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redscare posted:An argument against Harleys: Eastern Block dental work. I can't imagine it's worse then the Buell Blast. My hands and wrists were quite honestly starting to go numb after a day on it (MSF course)
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1. Squeezing past cars who are stuck in traffic. 2. Every other guy on a bike waves to you. 3. Girls checking you out at stoplights and such. 4. Cars pulling over on backroads to let you pass...so kind of them. 5. I'm on a motorcycle and not stuck in a cage!
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Nov 10, 2009 07:49
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14) Seeing some kid waving like his wrist is made of rubber, and returning the silly wave with a huuuuuge loving grin....just in time for his MILF to turn and make eye contact with you. OH HAI!!! 
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Nov 10, 2009 14:13
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13: Feeling like a jet fighter in a world of slow, lumbering cargo planes 14: Not having to worry about how bad traffic is
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Nov 12, 2009 23:00
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16: when you go from screaming down a dark road to furious braking and vicious fishtailing to avoid a suicidal deer and succeeding into remaining intact by literal millimeters, the former notion of "awesome" residing in your mind will implode and a new concept will be born. 17: the inevitable admiration brought upon by mentioning that you've got not just one, but TWO motorcycles... especially two motorcycles with a model name that everybody knows: NINJA! 18: I used to take my bicycle out when I was a youngun, pick random roads, and pedal madly on them to their ends just out of curiosity of my surroundings. When I first got a car, it wasn't as fun and environmentally-connecting as a bike. The meteoric ascent of gas prices shortly after I started driving didn't help, either. So my wanderlust was oppressed by these lacking factors. Now that I've got a m/c, I find myself consciously going out of my way to just ride around for the hell of it, even in 35 degree weather.
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Nov 13, 2009 03:06
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7. Better MPG over highway and city travel combined than either car we own. 8. The amazement on people's face when I crank the bars and tip the bike way over for a tight low speed turn in a parking lot. Thank you MSF figure8 box. 9. Other couples stopping and staring at my wife and I as we cruise by two up. 10. Really nailing a curve... knowing you just took that curve better than you've ever taken it before. 
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Nov 13, 2009 21:41
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Guilty pleasure: Overtaking L-platers (in their cars) while wearing my L-plate. (only in the safest manner of course) Jaz fucked around with this message at 05:10 on Nov 16, 2009 |
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Nov 16, 2009 05:08
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8ish: Taking a long sweeping curve at 8pm at night, no light besides the headlight that is no longer aimed at the road since you are leaned over and turning the bars, and seeing the deer standing right next to the road. The awesome part being not even flinching from my line and keeping my cool since any other option would result in unhappiness. Then laughing nervously so hard that I fog up my helmet. That... is awesome.
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Nov 16, 2009 06:03
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14: Riding aggressively on some super-remote mountain road that's chiseled into a cliff face, taking a sharp corner with my wheels on the inside edge of the road, and hanging so far off the bike that my body isn't just off the road, it's hanging out over a 100-foot-plus cliff
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Nov 22, 2009 09:54
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I had the recent experience of rounding a corner after riding ~100 miles through a horrible, demoralizing rain/wind storm and seeing nothing but clear blue skies and bright sunshine ahead. It was sort-of amazing how much that lifted my spirits.
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Nov 23, 2009 09:12
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sectoidman posted:I had the recent experience of rounding a corner after riding ~100 miles through a horrible, demoralizing rain/wind storm and seeing nothing but clear blue skies and bright sunshine ahead. It was sort-of amazing how much that lifted my spirits. This. loving this. It doesn't matter what sort of poo poo you've ridden through when there's warm blue skies ahead.
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Nov 23, 2009 09:49
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Tsaven Nava posted:This. loving this. butt-fatigue excepted.
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Nov 23, 2009 19:08
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1: lanesplitting 1: lanesplitting 1: splitting lanes 2: making a kid's day by popping a 3: getting to wear stuff that would be completely retarded otherwise. Armored jackets, boots, mustaches. 4: the look on the grocery cashier's face when she sees my helmet and realizes all that poo poo is somehow gonna fit on the back of a motorbike. 5: slow down for speedbumps? Nope, I ride an enduro, I just use them to launch into mini-wheelies.
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Nov 25, 2009 09:15
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Nate Falls posted:5: slow down for speedbumps? Nope, I ride an enduro, I just use them to launch into mini-wheelies. Hell yeah! I ride an SV650, so I'm not jumping off speed bumps, but I sure don't slow down for them either. Just raise up off that seat and let my legs eat up that bump. At least for the moderate speed hump style things. For the really wicked bumps in my neighborhood access road I just swerve right around them completely where there's like a foot gap between the bump and the curb.
