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What is your beverage of choice when working on your bike?

Beer - what brand?
23 (28%)
Wine
4 (4.9%)
Whiskey
2 (2.4%)
Water
22 (26.8%)
Coffee
14 (17.1%)
Soda Pop
8 (9.8%)
other - what?
9 (11%)

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Voting closed: August 11, 2013, 02:29:06 PM

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Offline nccb

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Re: What is your beverage of choice when working on your bike?
« Reply #50 on: July 25, 2013, 07:54:05 PM »
Nice bar Cabilao..

thanks. drinks are on the house for forum members.

Dangerous offer, we might organize a road trip!

make it a stop for the SOHC tour. . .if we all arrange bikes to be carted over at the same time it will be cheaper right? ::)

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Re: What is your beverage of choice when working on your bike?
« Reply #51 on: July 25, 2013, 10:08:52 PM »
No problem. the knowledge i got here in the forum is worth a few drinks.and to cruise around would be nice anyway.
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Re: What is your beverage of choice when working on your bike?
« Reply #52 on: July 26, 2013, 07:52:36 AM »
Nice bar Cabilao..

thanks. drinks are on the house for forum members.

Please procure a Vat of Muscadet, I am presently booking flights.

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Re: What is your beverage of choice when working on your bike?
« Reply #53 on: July 26, 2013, 08:41:42 PM »
tim(kghost)and i canned beer this morning,,you better ask him.

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Re: What is your beverage of choice when working on your bike?
« Reply #54 on: July 26, 2013, 09:42:17 PM »
tim(kghost)and i canned beer this morning,,you better ask him.

Thats the way Dave, Tim will be an Aussie in no time.... ;D ;)
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Re: What is your beverage of choice when working on your bike?
« Reply #55 on: July 26, 2013, 11:13:29 PM »
We even drank some of it
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Re: What is your beverage of choice when working on your bike?
« Reply #56 on: July 26, 2013, 11:19:35 PM »
bbbuuurrrrppp!oops,,

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Re: What is your beverage of choice when working on your bike?
« Reply #57 on: July 27, 2013, 06:12:26 PM »
muscadet? hard to find here. have a nice cote du rhone and bordeaux. but the favorite drink here is rum'n coke.
before:
Kreidler RMC(50cc)
CB400N(first bike)
RD350LC(more than one)
XS850(great bike)
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Rickman CR900(sold for a good price)
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Re: What is your beverage of choice when working on your bike?
« Reply #58 on: July 28, 2013, 03:35:01 AM »
whats with this wine #$%*??fair dinkum??,if its  not beer or spirit your a #$%*ing poofter!real men only drink the girls wine once the beers run out!
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Re: What is your beverage of choice when working on your bike?
« Reply #59 on: July 28, 2013, 03:47:59 AM »
Damn, I'll have to get a new wardrobe now.  :-*  I don't like drinking fizzy acid.
'Then' and 'than' are completely different words and have completely different meanings. Same with 'of' and 'have'. Set and sit. There, their and they're. Draw and drawer. Could care less/couldn't care less. Bought/brought FFS.


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Re: What is your beverage of choice when working on your bike?
« Reply #60 on: July 28, 2013, 05:22:22 AM »
chapangne boy?fizzy acid,,you nailed that one lester!

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Re: What is your beverage of choice when working on your bike?
« Reply #61 on: July 28, 2013, 05:27:43 AM »
rose/white wine/lager= fizzy acid.
'Then' and 'than' are completely different words and have completely different meanings. Same with 'of' and 'have'. Set and sit. There, their and they're. Draw and drawer. Could care less/couldn't care less. Bought/brought FFS.


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Re: What is your beverage of choice when working on your bike?
« Reply #62 on: July 28, 2013, 08:27:17 AM »
some in here have not been in europa...


