|
BlackMK4 posted:Nope, checked out an 07-ish R1 that hasn't moved in over a year, no damage. Also an 01 F4i that hasn't been messed with. About to walk over and check on the 06+ CBR600RR and GSXR600 that are parked over a little. Couldn't you just rent garage space? Sorry if this has been covered, no pun intended.
|
#
?
Aug 25, 2011 06:45
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 21, 2024 04:15 |
|
|
It's my daily transportation, otherwise I'd leave it at my parent's place.
|
|
#
?
Aug 25, 2011 07:02
|
|
|
Jabs posted:For the record - I'm the exception that proves the rule. ^ The Best. I tend to run reverse interference by maintaining a 1.5+ car length buffer to at least keep the tailgaters off of them. Man does it annoy the Vin Diesel wannabees when they can't execute a lateral move six inches off of a bike's tailpiece.
|
|
#
?
Aug 25, 2011 07:04
|
|
|
Marv Hushman posted:- Any white van. It will usually contain two hung over idiots working for Bil-Barb Plumbing and Heating. The "let's have some fun" factor increases exponentially when a male is riding shotgun. Also see: conversion vans. Some rear end in a top hat in a white van actually tried to ram me off the road when I was passing them (legally!). Overtook the fucker, and they were laughing at me.  Not saying all people who drive white vans are assholes. Every person that drives a SUV is though. End of discussion.
|
|
#
?
Aug 25, 2011 07:26
|
|
|
Jabs posted:Side question - my AMA membership packet came with no stickers, so I'm going to order some. Anyone want to pile on? I have an extra one laying around if you want me to mail it to you...
|
|
#
?
Aug 25, 2011 07:30
|
|
|
BlackMK4 posted:edit: CBR600RR is an 04 or 05 with matte black fairings rattlecanned, not tampered with but it is chained to the parking structure. GSXR600 was really an 08 GSXR1000 in mint condition without any tamper marks and is also chained to the parking structure.
|
|
#
?
Aug 25, 2011 17:24
|
|
|
-Inu- posted:I'm not sure really. I'm still having issues with the R6 getting bad vibration in the handlebars. Last time I was up there my frontend had a nice slide on Fort Mountain so I don't really trust the bike for any aggressive riding. Funny, I'm getting some clicking through my handle bars as I turn them from lock to lock so I'm pretty sure I need to replace the head bearing.
|
|
#
?
Aug 25, 2011 17:43
|
|
|
I just wanted to say that anyone who cares about motorsports should watch Senna. It's a documentary about Ayrton Senna, one of the best drivers to ever participate in F1 racing. It's as much a character study of a truly great human being as it is about racing. It's showing around the US through the beginning of September, and there's still a chance that it's on screens in your area. I know it'll be in the San Francisco Bay Area for a few days still.  Cinematic trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyhKXyatgi0 Other clips are here: http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/senna/
|
|
#
?
Aug 25, 2011 18:22
|
|
|
BlackMK4 posted:Nope, checked out an 07-ish R1 that hasn't moved in over a year, no damage. Also an 01 F4i that hasn't been messed with. About to walk over and check on the 06+ CBR600RR and GSXR600 that are parked over a little. Why not buy a borked m3 or a BMW shell, and chain the bike to that. Win!
|
|
#
?
