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Django · 06-28-2006, 10:55 AM

I am 39 years old, got a job, wife, kids, Sprint ST and all the other things grown ups are supposed to have.

Why is that I am getting excited about my 'minitwins' becoming a 'Grand Prix 125'?

How sad is that?

Django

unummyu · 06-28-2006, 10:58 AM

Sad indeed

however, many of us have been there too. :-D

DragonDan · 06-28-2006, 11:24 AM

I see no issues in that. Sad? I think not.

PS:
Is your member name for the jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt?

Django · 06-28-2006, 12:17 PM

Certainly is DragonDan. The one and only. I spent five years learning, then another five years bumming round jazz clubs, pubs and functions in London trying to play like Django. It got me a violinist wife and I can play all the notes* but I'm still so far away its not true.

Django :hammer:

* Though usually in the wrong order and to a different time. :-D

Django · 06-28-2006, 12:18 PM

Hey, look at that - I suddenly became 'Grand Prix 125'

Yeeeahhh :-g

ruscook · 06-28-2006, 04:38 PM

Hey Django,
yes it's cool going up the motorcycle rankings on this site. Glad your life is complete now you've got a Sprint :-)

Have you found an easy and safe way to carrry a guitar on the bike yet? It's always intrigued me if folk have managed to figure out how some awkward shaped things can be easily carried.

Russ

Django · 06-28-2006, 04:57 PM

Hi Russ,

I have a double strap gig bag which fits like a rucksack. It catches the wind if you get too fast (above 70 - 80 mph) but otherwise works well.

I used to ride an 1979 BMW R80RT and remember carrying an old Marshall 100w combo amp on the pillion seat with a guitar on my back and a bunch of leads strapped to the tank. That old Marshall weighed more than me (the only way to wheelie an R80) and how I never got pulled over I don't know.

Great days,

Django :-D

DaveM · 06-29-2006, 05:38 AM

Django,
you don't sound sad to me you sound a very healthy normal!

Davem

ruscook · 06-29-2006, 05:47 AM

Quote:

On 2006-06-28 14:57, Django wrote:
Hi Russ,
I have a double strap gig bag which fits like a rucksack. It catches the wind if you get too fast (above 70 - 80 mph) but otherwise works well.

Thanks Django, I wondered if there was a bag/device to do this. I presume you can still get them? My concern was the guitar would be on an angle not upright and I'd rip me or it off if it hit something in traffic!!

Quote:

I used to ride an 1979 BMW R80RT and remember carrying an old Marshall 100w combo amp on the pillion seat with a guitar on my back and a bunch of leads strapped to the tank. That old Marshall weighed more than me (the only way to wheelie an R80) and how I never got pulled over I don't know.

Ah the fun and folly of youth - great memories eh

Have a good one.
Russe

stevecro · 06-29-2006, 06:51 AM

Django..... that gypsy man who first to feature guitar as a lead instrument. He sounds simply wonderful 70 years later, don't you agree!

And he plays it so equisitely with fewer fingers than most of us.

Didn't his violinist partner Stepan Grapelli only die quite recently at a ripe old age?

BTW , congrats on your 20+ posts