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		<title>Te koop: Elektrische gitaar</title>
		<link>http://freakyfries.com/2009/10/te-koop-elektrische-gitaar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:54:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Voor al mijn trouwe FreakyFries.com (Ok, en van Marktplaats en Speurder) bezoekers bied ik aan: Mijn Fender Squier Strat, inclusief versterker, plectrums, tas en draagband.
In een opwelling een elektrische gitaar gekocht, maar toch niks voor mij aangezien ik er het geduld niet voor heb. Daarnaast heb ik geld nodig voor duikspul, en onder water kan [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Voor al mijn trouwe FreakyFries.com <small>(Ok, en van <a href="http://link.marktplaats.nl/289389612">Marktplaats</a> en<a href="http://www.speurders.nl/lopend/elektrische-gitaar-fender-squier-strat-incl-toebehoren-54288928.html"> Speurder</a>)</small> bezoekers bied ik aan: Mijn Fender Squier Strat, inclusief versterker, plectrums, tas en draagband.</p>
<p>In een opwelling een elektrische gitaar gekocht, maar toch niks voor mij aangezien ik er het geduld niet voor heb. Daarnaast heb ik geld nodig voor duikspul, en onder water kan ik toch geen gitaar spelen <img src='http://freakyfries.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><a href="http://freakyfries.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/gitaar.jpg"><img src="http://freakyfries.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/gitaar-300x211.jpg" alt="gitaar" title="gitaar" width="300" height="211" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-448" /></a></p>
<p>Vraagprijs is 200 euro, maar met een goed bod komen we er ook wel uit <img src='http://freakyfries.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Tijd voor een update, en een verdieping</title>
		<link>http://freakyfries.com/2009/10/tijd-voor-een-update-en-een-verdieping/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:06:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Freaky Fries</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Duiken]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[update]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ziek]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lang, lang geleden, werd er hier op FreakyFries.com nog wel eens een post geplaatst. Nu , een maand en zo&#8217;n 14 dagen later, moet het er dan toch maar weer eens van komen. Heb er mooi de tijd voor, aangezien ik ziek thuis zit  
Ondertussen ben ik van baan gewisseld en werk ik momenteel [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Scuba_03.jpg/200px-Scuba_03.jpg" alt="" align="left" />Lang, lang geleden, werd er hier op FreakyFries.com nog wel eens een post geplaatst. Nu , een maand en zo&#8217;n 14 dagen later, moet het er dan toch maar weer eens van komen. Heb er mooi de tijd voor, aangezien ik ziek thuis zit <img src='http://freakyfries.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Ondertussen ben ik van baan gewisseld en werk ik momenteel bij <a href="http://www.webcomm.nl">Webcomm</a> als programmeur. Verder sta ik regelmatig in de sportschool, om een beetje van dat programmeurslichaam af te komen <img src='http://freakyfries.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Verder ben ik weer met een totaaaaaal andere hobby begonnen: Duiken! Heb me al ingeschreven voor een opleiding bij <a href="http://www.duikteamheerenveen.nl">Duikteam Heerenveen</a>, en als het goed is begint deze volgende week. </p>
<p>Druk materiaal aan het inslaan, want straks zit ik onderwater zonder zuurstof, en dat schijnt niet goed te zijn <img src='http://freakyfries.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' />  Heb bijna alles, moet alleen nog een pak, duikfles en ademautomaat, dus als iemand deze wil doneren, graag <img src='http://freakyfries.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif' alt=':P' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Motorrijders brengen motorvoer</title>
		<link>http://freakyfries.com/2009/09/motorrijders-brengen-motorvoer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 15:51:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Freaky Fries</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Van alles]]></category>

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		<title>IPv6 uitschakelen in Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty</title>
