Filtering thru Kingswells, Aberdeen... GS with panniers...

[boatman]

yev mibbies missed yer calling to be a demolition man

 

[Klanky]

Three months ownership = three avoidable scrapes - all my fault. Two unwitnessed, so less of a red face - squeezing through gates that were JUST wide enough if taken with care. Last time I was just congratulating myself on how manoeverable the big GS was compared to my previous sportsbike - stationary traffic coming up to a roundabout and I'd gone up the outside and was cutting back into my lane - back of a stationary transit appeared from no-where.
I wouldn't mind, but the bike had survived 12 years without a mark and they were all my fault and completely avoidable. At least it still looks smart with the panniers off.

So I take it your username is more a reflection upon whether you'll actually arrive at your destination unscathed - as opposed to a geographical play on words?

And welcome to UKGSer, old chap.

 

[G.C.]

Imagine bashin yir panniers. FFS some folk shouldn’t be allowed out on their own.










Supermarket carpark France 2007

Saw a shortcut between bollards n forgot I was loaded

 

[Klanky]

Imagine bashin yir panniers. FFS some folk shouldn’t be allowed out on their own.

Supermarket carpark France 2007
Saw a shortcut between bollards n forgot I was loaded

Fekkin' boolards, theyre like skips. They just pull out without any warning.

 

[Borderline]

Is 'bashin yer panniers' a weird kind of Scottish GSer euphemism for something more sinister along the lines of Bishop bashin or monkey spanking?

 

[Klanky]

Is 'bashin yer panniers' a weird kind of Scottish GSer euphemism for something more sinister along the lines of Bishop bashin or monkey spanking?

Aye.

'Pannier Bashen' can be traced back to the C14th, it's quite cruel really and was treated with disgust initially by the Covenanters in 1646, they believing it was 'the mark of a beast'.
This was attitude was put down after most of the Covenanters were drowned or hung in Wigton, Dumfriesshire after refusing to desist from preaching that Lord John Graham, 1st Viscount Dundee was an unnatural heretic because of his fondness for 'Bashen the Panniers'.

Dundee became enraged at these accusations and, with a small force of cavalry, rounded up and executed the ringleaders across the Southwest. Henceforth he was known by Presbyterians as 'Bluidy Clavers 'at awfie Pannier Mannie' after one of his titles as Lord Claverhouse.

But the rot had already set in by this time, despite effort by the Highlanders to impose statutory Pannier Bashen' after their victory at Killiecrankie, the practice was already in decline. The death of Dundee upon the field of battle had already sealed the practices fate.

It only lives on in Scottish horse riding and motorcycling circles as a half-forgotten practice.

Hope this helps.

 

[Borderline]

Ahh! The Scottish enlightenment.

 

[boatman]

ffs klankers a think ye need tae be pitn a wee bit mair water in yer scotch

mind you its nice to see at least one of us thinks on a deep n meaningful level

 

[wully]

mind you its nice to see at least one of us thinks on a deep n meaningful level

Ye cannae sink much deeper than that...

 

[boatman]

aye, mind you we launched a new boat ane time wi a 3" nominal bore pipe open tae the sea we had tae find the appropriate valve quite sharpish or that wid be sinkin quite deep (or i wid have tae huv bobbed up to find my way to the choab center)

 

[Raggitash]

aye, mind you we launched a new boat ane time wi a 3" nominal bore pipe open tae the sea we had tae find the appropriate valve quite sharpish or that wid be sinkin quite deep (or i wid have tae huv bobbed up to find my way to the choab center)

A new boat wi holes in it? Thats no right, is it? Yiz was robbed Am thinkin.

 

[cxp]

Fekkin' boolards, theyre like skips. They just pull out without any warning.

 

[skinnersscotch]

Saw a shortcut between bollards n forgot I was loaded [/QUOTE]




Maybe if ye stayed sober.....