My PEOPLE...
My Tribe?
My peeps??? (I'll have my discourse community call your discourse community?)
Something simpler than Discourse Community - and I'll take my tea M.I.F., s'il vous plait.
(That's Brit slang... Milk in First, vs. T.I.F., Tea in First, the entire country says CUPPA, that's the British discourse community way of saying 'cup of tea')
But I digress from this exciting new topic...
10 of MY Discourse Communities
1. My Family - which includes talk about skiing and cooking and many nicknames
2. My Home Town - grew up in Ketchum/Sun Valley, Idaho
3. I Will Teach You to Be Rich by Ramit Sethi - a super cool money blog
4. ADV Rider - a world-wide online community for adventure motorcyclists
5. Taos, NM - having lived here for most of past 20 years, very important!
6. Facebook - Need I explain?
7. Francophiles: People who speak French, cook French and have lived in PAris and watch French movies and know who the hell Catherine Deneuve is!
8. Game Developers Club at NMSU- Group interested in making video games (this woman is NOT a member, she is Catherine Deneuve! from group 7!)
9. Bollywood Lovers: People who watch Bollywood films from India
10.Dakar Rally - fans and participants of famous off road motorcycle race
ADV Rider -
From the list above, ADV Rider is the community that is predominately written word. But festive icons such as this:
are VERY important part of the discourse. These and other symbols are used to emphasize and reveal emotions, which gives the forums a very boyant feeling.  | natashaempire n00b |
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About natashaempire- Location
- Las Cruces NM
- Motorcycles owned currently
- Honda CRF 230
- Dream bike
- Honda CRF 250 X
- Best ride ever taken
- Trip to Europe Summer 2010 with my husband on a BMW 1200
- Dream ride
- DAKAR rally and Heroes Legend rally classic road to Dakar
- Other interests
- hiking/cooking/travel/speaking french/film/video game design/singing French songs
- Occupation
- Full Time Student and aspiring video game designer
- Awesome people and places with MASSIVE DETAIL AVAILABLE: Imagine a place you'd like to ride, or an off road dream bike you'd love to build and you can do a search and most likely find something about it, plus awesome photos such as
- Jenny Morgan entry from the 2011 Dakar Rally, where she unfortunately crashed on Stage 4:
Hi John - If you look back a few pages (quite a few pages) you'll see some pictures, but basically it happened at around km 96 on the 4th stage - I'd just crossed a dry lake (chott) and was staying wide to stay out of the dust from other riders, and the soft sand on the piste that was cut up by then...
Unfortunately, at a track junction, a grader had pushed a new road across the desert, so rather than the mounds either side being typically a foot high (which would have been fine), the banks either side were more like three foot high...
I saw them at the last minute, and hit the first one pretty fast (40-50 mph), made it over but was completely out of shape by then and slammed into the second bank on the far side of the grade road, which is where (I'm pretty sure) I broke my leg in the impact... it was one of those "I'm not going to get away with this one" moments, and I basically shut my eyes... miraculously the bike made it over that second bank, and I finally fell off about 30 yards on... close to the piste itself as you can see from the photo:
This shot was taken by a helicopter as Carlos Sainz came buy... although it looks like I'm alone, as you can see, my bike is back up on it's stand (to make it more visible) and there was another rider who'd stopped to help, plus the film cameraman on the ground helping to slow the traffic... the cars were still doing about 80mph when the passed mind you!
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