I Ride A Motorcycle Because ...

It doesn't have ABS, Launch Control, Traction Control, Stability
Control, Sideways Drift Collision Detection Control etc. etc. etc.
It's inherently unstable and the only way it will stay upright is if I
keep working at it.
It's noisy (but not as noisy as the neighbour's dog and nowhere near as
irritating).
I get to wear cool gear I can discuss with other riders.
I can lane-split.
I can filter.
I can launch from a red light faster than anything on 4 wheels, and I
enjoy testing this on occasion.
I can get wet when it rains.
I can get cold when it snows.
I can get hot in the middle of summer.
I can get sore if I travel more than few hundred kilometres.
I can't go shopping.

And because riding some twisty stuff on a weekend morning is worth
getting up for.

 

Cos I look so damn cool when I go to Phillip Island to watch the Superbikes:
http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/bargearse/cool.jpg

 

Why do you ride motorcycles?
"...because I was born too late to fly Spitfires over North Africa, and
because chances are there won't be an alien invasion of Earth against
which I could pilot a space fighter in my lifetime..." - IK in aus.moto

He can go fukken kill himself, frankly. [TM] I was more interested in
taking a shot at those who want motorcycles to be more like cars. I was
seeing too many "ABS is wonderful", "I can't live without a shaft drive"
in the threads.

 

Having ABS and a shaft drive doesn't make a motorbike more like a car,
it just makes for a better motorbike


G-S

 

....and in the same way that the goalposts about "what constitutes a
sport(s)bike/sport-tourer/tourer/hyper-mega-uber-sooper-dooper-dual-purpose-motor-motard-motorcycle"
keep allegedly shifting (or not, dependng on whose interpretation of whose
definition one uses) - the membership of aus.moto has also transmogrified
somewhat... so some (maybe even quite a few!) of us haven't seen this
/contributed to this before :-D ... like sands through the hourglass....

I ride a motorcycle because....

....aw ****... at the moment, I DON'T ride a motorcycle. Bugger. *sniffle*

betty. If that x-ray doesn't give me
a good result next Tuesday I shall go
postal

 

I think on most occasions they'll stay upright despite the best efforts
of the rider.

You gotta upgrade that Hyundai..

Who wants to go shopping?

Nev..
'07 XB12X
'08 DL1000K8

 

Maybe a centre stand would help. And stop taking the neighbour's dog for
rides!
MikeH

 

Does it really matter what anybody rides, as long as they enjoy it?
To each their own.

 

In aus.motorcycles on Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:36:03 +1100

Need better gear. Or an open topped car.

Only then? I can get cold well short of that.

Get a Norge, warm legs!

What? Didn't even have that on the Devil! Relax man!

What, you don't carry spare oil?

Me, I can go shopping on anything, that's what the backpack's for.

Zebee

 

Good for you, Andrew, I am happy for you.

I do feel that you are possibly missing out on one of the pleasures of
riding a motorcycle, with your "can't go shopping".

Riding down to the shops, sneaking into a wee tiny space and parking,
into shops, do business, out of shops and ride home, all in the time it
takes car drivers to find a parking space.... I definitely works for me.


regards,
CrazyCam

 

At least ya bloody own one

 

You get one of those with every new Harley I hear...


G-S

 

I used to have one of those big hiker's backpacks with the inbuilt frame.
I used to just fill it full of the fortnight's groceries (it'd hold a
trollyful) and then haul it up onto my back on the Little-Red-Throbber (Hi
Jeffles) and release the straps enough so that the weight sat on the
pillion-seat.
Did me fine for yonks (until my wife moved in and decided I'd been doing
everything wrong.......)

 

In aus.motorcycles on Thu, 12 Mar 2009 01:32:03 GMT

I mostly did the shopping on the MZ with throwovers, but there was a
time when I did the same as you but on the Devil - a yellow throbber
rather than a red one.

Not for long mind you, because any riding on that bike that requires
you to get your chin off the tank is actively painful quite quickly.

Zebee
- who didn't think to replace the wristbreaker clipons when she was
riding the bike regularly and sees no reason to now. That's my
story and I'm sticking to it.

 

There seems to be a bit too much fascination for things throbbing,
methinks.

(To the usual suspects I say " kill yourslef" [tm IK])

=================

Onya bike

Gerry

 

Didn't explain it very well, then , did I. I have a small hardshell
backpack and I have a tank bag. I can certainly nick down the shops and
buy quite a lot of beer. I don't call that shopping. In fact, absent the
backpack and the tank bag and I could still transport beer - one 6-pack
occy strapped to the pillion seat and the other stuffed down the front
of my jacket.

Shopping is a trolley full of loo paper, cleaners, frozen food, bread,
eggs, meat, vegetables - you know, the weekly shop. Nobody should be
expected to do that on a motorcycle. Someone with A CAR [casts
significant look at the half of the partnership that has such a thing]
should do it

 

In aus.motorcycles on Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:18:58 +1100

So I like big singles.

(I liked big when he was single, but not in the same way...)

Zebee

 

me too! I can get the weekly shop into my Ventura Bags as long as I don't
need to get, you know, a 12 pack of dunny paper or something... It's
occasionally a challenge to fit everything in, but it's very do-able. Now
that I've discovered the joys of Woolies Homeshop, though.....

betty

 

I wonder if he had to be kick started in the morning...


G-S

 

Geez... I'm not a safety nazi (I'll ride in an open face helmet), but
even I wouldn't be game to shove half a dozen stubbies down my jacket.

Even a minor slip and it'd be like gettled 'bottled' by half a dozen
crazies!


G-S