		<link>http://freakyfries.com/2009/07/ipv6-uitschakelen-in-ubuntu-904-jaunty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Freaky Fries</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[On The WWW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ubuntu]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Eigenlijk dump ik nooit links, maar deze keer doe ik het toch. Het schijnt dat in Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope IPv6 standaard ingeschakeld is, en eigenlijk niet uit te schakelen is. Als je ISP of router daar problemen mee heeft word je internet traag. En niet een beetje traag, maar heel erg traag! Na het [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-429" title="Ubuntu Logo" src="http://freakyfries.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/ubuntu-logo1-150x150.jpg" alt="Ubuntu Logo" width="150" height="150" />Eigenlijk dump ik nooit links, maar deze keer doe ik het toch. Het schijnt dat in Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope IPv6 standaard ingeschakeld is, en eigenlijk niet uit te schakelen is. Als je ISP of router daar problemen mee heeft word je internet traag. En niet een beetje traag, maar heel erg traag! Na het halve web bezocht te hebben, heb ik op <a title="disable ipv6 in ubuntu 9.04 jaunty jackalope" href="http://www.ubuntu-inside.me/2009/04/howto-disable-ipv6-at-ubuntu-jaunty.html" target="_blank">deze</a> pagina het antwoord gevonden. Duidelijk, en zelfs begrijpbaar voor beginners! Thanks Binbash!</p>
<p>Keywords: <strong>ubuntu disable ipv6 slow internet firefox</strong></p>
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		<title>Misael &amp; Martijn aan het werk</title>
		<link>http://freakyfries.com/2009/06/misael-en-martijn-aan-het-werk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Freaky Fries</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fun]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><center><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/gvbn5Ire7v8&#038;hl=nl&#038;fs=1&#038;"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/gvbn5Ire7v8&#038;hl=nl&#038;fs=1&#038;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></center></p>
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		<title>A logical solution</title>
		<link>http://freakyfries.com/2009/06/a-logical-solution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Freaky Fries</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wiskunde]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Now here is a problem that finally has a formula for getting to the bottom of an age old problem.
From a strictly mathematical viewpoint it goes like this:
What Makes 100%? What does it mean to give MORE than 100%? Ever wonder about those people who say they are giving more than 100%? We have all [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Now here is a problem that finally has a formula for getting to the bottom of an age old problem.<br />
From a strictly mathematical viewpoint it goes like this:</p>
<p>What Makes 100%? What does it mean to give MORE than 100%? Ever wonder about those people who say they are giving more than 100%? We have all been to those meetings where someone wants you to give over 100%. How about achieving 103%? What makes up 100% in life?</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a little mathematical formula that might help you answer these questions:</p>
<p>If:<br />
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z is represented as:<br />
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26.</p>
<p>Then:</p>
<p>H-A-R-D-W-O-R-K<br />
8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11 = 98%<br />
and<br />
K-N-O-W-L-E-D-G-E<br />
11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5 = 96%</p>
<p>But,</p>
<p>A-T-T-I-T-U-D-E<br />
1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5 = 100%</p>
<p>And,</p>
<p>B-U-L-L-S-*-*-T<br />
2+21+12+12+19+8+9+20 = 103%</p>
<p>AND, look how far a** kissing will take you.</p>
<p>A-*-*-K-I-S-S-I-N-G<br />
1+19+19+11+9+19+19+9+14+7 = 118%</p>
<p>So, one can conclude with mathematical certainty that While Hard work and Knowledge will get you close, and Attitude will get you there, it&#8217;s the Bulls**t and A** Kissing that will put you over the top.</p>
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		<title>Is het de varkens- mexicaanse griep niet ..</title>
		<link>http://freakyfries.com/2009/05/is-het-de-varkens-mexicaanse-griep-niet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 19:58:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Freaky Fries</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Van alles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eng]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[griep]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dan krijg je wel zo&#8217;n brief onder ogen &#8230;
 
*2 keer klikken voor vergroting*
Ook lekker..
