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Xovaan posted:I wouldn't knock riding Bruce until you've tried it. It just seems really weird to name a bike after an Australian philosopher, though
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:It's easier to just not read reddit, c'mon sons RevDrMosesPLester keeps copy pasting links to me just to get my blood pressure up.
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Naming a bike is pretty weird, but I just talked to a guy I haven't seen in a while who repeatedly referred to riding his VFR as "becoming one". Like more than once things like "oh yeah, when we become one". Probably won't be talking to him for a while, hopefully.
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Oct 10, 2013 19:29
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I name all my motorized vehicles. It's stupid but I don't care. Edit: I don't refer to them by their name to strangers, which I think is healthier.
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Oct 10, 2013 20:36
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gently caress all ya'll. I'm gonna ride Bruce and you're just going to have to deal with it.  Meet Bruce. This is how I imagine I look to everyone else when I ride my bike. Get on the highway I spank it into third gear, and then jerk it into fourth. Unstoppable. A real Badass.   
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Oct 10, 2013 20:51
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Drifter posted:gently caress all ya'll. I'm gonna ride Bruce and you're just going to have to deal with it. what the gently caress did I just watch?
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Oct 10, 2013 21:07
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I don't know how you found that video but that's it, I'm naming my 600 Bruce.
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Oct 10, 2013 21:15
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Linedance posted:what the gently caress did I just watch? Bruce
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Oct 10, 2013 21:19
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Drifter posted:gently caress all ya'll. I'm gonna ride Bruce and you're just going to have to deal with it.
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Oct 10, 2013 22:57
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Motherfucker. 65 quid for a three-car-length filter. Who the gently caress puts a non-motorcycle-admitting, 24/7 bus lane on the wrong side of the road, anyway? Camden loving Council, that's who. I only ended up going that way because a bunch of pituitary freaks masquerading as a sport were blocking up Regent Street. Basically I blame the NFL, money-grabbing local authorities, Boris Johnson and every other loving Tory, and basically anyone who wasn't me.
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Oct 10, 2013 23:31
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PolishHero posted:Naming a bike is pretty weird, but I just talked to a guy I haven't seen in a while who repeatedly referred to riding his VFR as "becoming one". Like more than once things like "oh yeah, when we become one". Probably won't be talking to him for a while, hopefully. That guys fuckin his vfr
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Oct 10, 2013 23:35
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I named all my bikes 
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hot sauce posted:I've only ever heard of bikes/cars named the opposite sex of the person who owns it. It's probably just less enjoyable for a dude to ride Bruce as it would be to ride Bessie. Even as a gay dude, mine is Livia. In fairness my ex named it, and it's a good excuse for having big red L's on the front, should anyone ask. Although I do like that when I've had to speak to my mechanic about getting bits for it he'll come out with "Right, what year is she again? 'Bout 10,000 miles on her, yeah?". goddamnedtwisto posted:Motherfucker. 65 quid for a three-car-length filter. Who the gently caress puts a non-motorcycle-admitting, 24/7 bus lane on the wrong side of the road, anyway? Camden loving Council, that's who. I only ended up going that way because a bunch of pituitary freaks masquerading as a sport were blocking up Regent Street. Basically I blame the NFL, money-grabbing local authorities, Boris Johnson and every other loving Tory, and basically anyone who wasn't me. Wootcannon fucked around with this message at 23:49 on Oct 10, 2013 |
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Oct 10, 2013 23:44
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Motherfucker. 65 quid for a three-car-length filter. Who the gently caress puts a non-motorcycle-admitting, 24/7 bus lane on the wrong side of the road, anyway? Camden loving Council, that's who. I only ended up going that way because a bunch of pituitary freaks masquerading as a sport were blocking up Regent Street. Basically I blame the NFL, money-grabbing local authorities, Boris Johnson and every other loving Tory, and basically anyone who wasn't me. Now that's a legit rant right there.
