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Old 06-04-2012, 09:44 PM   #1
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Hi dudes im new to the forum, ive been using a XR250 for conmuting during last year. i have a Sachs Madass too and soon i plan to jump to a bigger bike.

Its a shame i didnt realize before how much a man could love a bike, all those wasted years...

Hope i can help some of you in any way.

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Old 06-04-2012, 10:04 PM   #2
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Welcome to the site!

I got a late start to riding (was 33), so I now the feeling of wasted years well

"Colombi" = Colombia? As in the country in South America?
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Old 06-04-2012, 10:40 PM   #3
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Old 06-04-2012, 10:53 PM   #4
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Yap dude, Colombia, plenty of mountains to ride. if some day you plan to visit, youre welcome.

Im in the hurry to get back all those wasted years.
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Old 06-04-2012, 10:58 PM   #5
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Cool! It sure would be great if you could share some ride reports? Maybe you could just do a running thread where you post pics and stuff from your various rides. Most Americans probably have a VERY distorted idea of what Colombia is like because of its prominence in the drug lore in this country.
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Old 06-04-2012, 11:35 PM   #6
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Welcome to the site!!! Where are you in Colombia? I will be in Colombia in September. Shipping the bike to Cartegena and riding south from there. It would be nice to meet if we can. (see tag below)
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Old 06-05-2012, 12:17 AM   #7
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Of course, i live in Bogotá and surely i have some friends in Cartagena, and other spreaded all around the country. I know people in some countries in southamerica. What a travel man! you did the right thing about the Darien gap because that part is very dense, rainy and difficult, some places can just be traveled in a donkey. I have some friends who have traveled around southamerica in bicycles, car and others on their own. One of those groups took 6 months around SA in a car so we could get good input from them.

What ever you need id like to help you. Southamerica is not as your wife expect, the most danger here are the beautiful women

Tourmeister, surely i could bring some posts and pics with routes. Roads here are very twisty because most of the country is part of Los Andes mountains. And about the drug thing thats true, its a shame that those 1% doing bad things are our face to the world.

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Tourmeister, surely i could bring some posts and pics with routes. Roads here are very twisty because most of the country is part of Los Andes mountains. And about the drug thing thats true, its a shame that those 1% doing bad things are our face to the world.

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Exactly my thoughts. It would be cool if you started a thread in the Story Telling forum and just kept updating it with rides and your commentary. We have a few other members from other countries that do something similar and it makes for great threads!
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If you want government to intervene domestically, you’re a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you’re a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you’re a moderate. If you don’t want government to intervene anywhere, you’re an extremist. — Joe Sobran

It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a ‘dismal science.' But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance. – Murray N. Rothbard

When one possessed of the Truth suffers from a heavy heart he is susceptible to a more dangerous affliction — the craving for power to eradicate error, to cause Truth to triumph by force. - Frank Chodorov

Where politicians flourish, long history has harshly taught us, people and their liberty wither. Where the state is god and the "public interest" worshipped, individual man will be found bleeding upon the altar. - Karl Hess

The accepted wisdom is that without the state, society would collapse into lawlessness and crime. In fact, lawlessness and crime define the very nature of the state and the society organized by it. - Bionic Mosquito

But the myth of the rule of law does more than render the people submissive to state authority; it also turns them into the state's accomplices in the exercise of its power. For people who would ordinarily consider it a great evil to deprive individuals of their rights or oppress politically powerless minority groups will respond with patriotic fervor when these same actions are described as upholding the rule of law. - John Hasnas
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Old 06-05-2012, 08:38 AM   #9
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Those madasses are cool!
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Old 06-05-2012, 10:14 AM   #10
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Ok ill get some info around friends of mine and soon ill start the thread.
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