Aug 25, 2011 18:48
|
|
|
I got severely harassed last night by 2 guys in a big red Dodge Ram. My commute is around 10-12 miles each way. The road is a two lane 55 mph back road with farms on both sides. A passing lane opens up for each side (westbound first and eastbound after that one closes) for around a mile each way. I was cruising along and had nobody behind me until I got up to the passing lane going west. This truck flew up doing a good clip over the speed limit in the left lane with about 1/2 a mile left. I saw him coming and slowed down in the right lane to give him time/space to pass me. Instead he jumped in my lane and proceeded to get about 10 feet off my tail. I threw my left hand up and motioned for him to back off and he got closer instead. At this point I thought I should just get the hell out of his way. There is a large 6-8' bike lane on the shoulder so I started to get over. He followed me onto the shoulder and wouldn't get off my tail at all. As I tried to slow down he just got closer and closer. I dropped back into 3rd and romped my little 200cc up to the rev limiter to get as much distance as I could before shifting back up to 4th. He just came right back up on my tail. At this point I was still in the bike lane/shoulder and was coming up to a right turn onto one of my favorite twisty roads. I made a snap decision to swing wide and go for the right hander at speed with no blinker. I made my turn hard and fast scraping pegs and my toe sliders. I was almost sure the little bike was just going to slide out, but it did hold. The red Ram slammed on the breaks and put it in reverse to loving chase me. I had about 1 mile or so until I hit some good size hairpins and sharp S curves where I was hoping I could lose him. I made a good bit of space with my unannounced turn and I just held it wide open hoping to make it into the twisties before he caught me. I took the chance and looked back to see he was absolutely flying up the road towards me closing the distance astonishingly fast. My bike tops out around 65-68 and with the hills on this road between the first turn off and the twisties, I'm lucky to get 60 mph on the uphills. By the time I could see the twisties he wasn't but about a few hundred feet behind me. I risked one more look back hoping to maybe get a plate number or something. I see no front plate and a guy leaning out the passenger side pointing at me and slapping the side of the truck like a loving jackass. I was almost to the first sharp corner and I started praying id have the distance to drop my speed and get in the right gear before these jackasses ran me over. I kind of lost it at this point and I don't mean I lost control of the bike. I rode this road every single day for almost 8 months on the R1 and have worn out several knee-pucks and toe sliders there. I kind of said gently caress the brakes blipped the throttle into a hard downshift clutchless threw up my middle finger and prayed that my little Honda would hold it's grip. My rear tire skipped a bit and slid, but it bit back in right before I got over on my side. I held my line as tight as I could and ripped the throttle wide open as soon as I started to come back up. At the same time I could hear the Dodge squealing tires hard and I was hoping they would just fly off the road and die in some fiery loving car crash. Unfortunately they made it through, but my gap had gotten much larger very quickly. There are about 6 consecutive turns all decked out with 15 mph warning signs and markers in under a mile before the road has another straight away. I worked really hard to keep every ounce of corner speed I could. I was trying to get enough speed to hide in a little hidden driveway right before the last hairpin into the next straight away. I lost sight of them after about 3 really hard corners where I was pushing around 45-50 mph and as soon as the driveway was in sight I laid on the brakes and ducked into it hard. I had to throw my leg out to keep my bike from going down since I turned into a gravel driveway, ala Motard. There is a pretty thick treeline right up to the driveway and the driveway is actually at an angle to the road so I continued down it until I was completely out of sight of the road. I heard the truck go by as I got off my bike and called the cops. I work with a lot of the police in this area pretty closely because of my job and actually got one of the guys I know on the phone. I told him what happened as fast as I could but I was pretty much hyperventilating and freaking out. He said that cruisers were on their way and to stay put and he would be sending one to my location to get a report and check on me. I told him I would stay put and we ended the call. I pretty much lost my poo poo at this point, I was shaking and freaking out. When the cop showed up I'd regained a bit of my composure but I had started crying at one point and my asthma was acting up a bit. The cop that pulled up was one that I have worked with for about 2 years off and on. He helped me calm down and escorted me in his cruiser to the police station so I could file my report. They weren't able to find or catch the guys in the Ram yet. I wasn't able to get a look at their plates since they didn't have one on the front and I was to scared they might come after me if I got closer to the road. I remember a story about someone on a ninja ducking onto a shoulder and putting a car between himself and the truck that was harassing him. I don't know how that got started but I literally did nothing to piss this truck off, I even gave him room to pass me and slowed down so he could. He purposefully changed lanes to get behind me and harass me. He also put his truck into reverse to come down the side road I took and was easily doing 90+ mph to try and catch me going down the side road. Has anybody else ever had something this loving insane happen? I never had anything like this happen with the R1. I am really loving shaken. I take this road home every day. My little Honda can do the speed for that road but not much more. I brought my truck into work today because I was to shaken to ride this morning. Should I have done something different? I know Evasion is what is recommended and I really did my best to do it, but with my little bike and the types of roads I commute on that apparently isn't a solid option. I know I probably shouldn't have flipped the guy off, but at that point I figured he might literally be about to run me over. I at least wanted to say gently caress you before he got me. Basically what the gently caress was that!?!?! PS: Just typing this up is making me shake a little bit. I've always tried not to ride like a dong, I've wrecked a few times but this was almost like staring death right in the loving face. I am really rattled. TL;DR: I got chased by two jackasses in a big Dodge Ram and I'm pretty sure they were actively trying to kill me.
|
|
#
?
