Reasons We Ride a Bike!

Yep. Too small. That's why I got an 885 Triumph. (They were all out
of the 886).

 

(Scott Gardner wrote
http://www.okcupid.com/tests
    ‘‘Number 14 was silly’’:
14.     What appeals to you the most about motorcycling?
Risk
Challenge
Respect
Nothing in particular
  
(Hank says)
  For me the answer was non of the above. I ride because I enjoy it.
Quiz said I need an FJR1300. Not a bad choice!


‘‘what appeals to one, doesnt necessarily appeal to another'' .
personally, I really think most who ride hard on a Motorcycle, actually
enjoys the Risk factor, deep inside our thrills conscience!!!

 

Sorry 'bout that. My fingers living a life all their own. grin

cheers

bob

 

You got that too? You bringing it with you next week?

--

Andrew
00 Daytona
00 Speed Triple
RCOS #7

 

It didn't even leave a mark!

--

Andrew
00 Daytona
00 Speed Triple
RCOS #7

 

Yes, that is the correct answer, but getting on the throttle to tighten
up your line could work too. I had to think about that one.
--

Andrew
00 Daytona
00 Speed Triple
RCOS #7

 

You like speed. Don't feign Hardley slow. I've seen your inner animal!

--

Andrew
00 Daytona
00 Speed Triple
RCOS #7

 

I havent ever taken a class for riding these motorcycles.
I treat my bike like my women. I ride it hard and put it away wet.
Do you think I should take a class?

What else can I expect to lern in a class? I wonder if my bike is fast
enough to go to a class. I think I'd rather take a Rocket III out
there. It has a little better power and torqe. The vulcane is a girls
bike, you know.


Speeking of that, do girls take thse classes too? I hope so, I bet
they'd dig my Vulcan, my beanie on the back seat and my googles. I
forgot about the TMRA2 tatoo. It is nice. I had "Welfare Billboard"
scripted under it yesterday.

I'm cumming up with a design for my lower back rite now. It will have
HD in it somewhere. The chicks dig the lower back tatoooos.

Will they make me ware my beanie at the class? I'd think that would
really affect my concentration. I only like to wear it in the rain.
How will I be able to concentrate on the class with my perifreal vision
and hearing all mussed up?

Do they hand out playing cards at the class?
I'd like to do a class and a poeker urn all at the same time. I bet I
could win the class if they did that. I got 3 dueces on my last urn.

I bet I could get a chick at the class, my wifey likes me to bring home
the young ones. I'd better run over the border to Matamoros to get some
more Viagra. They sell it cheap there. Much cheaper than my internet
source.

I think that I could probably teach a class in riding skills. I put 14
miles on the bike yesterday. It was hot out there. My nipples are much
less sensitive with the vest I ware now.

So back to the question at hand. I think these are the proper pants to
wear in that sitooation. What did you guys call it? Deecreesing
radius? I don't know if they had those in 1982.
http://www.westonsinternet.co.uk/images/aa2787b.jpg
What if you scare yersef? No worries! They didn't have this gear in
1982. Talk about progress!

 

Dayum!

It sez:

I should get a Honda VFR, but I like vintage bikes.

- Nate >>

 

Me too. It told me I need a GSXR1000, now where in **** will I get the
money, uh, hey Demi..

--
Tony D
1971 R75/5 boxer
2004 R1150 Rockster
Philly Hoodlum©#37
SENS (less) LFS#38 PHS
BS#149 FYYFMFFY

 

To be honest, it's something I enjoy that is so totally different from the
other vehicles I drive. As a re-entry rider there is the adrenalin rush
that comes from knowing all of the risks now that were blissfully ignored
at 16. There is the fun of discussing bikes with other motorcyclists and
the satisfaction up putting an old bike right and giving it a new lease on
life.

There is considerable challenge to unlearning my bad habits and replace
them with good ones from the MSF course and other sources. Too bad those
resources weren't available 25 years ago.

My first bike was a KL250 that I didn't wander too far from the farm with
except on a few rare occasions. I'm still learning and haven't been much
further from home than about 30 miles. As time goes by I plan to do some
day trips and discover the highs and lows of distance riding. Perhaps
that will turn into touring at some point. This is an experience to be
savored, carefully, over time.

- Nate >>

 

I thought that was, "shaft drive bikes can't wheelie." Was there a memo
about the change?

