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Errant Gin Monks posted:The only thing my coworkers do is look at my gear and ask "Isnt it hot in all that? Its 100 degrees outside." To which I answer "Well yeah when youre at a stoplight, otherwise you dont notice." If it 100 degrees out it's gonna be hot, whatever you wear.
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Errant Gin Monks posted:The only thing my coworkers do is look at my gear and ask "Isnt it hot in all that? Its 100 degrees outside." To which I answer "Well yeah when youre at a stoplight, otherwise you dont notice." People ask the same thing about driving topless and doorless in a Jeep in South Texas' summer. It's a minor thing to enjoy your ride instead of enduring it.
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Jul 19, 2013 18:03
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Everyone who has talked to me about bikes has always said "that looks like so much loving fun" It's also not too difficult to impress anyone around here since the only people with motorcycles are skid-lidded marines on CBR's in muscle tees. In a month I've seen exactly one person even wearing gloves, and that was a 50 year old man in full gear with ground-down pucks on a GSXR. He gets a pass. 
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Jul 19, 2013 18:05
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Xovaan posted:Everyone who has talked to me about bikes has always said "that looks like so much loving fun"
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Jul 19, 2013 18:11
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Errant Gin Monks posted:The only thing my coworkers do is look at my gear and ask "Isnt it hot in all that? Its 100 degrees outside." To which I answer "Well yeah when youre at a stoplight, otherwise you dont notice." Bizarrely I know quite a lot of bikers with a similar attitude to commuting too. "Oh it's too hot/cold/wet/boring", then complaining about a 4 hour drive in or being stuck in someones armpit for an hour on the Tube. That's excluding the weekend warriors who tell you about how you're ruining your resale value by commuting. Yeah because I always consult my spreadsheets before I decide to ride.
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Jul 19, 2013 18:32
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I dunno, commuting kinda ruins the ride for me. When I ride I wanna go a long way to a place I haven't seen before or a nice road and I don't wanna sit in traffic, regardless of the weather.
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Jul 19, 2013 19:12
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Well, this is how my commute looks, 35 miles one way. So I don't sit in traffic much.
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Jul 19, 2013 19:19
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:I dunno, commuting kinda ruins the ride for me. When I ride I wanna go a long way to a place I haven't seen before or a nice road and I don't wanna sit in traffic, regardless of the weather. Well it's different if you're somewhere where you can't filter I suppose. Besides if you know what you're doing and are fairly lucky with your home and work locations commuting in London can be fantastic fun. Get the timings right down the Embankment and it's one of the most pleasant rides imaginable - river on one side, some of the few nice buildings on the other, more than enough sightlines that you don't feel much stressed. Also if your route does suck there's still the traffic-light drag races, one of the best moments I ever had in biking was leading a pack of about 30 bikes round this bend after being caught in grinding traffic up to that point (which had kinda distilled all the bikes to the lights back on East Smithfield). Nearly decapitated myself on the post on that crossing though...
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Jul 19, 2013 19:20
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:I dunno, commuting kinda ruins the ride for me. When I ride I wanna go a long way to a place I haven't seen before or a nice road and I don't wanna sit in traffic, regardless of the weather. Even when commuting it's not hard to find 'that curve' or 'that passing zone' or something, which has no potential at all in a car, but can become magical with a twist of the wrist. It also means the option of getting lost on the way home and exploring becomes a literally every-day thing.
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Jul 19, 2013 19:25
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Nidhg00670000 posted:Well, this is how my commute looks, 35 miles one way. So I don't sit in traffic much. I want this commute 
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Jul 19, 2013 19:57
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My coworkers love to chidingly warble "Be Careful!..." or "Be safe out there!! <3" as I leave for the day with my helmet in hand. My standard retort is "Thanks Mom!!" although sometimes I go with "Ehhh, I'll think about it..." I know they're just being nice, but I don't say "Be careful! My friend's mother's cousin died of heart disease" to their fat asses when I see them scarfing cheeseburgers at lunch after the morning frappucino/cinnamon roll breakfast routines.
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Jul 19, 2013 20:11
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Snowdens Secret posted:Even when commuting it's not hard to find 'that curve' or 'that passing zone' or something, which has no potential at all in a car, but can become magical with a twist of the wrist. Truth. I have a 60 mile commute and while I do use the highway a lot I do look forward to the on/off ramps if nobody is in front of me getting off or changing highways just to get a good turn in here and there. I've also discovered ways to get to/from work without using the highway at all and in doing so have found some fantastic roads.
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Jul 19, 2013 20:26
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Unfortunately my commute is only 3.5 miles in Houston. Occasionally I won't wear full ATGATT...
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Jul 19, 2013 20:53
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Mr. Eric Praline posted:I always get that with the "But I'd kill myself so I'm not going to try" follow-up. I've stopped even responding with anything more than "too bad", but I used to launch into how that fear is exactly what would keep them from killing themselves, etc. I call those kind of guys "too macho to ride", what with all their stories about how fast they would go if they were to actually get a bike. A motorcyclist ex-girlfriend of mine would get a lot of those kinds of guys, it was like they had to come up with an an excuse why they didn't ride while a silly little girl did. As for me, I was happy to have a girlfriend who loved to ride but had her own drat bike.
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XYLOPAGUS posted:Unfortunately my commute is only 3.5 miles in Houston. Occasionally I won't wear full ATGATT...  I still get out on the weekends though.Haven't heard much stupid poo poo other than getting flak from my neighbors for wearing gear. I think they're just mad because I might be waking them up every morning (I try not to though). At work we have about 6 people that ride daily and a few more every now and then so co-workers are down with it.
