. But after another minute or so it was apparent that he was beginning to ride a little raggedy, so I simply chose to back right off. There was little opportunity to pass, it wasn't achieving anything to sit on his backside so just slowed right down for a few seconds to let him disappear and then carry on as normal.
My thought process was that if he and his pillion came off and were hurt, okay by his choice of riding so his own fault, I would have felt terrible and wasn't the point of my journey to be racing him.
I hope this doesn't read as a rant by a newbie, it's certainly not intended that way, to be honest I just found it a little disappointing that I thought I'd found the perfect place to chat GS stuff and was greeted by a sticky thread that really doesn't welcome a newbie. I really hope this is the place I hoped it to be and that I do buy a GS and that I can get stuck in with the GS chat!
Andy.