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Nov 29, 2009 05:50
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1. The Raging hardon I have every time I get off and the weak in the knees feeling I get every time I do the Julian run from San Diego. 2. Riding with my Uncle and formally my Mother but some dickweed panic swerved into her lane and made her take the shoulder and crash. She's given up riding  3. Little kids 4. If you want to get eyefucked by every piece of rear end in a store, walk in wearing your gear. 5. The power THE PURE INFINITE POWER
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Nov 29, 2009 14:25
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Lets see, I thought I'd replied to this. a) Waking up on a gorgeous June saturday knowing that I don't have anything to do except hop on my bike. b) The feeling I get when I try to fix/adjust/loosen/add-on/modify something, and it actually works. My car is too electronic and intimidating for most tinkering, but boy, I felt great after taking my carb apart for like the 5th time on my KLR and having it run well. c) The silence, just putting in earplugs and going. Whatevers happening at the house, I can just toss on my stuff and head out for a little headclearing. d) I really like the semi-anonymity of wearing a mirrored shield. People appear to react one of three ways; 1) uninterested, non-looking, 2) the 'i can't tell if he's watching so i'll only look for a split second, or 3) the 'he's looking straight ahead, so i can gawk' overt stare. I get quite a bit of 3) on my Speed Triple (and on my Buell, for that matter), because I don't feel like most people know what it is. With the Buell, that was mostly due to the fact that people thought they knew what was coming from the noise, but then no.. it's a short, black bike with yellow-gold wheels. They look confused. e) 129 quick-revving, tight, responsive HP. Fastest thing I've ever ridden/driven.
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Nov 29, 2009 15:33
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15: I did over 30,000 miles this summer, spent more time sitting on the bike then I did anything else. And yet I STILL lay awake in bed at night dreaming about the next time I'll get to go riding.
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Dec 25, 2009 01:33
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Supermoto is fun. 1. Coming in to the bike park too hot, slamming it down into first and backing it the gently caress in to the parking spot. 2. Pulling a stoppie up to a red light with a single finger, dropping it back to earth dead straight and pulling off with a power wheelie on the green light all without taking foot from peg. 3. Urban off-roading. 4. Cutting traffic like a demon. 5. Powering out of super-tight adverse-camber turns, all weight to the outside peg, leaned over, inside leg sticking out like the moto superstar a supermoto bike makes you think you are.
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Dec 25, 2009 02:30
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- going 120-140kmh through curvy country roads - direct contact with nature: wind, smell, cold, rain - having my own cool thing to care about (I drive company cars) - lane splitting, its legal in Belgium. gotta love to be first at the traffic lights
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Dec 25, 2009 21:30
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1. Line of 3 SUVs in a packed mall parking lot waiting for somebody to pull out of a parking space. Before the other car is all the way out, you cut past the other cars and swoosh right in! Fat lady in SUV rolls down window to yell at you. Helmet hides big, poo poo-eat'n grin as you walk away pretending to pay zero attention. 2. Recruiting your friends to sign up for MSF, and being proud of them when they get their first bike. 3. Lane Splitting (California) 4. Walking into school/store/restaurant with my helmet slung under my arm makes me feel cool. 5. Going hours out of my way on long trips just because it's more fun to ride through the mountains.
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Dec 26, 2009 03:08
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WildWanderer posted:1. Line of 3 SUVs in a packed mall parking lot waiting for somebody to pull out of a parking space. Before the other car is all the way out, you cut past the other cars and swoosh right in! Fat lady in SUV rolls down window to yell at you. Helmet hides big, poo poo-eat'n grin as you walk away pretending to pay zero attention. Haha, jerk. I just park on the sidewalk at the bicycle rack so I don't have to use a parking space. quote:2. Recruiting your friends to sign up for MSF, and being proud of them when they get their first bike. Oh man, yeah. I feel like some sort of motorcycle role model now that I've got a crapload of my friends and family to take the MSF and get bikes or scooters. Only downside is I'm the first guy who gets called when something stops working.
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Dec 26, 2009 07:57
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new list: 1) When the front lifts in 4th gear and then the rear spins up at the same time and you think "DEAR GOD" 2) The song of Italian machinery. 3) Power wheelies anytime you go above 7k RPM. 4) People pulling in to where you are eating outside and saying "I was driving by on the freeway and saw this here and had to pull off and talk to you about it, I ride a...." 5) Going to the garage for a breath of fresh air and just staring at it.
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Dec 26, 2009 08:03
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Spiffness posted:new list: This is the kind of post that turns my brain into America ca 1860. One part says a new, high powered Duc will lead to disaster and says no while slamming its fist on the table. The other part tilts its hat slighty, thumbs behind supsenders, demands its freedom and threatens to secede. Conflict looms...
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Dec 26, 2009 18:28
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Had to pick up something at a shop on Wednesday, this shop is in the middle of a shopping center which was of course a mess with traffic backed up all the way to the exit. I hop up on the sidewalk and ride to the shop (slowly), even got a thumbs up from a cop. Traffic is too easy on a motard.