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dan krijg je wel zo&#8217;n brief onder ogen &#8230;</p>
<p><a href="http://freakyfries.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/1.jpg" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-407" title="TBC" src="http://freakyfries.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/1-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a> <a href="http://freakyfries.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/2.jpg" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-407" title="TBC" src="http://freakyfries.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/2-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a></p>
<p><small>*2 keer klikken voor vergroting*</small></p>
<p>Ook lekker..</p>
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		<title>Voor de eigenaren van gevaarlijke honden &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://freakyfries.com/2009/05/voor-de-eigenaren-van-gevaarlijke-honden/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 17:08:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Freaky Fries</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[On The WWW]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[hond]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ik kwam op marktplaatst toch een gekke advertentie tegen:
Als je een eigenaar bent, van een van de &#8220;VECHTHONDRASSEN&#8221;, en je hebt ook nog een klein kind in huis rondlopen&#8230;.
Wees dan AUB gewaarschuwd !!!
Laat de hond NOOIT alleen met het kind !!
Onder geen enkele omstandigheden !!!
Deze eigenaar liet het kind eventjes alleen met de hond. ..
En [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ik kwam op marktplaatst toch een gekke advertentie tegen:</p>
<blockquote><p>Als je een eigenaar bent, van een van de &#8220;VECHTHONDRASSEN&#8221;, en je hebt ook nog een klein kind in huis rondlopen&#8230;.<br />
Wees dan AUB gewaarschuwd !!!<br />
Laat de hond NOOIT alleen met het kind !!<br />
Onder geen enkele omstandigheden !!!<br />
Deze eigenaar liet het kind eventjes alleen met de hond. ..<br />
En dit is wat er gebeurde&#8230;..</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="/2009/05/voor-de-eigenaren-van-gevaarlijke-honden/#more-402">Lees verder &#8230;</a><br />
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<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-403" title="Gevaarlijke hond en klein kind" src="http://freakyfries.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/32744367.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="609" /></p>
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		<title>Waarom motorrijders elkaar groeten</title>
		<link>http://freakyfries.com/2009/04/waarom-motorrijders-elkaar-groeten/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 08:22:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Freaky Fries</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[On The Road]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Soms krijg ik de vraag:
Vraagje he, Freaky Fries, wáárom groeten motorrijders elkaar áltijd. Echt áltijd. Zo van: Hey, hij heeft een motor   Ik heb een motor   HOOOI!!  
De motorrijders groet dus. Een simpele vraag, waarbij het antwoord puur bij het gevoel licht. Kan het zelf heel moeilijk beschrijven, maar hier [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Soms krijg ik de vraag:</p>
<blockquote><p>Vraagje he, Freaky Fries, wáárom groeten motorrijders elkaar áltijd. Echt áltijd. Zo van: Hey, hij heeft een motor <img src='http://freakyfries.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_surprised.gif' alt=':o' class='wp-smiley' />  Ik heb een motor <img src='http://freakyfries.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_surprised.gif' alt=':o' class='wp-smiley' />  HOOOI!! <img src='http://freakyfries.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p></blockquote>
<p><a href="-2009/04/de-motorrijders-groet/">De motorrijders groet</a> dus. Een simpele vraag, waarbij het antwoord puur bij het gevoel licht. Kan het zelf heel moeilijk beschrijven, maar hier is toch een uitleg. Het is een hele lap, en ook nog in het engels, maar leuk om te lezen <img src='http://freakyfries.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><span id="more-400"></span></p>
<blockquote><p>The bike’s passenger seat swept up just enough that I could see over my father’s shoulders. That seat was my throne. My dad and I travelled many backroads together…searching for the ones we had never found before. Travelling these roads just to see where they went. Never in a rush, just be home by supper.</p>
