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People in NZ are a little bit more knowledgeable, but if you have something oddball like a SM or whatever you get issues. "Oh yup what sort of bike have you got?" "Kawasaki ZRX" "..." "...it's...kind of a 'muscle' bike, but retro, you know?" "So a sportsbike?" "No not at all." "Oh so a cruiser!"
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I, too, have attempted to explain that my bike is not a crotchrocket to no avail. Ninja 250s and SV650s are not crotchrockets!
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Jun 6, 2013 04:18
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XYLOPAGUS posted:I, too, have attempted to explain that my bike is not a crotchrocket to no avail. Ninja 250s and SV650s are not crotchrockets! They're faster than fat hogs, therefore crotchrocket 
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Jun 6, 2013 05:29
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Girl asked me what kind of bike a Nighthawk 250 was and I said I guessed I'd call it a naked standard. She giggled at that. DON'T LAUGH AT MY TECHNICAL TERMS, GIRLS
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Jun 6, 2013 05:49
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Ninja 250s are more crotch Cessnas.
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Jun 6, 2013 06:37
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Safety Dance posted:"It's like a really big, street legal dirt bike." Nothing gets panties dropping like explaining that you ride what is basically a dirt bike with street tires. I wish I could just pretend it was a "crotchrocket" or "Harley." 
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Jun 6, 2013 08:00
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AkrisD posted:Nothing gets panties dropping like explaining that you ride what is basically a dirt bike with street tires. I wish I could just pretend it was a "crotchrocket" or "Harley." What sort of bike is it? Well, it's a dual-purpose adventure bike so you can ride on the road but it also lets you - DON'T WALK AWAY FROM ME YOUNG LADY!
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Jun 6, 2013 08:06
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Its so true. I always went with "big dirtbike" and chicks/guys weren't into it at all. Now it's "Which bike is yours?" that BMW, and then they see the dorky saddle bags and the chicks take off. Oh well, you don't need to show them your bike, the helmet is more than enough in most cases.
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Jun 6, 2013 08:11
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"What kind of bike do you have?" "A Triumph Daytona 675" *glassy look* "It's red." "OHHHH okay!"
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BlackMK4 posted:"What kind of bike do you have?" Never try to explain the point of a triple to someone; I've seen people who've been RIDIN TWENNY YEARS tell me they sound funny and don't make sense.
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Jun 6, 2013 09:45
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AkrisD posted:Nothing gets panties dropping like explaining that you ride what is basically a dirt bike with street tires. I wish I could just pretend it was a "crotchrocket" or "Harley." That's how I have to break the Uly down to folks. "It's bascially a Harley crotch rocket dirt bike, no it isn't missing any pieces"
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Jun 6, 2013 15:52
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Sigh... You guys are all missing the obvious. Them: What kind of bike do you ride? Me: A FAST ONE HERP DERP!
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Jun 6, 2013 16:28
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Vincent Black Shadow. I'm with the factory team.
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TheNothingNew posted:Vincent Black Shadow. I'm with the factory team. *cough*bullshit*cough* In court when they read out the charges for the speeding ticket my 690SMC was described as "A white KTM trials bike".
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Jun 6, 2013 21:28
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My GREEN Ulysses was written up as a gray bike, on my last speeding ticket that I yet again didn't manage to earn. I am hoping the judge pays attention to that.
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Jun 6, 2013 21:30
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clutchpuck posted:My GREEN Ulysses was written up as a gray bike, on my last speeding ticket that I yet again didn't manage to earn. I am hoping the judge pays attention to that. I once had the cop get my license plate state wrong on a ticket. It depends pretty heavily on the judge whether little fuckups are ignored or not.
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Jun 6, 2013 21:32
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BlackMK4 posted:"What kind of bike do you have?" You guys don't even know. *sees helmet* What do you ride? A Genuine Stella. *blank* A scooter, like a Vespa. Oh *leaves*Now when people ask I just skip it and say "scooters" and expect the conversation to end. It's always a treat when someone doesn't just leave the conversation. The most frustrating is when people that don't ride are condescending about my scootering. I am unashamed of my scooter love but even so anything on two wheels is better than nothing.
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I think you're the only scooterer I've seen who wasn't a total college hipster squid though.
