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Hello to you all. I'm new here!

I've just bought a W-reg VTR which I'll collect on Thursday. I've a Deauville at present which I use for work but I wanted a bit more poke for the weekends. I live near Loughborough and at 58 everyone tells me I'm too old for the bigger v-twin!

Always keen to meet up and talk bikes - hoping it stays dry for Thursday as I'll be riding it back from Sleaford.

Take care,

Mr.John

hello and welcome .
have a good read through the workshop knowledge base

welcome to the team Mr John Coates...........or can we be informal and call you Mr?

anyway, have fun on Thursday and ask as many questions as you want........we will either try and help / take the piss / not reply / Hijack the thread with some drivel about which colour rhymes with Poo. .........it pretty random, but at 58 you will forget by tomorrow and ask the same question again

Sounds like you have experienced that then alzheimer's46

hello and welcome to the forum fella, be prepaired for a little piss taking and the mindless ranting of yellow firestorm owners
we only entertain them as part of the care in the community program.....
have a good read thru the workshop section to sort out a few little niggles your bike might have and have fun with your weekends

lloydiecbr wrote:Sounds like you have experienced that then alzheimer's46

who said that?

forgot to mention the colours that rhyme with cack

Hi, Mr.

Doesn't matter if it rains Thursday, these are fun in the wet as well.

And nothing wrong with wanting a better poke at weekends.

Your never too old, as you have found out we have a few of them around here already

Stick around and you can't go wrong, plenty of advice and guidance and members willing to help out. A very sociable bunch we are.

Get yourself a Photobucket account http://photobucket.com/ and you can post some pics. Have a safe ride on Thursday and get to know your bike and enjoy the V Twin torque.



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Welcome aboard.......now hold tight...................

Well, thanks for the very warm welcome.

AMCQ46 wrote:welcome to the team Mr John Coates...........or can we be informal and call you Mr?

You can call me anything you want. Mostly I go by: "Hey, b8stard!"

Now, on the sensitive subject of colour...I used to work for Honda in the vehicle finish area. I worked as a Paint Inspection Services Section artist, advising on colour schemes and technologies. We found that red was a good colour, with nice sized red molecules that offered a reduction in skin friction worth a good few BHP. Black was good, too. Sadly yellow was rubbish...yellow was for slow things like bananas and Bradley Wiggins.

The best colour was blue, far and away the quickest and always purchased by the discerning older gentleman.

So, there you have it. And my bike? Well blue of course

Mr John

mr.john.coates wrote: ...I used to work for Honda in the vehicle finish area. I worked as a Paint Inspection Services Section artist, advising on colour schemes and technologies.

The best colour was blue, far and away the quickest and always purchased by the discerning older gentleman.


Mr John

he knows his stuff!!

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The best colour was blue, far and away the quickest and always purchased by the discerning older gentleman.[/quote]

Top banana although us young uns also have good taste in colour.... I'm half your age

mr.john.coates wrote:Well, thanks for the very warm welcome.

AMCQ46 wrote:welcome to the team Mr John Coates...........or can we be informal and call you Mr?

You can call me anything you want. Mostly I go by: "Hey, b8stard!"

Now, on the sensitive subject of colour...I used to work for Honda in the vehicle finish area. I worked as a Paint Inspection Services Section artist, advising on colour schemes and technologies. We found that red was a good colour, with nice sized red molecules that offered a reduction in skin friction worth a good few BHP. Black was good, too. Sadly yellow was rubbish...yellow was for slow things like bananas and Bradley Wiggins.

The best colour was blue, far and away the quickest and always purchased by the discerning older gentleman.

So, there you have it. And my bike? Well blue of course

Mr John

Welcome to the forum.

Total tosh about colours of course..

It was looking good until you dissed Wiggo.

I would like to see you ride as fast as him.

just googled mr.john.coates near loughborough, got his address....anyone fancy a party friday afternoon