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Maybe I should say "make sense" then...

im - Instant message

n - 14th letter of the alphabet

ment - suffix. makes no sense as own word.

guys (plural) - being only a single sau member... not understood.

is this one... or two tenses?

God I'm bored...

HAHAHA ok ok sorry ill do my best not to do that from now on :ermm:

lol that guy wants $1500 for a set in 17" with average offset and only 4, and doesn't get the amount of abuse josh did for having 18" in good condition, good offset and 6 of.

Yer martin i know where to start removing weight from that thing, side intrusion bars, with the cage in you won't need em, then we can swiss cheese the rear side of the door and use alloy for internal door skins, i'll show you on sunday when we get it back to yours. As for the engine, let me know asap about it, i'll try get the bloke to round me up some other parts we will need, exhaust will probably need to be a custom job from the manifolds though, as it is a FWD setup at the moment, its going to be a fun buildup though will be a big learning curve away from the nissans. Oh and its a 2005 model engine so its the Euro4 emissions setup, so 1 cat on each exhaust manifold just at the head, then 1 on each pipe coming back, so in total 4 cats, and from memory 2 mufflers and a resinator. I'm trying to get the GTA heads with the cams, send them in to the machining shop to get flowed and repaired.

John, that facebook page makes me want to start writting a hit list, they are the types of drivers that will on purpose, try to hit you. They are also the type of driver that comes off with dented doors, bare metal scratchs, missing wing mirrors and broken windows and in one case on a 4x4 2 slashed tyres (not the easiest thing to do at 40km/h)

I mostly ride on the footpath, but when i do have to ride on the road its normally only in the designated bike lane or a parking lane, i have still had people in free flowing traffic drive into the parking lane to "scare" me, these are the dickheads that have repair bills after.......

My new helmet should turn up on tuesday, full-face WW2 German fighter plane spec.

John, that facebook page makes me want to start writting a hit list, they are the types of drivers that will on purpose, try to hit you. They are also the type of driver that comes off with dented doors, bare metal scratchs, missing wing mirrors and broken windows and in one case on a 4x4 2 slashed tyres (not the easiest thing to do at 40km/h)

I mostly ride on the footpath, but when i do have to ride on the road its normally only in the designated bike lane or a parking lane, i have still had people in free flowing traffic drive into the parking lane to "scare" me, these are the dickheads that have repair bills after.......

My new helmet should turn up on tuesday, full-face WW2 German fighter plane spec.

Hence, my one man war.

Wound up going with the 109 helmet huh?

yer, it will suit the theme at work, i might end up getting the other one at a later date too. At the moment there is other bike parts i need to get so i can get out riding seriously

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