Motorcycle "Records" - Really??

[Plmkrze]

Dr Goggles

Waldo the shop cat is working on the certification of the Down Under Cherry Pickers Association (DUCPA) Melbourne Chapter. However, every time I turn him over to look at the facts of your cherry picking ability he hacks up a hair ball. Maybe fewer libations will help. We will be back to you shortly.

Plm Krze
ECCPA (Wilmington Chapter)

[octane]

Octane,

Last night over several libations it was unanimously decided by Waldo the shop cat that the Northern Europe Cherry Pickers Association, Copenhagen Chapter sense forth referred to as NECPA be granted full honor and privileges.

Congratulations!

Remember the motto, “You can only pop that cherry once”.   

I bow my head and duff my cap to your cat Sir, for the honour.
Please go feed Waldo a mouse or whatever it is that cats eat.

I'm shopping today:
 http://www.niftylift.com/?node=51990
I think I'll go for the 'Self Propelled' model.
Then I can just sit around ... do absolutely nothing ... and presto: I've got a record.

.

[doug]

Octane,

Last night over several libations it was unanimously decided by Waldo the shop cat that the Northern Europe Cherry Pickers Association, Copenhagen Chapter sense forth referred to as NECPA be granted full honor and privileges.

Congratulations!

Remember the motto, “You can only pop that cherry once”.   

I bow my head and duff my cap to your cat Sir, for the honour.
Please go feed Waldo a mouse or whatever it is that cats eat.

I'm shopping today:
 http://www.niftylift.com/?node=51990
I think I'll go for the 'Self Propelled' model.
Then I can just sit around ... do absolutely nothing ... and presto: I've got a record.

.

Why pick?:
http://www.jokeroo.com/videos/cool/cherry-picking-machine.html

[Nortonist 592]

http://www.jokeroo.com/videos/cool/cherry-picking-machine.html[/url]

How 'bout that?   Dean's dream come true.  Cherry picked records falling from the trees!!!  Bonneville be damned!  I'm going there!!

[Stan Back]

I saw a lot of sidecars in there.

[Plmkrze]

This upside down cherry pickn from down under has got the shop cat is a dizzy! Waldo did say meow for the pics of the professional grade pickn machenses. opps maybe a bit too much libation. 

[Nortonist 592]

I saw a lot of sidecars in there.

I saw a couple of tasty looking ones falling from the tree.

[octane]

Now here's a piece of good advise when posting on a forum;
don't post anything that you wouldn't say if you were seeing the person in real life,
eye-to-eye.
So Dean, as were are a few thousand miles from each other, please have a look here,
so you can put a face / a human being, to the guy you're 'talking to' here.
This is me:

with bike:



with SpeedWeek record
( Pointing to the paragraph printed in really really small letters saying
"..This record was bought, as soon as you paid the entry fee and ran on an open record,
and will be filed under 'Cherrypicking'.." ). Silly me, I should have read that. )




doing a dance of sheer joy and happiness after establishing a record at BUB
 ( "..  bought. As soon as [ I ] paid the entry fee and ran on an open record.." )




Now tell me that you will say to me in real life ( as you did here ) the things you said.

Let's say; you walk up to me ( mentally ) on that last picture
..tap my shoulder
..say something to the effect of: ( just guessing...paraphrasing  )
"Stop that dancing around. Your records was bought. As soon as you paid the entry fee and ran on an open record.
You're a cherry picker.."

Would you do that ?


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Hey Dean !... please come along and answer my post, will ya' ?!
Look at me at the last pic. I can't bloody hold that silly position for much longer....getting cramps, man

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[octane]

Octane,

Last night over several libations it was unanimously decided by Waldo the shop cat that
the Northern Europe Cherry Pickers Association, Copenhagen Chapter
 sense forth referred to as NECPA be granted full honor and privileges.

The wait is over !

The ultimate fashion- and support statement is here.

Now your family and friends can show their support.
You can impress the girls ....and you can .....er.....un-impress Dean.


