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Old 10-22-2010, 07:15 PM   #741 (permalink)
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there wasn't a ticket, as we were going with the flow of traffic.

At first we were going the limit, but we started to become nervous of being a bottleneck in the moderate amount of traffic.

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Old 10-29-2010, 02:39 AM   #742 (permalink)
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I felt exactly, and I mean exactly, the same way after reading Metro's exciting write-up on his tail extension.
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^^^ Is it me or did anyone else's irony detector go off ?
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Nope, it is true. When I see a well done mod (3wheeler's tail) I get excited!
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I fear arrogonis may have been referring the irony of excitement from a tail extension....

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I fear arrogonis may have been referring the irony of excitement from a tail extension....

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