Aug 25, 2011 19:11
|
|
|
Jesus Christ Man! That is some crazy poo poo. I'm really glad to hear that you didn't get hurt. Hopefully they catch those mutherfuckers.
|
|
#
?
Aug 25, 2011 19:18
|
|
|
What the gently caress man. 
|
|
#
?
Aug 25, 2011 20:13
|
|
|
What the gently caress...that is some serious poo poo. Glad you've at least got buddies on the force looking out for you.
|
|
#
?
Aug 25, 2011 20:20
|
|
|
Holy poo poo. Did they catch the assholes or do you know yet?
|
|
#
?
Aug 25, 2011 20:22
|
|
|
Ponies ate my Bagel posted:I got chased by two jackasses in a big Dodge Ram and I'm pretty sure they were actively trying to kill me. poo poo. You did NOTHING wrong. Seriously, I can't imagine anything you could have done differently. Have you, however, seen the film Duel? But in all seriousness, some people are just hosed up. In a way that is only a step above torturing animals because I guess I could see how someone could be so hosed up they might hate all other humans (but seriously animals?!). A couple weeks ago I made a right on red into a parking lot across the street from another parking lot on a very busy arterial street and a big black dodge waiting in line to get out of the parking lot accross the street rode everyone's bumper in line in front of him to push through his intersection and chase up to my tail (this in my loving car even) to make it like I was the one turning recklessly in front of him/cutting him off so that I had to speed the gently caress up just to not get rear ended (which, in retrospect I should have just let him do, it would have been his fault and my car would have gotten some much needed body work). And I turned and got out of his angry way and proceded on to my destination assuming assholes were on their way. So I'm driving around in this series of parking lots (i'm just gettin a fuckin sandwhich on my lunch break in strip mall city btw) when BLACK DODGE PSYCHO comes BACK peeling around the corner THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION down a one way lane of parking I was about to park in, pulls HORIZONTALLY in front of me using his truck as a loving gate and proceeded to yell and scream at me about what a dumb bitch/stupid oval office etc etc etc I was. I cried too after dude left. Just sat in my Civic and shook and bawled and was no longer interested in a sandwhich. It was like even though my brain knew rear end in a top hat was gone? My animal adrenaline survival instincts still wouldn't like, let me out of the car into the parking lot for fear of a return attack! It's just really loving...you have this animal reaction. I was so stunned the whole time he was chewing me out, so shocked that some human would be so crazy and hurtful and like...WITH MALICE AND AFORETHOUGHT to another stranger. After your body knows you are somewhat safe again it kind of just wants to let all the adrenaline flow out and away. Via the eyes. I hope they catch the fucks who chased you. Keep us posted! Feel better, take care of yourself, and hopefully, if you had never seen this truck on your roads before and neither of the people looked familiar, you'll never ever have to deal with them again. Less it is to ID them in a lineup! cluck1000 fucked around with this message at 20:38 on Aug 25, 2011 |
|
#
?
Aug 25, 2011 20:33
|
|
|
I got chased a while ago by some dude in a work truck, I have no idea why. Some of the streets where I live are pretty tight, so when I decided to just ignore him and continue on my way (had to pick up groceries), he blocked me when I tried to enter a parking space. And then he just started spewing the most vile homophobic poo poo you can possibly imagine. Apparently I'm a "little human being boy, a cocksucker, a homogay and a waste of air who likes it up the shitter and shouldn't even be on the loving road when REAL WORKING MEN are trying to get around in their trucks". All I could do was just sit there and stare in disbelief as this tiny skinny motherfucker in a big truck got dangerously close to popping a vein. Then he tried to threaten me with some sort of spray can, so I thought "gently caress this poo poo" and just backed out of the parking lot and drove away. I have no idea what the gently caress his problem was.
|
|
#
?
