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Offline stewmax1957

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Vee and Wee
« on: May 27, 2022, 23:46:03 »
Excuse my naivety, I'm guessing  that a 'Vee' is the big 'one and  'Wee' is the superior 650, right?  :stirpot:
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Offline Megashorts

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Re: Vee and Wee
« Reply #1 on: May 28, 2022, 07:32:00 »
An early 1000 is a Vee, the later ones are Veeks, the early 650s are Wees, a later 650 is Week :-)

I think I got that right :-)
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Re: Vee and Wee
« Reply #2 on: May 28, 2022, 07:56:34 »
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Offline The Doctor 46

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Re: Vee and Wee
« Reply #3 on: May 28, 2022, 10:01:22 »
I'm glad  stewmax1957 asked this question and thank you Gert for those links. I'm already starting to understand the jargon and thought I was almost there but after reading more, I realise I wasn't even close. Now my head is spinning.  :dl_hyperhysteria:.

My bike is a 2012 650 DL. There, now everybody knows so, when I talk about my bike, this is what I mean. If I ever change it, I'll let you all know. In case not everybody reads this please make it part of every post you all make on the site for the next 6 months and tell newbies when the introduce themselves.  :grin:.  Sorted.

    Nice day again today, short ride this morning to warm the engine then oil change. I'm not going to change the filter because I forgot to buy one but I changed it last time. Then I'm going for a mile or so to check for leaks then I'll ride it for the rest of the day to check it properly.  :thumb:

Thanks again for asking the question and to you Gert for the links.  :auto-dirtbike:
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Offline kwackboy

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Re: Vee and Wee
« Reply #4 on: May 28, 2022, 10:41:25 »
Your bike is known as a glee...
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Offline Oldleathers

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Re: Vee and Wee
« Reply #5 on: May 28, 2022, 20:03:03 »
How about Big Strom & Little Strom, although I was looking at them side by side
Whilst waiting for my bike service the other day and in physical size there's not much in it.
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Offline Rusty Nuts

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Re: Vee and Wee
« Reply #6 on: May 28, 2022, 21:37:14 »
There is history,  logic and tradition behind the nomenclature.
Let's not cancel the past.
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Offline Rookie

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Re: Vee and Wee
« Reply #7 on: May 28, 2022, 23:44:57 »
Now there was me thinking, I'd be wrong if I didn't call them . They, those, or some other such pronoun .
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Offline Mr Nick

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Re: Vee and Wee
« Reply #8 on: May 29, 2022, 14:18:25 »
Quote from: Rusty Nuts on May 28, 2022, 21:37:14
Let's not cancel the past.
But isn't that the fashionable thing to do now? I demand an apology and reparations for the suffering causes to generations of V-Stroms! Is there a statue somewhere we can chuck into the river?
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Offline cooltshirt

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Re: Vee and Wee
« Reply #9 on: May 29, 2022, 16:53:24 »
There was a statue to Joe Lucas 'Prince of Darkness' but to save time Triumph owners can just visit it and press the kill switch  :grin:
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Offline HughDL250

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Re: Vee and Wee
« Reply #10 on: May 30, 2022, 15:14:33 »
So, what does this make a DL250 - a mini wee?

Cheers :)

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Offline Cartejo5

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Re: Vee and Wee
« Reply #11 on: May 30, 2022, 15:58:50 »
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How’s about a wee wee! :lala:
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Re: Vee and Wee
« Reply #12 on: May 30, 2022, 16:03:58 »
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Offline HughDL250

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Re: Vee and Wee
« Reply #13 on: May 30, 2022, 17:15:46 »
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Nice to know they are so popular  :smirk:, but yes, it maybe shouldn’t be given the V-Strom moniker.
Anyway, after experiencing the gut wrenching performance of mine I should perhaps have gone for a 650.

Cheers :)

Hugh
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Offline stewmax1957

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Re: Vee and Wee
« Reply #14 on: June 20, 2022, 19:41:36 »
Gleefully accepted..
I have a Glee  :ty:
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