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Old Jun 14, 2009 | 08:22 AM
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So this morning I woke up and told myself it was stupid to ride alone in a foreign country...I pulled over after about an hour and was trying to figure out where I was...

I do some work for a Dutch company, travel to the Netherlands several times per year. One thing I realized long ago is that it's actually hard to get really lost almost anywhere in western Europe. If you're not sure where you are, just keep riding and pretty soon you'll get to some recognizable feature -- often a national border -- that resets your mental GPS.

And I agree, there are some really great tiny twisty roads in the Netherlands!
 
Old Jun 14, 2009 | 09:52 AM
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An R6 gutless compared to a Sportster? Uhh...did you rev it past 4k rpms? That bike doesn't turn on until it hits about 6k rpm and pulls to about 12k rpms probably give or take.

It would have scared you senseless.
If only I'd known, but that's kinda what I said in the second post....
 
Old Jun 14, 2009 | 09:55 AM
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That's how us dutchmen is .........
 
Old Jun 14, 2009 | 09:59 AM
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It's nice to hear a "good story" as opposed to all of the negative stuff you'll see on here. I'm glad someone represented their Country as well as the Harley crowd well. You go Dutchmen, you just made yourself look good in the eyes of us "Yanks"!
 
Old Jun 14, 2009 | 01:23 PM
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the Dutch women are so pretty - tall, very thin and blonde ....
I gotta move to the Netherlands
 
Old Jun 14, 2009 | 02:06 PM
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Originally Posted by K00LJerk
I gotta move to the Netherlands
They're beautiful in Switzerland too.
 
Old Jun 14, 2009 | 03:09 PM
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If that's you in your avatar and I was your boss I wouldn't have let you out of the hotel room!!!!






























for safety reasons of course.
 
Old Jun 15, 2009 | 09:23 AM
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If that's you in your avatar and I was your boss I wouldn't have let you out of the hotel room!!!!
Ditto lol...cmon Lisa....not on the Dutch radar? You? I'm throwing the BS flag hun!!
 
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Old Jun 15, 2009 | 01:39 PM
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Ditto lol...cmon Lisa....not on the Dutch radar? You? I'm throwing the BS flag hun!!
That's just because of the IM I just sent you You know you're my favorite.

Lisa
 
Old Jun 15, 2009 | 02:05 PM
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They're beautiful in Switzerland too.
well if your lookin for beautiful tarts dont go to cornwall, youved the sayin ugly as a tin miners daughter
 



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