Aug 25, 2011 20:55
|
|
|
They haven't found the guys, the description of the truck wasn't enough unfortunately. The little side road I took links back up to a fairly main road with lots of little roads off of it. I work for the court and see a lot of the cops from my town on a daily basis, so I've already had a chance to chat with a few of them. I know it's a bad call to get off the bike and get into a confrontation but honestly I wish I could have. I train at a local MMA gym and have been into that since I was a kid. Combine that with the fact that I was wearing armor and as long as they weren't packing I would have been fine. I was seriously thinking that if they had a chance though they would have just hit me on the side of the road. I'm pretty sure I pushed my little Honda to it's absolute limit and at one point I was backing it in, and not really by choice. I will keep my eyes open for them again though, especially if I'm in my truck. The Ram had a big dent in driver side front quarter panel with black paint on it so it's pretty distinctive. If I see'em I'll probably just call the cops and wait around to see'em get grabbed. I live in a small seaside town so there is a good chance I may run into him again. I would really enjoy just 5 minutes alone with the guy... I'm secretly hoping to run into him outside of a grocery store or something and have him assault me first. I have a family to take care of though so that won't happen. Maybe I need to build up some tossable tire spikes or something? It didn't slow the guy on Mythbusters down but he was a pro driver. These A-holes certainly weren't or I wouldn't be here right now.
|
|
#
?
Aug 25, 2011 21:17
|
|
|
KozmoNaut posted:I got chased a while ago by some dude in a truck, I have no idea why. gently caress man, see my post above, MAYBE IT WAS THE SAME rear end in a top hat. Or this is just a really really unfortunately frequently employed M.O. when it comes to narrowminded sexist biggots who are driving trucks less because they are real men doing work which requires trucks but rather to promote and assert this image of themselves as giant raging hard ons. And are threatened by obviously more boner-inducing two-wheeled forms of transportation.
|
|
#
?
Aug 25, 2011 21:21
|
|
|
Ponies ate my Bagel posted:I know it's a bad call to get off the bike and get into a confrontation but honestly I wish I could have. I train at a local MMA gym and have been into that since I was a kid.
|
|
#
?
Aug 25, 2011 21:22
|
|
|
cluck1000 posted:gently caress man, see my post above, MAYBE IT WAS THE SAME rear end in a top hat. I've been nearly killed 3 times in the last 2 days by colossal dickheads in huge lifted bro trucks. Yes sir, doing 10+ over and swerving in and out of the 35 mph traffic on this residential street in your lifted truck with your backwards baseball cap sure makes you look like a badass. 
|
|
#
?
Aug 25, 2011 21:40
|
|
|
drat man that story has me fuming. It seems like you did the right thing though, which is use what you had that they didn't, agility and skills. It's always the loving Dodge Rams though, goddammit.
|
|
#
?
Aug 25, 2011 22:16
|
|
Ponies ate my Bagel posted:They haven't found the guys, the description of the truck wasn't enough unfortunately. The little side road I took links back up to a fairly main road with lots of little roads off of it. I work for the court and see a lot of the cops from my town on a daily basis, so I've already had a chance to chat with a few of them. I don't think you should ever stop and try to fight 2 pissed off guys. Maybe you'll win. Or maybe it will escalate into someone getting stabbed/shot/disfigured. It's not worth the risk unless the guys have you trapped in some kind of looney tunes backed up to a cliff kind of situation. Glad you made it out safe! I've never really been raged on by a driver but it's all college kids in this town that are too timid to yell at the guy on the blacked out bike.
|
|
|
#
?
Aug 25, 2011 22:18
|
|
|
JP Money posted:I don't think you should ever stop and try to fight 2 pissed off guys. Maybe you'll win. Or maybe it will escalate into someone getting stabbed/shot/disfigured. It's not worth the risk unless the guys have you trapped in some kind of looney tunes backed up to a cliff kind of situation. Seriously, these guys sound like the kind of violent ignorant idiots who'da been lynching folks in the south 60 years ago. Don't fight them! They crazy! Not worth it! Your Italian Job like stealthiness was a way better use of life and limb. cluck1000 fucked around with this message at 22:41 on Aug 25, 2011 |
|
#
?