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Dec 27, 2009 02:29
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I love when you're out for a blast and just get in the zone and just start doing everything automatically and start riding really well. You don't notice the rear spinning up under throttle or steeping on brakes, you just go with it.
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Dec 27, 2009 03:16
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16: Specifically looking for bikes that are for sale as far away as possible, so that you'll have another excuse to ride across the country for a fly-n-drive
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Dec 31, 2009 10:44
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Nate Falls posted:5: slow down for speedbumps? Nope, I ride an enduro, I just use them to launch into mini-wheelies. Anyway, I'm rolling through the lot, having just grabbed some groceries, and I notice it up ahead. I briefly run through my options: Swerve left (nope, there's a sidewalk), swerve right (nope, parked car), or stick the front in it (nope, endo). Then I remember the enduro way, and I flick the throttle open. As I'm still in first gear, the front lofts, I keep my weight forward, and I ride straight over it uneventfully.
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1. Awareness: the way you can zone out yet be in perfect tune with movement. I have ridden the twisted mountain highways of British Columbia and sang the entirety of 'Alices Restaurant' at the same time. That; my friends, is peace. 2. Gear: I turned this:  into this:  which results in:  and then there is the jackets and helmets and carbon fibre knuckled gloves etc etc etc. It ALL cool. 3. Dialled in: all those moments when it all comes together. The bike i have painstakingly rebuilt, the gear i have scrimped and saved for, the planning of a good weeks riding. Too then be out on that road/highway/trail and just giving it gas for hours... nuff' said 4. Attention: kids waving, people asking about your bike, girls asking for a spin, taking your bike across on the ferry, (if you haven't ridden from the coast to the island or back in BC then you haven't met some of the coolest people to ever ride plus you board first and disembark first. Riding off in a cloud of bikes past the return load of cars is magic) 5. The Finish: whether returning from a commute or a month long tour it feels like you've accomplished something that others couldn't. Tired, smelly and smiling. Something somewhere is right with how you came to be where you are and how you did it.
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24. Riding through the woods and flicking up your visor and feeling the cool air and smelling the wonderful moss.
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Jan 7, 2010 08:43
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The feeling when you fill up the tank after riding on a hot day and the cold petrol chills your thighs as you pull out of the petrol station.
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1.) The feeling you get, EVERY SINGLE drat TIME, you mount up on the bike. 2.) You round the final turn to go home, night's fallen, stars are bright and twinkling in the sky and bam, a couple meteors crest the horizon. Buddha may have been a motorcyclist, because that was pure nirvana. 3-5) everything else.
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Jan 8, 2010 08:12
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1: Getting parking right away in San Francisco as I watch other scrubs in there cars circle around the blocks multiple times chuckling. 2: Spending 7-9$ on gas to go between 120-150 miles. 3: Just being you and the machine, no cellphones, just riding! 4: How my Suzuki sounds almost ducati-ish with its cut baffle. 5: leaning into the turns and throttling as you straighten. Do girls really dig motorcycles? I never really notice anyone looking at me.
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Jan 8, 2010 08:33
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infraboy posted:Do girls really dig motorcycles? I never really notice anyone looking at me. It's not so much that girls dig motorcycles, it's that they dig guys ON motorcycles. Carrying a helmet around sparks lots of conversation, and "Sure, I'll take you for a ride" can easily turn into a first date.
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Jan 8, 2010 09:02
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Night riding!   I don't care how cold it gets, there's nothing quite like empty roads, a nice camera, and a tripod strapped to my back.
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eggyolk posted:Night riding! The feelings this picture invokes would have been very different before I started riding.
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I think my favorite thing about riding is stopping on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere. In a car, you can stop on the side of the road, however you are still in a car so the environment hasn't changed. On a motorcycle you can stop anywhere and just be in a completely different environment. Also, the change in temperature and smells as you ride along. Same this as above in regards to a car.
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Jan 12, 2010 16:20
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17. Starting the bike and backing it out of the garage with one hand on the handlebars and the the other hand on the sissy bar. Slowing moving and balancing this strange, quaking, shuddering machine that feels like a wild animal about to come alive from a long slumber.
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Jan 12, 2010 18:10
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This is somewhere close to the top of the list: When you hook up a completely trashed bike to battery power for the first time in what has to be years and the gauges swing to life. Watching the ZX9R gauges spin makes me so excited to ride it.
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Jan 12, 2010 18:21
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(in no particular order of importance) 1) Highway On ramps 2) Lane splitting 3) the feeling you get when you know you've hit the perfect lean angle and entry into a sweet curve 4) Out accelerating a douche in a sports car 5) Chicks dig riders
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1) The attention I get (straight pipes)  2) Riding out to the bar for a few brewskies   3) Tearing down the strip in front of all the bars 4) All the strange I get because of my hog 5) The freedom of riding with the wind in my hair 
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