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Gay Nudist Dad posted:You guys don't even know. I was once at work and my bike at the time, a CBR400, was sitting there idling just before I was to go home. A guy who's computer was always plastered with a Harley wallpaper of some sort randomly shouted at me to 'get a real bike!'. I asked him what sort of bike he had and he said he didn't have one. I told him to shut the gently caress up. Glad I left that job.
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clutchpuck posted:My GREEN Ulysses was written up as a gray bike, on my last speeding ticket that I yet again didn't manage to earn. I am hoping the judge pays attention to that. I got a private parking ticket on my yellow DRZ written up for a "
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Xovaan posted:I think you're the only scooterer I've seen who wasn't a total college hipster squid though. SHOWS WHAT YOU KNOW Slavvy posted:I was once at work and my bike at the time, a CBR400, was sitting there idling just before I was to go home. A guy who's computer was always plastered with a Harley wallpaper of some sort randomly shouted at me to 'get a real bike!'. I asked him what sort of bike he had and he said he didn't have one. I told him to shut the gently caress up. Once I was warming up the bike, getting my gloves on, etc. outside work and a guy walked by and said "TOO BAD IT'S NOT A HARLEY, EH?" with a smile as if we had some mutual understanding that I only had this scooter to temporarily sate my desire for a Harley as all true men only ever want Harleys and in that moment I hated him.
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I always explain my bike as 'sportbike with a Harley engine' and that works just fine. I don't think women give a hoot about it though, when I showed it to some friends a while back the dudes started almost hopping with glee when I started it and their girlfriends pretty much rolled their eyes.
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The only women attracted to a man based on his car or motorcycle are not the type of women you actually want to be with. Cars and bikes mostly just attract other men that are into cars and bikes. Whenever someone talks about how much pussy they'll get with X car/bike, I roll my eyes. Guinness fucked around with this message at 07:14 on Jun 7, 2013 |
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Guinness posted:The only women attracted to a man based on his car or motorcycle are not the type of women you actually want to be with. P.J. O'Rourke disagrees, in his magnum opus "How to Drive Fast on Drugs While Getting Your Wing-Wang Squeezed and Not Spill Your Drink": quote:Now, girls who like motorcycles really will do anything. I mean, really, anything you can think of. But it's just not the same. For one thing, it's hard to drink while you're riding a motorcycle – there's no place to set your glass. And cocaine's out of the question. And personally, I find that grass makes me too sensitive. You smoke some grass and the first thing you know you're pulling over to the side of the road and taking a break to dig the gentle beauty of the sky's vast panorama, the slow, luxurious interlay of sun and clouds, the lulling trill of breezes midst leafy tree branches – and what kind of fun is that? Besides, it's tough to "get it on" with a chick (I mean in the biblical sense) and still make all the fast curves unless you let her take the handlebars with her pants off and come on doggy-style or something, which is harder than it sounds; and pantless girls on motorcycles attract the highway patrol, so usually you don't end up doing anything until you're both off the bike, and by then you may be in the hospital. Like I was after this old lady pulled out in front of me in an Oldsmobile, and the girl I was with still wanted to do anything you can think of , but there was a doctor there and he was squirting pHisoHex all over me and combing little bits of gravel out of my face with a wire brush, and I just couldn't get into it.
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Guinness posted:The only women attracted to a man based on his car or motorcycle are not the type of women you actually want to be with.
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Doesn't sound too scientific if they didn't use a shoddy unmarked white van as a control
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Xovaan posted:Doesn't sound too scientific if they didn't use a shoddy unmarked white van as a control Those are good for attracting children.
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Here4DaGangBang posted:Shouting Melon owns a VTR250. The sexy carb'd version, even!  (goddamnit, Aprilia, get out of the shot)
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Xovaan posted:I think you're the only scooterer I've seen who wasn't a total college hipster squid though. How do you squid on a scooter though? South Africa's scooter market is godawful cheap crap that many people can jog past at full throttle, so it's really difficult to imagine anyone being squiddley on a jonway 125cc going 8mph with a tailwind.
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sildargod posted:How do you squid on a scooter though? South Africa's scooter market is godawful cheap crap that many people can jog past at full throttle, so it's really difficult to imagine anyone being squiddley on a jonway 125cc going 8mph with a tailwind. I had a 50CC scooter that would eventually get up to 60mph and it was god drat terrifying at that speed.
