Just failed the CA DMV motorcycle popsicle test (and I thought Ihad passed)

On some bikes it is tempting to come to a stop in neutral, because good
luck finding it when stopped.

 

In the US cruiser crowd, a Honda Shadow 750 or a H-D Sportster 883 is a
"girl's bike", and not something a Real Manâ„¢ would be seen on.

And if you look at the online sport-bike forums, people will post that
only a wuss would not be able to handle a liter-bike, and that you
should start at least with a 600cc super-sport as anything else is boring.

I could happily live with something like a Suzuki TU250X for everything
but freeway riding, where the lack of acceleration takes away one option
for maintaining space from the cagers in urban areas, and the engine is
too small for maintaining a 70-75 mph pace on rural sections.

 

The MSF BRC training suggests not locking up the front wheel, or doing a
stoppie (as I did on a TU250X). One the other hand, during ARC-2 class,
the instructor wanted all of us on non-ABS bikes to give a final hard
squeeze of the front brake when almost stopped to either skid the front
wheel or get the back wheel off the ground.

 

You really are being an idiot here.

When I turn a motorcycle I am pushing around the garage, I do not have
to lean it at all to get it to turn. In fact, with me providing the
balance, it behaves exactly like a multi-track vehicle would.

Q. If I have a trike conversion done to a Gold Wing, does it still turn
by counter-steering?

A. Only in Pete/Twibil's screwed up imagination.

Yes is does. But you will never admit to being wrong about anything.

 

Heh.

Since I can't recall ever having mentioned it here
before, then what you might know about what
I know about Communisim is absolutely nothing.

Why do you insist on demonstrating your inability to
think things through to the end of a short sentence?

 

It comes as no surprise to anyone that you'll
immediately jump in on the side of a obsessive-
compulsive fruitcake, Tom.

Gee, I wonder why that is?

 

Certainly.

And they've been made by folks like you who
don't understand why none of said proposals
are possible or affordable.

Which is why nobody takes then seriuously.

 

Your initial assumption is idiotic.

First because motorcycle accidents can -and
do- involve innocent citizens just like any other
accident, and secondly because (read this
carefully) cleaning up after those accidents
costs the state, the counties, and the localities
money that they can't afford to spend.

If safety classes save us all tax money (and
they do) then that's a cost which should be
borne by the bikers themselves: not by the
general public.

 

Ditto for those who prefer conspiracy theories and
delusions to reality.

 

Seriously, cannot a genius use a spell checker?

If they can afford to have an examiner ride around with the applicant in
a car, why could they not have the examiner follow the applicant around?
Time is the same, and the cost of a vehicle could be covered by
increasing the test fee.

The real answer is the state legislatures and bureaucracies are filled
with people who really do not give a damn.

 

Your comment above provided enough information to prove that you are
clueless. Duh.

 

You are not that bright for being a genius.

 

So when you add a trike conversion kit, turning is no longer possible?
That is what your claim means.

Keep digging yourself in a hole. It is bloody obvious you are an
ignorant fool, despite being a genius.

Your repeating something wrong does not make it so.

 

Sure. But since the post was intended for you, why
would anyone care?

Oh, good! you want to increase everyone's taxes
because you think it might be a good idea!

What a surprise.

The truth is, the legislatures etcetera are filled with
people who care a bit too much, and who are willing
to spend our collective tax money to correct every
wrong they can imagine. We can't afford to do that.

 

I like the way you try to include "duh" in your every post.
It's so -I don't know- *appropriate* coming from you.

Particularly because you seem to think that posting baseless
insults without attempting to justify them is going to win you
something.

 

It's like the two guys who met a bear in the woods, Tom.

They took off running -with the bear closing in from behind-
and one guy says "Why are we running? We can't outrun
a bear!"

And the second guy replies, "I don't have to outrun the bear.
I just have to outrun *you*!"

Ya see, there are several guys here who are quite likely a
match for me in the intellect department, but I only have to
outrun *you*.

 

Holy cow! (Snicker, chuckle, guffaw, snort, titter, Etc.)

Thanks for the best laugh I've had in a week.

But alas, bikes are not trikes.

Ah, but I don't think that trikes and motorcycles are the same
things, so you're still losing that race with the bear.

You may be the first person I've ever met with your unique
ability to combine stupidity, misinformation, and bull-
headed subbornness with a complete inability to recognise
reality even when it's kicking you in the shins.

Congratulations. You've run me almost out of superlatives
for "dumb".

 

Fees and taxes are different things. http://www.octax.org/cat2sub3.php

Sure we can. Raise taxes. A big portion of our current state problem
would have been avoided had the governator not screwed up the vehicle
fee as his first act, calling it some kind of tax reduction. A bigger
portion would have been avoided had proposition 13 been thrown away
before it caused our current mess. The biggest portion of all would
be to call supply side economics the bullshit that it is.

jg

 

You are really full of self-projection.

<yawn>

 

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