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Oct 10, 2013 23:46
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This is about people who cannot loving drive. Here's an intersection I use when I ride to work, the red arrow is just to show North:  I'm coming from the south on Bathurst St. It has 4 lanes, two direction, and an advanced green to turn left on to Adelaide St. Adelaide St. is one way, 4 lanes going East. Driving by the manual, the people like me heading south and turning onto Adelaide should use their nearest curb lane. The people heading north and turning onto Adelaide should also use their nearest curb lane. If people ACTUALLY did this, a lot of cars could get to where they're going and there would be no problem. What actually happens is that drivers on both directions try to turn into the nearest middle lane, causing mass confusion as it looks like they're going to hit each other. This holds up both turn lanes and fucks everything up. JFC learn to loving drive! 
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Oct 10, 2013 23:53
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I think of my bike more like a race horse than a woman. The previous owner apparently named it Roxanne, but I just call it "the bike".
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Oct 11, 2013 04:42
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A guy I know named his old bike Night Fury which I can't help but kinda think was neat, but then I love that movie. It was a CBR something or other. I don't name my vehicles but then I'm a chic and that seems to be more of a guy thing to do.
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Oct 11, 2013 06:02
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I treat my bike as if it were an extension of myself, in that I leave it alone in the dark at the back of the garage.
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Oct 11, 2013 06:21
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spixxor posted:A guy I know named his old bike Night Fury which I can't help but kinda think was neat, but then I love that movie. It was a CBR something or other. I don't name my vehicles but then I'm a chic and that seems to be more of a guy thing to do.
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Oct 11, 2013 18:43
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:The BMW club magazine has quite a number of people, women too, who name their bikes. One girl named her KLR "Cart-her." Cause it carts her around. Where does a KLR land on the misery index?
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Snowdens Secret posted:Where does a KLR land on the misery index? On a scale of 1-10? Around 15, I'd say, just from reading CA. I've never ridden one myself.
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Oct 12, 2013 07:48
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Mother of motorcycle mercy, spare me from Saturday drivers. Today must have been the all-England drive-your-loving-Canyonero-at-2mph-through-my-quaint-little-town Championship or something because I almost had a road rage incident at several Chelsea tractor pilots gently nudging their ten-tonne brat wagons around the space lanes on my way home. You should need a HGV license for one of those things because they're a danger to sanity. Strong opinions from outset.
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Oct 12, 2013 12:35
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I met a lot of those on my ride today. Annoying, but gives me a chance to open it up and BRAAAAAAAAAP past them when the road opens up, so in a way I can live with it.
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Oct 12, 2013 19:29
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Related to that, people who only discover their accelerator when you're overtaking them. Dude, I'm on the wrong side of the road, I'm not on a particularly big bike, now is not the time for you to get pissy and get up to the actual speed limit.
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Oct 13, 2013 20:53
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They're just pissy because they had to look up from their phone.
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Wootcannon posted:Related to that, people who only discover their accelerator when you're overtaking them. Dude, I'm on the wrong side of the road, I'm not on a particularly big bike, now is not the time for you to get pissy and get up to the actual speed limit. When I'm riding parallel to someone (a minivan. it's ALWAYS a minivan) and see that I'm in their blind spot, I'll ease on the throttle just enough to move me up at least around their front bumper so I'm clearly in their line of sight. EVERY SINGLE TIME, when it's a minivan, or sometimes a silver SUV, the driver immediately has to flog his soulless mommy-wagon to amble forwards so I'm not in his line of sight, and, i guess, no longer a visual reminder of what a failure their life is. It always dumbfounds me. I'm not leaping forward aggressively, I'm just easing into view. And I'm on a motorcycle. I move at the speed of thought. If I had wanted to pass you, it would be over before you could finish "liking" your erectile dysfunction treatment program on facebook. So congratulations. Now you're tailgating someone and endangering me for no reason whatsoever.
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spixxor posted:A guy I know named his old bike Night Fury which I can't help but kinda think was neat, but then I love that movie. It was a CBR something or other. I don't name my vehicles but then I'm a chic and that seems to be more of a guy thing to do. My motorcycle is named Aya Cyclone. I don't tell this to my anyone (outside the internet) because they are both rather obtuse references to nerdy Japanese poo poo.