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Re: What is your beverage of choice when working on your bike?
« Reply #63 on: July 28, 2013, 09:06:51 AM »
some in here have not been in europa...


thourght aussie /newz vas the 3 biggest export of vine..understand you export it...not drink it

I switched to wine big time after moving to USA - easy to understand after you try American beer  :)
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Re: What is your beverage of choice when working on your bike?
« Reply #64 on: July 28, 2013, 09:36:20 AM »
Funny, anytime I go for wine it's usually Aussie.
Had some more Old Speckled Hen on Friday due to the heat. Not fizzy, not acid but expensive.
« Last Edit: July 28, 2013, 09:42:24 AM by LesterPiglet »
'Then' and 'than' are completely different words and have completely different meanings. Same with 'of' and 'have'. Set and sit. There, their and they're. Draw and drawer. Could care less/couldn't care less. Bought/brought FFS.


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Re: What is your beverage of choice when working on your bike?
« Reply #65 on: July 28, 2013, 02:31:48 PM »
Cold

 Answer to th the thread title, in the summer here.
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Re: What is your beverage of choice when working on your bike?
« Reply #66 on: July 28, 2013, 02:37:22 PM »
Funny, anytime I go for wine it's usually Aussie.
Had some more Old Speckled Hen on Friday due to the heat. Not fizzy, not acid but expensive.


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Re: What is your beverage of choice when working on your bike?
« Reply #67 on: July 28, 2013, 02:42:16 PM »
Water/beer/water/beer/beer/water/beer....etc 'till it's time to put down the spanner.  I like to enjoy a smokey porter or a nice Belgium Brown. Somethin' smooth and slow sipping.
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Re: What is your beverage of choice when working on your bike?
« Reply #68 on: July 28, 2013, 06:26:37 PM »
muscadet? hard to find here. have a nice cote du rhone and bordeaux. but the favorite drink here is rum'n coke.

Awesome bar Cab, thanks for posting.  Would love to go there. 
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Re: What is your beverage of choice when working on your bike?
« Reply #69 on: July 28, 2013, 06:27:45 PM »
some in here have not been in europa...


thourght aussie /newz vas the 3 biggest export of vine..understand you export it...not drink it

I switched to wine big time after moving to USA - easy to understand after you try American beer  :)

Not sure if you know this:  most stores in USA sell imported beer.
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Re: What is your beverage of choice when working on your bike?
« Reply #70 on: July 28, 2013, 09:32:46 PM »
Yeah but it might be psychologically hard to pay 4 bux for what you used to get for six bits..
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Re: What is your beverage of choice when working on your bike?
« Reply #71 on: July 28, 2013, 09:48:35 PM »
some in here have not been in europa...


thourght aussie /newz vas the 3 biggest export of vine..understand you export it...not drink it
Much the same as Fosters, we have to sell it overseas because no-one here is silly enough to drink the stuff ;D
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Re: What is your beverage of choice when working on your bike?
« Reply #72 on: July 28, 2013, 10:07:28 PM »
some in here have not been in europa...


thourght aussie /newz vas the 3 biggest export of vine..understand you export it...not drink it
Much the same as Fosters, we have to sell it overseas because no-one here is silly enough to drink the stuff ;D

I always thought Fosters was a laxative.... :o
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Re: What is your beverage of choice when working on your bike?
« Reply #73 on: July 29, 2013, 05:29:38 AM »
some in here have not been in europa...


thourght aussie /newz vas the 3 biggest export of vine..understand you export it...not drink it

I switched to wine big time after moving to USA - easy to understand after you try American beer  :)

Not sure if you know this:  most stores in USA sell imported beer.

Bottles/cans and draft are two different animals.
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Re: What is your beverage of choice when working on your bike?
« Reply #74 on: July 29, 2013, 05:32:26 AM »
some in here have not been in europa...


thourght aussie /newz vas the 3 biggest export of vine..understand you export it...not drink it
Much the same as Fosters, we have to sell it overseas because no-one here is silly enough to drink the stuff ;D

I always thought Fosters was a laxative.... :o

Same reason the Mexicans sell you Corona.
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