Boxerless @ Boxerworks

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grant81rs
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Post by grant81rs »

Gidday Fellas,

Always known the two types as Airhead and Oilhead :oops: then again I do live in sleepily ole Trafalgar

So I'm officially a BrickHead! F#*k that!.....
Cheers, Grant
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Jeff in W.C.
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grant81rs wrote: So I'm officially a BrickHead! F#*k that!.....
Well, that does sound better than blockhead.

Not trying to make any comparisons here! Grant is certainly not a blockhead
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Steve in Golden
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I'd rather be bricked off than bricked on. Or was it blocked off than bricked on?

Flying brick man, it's a flying brick. Oilheads are oil cooled boxer engines which succeeded the airhead. Then there's Camheads like my '12 R1200GS, and now we have the new wethead water cooled R1200GS, GSA and R1200RT.

And hexheads, I forgot hexheads like the R1200R I had for a couple years. Man that was a great bike but cramped.
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Wait a second. Is no one going to at least feign outrage over this series of disclosures??

I've been thinking myself a bit of a poser because fairly warm weather, and a series of lengthy time-outs for pricey mechanical attention have reduced my RT seat mileage over the last several years to less than 2K/yr. But I still own the damned thing, pay its registration and insurance fees, and wonder how short an MTBF I can sneek past SWMBO/CFO/1SG before I'll have to honorably turn in my password and join the apparent legions of "used-to-be" airheaders who I assumed would move on to the Can-Am or Lehman Trike listserves. Now I find that some of most glib and gabby posters on this forum are actually poser-posters. I'm completely shocked.

Those without current airhead boxer bonafides should be summarily consigned to a new index category called "Back In the Day", or something similar. Their posts should be unambiguously distinguishable from those of the declining number of keepers of the flame/studs like me who stolidly soldier on with the bikes of so many youthful dreams and recollections. Harumph!!! :lol:
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Khittner, not only do we have a fair number of members who no longer ride airheads, we have at least one who no longer rides at all and hasn't for quite some time.

I do miss having an airhead and would like to again one day. It's a matter of not enough garage space and not enough wallet for multiple motorcycles.
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khittner1 wrote:Wait a second. Is no one going to at least feign outrage over this series of disclosures??

Those without current airhead boxer bonafides should be summarily consigned to a new index category called "Back In the Day", or something similar. Their posts should be unambiguously distinguishable from those of the declining number of keepers of the flame/studs like me who stolidly soldier on with the bikes of so many youthful dreams and recollections. Harumph!!! :lol:
Careful, or you'll need some Case Savers to keep them studs from striping, something none of us need to see. :D
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I want to too.
And my reply to k was in jest, as I knew his was.
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Post by Duane Ausherman »

Since when isn't a R26 an airhead? Do they cool the head with something besides air?

Oh, yes, now I remember, the R26 could be said to "not cool" by any means.

Garnet, you are still welcome.
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Rob wrote:
dougie wrote:Hey Garnet -
My RS is gone (to a good home) and I now have a Honda. :shock:
That's borderline heresy and I haven't been kicked out. :D
And mine is a weenie Honda. I may as well start looking for my "other men". :lol:
I've seen the bikes the gays park in front of the gay bars . . . I don't think they want you. ;)
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