<p>I remember wandering down a backroad with my father, sitting on my throne watching the trees whiz by, feeling the rumble of our bike beneath us like a giant contented cat. A motorcycle came over a hill towards us and as it went by, my father threw up his clutch hand and gave a little wave. The other bike waved back with the same friendly swing of his left wrist.</p>
<p>I tapped my dad on the shoulder, which was our signal that I wanted to say something. He cocked his head back slightly while keeping his eyes ahead…</p>
<p>I yelled, “Did you know him?”</p>
<p>“What?”</p>
<p>“You waved at him…who was that?”</p>
<p>“I don’t know. Just another guy on a bike….so I waved.”</p>
<p>“How come?”</p>
<p>“You just do…it’s important.”</p>
<p>Later, when we had stopped for ice cream, I asked him why it was so important to wave to other bikers. My dad tried to explain how the wave demonstrated comradeship and a mutual understanding of what it was to enjoy riding a motorcycle. He looked for the words to describe how almost all bikers struggled with the same things like cold, rain, heat, wind, and drivers who didn’t see them, but how riding remained an almost pure pleasure.</p>
<p>I was young then and I am not sure that I really understood what he was trying to get across, but it was a beginning of something. Afterwards, I always waved along with my dad whenever we passed other bikes.</p>
<p>I remember one cold October morning when the clouds were heavy and dark, giving us another clue that winter was heading in from just over the horizon. My dad and I were warm inside our car as we headed to a friends house. Rounding a corner, we saw a motorcycle parked on the shoulder of the road. Past the bike, we saw the rider walking thru the ditch, scouring along thru the tall grass, crowned with a touch of frost. Dad pulled over and backed up to where the bike stood.</p>
<p>I asked Dad…”Who’s that?”</p>
<p>“Don’t know” he replied…”but he seems to have lost something. Maybe we can give him a hand.”</p>
<p>We left the car and wandered thru the tall grass ditch to the biker. He said that he had been pulling on his gloves as he rode, and that he had lost one. The three of us spent some time combing the ditch, but all we found were empty cans and bottles.</p>
<p>My dad then turned and headed back to the car and opened the trunk. He rummaged thru various tools, oil containers, and this and that until he found an old pair of crumpled up leather gloves. He continued looking until he found an old catalogue. I understood what he was doing with the gloves….but I had no idea what he needed with the catalogue.</p>
<p>“Here’s some gloves for you” my dad said as he handed them to the rider…”and I brought you a catalogue as well.”</p>
<p>“Thanks”..I really appreciate it.” He reached into his hip pocket and pulled out an old chain wallet.</p>
<p>“Lemme give you some money for the gloves” he said.</p>
<p>“No thanx” dad replied as he handed them to the rider. “They’re not worth anything and they’re old anyway”.</p>
<p>The biker smiled. “Thanx alot.”</p>
<p>He pulled the old gloves on and unzipped his jacket. I watched as my dad handed him the catalogue and the biker slipped it inside his coat. He jostled it around, positioning it up high, centered, and then zipped it up. I remembered now making sense of why my dad had given him the catalogue. It would keep him a bit warmer. After wishing the biker well, my dad and I left him warming up his bike.</p>
<p>Two weeks later, the biker came to our home and returned my father’s gloves. He had found the address on the catalogue. Neither my father nor the biker seemed to think that my dad stopping at the side of the road for a stranger and giving him a pair of gloves, and that the stranger making sure that the gloves were returned, were events out of the ordinary for people who rode motorcycles. For me, it was another subtle lesson.</p>
<p>It was spring of the next year when I was sitting high on my throne, watching the farm fields slip by when I saw two bikes coming towards us. As they rumbled past, my dad and I waved, but the other bikers kept their sunglasses locked straight ahead and did not acknowledge us. I remember thinking that they must have seen us because our waves were too obvious to miss. Why didn’t they wave back? I thought all bikers waved at one another…..</p>
<p>I tapped my dad on the shoulder and yelled…”How come they didn’t wave back?”</p>
<p>“Don’t know. Sometimes they don’t.”</p>
<p>I remember feeling very puzzled. Why wouldn’t someone wave back?</p>