THE CHERRY PICKER NECPA SUPPORT T-SHIRT.




Notice that it comes with the hip-to-wear-a-pack-of-fags roll-up sleeves



Naturally you can order it with your particular chapter print.

Wear it with pride:





Soon to be available from CherryPower productions.
All proceedings will go to me personally, as not only am I too lazy to actually work
for a record, I'm also too cheap to pay for the record I will buy next year.


.

[Jodar]

Lars, you have no idea how many bellylarfs your pictures generated here.

The sillyass shot of you dancing confirms rumors that you were in fact a disco duck who went on to a long and productive career perfecting the Macarena.

Your cherrypicker shirts strike a rather sensitive note here, as we are shamefully going after another open record next year - unless of course we can buy it ahead of time. True story.

In the spirit of kicking a sleeping dog, we would all be interested to hear of Dean's efforts to cherry-pick an open bike record a few years back. He probably would have been better off to just buy it outright

Cheers, Joe

[makr]

I tried to stay out of this because I don't race there, and those who do should decide policy. But some of y'all are overlooking one very important point. Look around. All I see is pictures, but it appears the average age is way up there.

Look at what is happening in hotrodding. The major magazines were all doing their dead level best to kill the sport by belittling any effort to join in. Entry level was $50k or so or you were soundly insulted. Old geezers took a car to a pro shop where they threw most of it away and charged 6 figures to replace it all with kit car parts, and this was pushed as the only acceptable way to enter the sport. So young folks went to cheap Japanese cars and a whole new way of looking at individualization so they could be car nuts too. I berated Freiburger for continually putting out a completely irrelevant magazine for Old Geezers Who Don't Build Cars, asking him to turn the grand old name of Hot Rod Magazine over to someone that was actually interested in hotrodding. A few months later editorial policy took a complete turn in the opposite direction, toward something actually related to hotrodding. I quite possibly saved the sport. Other magazines are still trying to kill it.

Like it or not, and whether you choose to admit it or not, Bonneville will die a slow death if you don't somehow encourage young blood. Cronyism and old geezer cliques and barriers to entry are just fine and lots of fun for those of you with insecurities, but will kill Bonneville. Yes, the gall of some people, imagine actually wanting to come to our salt and race.

You need to run ads in all the auto magazines proudly pointing out all the open records and the wonderful opportunities for beginners to come on down and get a taste of LSR. That is what it will take to save Bonneville.

Or you can Plymouth and moan about anyone that tries that, and watch young folks go race some other way, and young folks will race, while Bonneville becomes all about history and only about history.

Well said!!!!

This post should be on the welcome page.

[Plmkrze]

IT IS OFFICIAL!!!!!

The Down Under Cherry Pickers Association (DUCPA) Melbourne Chapter has been approved!!

We now have the following "offical" chapters certified by the one the only, Waldo Pepper feline extraordinary. This is quite an accomplishment and we all should all be proud. It is not easy to hold a cat upside down for any length of time.

Down Under Cherry Pickers Association (DUCPA) Melbourne Chapter (pronounced Duck Pa)
Northern Europe Cherry Pickers Association (NECPA) Copenhagen Chapter (pronounced Neck Pa)
East Coast Cherry Pickers Association (ECCPA) Wilmington Chapter (pronounced ECK Pa)


Always remain faithful to our motto:  You can only pop that cherry once!
 

[Nortonist 592]

as we are shamefully going after another open record next year

Shamefully Joe?   We're going to buy that record with our heads held high!

[wobblywalrus]

It is the beginning of the off season when speed week ends.  it is not unknown for one of our esteemed veterans to make up some goofball thread like this.  Look at years past.  We always rise for the bait.  Especially us bike folks.  Its all part of the fun and nothing to get wound up about.   

[Nortonist 592]

Not get wound up??  NOT GET WOUND UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?  WADDIA MEAN NOT GET WOUND UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!???