Great posts above.
Thanks !
I AM truly chocked about the original poster.
Not in a pearl-clutching hysterical way...more in a WTF-sad way.
As I've mentioned before ;
I have meet NOthing but the kindest , most helpful people .... on the Salt ... and on this forum.
I could be wrong ( well...not really ) , but I was under the impression that this forum was all about helping and
encouraging each other , not belittling or antagonize each other or
flaunting an attitude of superiority.
...
Dean: I'm addressing this to you personally. Please show the guts to answer me:
You started out with one he** of a sweeping judgement :
.....the records were bought. As soon as they paid the entry fee and ran on an open record.
...It’s called cherry picking....
I posted a reply ( that for some reason you haven't bothered answering ) :
...It’s because 29 of the records were bought. As soon as they paid the entry fee and ran on an open record.
..... It’s called cherry picking....
Really ?
I must admit that when I read it I went:
Da'fq ( pardon my 'French' )
Here's a news-flash for you: nothing is black/white...there are all sorts of shades of grey.
I'm one of them who according to you 'bought' a record.
First of all ; when I started out I had no clue if there was a record in my class.
In fact I thought I was to run in another class until I was told that my bike
wasn't a 'P' ( push-rod ) but a 'V' (Vintage) because my good ole' Indian have
very short ( apparently NON-) push-rods.
I spend 1½-years of my spare-time and every available cent I made, building the bike...put it in a box..
air-freight it a billion miles across the Atlantic...with the truely invaluable help from the best people in the world
run it at Bonneville...fail miserably...freight it back....spend another year building..
..air-freight it over the big pond again...run it with some success...ESTABLISH a record
...and I 'bought' that
Care to check how I 'bought' that ?
Be my guest:
http://www.landracing.com/forum/index.php/topic,5849.0.html
Sorry if this makes me ever so tinybittyslightly...how can I put it?....'miffed'.
OK enough of this. Gotta get going updating my build-thread:
http://www.landracing.com/forum/index.php/topic,13079.0.html
BTW: I have NO clue if there is a record in the class that my new bike will run in.
That is not what this is about for me....yes: really !
You can applaud that, you can shake your head at that , you can choose not believe what I just said.
I don't give a flying f...f....front-fork.
It's the gawdhonest truth.
WHEN eventually I check to see if there IS a record, and if it turns out there ISN'T one,
I may have to change the name of the bike, and the thread, to:
'The Worlds Fastest Cherrypicker'
.....and of course be truly ashamed of myself.
Right
BTW: for EVERY SINGLE class ( and there's a WHOLE LOT of them) in which there is a record, there must at one point back,
have been a 'Cherrypicket' who established that.
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 ?.