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I named my 883 iron Archimedes because the way the mirrors are set, for some reason, blinds me with headlights during my commute.
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ElMaligno posted:My motorcycle is named Aya Cyclone. Is that a KR reference, that's almost OK My crazy red futurebike sometimes makes me want to get a crazy red leather jacket, but then I kinda want red leather pants and putting a pill on the back and that's about when I catch myself
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HAMAS HATE BOAT posted:When I'm riding parallel to someone (a minivan. it's ALWAYS a minivan) and see that I'm in their blind spot, I'll ease on the throttle just enough to move me up at least around their front bumper so I'm clearly in their line of sight. EVERY SINGLE TIME, when it's a minivan, or sometimes a silver SUV, the driver immediately has to flog his soulless mommy-wagon to amble forwards so I'm not in his line of sight, and, i guess, no longer a visual reminder of what a failure their life is. It always dumbfounds me. I'm not leaping forward aggressively, I'm just easing into view. And I'm on a motorcycle. I move at the speed of thought. If I had wanted to pass you, it would be over before you could finish "liking" your erectile dysfunction treatment program on facebook. So congratulations. Now you're tailgating someone and endangering me for no reason whatsoever. My personal frustration is that when I'm flying up on someone's rear end in the left lane on the bike, they bang over to the right just at the point where I'd be leaned over to pass. I think they see me and freak out and try to get out of the way, despite the fact that I'm a ton more maneuverable than they are. like, "Yes guy, my master plan IS to commit suicide into the back of your hatchback, congrats on figuring it out." Just had to buy a car for winter and found that doing the same thing warrants no response to something that is about ten times heavier and stops far less quickly. Can't get around? Well gently caress me then, they can't be bothered to speed up or slow down a minute to let other cars through.
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Oct 14, 2013 05:59
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Oh, yeah, and yesterday was homecoming in my lovely college town. I had to run a ton of errands that day. Every time I turned into my alley some drunk jackass would act like he was going to jump in my way every-drat-time. I wanted to kill.
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Covert Ops Wizard posted:Oh, yeah, and yesterday was homecoming in my lovely college town. I had to run a ton of errands that day. Every time I turned into my alley some drunk jackass would act like he was going to jump in my way every-drat-time. I wanted to kill. When I was eleven I though poo poo like that was the ultimate in humor. That and the pretend to pull a rope thing, which actually just looks like you're rearing back to leap out into traffic. My kids will be different. 
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Oct 14, 2013 06:27
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My bike is named Hermes because I have a theme of naming inanimate objects after mythological figures (laptop is Heracles, etc). Also someone put a pen into my oil tank again. What the hell, man?
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Oct 14, 2013 20:39
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Mine's the Ol' Grey Mare or just "The Mare", it's fairly dependable when it wants to be and when it doesn't you'd have an easier time dragging a mule down the trail.
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I have 2 bikes. One is called "Widowmaker", because it tried to kill the last mechanic to work on it. The other is called "Rocinante" and I'll let the pedia el Wiki explain why: quote:Rocinante is Don Quixote's horse in the novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. In many ways, Rocinante is not only Don Quixote's horse, but also his double: like Don Quixote, he is awkward, past his prime, and engaged in a task beyond his capacities.
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Oct 15, 2013 03:41
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Do you guys celebrate Valentine's Day with your bikes too?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qvxs22JJUJs
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My rant? Everyone talking about their bike names in the rant thread. Oooo I'm so edgy.
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My bike is named Harley because it's easier explaining that your bike is Harley after they stare blankly at you when you tell them you have a Bandit. 
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Deeters posted:Do you guys celebrate Valentine's Day with your bikes too? Vid is more amusing considering Silver's update that he traded her in for a slimmer model
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My bikes are named "the drz" "the f11" and "the rv90" I am a complicated man
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