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owrstrich
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 Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 9:36 pm Post subject: Greetings From Hell |
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after spending all day in an air conditioned office... i ventured out to go home for the day... if felt like an oven out there...
vacaville ca 109°F / 43°C 5:54pm pdt...
anyway... i pull into the hotel and commence to icing the coolers and out of nowhere my space was invaded... 14 eaglerider hds and 5 r1200gss pull in...
all riders from germany... on holiday in the usa for 3 weeks... they brought no gear... bought helmets in san francisco... nothing else yet... but they plan on spending a stack of cash...
anyway they are saying weak dollar... strong euro... gonna ride the usa for 3 weeks... staying in hotels every night...
good for them... so now at this time i would like to thank the fed for driving my hotel rates beyond affordable... its hard securing hotels out here with all the foreign travelers...
johnny
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Flying Duck
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| Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 9:57 pm Post subject: |
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Saw similar a few weeks ago while waiting for mnb at Alice's Restaurant. Three Brits that I gave a bit of CA routing advice to. Nice guys but I thought it was odd they'd spent all of that money to come to the US and rent Beemers but were riding around in jogging sneakers. 
(I''m not a ATGATT Nazi - I just found it odd.)
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chopper_harris
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| Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Flying Duck wrote: |
(I''m not a ATGATT Nazi - I just found it odd.) |
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Scott_Anderson
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| Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 8:05 pm Post subject: Re: Greetings From Hell |
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| owrstrich wrote: | | ... but they plan on spending a stack of cash... |
Yeh, the last time I was at the dealer ( for a front tire ) there was a gent there from "across the pond" and he spent almost a grand for full gear. He said about the same thing, the weak dollar, a month on vacation....
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Flying Duck
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| chopper_harris wrote: | | Flying Duck wrote: |
(I''m not a ATGATT Nazi - I just found it odd.) |
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