Guest Ditch_Shitter Posted December 1, 2007 Report Share Posted December 1, 2007 Try as I might, I've never been able to discern quite what that little photo shows. So today I thought I'd give up and just ask. The amazing reply, which I'm showing in full here, with permission of course, goes to show there can be a lot more to some of the people on this board than utterances of " Nice Dog. How's it bred? " " Born To Hunt ". Some of us have been born to Do Something with our lives. I think ye'll all agree " Twins " has 'Done a Bit' too? Twins' Avatar Four of us went and done what Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman done years before they thought of it they think it's hard we did'nt have any back up shall i ramble before i give you what it is, the real hero of bike travel in Africa is a little know legend in biking history Chris Scott and my real hero is Wilfred Teisigner (Haile Selassie) met him when he lived in nothern Kenya with the tekana you should look them up he he knew some people not to mess with the Afar tribe, any way I spent some time in Africa in countries that had people like idi armin in charge and seke seko mubuto the video about lion and hyenas on this site was being filmed in the north for national geographic and was called eternal eneimies, when I lived in Kasane Botswana I was looking across the chobe river into Angol, so Ii know what it is liked to be hunted and hunter, enough, we rode into a village up in the atlas mountains in Morrocco looking for the Tiz n Test pass the easy route, when we rode in ramadam had finished so they killed a few sheep and just left the skins out to dry that's what the picture is. Thanks for asking and letting me ramble brings back memories some good some not so good Twins Quote Link to post Share on other sites
twins 0 Posted December 2, 2007 Report Share Posted December 2, 2007 Ditch_Shitter said: Try as I might, I've never been able to discern quite what that little photo shows. So today I thought I'd give up and just ask. The amazing reply, which I'm showing in full here, with permission of course, goes to show there can be a lot more to some of the people on this board than utterances of " Nice Dog. How's it bred? " " Born To Hunt ". Some of us have been born to Do Something with our lives. I think ye'll all agree " Twins " has 'Done a Bit' too? Twins' Avatar Four of us went and done what Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman done years before they thought of it they think it's hard we did'nt have any back up shall i ramble before i give you what it is, the real hero of bike travel in Africa is a little know legend in biking history Chris Scott and my real hero is Wilfred Teisigner (Haile Selassie) met him when he lived in nothern Kenya with the tekana you should look them up he he knew some people not to mess with the Afar tribe, any way I spent some time in Africa in countries that had people like idi armin in charge and seke seko mubuto the video about lion and hyenas on this site was being filmed in the north for national geographic and was called eternal eneimies, when I lived in Kasane Botswana I was looking across the chobe river into Angol, so Ii know what it is liked to be hunted and hunter, enough, we rode into a village up in the atlas mountains in Morrocco looking for the Tiz n Test pass the easy route, when we rode in ramadam had finished so they killed a few sheep and just left the skins out to dry that's what the picture is. Thanks for asking and letting me ramble brings back memories some good some not so good Twins On a cooler note last year I spent some time 800 miles inside the artic circle chilling on the shrinking Svartisen glacier watching the last of the midnightsun trying to set Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Geoff.C 0 Posted December 2, 2007 Report Share Posted December 2, 2007 (edited) Sheepskins!! Must go to the opticians soon, I thought the one on the left was a little elephant!!!! Anyway,while we are asking questions Twins, is there two of you? Are you a twin I mean. Or is it the "twin skins"? Edited December 2, 2007 by Geoff.C Quote Link to post Share on other sites
twins 0 Posted December 3, 2007 Report Share Posted December 3, 2007 Geoff.C said: Sheepskins!! Must go to the opticians soon, I thought the one on the left was a little elephant!!!! Anyway,while we are asking questions Twins, is there two of you? Are you a twin I mean. Or is it the "twin skins"? no our bikes are africa twins Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mooster 1 Posted December 3, 2007 Report Share Posted December 3, 2007 I think I understand! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
twins 0 Posted December 3, 2007 Report Share Posted December 3, 2007 Ditch I've ad to change me avatar to many memories Quote Link to post Share on other sites
T.F.Student 0 Posted December 3, 2007 Report Share Posted December 3, 2007 Theres more than one way to skin a sheep Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Ditch_Shitter Posted December 4, 2007 Report Share Posted December 4, 2007 Why not use something like this, mate? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Geoff.C 0 Posted December 4, 2007 Report Share Posted December 4, 2007 Thanks twins, so there's only one of you. The Honda Africa twin is a superb machine,need longer legs than mine to ride one though!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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