 

they said it was a bike "personality" test. not a physical fitting test.

 

with big tits!

 

To be honest, it's something I enjoy that is so totally different from
the other vehicles

I drive. As a re-entry rider there is the adrenalin rush that comes from
knowing all of the risks now that were blissfully ignored at 16. There
is the fun of discussing bikes with other motorcyclists and the
satisfaction up putting an old bike right and giving it a new lease on
life.

There is considerable challenge to unlearning my bad habits and replace
them with good ones from the MSF course and other sources. Too bad those
resources weren't available 25 years ago.

My first bike was a KL250 that I didn't wander too far from the farm
with except on a few rare occasions. I'm still learning and haven't been
much further from home than about 30 miles. As time goes by I plan to do
some day trips and discover the highs and lows of distance riding.
Perhaps that will turn into touring at some point. This is an experience
to be savored, carefully, over time.
(Nate Bargmann)


‘‘above, Nate, you brought out some points that I forgot to mention.
One is talking and discussing with others about thier Bikes, where've
they rode. etc.
You are an honest one, admitting that you havent ridden your Motorcycle
more than about 30 miles from your home area,Yet!
Nate, it is quite a thrill deal, to pack up your bike, and ride a few
hundred miles, with another riding buddy.’’
(bjaykana)

 

You just MIGHT have it down!
I've been practicing dragging the foot pegs smoothly on
the Valk, and came into a left curve a bit too fast the
other day. I looked at the shoulder of the road, because
I seemed to be headed there. Hard to resist looking where
you might be riding in a few seconds. Anyways, I got around
the curve without touching the white line, but I went wider
than I'd planned, and it seemed harder than it should have
to lean it down more, and the foot peg never touched. I
wonder if leaning it would have come easier if I had looked
towards the center of my lane.


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"Brutal and sadistic? By what girly-man standards? Compared
to how Saddam treated his prisoners, a bit of humiliation was
a walk in the park. AFAIK, No one died or even lost any blood."
-Albert Nurick, a usenet kook and blatant liar, on the rape,
torture and murder at bu$h's Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0512-10.htm

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that
matter." -- Martin Luther King Jr.

"God told me to strike at al Qaeda and I struck them. And then
he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did."
-- George W. Bush

"Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the
will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the
Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord."
-- Adolf Hitler

"The tsunami was a wonderful opportunity to show not just the
US government, but the heart of the American people, and I think
it has paid great dividends for us." Condoleezza Rice

"One of the things we don't want to do is destroy the
infrastructure in Iraq because in a few days we're going
to own that country," - Tom Brokaw

Cost of probing Bill Clinton's sex life: $65 million.
Cost of probing the Columbia shuttle disaster: $50 million.
Funds assigned to independent Sept. 11 panel: $3 million.

"After all, it is the leaders of the country who determine
the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the
people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist
dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship.
Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the
bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to
do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the
peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country
to danger. It works the same in any country."
-- Hermann Goering, President of the Reichstag, Nazi Party, and
Luftwaffe Commander in Chief

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President,
or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is
not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable
to the American public."
-- Theodore Roosevelt (1918)

"You know, when bu$h said that he's against nation building,
I didn't realize that he meant only the United States"
-- Al Franken

Don't let bu$h do to the United States what his very close
friend and top campaign contributor, Ken Lay, did to Enron...

 

Where have you been? Geez, for several years now, I've been told time and
again that cruisers, particularly shaft drive ones, can't countersteer or
pull wheelies. Since mine has done both, it must be a fluke.
Sorta like the Buick Skylark that Joe had back in the early 70s. It was all
stock but had this funny lope in it. [1] A cop clocked him doing _over 160
mph_ on the H.E. Bailey Turnpike. He said "over 160", because that's where
the radar gun pegged at and kept flashing.
That was some car...

[1] Joe did everything he could think of, to get that lope out of the engine
but never could.

 

Interesting that...went for a trip to the Gila last weekend. Got to
practice the old "vanishing point" technique. It really boils down to
trusting that the machine is superior to you. I think in most of my
"high speed" curves I "stuffed" the appropriate handlebar into the
curve without much thought to the physics of the maneuver. Damn these
are magnificent machines! Ya gotta trust 'em.

 

e. Ask my wife <g>

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Instead of swerving, I should have been reloading
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Long, low, soft, comfortable, and carrying a lot of stuff?

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