Aug 25, 2011 22:35
|
|
|
cluck1000 posted:gently caress man, see my post above, MAYBE IT WAS THE SAME rear end in a top hat. If perchance these RAM BOYZ are Domino's Pizza drivers and the passenger side of the rear bumper is hanging off and the rear quarter's a little caved, by all means salute, because that's my artwork. I was doing mixed media pieces at the time, and working primarily with KZ750 paints. It's part of a traveling exhibition headed to your town, I'm sure.
|
|
#
?
Aug 25, 2011 22:37
|
|
|
cluck1000 posted:gently caress man, see my post above, MAYBE IT WAS THE SAME rear end in a top hat. Nah, this was in Denmark and he was driving what I think was a VW LT or Transporter in pickup configuration. An actual work truck compared to those tarted-up shiny pickup that douchebags in America drive 
|
|
#
?
Aug 25, 2011 22:44
|
|
|
I've always kind of wanted someone to start a fight and deserve to get their rear end beat while I was in my full moto gear. A helmet, carbon fiber nuckles, chest/spine/rib/stomach/elbow/shoulder/knee protection and sturdy boots... I think the opening move is pretty obvious: The headbutt
|
|
#
?
Aug 25, 2011 22:45
|
|
|
Guys, Chrysler spun Ram off of Dodge. It is a stand alone brand now. My Dodge Challenger is moto friendly! Besides it was a rdFord F250 that hit my cop bike. I think it's just faggy big trucks in general that hate motorcycles!!
|
|
#
?
Aug 25, 2011 23:17
|
|
|
I was gonna squid my way to work in shorts and a tshirt on my Ninja, like a boss, cos it was sooooooo nice out, but I read Ponies' story and went in full leathers instead. Kept an involuntary steely eye on everybody around me too. The most terrifying is when those lunatics go after you when you've got a friend, or even significant other, behind you, like what happened to me a few weeks ago. gently caress them, hard.
|
|
#
?
Aug 25, 2011 23:24
|
|
|
the walkin dude posted:I was gonna squid my way to work in shorts and a tshirt on my Ninja, like a boss, cos it was sooooooo nice out, but I read Ponies' story and went in full leathers instead. Kept an involuntary steely eye on everybody around me too. Something happened to me like that, was splitting up the freeway with 4 people following behind me. Guy tries to move in to close the gap, I went by, he cut off my friend who slapped his mirror, then my other friend went around and slapped his other mirror (because he had opened up such a large gap between his car and the median). Assholes in trucks
|
|
#
?
Aug 25, 2011 23:35
|
|
|
My family didn't understand me when I said that I preferred more powerful bikes to get away from people. I think they get it now. The little Honda won't ride two up so that's not a huge concern, but I definitely get ya there. We had one jackass that was yelling stuff out the window to my wife while we were stopped at a light one day. We were on the R1 and just left him behind without incident, I thought that had illustrated the point of a strong bike. When I wrecked due to the DUI driver she told me I couldn't get another sports-bike, despite knowing better I listened to her. Talking to a friend from the sheriff's department where I live that truck is apparently tied to a rash of about 65 vandalism's that happened about 3 weeks ago. They drove through a nice section of town slashing tires and breaking windows of nice cars/SUV's. I don't doubt that they will catch them soon, I just hope it's before they actually manage to hurt somebody. They caught a guy recently right down the road from me that was hosed up on Meth. He got caught when he tried to take his Harley off road onto the beach. Meth is becoming a huge problem around here and it wouldn't surprise me if these guys are tweakers. Bonus, guy on a Harley decides the local beach should be his personal Daytona: http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2011/08/22/1725911/paso-man-leads-chp-on-chase.html
|
|
#
?
Aug 25, 2011 23:44
|
|
|
Ponies ate my Bagel posted:Bonus, guy on a Harley decides the local beach should be his personal Daytona: http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2011/08/22/1725911/paso-man-leads-chp-on-chase.html quote:Dill was found to be in possession of an illegally altered and concealed shotgun, two daggers and narcotics paraphernalia, according to the CHP. Officers also found him to under the influence of a controlled substance. quote:It was later determined that he was also wanted by Atascadero police for allegedly shooting at a vehicle earlier in the day. 
|
|
#
?
Aug 25, 2011 23:47
|
|
Z3n posted:Fightin the good fight, I say. I'm glad we have Dill to keep our streets clean and safe from dick car drivers. I salute you, meth-addled Dill 
|
|
|
#
?
