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Stones
28-Dec-2006, 11:27
Ok so are people calling this bike the 10-9-8 (same as say the 916) or are you calling it the 10-98 (like say a Porsche 911).....????
Its a question that is bugging me! And I will need to know what to call her when she arrives in a week!
yeti
28-Dec-2006, 11:28
10 - 98 seems to be the one I've heard the most. And then it will be the 11 - 98 next year! Yum yum.
Stones
28-Dec-2006, 11:29
yeh 11-98 just sounds even better!
yeti
28-Dec-2006, 11:42
yeh 11-98 just sounds even better!

...................or 1200R
TP
28-Dec-2006, 11:42
Down here in the south everyone I know has been saying 10-9-8 ... it's too American to say "ten ninety-eight" like they used to say "nine sixteen" Urgh!

nine one six
nine nine six
nine nine eight
ugly ****'s
ten nine eight

:D :lol:
NBs996
28-Dec-2006, 11:49
So by your reckoning tp, it should be one-o-nine-eight

:D
yeti
28-Dec-2006, 11:51
Down here in the south

Says it all really.....................
TP
28-Dec-2006, 11:54
So by your reckoning tp, it should be one-o-nine-eight

:D

Nick, take yourself outside and administer yourself a beating.

It's the first time a model designation has reached 4 numerals, so we're running with the ten!

Geddit! :D
TP
28-Dec-2006, 11:54
Says it all really.....................

I'd rather be from the south than a yank clone!

:p
fab
28-Dec-2006, 12:01
in Italy it's the, one thousand and ninety eight, but there again it does sound better as "mille e novantotto", remember a journalist saying that pretty much anything said in Italian sounds cooler.

to be fair i have been saying "dieci e novantotto" to my pa but their again i don't live in Italy.
Davieravie
28-Dec-2006, 12:55
Down here in the south everyone I know has been saying 10-9-8 ... it's too American to say "ten ninety-eight" like they used to say "nine sixteen" Urgh!

nine one six
nine nine six
nine nine eight
ugly ****'s
ten nine eight

:D :lol:

You really are a class ONE fud sometimes ;)
996
28-Dec-2006, 13:14
I know it's winter and we carn't ride our bikes but are we that bored that we've started a threaed about this,.....there MUST be something better to do?
TP
28-Dec-2006, 13:28
You really are a class ONE fud sometimes ;)

:lol:

Aren't you still drunk?
Davieravie
28-Dec-2006, 14:21
:lol:

Aren't you still drunk?

Maybes aye......maybes no.......;)
749er
28-Dec-2006, 14:22
Down here in the south everyone I know has been saying 10-9-8 ... it's too American to say "ten ninety-eight" like they used to say "nine sixteen" Urgh!

nine one six
nine nine six
nine nine eight
beautiful beast
one zero nine eight

:D :lol:

SURELY!!
TP
28-Dec-2006, 14:24
SURELY!!

Don't call me Shirley!
gossa
28-Dec-2006, 23:19
Ok so are people calling this bike the 10-9-8 (same as say the 916) or are you calling it the 10-98 (like say a Porsche 911).....????
Its a question that is bugging me! And I will need to know what to call her when she arrives in a week!
i'm saying 10-98 but I called my 999 a triple nine.

I think this very important issue requires serious debate to make sure we get it right, or we could just all go and ride instead.............
gossa
28-Dec-2006, 23:21
oh and don't worry, when it comes you'll just be speechles so won't need to worry about what to call her/it. I just stood there smiling for a while when I got my keys, I think I might have dribbled a bit as it was warming up.
rcgbob44
29-Dec-2006, 08:58
You need to get out more Stones!
Stones
30-Dec-2006, 13:43
You need to get out more Stones!
I agree I do!! Although when you foolishly sell your 749 weeks before the 1098 arrives you kinda go into strange 'I want to ride!!' depression... a symptom of this is to start useless links........ oh and buy stupid amounts of bike magazines to somehow replace riding with reading!! Sorry!