slickhillsy & his inferiority complex ...
Hillsy, mate, buddy, cobber, comrade - calm down before you and jamieq999 take an infarction or something. Crikey, we are only having a bit of a wind-up and you let matters quickly escalate to the point where it is intensely personal and two Duck owners are shaping-up to run each other off should their paths ever cross. It is YOU who has the jumpy, jangly struck nerves - no-one else. Look, if your lovely bike gives you pleasure and your job is well paid and all that great stuff - good on you - but please, don't ram it up everyone else's nose as some sort of de facto defence or uber social status symbol. It just makes you sound like a hopeless, materialistic tosser with penis size issues that you have to flaunt this big, phallic male symbol to compensate. There's an old saying about people of that ilk - they know the price of everything and the value of nothing. Use your intellect to score points, Man. Personally, I am far more impressed by that than some tugger ejaculating about his toys, claimed riding ability and his job. Now, don't be threatened by me or deign to offer me meaningful employment in the watering holes of the UK. I don't need it. After working in senior management and embarrassing money, I am retired and just enjoy running Full Marathons, my bikes ( big, fast, sports ones - not cruisers - the horror ) and closely following motorcycle racing. Think of a sort of Victor Meldrew gone bizarre, OK.? Although I have a Brit passport, and retired to the warmth, great weather and riding of Queensland's Gold Coast, I think of myself as 99% Kiwi. Brits go to Spain - we come to God's waiting room. Back to the whole point here: I leave you with a quote from Wayne Gardner, dated December last year ( a pretty reasonable rider and hard bastard you may have heard of - your profile says you have only been around bikes a wee while ) " While at Valencia I caught up with Marco Melandri and Sete Gibernau. I asked about the Ducati and they both said the same thing - unless you're on full throttle all the time the electronics get confused and the bike gets out of shape. The entire set-up demands 100% commitment. Casey is the only rider that understands the way to do that. " When World Champions ( Melandri & Hayden ) have really tried, professionally, with their careers at stake and just can't get results from the bike after many months and hundreds of laps - doesn't that tell you something? Stoner is a towering talent with a World Championship and many GP victories to date and more to come - despite the bike - not because of it, OK? it is obvious that if Brit village idiots gave him a scintilla of the respect he deserves instead of mindless abuse and endless criticism of his " personality", he would respond in kind. Good day to you.
