Brit Iron Rebles Membership - jmv2006

[CarlS]

My application to the Brit Iron Rebels Forum was accepted.

Now I hope to become a member one of these days.

I would appreciate any help to get there from anyone here already a Member.
Thank you Carl for your nice welcome message!

Joao M. Vidal
- 1965 Honda CS50
- 2005 Triumph Thunderbird Sport
- 2006 Triumph Bonneville T100
- 2008 Triumph Sprint ST

 

[CarlS]

Joao, Keith, on this site, and I are members. I know there are some members in France and I think there is a Belgium member. Email me and I will shoot you the membership requirements which vary according to whether you are near a clan or not. We don't have a clan in Florida.

The welcome message was my pleasure.
Carl S


Joao, sent you a welcome.. I think there are two members in Belgium and two in France.
KeithH


Joao,
Even though I have been pretty much inactive lately on both this forum and in Brit Iron Rebels because of many, many other obligations, I will tell you that both groups are top notch. I am proud to be a member of both.
I will certainly add my comments on the BIR site for your membership.
Shyguy344 (Bob)


Thank you Carl, Keith, Bob and GrandPaul (in TBS) for your nice messages.

Carl, I got your instructions for the photos but it didn't work with me.

I even subscribed 1 year for the Delphi Forums and still it doesn't work.
I got the HTML link from "Hotlink Files" and still no joy.

I must be doing something wrong.

Here it is easy:

:Cheers1:
JMV2006 (Joao)


Joao, email me and I will send you the instructions via email in plain text where I can type the string out. Oh, I forgot to tell you to be sure to check the HTML box just below the window where you are typing your message. You have to check that box for the HTML to work.
Carl S


image[img] won't work. You must use the <> of HTML.
Carl S


Jun 19 2008, 08:24 AM

[quote]Joao, email me ...[/quote]

I sent you an email through the link in your profile in this Forum. I hope it works!
JMV2006


It will work. I am in Atlanta now and will not be home until tomorrow night. I'll check the email then. Thanks, Joao; I'll get back to you as quickly as I can.
Carl S

 

[Lonzo]

Do they still scorn America/Speedy riders?

 

[Dilligaf]

I was banned from the BIR web site :y24:

 

[The Seeker]

[quote author=Dilligaf link=topic=225.msg528#msg528 date=1214056782]
I was banned from the BIR web site :y24:
[/quote]


Hitting on member's Wives may have been seen as stepping over the line by a tad???

 

[CarlS]

[quote author=Lonzo link=topic=225.msg481#msg481 date=1214017262]
Do they still scorn America/Speedy riders? [/quote]

Yes, Lon; one has to have a vintage or retro Brit ride - Bonnie and Scrambler.

 

[CarlS]

[quote author=The Seeker link=topic=225.msg540#msg540 date=1214061000]

Hitting on member's Wives may have been seen as stepping over the line by a tad??? [/quote]

:y24:

 

[DaveM]

I got banned from that site before I even got onto it, I think it had something to do with the fact I did not have the correct bike

 

[The Seeker]

Is the Brit Iron Rebles the Flinstone version of the Brit Iron Rebels? Kind of like Barney Ruble?

 

[CarlS]

[quote author=The Seeker link=topic=225.msg614#msg614 date=1214100007]
Is the Brit Iron Rebles the Flinstone version of the Brit Iron Rebels? Kind of like Barney Ruble?[/quote]

:y24:

 

[jmv2006]

Today for the first time I met in person somebody I “met†first in a motorcycle Forum.
It was very pleasant to meet Darin, a full Member of the BIR.
We had a drink at the “Gambrinus†in Tervuren and then Darin lead me in a pleasant short ride through the back roads of the neighbourhood. :y115:

Our bikes also got acquainted with each other.

Certainly more meetings and rides will follow. :y18:

 

[DaveM]

Joao you sure have stunning looking surroundings where you live. I really need to make a plan and come on over for a visit some time :y18:

 

[jmv2006]

That is a good idea Dave. :y115:
Start planning to come here in 2009 (depending on Rocky's report :wink
You're my guest! :y18:

 

[CarlS]

Very good, Joao. Is Darin willing to sponsor you since you have met face to face and ridden together. I will certainly support your membership as, I am sure that, Keith, GrandPaul, Shyguy and Lagrena will.

I see that he has exquisite taste in bikes! :y114:

 

[jmv2006]

Today we had again a small BIR ride/meeting.
We met in Tervuren and I invited Darin to come to my home and visit my “Triumph Toy Garage†and meet my Family.
It was a pleasant morning! :y115:
I hope one day we will have a “BIR Clan†in Belgium!!! :y18:

 

[DaveM]

Great photos one again :y115:

 

[CarlS]

Very cool! I am glad you met with another BIR member. Will he sponsor you?

 

[jmv2006]

Darin is the only BIR Member I met so far (twice).
He surely will sponsor me and he already wrote some nice words on my behalf in the BIR Forum.
His idea is to start a "Belgian Clan" but the problem is that the minimum is three Members and we are the only two interested. (I'm still a wannabe).
There were two other Members in Belgium but one gave up his membership (troubles with the top) and the other one sold his "classic Brit" bike and now rides a Speed Triple therefore he doesn't "comply anymore with the membership requirements" (????!!!! )

 

[CarlS]

That is much the same as in Florida. There are five of us in the peninsula area and at least one in the panhandle. The closest member to me is 1.5 hours away and the next closest is 3.5 hours away. Three of us are getting together on Monday.

 

[jmv2006]

When I learned that “BIR – Brit Iron Rebels†do not accept riders that don’t have whatever they think to be the “right bike†:silent: I confess that I was rather discouraged and I thought about giving up my application.
Furthermore due to medical reasons (diabetes) I don’t drink any sort of alcoholic beverage, definitely I’m no “rebel†against whatsoever and I’m the least “hooligan†person anybody can be. Last but not least I don’t have or will ever have any tattoos or piercings. :y110:

I only reconsidered when I learned that Carl, Keith, GrandPaul and Bob were there and when almost simultaneously I met Darin Oman (the only BIR Member in Belgium) who is a very pleasant and well-mannered young gentleman (33).
Actually I don’t believe I will ever become an effective Member mainly because there are not enough people in Belgium interested in forming a “Clanâ€.
As you may have noticed the vast majority of Belgians don’t like to participate in anything that uses any other language than Dutch (Flanders) or French (Wallonia). On top many people here still think that by registering in a Forum they “sell their soul to the devil†and that all the secrets and bank accounts in their computers will be disclosed.

On the positive side the technical knowledge of many BIR Members is definitely outstanding. I already found there some very interesting threads and also received nice answers to some of my posts.
Sum-up: Not the “cosy family ambiance†:y105: we fortunately have here but far much better than the “rats on the net†or whatever they rather appropriately call themselves.