Re: [HuskyOwners] The Seven Subjects You Should Not Broach on a VMX forum
Wait, what do you mean...I just bought a 450 is that bad? You don't mean I screwed up again do you? I think I resemble that story!
Oh and by the way should I use a Mikuni or a Bing?
Gary
--- On Fri, 1/2/09, Mike Domanchich <domanch@...> wrote:
From: Mike Domanchich <domanch@...> Subject: [HuskyOwners] The Seven Subjects You Should Not Broach on a VMX forum To: HuskyOwners@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, January 2, 2009, 9:57 PM
OK then - so a 450 Desert Master is a great bike - there I said it,
but do I mean it?
And - say a neophyte noob shows up and either says or asks - "...found
this great looking (it all there) 450 Desert Master in an old barn. I
want to refurbish it and race it in my VMX Club's next event. Guy
wants $250.00 for it. I offered him three because he walks with a
limp. Did I rip him off?"
BECAUSE we are members of a forum - and many of us know things that
others do not, then it IS "PC" (wretch!) to tell the noob: "..ask why
he walks with a limp!!!"
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