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Jul 20, 2013 05:21
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My boss said my bike looked masculine. One of the ladies said she like my harley. I ride a yamaha 
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Jul 20, 2013 07:36
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The good news is that, if normal people knew what bikes were like, they'd be banned.
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Jul 20, 2013 07:57
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Mine would be about two miles if I rode straight in. Most mornings it takes about half an hour though, living right next to the Yorkshire Dales has its bonuses!
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Jul 20, 2013 09:47
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goddamnedtwisto posted:That's excluding the weekend warriors who tell you about how you're ruining your resale value by commuting. Yeah because I always consult my spreadsheets before I decide to ride. gently caress those guys, they're the ones who keep awesome rides forever stuck in climate-controlled garages instead of riding or driving them and then trailer them to meets and shows so people can see how they don't use their rides properly. Then people get the horrible idea that old rides are only for looking at.
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Jul 20, 2013 13:30
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KozmoNaut posted:gently caress those guys, they're the ones who keep awesome rides forever stuck in climate-controlled garages instead of riding or driving them and then trailer them to meets and shows so people can see how they don't use their rides properly. Then people get the horrible idea that old rides are only for looking at. The dude who said that has a Street Triple. 
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Jul 20, 2013 14:07
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goddamnedtwisto posted:The dude who said that has a Street Triple. gently caress that guy even harder then.
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I think if someone brought up the resale value thing like that (not that I ride a lot at the moment but I want that to change) I think I'd give them the most WTF look imaginable and say something along the lines of "I bought my bike ride, not to sell!".
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Jul 20, 2013 16:26
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Here4DaGangBang posted:I think if someone brought up the resale value thing like that (not that I ride a lot at the moment but I want that to change) I think I'd give them the most WTF look imaginable and say something along the lines of "I bought my bike ride, not to sell!". Exactly, everything is about money for some people. Resale value, return on investment, depreciation. They forget that the entire idea is to have fun and not worry about those things. It's like never having sex with your girlfriend, "to save her for the next guy". Compete bullshit.
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Jul 20, 2013 22:02
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I know I'll have fun on any motorcycle so I plan around everything else.  Then again I'm a soulless econ major
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KozmoNaut posted:Exactly, everything is about money for some people. Resale value, return on investment, depreciation. They forget that the entire idea is to have fun and not worry about those things. Even for those people, bikes depreciate differently from cars enough that, assuming the alternative isn't teleporting to work or some poo poo, and assuming you're not commuting on some unobtanium bespoke moto, your depreciation on whatever cage you're racking up miles in is likely to be higher than the bike's just sitting in the garage. If you buy a new $8k bike it's only going to depreciate so far, and a huge chunk of that occurs when you take it off the dealer lot. Buy that more or less same bike used, for $5k? How far is it going to fall?
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That's because used bikes are durable goods. You can buy whatever you want and not have to worry about losing much money when you want to resell to have fun riding something else.
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Here4DaGangBang posted:I think if someone brought up the resale value thing like that (not that I ride a lot at the moment but I want that to change) I think I'd give them the most WTF look imaginable and say something along the lines of "I bought my bike ride, not to sell!". I always liked "You bought something that depreciates as an investment? You're like the worlds dumbest businessman."
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Here4DaGangBang posted:I think if someone brought up the resale value thing like that (not that I ride a lot at the moment but I want that to change) I think I'd give them the most WTF look imaginable and say something along the lines of "I bought my bike ride, not to sell!". Around 2000 or 2001 I met a guy who had a 1990 CBR1000 with around 1000 miles on it. While it was a spectacular looking thing, I just couldn't help thinking about what a waste it was not to ride it. And that was his only bike, so it's not like he was riding something else and saving the CBR for special occasions. He was a nice enough guy, but I think he was just as baffled by my 150k+ mile FZR as I was by his nearly unused bike.
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Depreciation is the greatest word in the English language...unless of course you are the guy that is buying it new. My bike is a 2006 Suzuki Katana 750, which I bought used in 2006. It had 400 miles on it. A guy had it for the "season" and decided he needed something with more power and traded it in. So he put 400 miles on it from, lets say, June to September, when I bought it, and that was enough to know that it was too whimpy for him. Works for me, I got a great deal on it.
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True. I bought my 2010 C14 in 2011 with 1000KMs on the clock (about 600 miles) and I saved almost $5K from new. Opposite from you though, it was just too much bike for the vertically challenged fellow that bought it new.
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IIRC Spifness was the third owner of a 2011 Street fighter in 2010.
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Zool posted:IIRC Spifness was the third owner of a 2011 Street fighter in 2010. Yep. 2100 miles. Sold two years later for $800 less than I bought it for with 11k on the clocks. Probably spent 2 grand defending myself against speeding tickets though so that was a wash.
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While grocery shopping I saw something pretty wtf. This older guy comes rolling up shirtless on a V-Max, wearing an expensive looking full face. The kicker is when he got up, (after putting a shirt on) he removed a Dora the Explorer pool tube out from under his rear end.
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Jul 26, 2013 22:08
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Gotta take care of the roids.
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I hate it when my breaks fail
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Jul 27, 2013 18:20
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Well only the rear break broked, but the front break would send them over the bars, killing both.
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Dumb story. Even if his brakes failed, throttle was stuck open, the clutch cable broke, the kill switch was stuck, and the key was broken off in the ignition, he could have layer dan.
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Jul 27, 2013 18:23
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Yeah, but then it wouldn't be TRUE LOVE, bro
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Abe Froman posted:Dumb story. Even if his brakes failed, throttle was stuck open, the clutch cable broke, the kill switch was stuck, and the key was broken off in the ignition, he could have layer dan. Also, even if all that failed, at 100mph I bet if you shut off the petcock it would run out of gas really quickly. But there was a building coming up fast right in the middle of that deserted road so he just had no choice!!!!
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