Aug 25, 2011 23:52
|
|
|
Knock on wood, but in my motorcycling life I've never been chased by an angry person for what appears to be no reason, I just get the occasional "wheelie-that-poo poo" hands-signs and waves/smiles, and I live in the lifted-truck-douche capitol of the country here in Texas. It's strange, I just can't comprehend what would enrage someone so much as to follow a motorcyclist at a dangerous pace like that. Is it more common out in the country, or does it happen more often in the city?
|
|
#
?
Aug 25, 2011 23:55
|
|
|
Korwen posted:Knock on wood, but in my motorcycling life I've never been chased by an angry person for what appears to be no reason, I just get the occasional "wheelie-that-poo poo" hands-signs and waves/smiles, and I live in the lifted-truck-douche capitol of the country here in Texas. I'm not really out in the country, was just making like a 12 mile hop between cities. Google maps doesn't display it well but Turri is a very curvy road. It also has some huge elevation changes. The first big hairpin probably has a faster longer drop than the corkscrew at Seca. I've done both and the one on Turri is pretty freaking wicked. There are a ton of bike parts scatted along the outside of that first left hander. Unfortunately there aren't any red Ram parts out there. 
|
|
#
?
Aug 26, 2011 00:10
|
|
|
the walkin dude posted:Rainstorms invading Rochester, the nights turning quite cool. The beginning of the end, when the 8-month darkness spreads. I need to get out of here. I keep having to close my windows at night. About to park the bike in my mom's shed, cover it, and head to school for my last semester. I have a lot more fun wrenching and riding my bike than getting trashed each weekend.  I'd give anything for it to be the start of summer again.
|
|
#
?
Aug 26, 2011 00:52
|
|
|
Spiffness posted:I've always kind of wanted someone to start a fight and deserve to get their rear end beat while I was in my full moto gear. A helmet, carbon fiber nuckles, chest/spine/rib/stomach/elbow/shoulder/knee protection and sturdy boots... I beat a guy up who hit my with his car on my bicycle. Everyone involved was drunk and somehow I got away with it. I don't plan on doing it again. A guy chased me in my Dodge Dakota with his Dodge Ram (so the Dodge truck part is somewhat true) a few weeks ago because I honked at him for going 30mph talking on the phone merging into the highway. I felt terrible because I had my dog with me, who I could've hurt, and it was really stupid to go along with it. As I start motorcycling (finish MSF this weekend) I plan to not have... well, plan not to act on road rage ever again, no reason to die over dumb poo poo. I've been practicing. Just chilling behind the people go 25 in a 30, etc. and passing them safely or not fixating on what I think of the person (and remind myself my grandma is old as gently caress and drives like it.) And, I've flipped off and yelled at enough people on my bicycle - I usually just feel dumb seconds later.
|
|
#
?
Aug 26, 2011 01:08
|
|
|
Wow, these guys really were out for blood. At least you're still in one piece. Are you going to take a break from riding or be all "gently caress it, no sumbitch gonna stop me from riding"?
|
|
#
?
Aug 26, 2011 01:10
|
|
|
Man, I've never copped any grief like that (well, that I know of at least, I do channel JtS in traffic sometimes ). Although oddly enough, I did have some random cager rage, so to speak, yesterday. I was sitting at a red-turn arrow on my way to work in the afternoon, and because the oncoming traffic was moving slowly, I could this guy driving having what appeared to be a very animated conversation with his passengers. But then as he went past I could see that he was looking right me with just hate and giving me the dickhead gesture  Of all the poo poo I pull on the 'fighter and sitting at a light gets someone aggro?
|
|
#
?
Aug 26, 2011 01:42
|
|
|
Odette posted:Wow, these guys really were out for blood. At least you're still in one piece. I literally cannot afford to stop riding. My truck costs me 350$ a month to commute, my bike costs me 50$. gently caress the haters, im riding!
|
|
#
?
Aug 26, 2011 02:51
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 21, 2024 04:15 |
|
|
I love this video, crappy soundtrack included. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRpwigzhvvU&feature=player_embedded!
|
|
#
?
Aug 26, 2011 03:13
|
|