<p>The next summer, I was finally old enough to learn to ride a motorcycle with a clutch. Many an afternoon were spent on a country lane beside our home, kicking and kicking to start my dad’s old 1955 BSA. When it would finally come to a sputtering start, my concentration would grow to a sharp focus, as I tried to let out the clutch slowly enough, and bring us to a smooth take off. More often than not, I would lurch forward…..and begin to attempt to kickstart the motor again.</p>
<p>Eventually, I got my own motorcycle license, and began wandering the backroads on my own. I found myself stopping along sideroads if I saw another biker alone, just to check and see if he needed help…….and I continued to wave at other riders.</p>
<p>But I remained focused as to why some riders never waved back. It left me with almost a feeling of rejection, as if I were reaching to shake someones hand, but they kept their arm hanging by their side.</p>
<p>I began to canvass my friends about waving. I talked with people at biker events, asking what they thought. Most of the old riders told me they waved to other bikers and often initiated the friendly air handshake as they passed one another.</p>
<p>I did meet some riders tho, who told me that they did not wave to other riders because they felt that they were different from other bikers. They felt that they were a “breed apart”. One guy told me in rather colorful language, that he did not “wave to no wussies”. He went on to say that his kind of bikers were tough, independent, and they did not require or want the help of anyone, whether they rode a bike or not.</p>
<p>I suspected that there were some people who bought a bike because they wanted to purchase an image of being tougher, more independent, a not-putting-up-with-anyone’s-crap kind of person, but I didn’t think that this was typical of most riders.</p>
<p>People buy bikes for different reasons. Some will be quick to tell you what make it is, how much they paid for it, or how fast it will go. Brand loyalty is going to be strong for some people whether they have a Harley, Ford, Sony, or whatever… Some people want to buy an image and try to purchase another person’s perception of them. But it can’t be done.</p>
<p>Still, there is a group of people who ride bikes who truly are a breed apart. They appreciate both the engineering and the artistry in the machines they ride. Their bikes become part of who they are and how they define themselves to themselves alone.<br />
They don’t care what other people think. They don’t care if anyone knows how much they paid for their bike or how fast it goes. The bike means something to them that nothing else does. They ride for themselves and not for anyone else. They don’t care whether anyone knows they have a bike. They may not be able to find words to describe what it means to ride, but they still know. They may not be able to describe what it means to feel the smooth acceleration and the strength beneath them. But they understand.</p>
<p>These are the riders who park their bikes, begin to walk away and then stop. They turn and look back. They see something when they look at their bikes that you might not. Something more complex, something that is almost secret, sensed rather than known. They see their passion. They see a part of themselves.</p>
<p>These are the riders who understand why they wave to other motorcyclists. They savour the wave. It symbolizes connection between riders, and if they saw you and your bike on the side of the road, they would stop to help and might not ask your name. They understand what you are up against every time you take your bike on the road…..the drivers that don’t see you, the ones that cut you off or tailgate you, the potholes that lie in waiting. The rain. The cold.</p>
<p>I have been shivering and sweating on a bike for more than 40 years. Most of the riders that pass give me a supportive wave. I love it when I see a younger rider on a “crotch rocket” scream past me and wave. New riders carrying on the traditions.</p>
<p>I will continue in my attempts to get every biker just a little closer to one another with a simple wave. And if they do not wave back when I extend my hand into the breeze as I pass them, I will smile a little more. Maybe their just mistaken about who is a “breed apart.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Thanks to &#8220;Shrek X&#8221; op <a href="http://pnwriders.com/general-discussion/101449-why-we-wave.html">PWNRiders.com</a></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">Nee, ik leen niet echt geld uit, maar kom op: Zo&#8217;n melding is toch belachelijk? Mensen snappen toch ook wel dat ze genaaid worden waar ze bij staan? Zouden mensen minder snel geld lenen met zo&#8217;n melding onder een reclamespotje op tv?!</p>
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