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When I rode my Shadow and chopped it all up and made it personal everyone asked if it was a Harley. I would say no its a Honda we chopped. Then they would ask when I was getting a Harley. "Later when I find a good deal and I graduate from this, my learning bike," I would tell them. Recently I bought a Sportster XL1200C and we have begun chopping it. When I was riding it around stock the people that knew me noticed I had a new bike asked what it was and I explained "Its a Harley Sportster." to which they woudl reply "Oh you got a girl Harley. When are you going to get a real one?" I want to kill them on a daily basis. Mostly for not understanding bikes at all and for thinking you must spend upwards of 15k on a bike or it isnt a real one. Ugh.
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Errant Gin Monks posted:When I rode my Shadow and chopped it all up and made it personal everyone asked if it was a Harley. I would say no its a Honda we chopped. Then they would ask when I was getting a Harley. "Later when I find a good deal and I graduate from this, my learning bike," I would tell them. Tie a rope around their wrists and drag them through town, all the while making fun of them for being dragged by a girl bike. Edit: They probably don't even own bikes, do they? Just tell them to gently caress off.
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Errant Gin Monks posted:When I rode my Shadow and chopped it all up and made it personal everyone asked if it was a Harley. I would say no its a Honda we chopped. Then they would ask when I was getting a Harley. "Later when I find a good deal and I graduate from this, my learning bike," I would tell them. It's funny to me that even Harley riders encounter this person. My encounters with them have gone like "Why don't you get a real bike" "What do you ride? "Well my uncle has a Harley" "Okay" I just assumed that they lived with some of the annoying HD riders and it rubbed off.
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Errant Gin Monks posted:When I rode my Shadow and chopped it all up and made it personal everyone asked if it was a Harley. I would say no its a Honda we chopped. Then they would ask when I was getting a Harley. "Later when I find a good deal and I graduate from this, my learning bike," I would tell them. Y'know, this will be my eighth year with a bike now (jesus christ!!) and not once have I ever been asked when I'm getting a Harley* or been accused of riding a girl bike. Closest I've ever got was "big tent and a little bike!" by people in a campground, and I overheard some dude talking smack about my KLR at a charity ride. (It was the only KLR at the ride.) *Ok, I have been asked when I'm getting a Harley, but to be fair I was down at the Harley dealership at the time, looking at Harleys.
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I ride a suzuki m109r to work everyday, i get so many weird comments. "I thought it was a victory" "You only payed 10k? i thought it was more than 30!" Ive been asked when im getting a harley a couple of times but most people change there tune when they actually see it. Parking it next to most HD's makes them look like learners bikes, cute bike mate I had a sales guy at Peter Stevens trying to get me to trade in for an Iron 883 because they were a comparable price to the M109R, he thought that would be an upgrade.
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I get asked when I'm getting a Harley all the time by randoms, but the Harley guys I hang out with (and most older guys that talk to me about my bike as well) give absolutely no fucks what kind of bike I'm on except that I'm on 2 wheels - they did call my 250 a chook chaser all the time though, they seem to respect the 600 though.
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Kaiine posted:I ride a suzuki m109r to work everyday, i get so many weird comments. "I thought it was a victory" "You only payed 10k? i thought it was more than 30!" I've always thought the way the taillight and instruments lean more toward 'high-tech' and less toward 'retro granpa' on those is quite cool.
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Most of my friends ride Harleys, so I get asked all the loving time. One of them has turned his Harley into a dirt bike, he's like +4 inches all around, chain drive, regeared, different suspension, he went from a night rod to that. He's a great rider, so I respect him for that, but his decisions are... questionable. The other Harley rider always asks, and I dunno they just don't understand why someone wouldn't like them. The rest of my friends want Harleys, but don't ride at all, so they can gently caress right off e:  Said buddy. Frozen Pizza Party fucked around with this message at 05:18 on Jun 11, 2013 |
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SaNChEzZ posted:Most of my friends ride Harleys, so I get asked all the loving time. One of them has turned his Harley into a dirt bike, he's like +4 inches all around, chain drive, regeared, different suspension, he went from a night rod to that. He's a great rider, so I respect him for that, but his decisions are... questionable. Awesome.
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Phy posted:Y'know, this will be my eighth year with a bike now (jesus christ!!) and not once have I ever been asked when I'm getting a Harley* or been accused of riding a girl bike. Closest I've ever got was "big tent and a little bike!" by people in a campground, and I overheard some dude talking smack about my KLR at a charity ride. (It was the only KLR at the ride.) That's the great thing about riding an old Bandit. People never talk smack about it, because eh who cares, it's not worth it 
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