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Richard Bong posted:Since when do hyosungs even cost that much new? 2400 for a beat to poo poo 8 year old one is... poor NZ. Small bike prices are laughably inflated here, but from the description that's about a $1500 dollar bike at current values. For example, I never saw a roadworthy VTR250 for less than 2500. Yet big bikes depreciate like rocks; the only reason I bought a hyoshit 250 and not a built-up bandit 1200 was so gf could have something to learn on. Sportbikes? Fuggedaboutit. Doesn't matter how raped it is, how astronomical the mileage is, how old it is, as long as it's got fairings and clip-ons it's worth 40-50% more than a normal bike of the same year/condition/brand. It's ridiculous. Especially considering the state of riding talent in this country. On the way to work yesterday I raced a guy on a naked buell (on my Hyosung) and won. How the gently caress is that even possible?
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Slavvy posted:Especially considering the state of riding talent in this country. On the way to work yesterday I raced a guy on a naked buell (on my Hyosung) and won. How the gently caress is that even possible? Engine says "Harley-Davidson" on the side.
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I'm sure xb9's aren't that slow  He made the motions of trying to get away but seemed to be unable to lean the bike or use the throttle at all. Eventually he pulled over and waved me past.
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Jan 23, 2014 20:03
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He probably saw a red bike in the mirrors and had heard stories about an rear end in a top hat rider doing crazy poo poo on one and just wanted to get out the way. Can you blame him for trying to be safe and not get a ticket for being associated with you?
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Jan 23, 2014 20:18
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I honestly now get a sense of paranoia when I dong-ride on the way to work; my thoughts spiral around the idea of one of the muppets from my neighbourhood seeing me on my commute.
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Jan 23, 2014 20:45
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Never dong it up within a mile of home or a mile of work.
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Guinness posted:Never dong it up within a mile of home or a mile of work. Unless, of course, you're selling the bike. And you have a second set of hoon gear.
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A mile of home? Correct. A mile of work? Well I work in a mostly-deserted industrial area, packed with roundabouts and extremely broad, smooth roads for all the trucks to turn around on  It's the only part of my commute that doesn't suck, and I'm not the only guy on a bike who thinks so based on what I've seen.
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Pompous Rhombus posted:I used to volunteer as a police interpreter in Bangkok and caught a case where a tourist had opened the taxi door on the traffic side (wtf), which clotheslined a Thai guy splitting by. The Thai guy got up all hopped up on adrenaline, and since the cab doors were all locked (tourist had shut it back), took off his helmet and smashed it into the windshield of the cab. The tourist didn't think he was liable for anything since the Thai guy was "riding too close" and "not in his own lane" ( That sounds like an insanely cool job. Best/worst moments?
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), Thai dude wanted him liable for the cab door, bike fairings + the windscreen, in the end we worked it out that the tourist paid for the door/bike, rider paid for the windshield. The tourist wasn't an rear end in a top hat but still politely insisted to the last that he shouldn't be liable. Pretty sure he wasn't American, FWIW.
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Guinness posted:Never dong it up within a mile of home or a mile of work. Sorry, but there is a bridge within a mile of where I work. Bridges require standup wheelies.
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Jan 23, 2014 21:31
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Guinness posted:Never dong it up within a mile of home or a mile of work.
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BlackMK4 posted:Sorry, but there is a bridge within a mile of where I work. Bridges require standup wheelies. Yes, yes they do. Bridges and tunnels. Koruthaiolos posted:I try hard to be super courteous in my neighborhood, but there's one car a couple blocks from my house that has a car alarm that goes off no matter how gently I ride by. Now all my neighbors give me dirty looks when I'm on the bike. It can't be too bad yet, though, because nobody's posted to the listserv about it. The listserv? What magical libertarian paradise do you live in?!?!
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If you don't have a neighborhood listerv you're not really living. Why, just yesterday someone saw a cat in the alley that might be a stray. I know I'll be keeping my eyes peeled.
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I don't know what listerv is but it sounds horrifying.
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Slavvy posted:I don't know what listerv is but it sounds horrifying. Your avatar just makes this post perfect.
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Z3n posted:
Actually an ultra liberal hippy town. Regular topics include tnr vs calling animal control on the feral cat population, outing neighbors within minutes of snow falling for not shoveling their sidewalk, arguments about who should volunteer at the bike vs grocery co-ops, and complaining about the smallest nuisances possible. Basically, where Slavvy's neighbors can call he police and cause him actual problems, the most mine can do is make passive aggressive comments online and give me mean looks. e: Jesus, the fact that I automatically type tnr instead of trap neuter release tells me I should be reading the stupid thing much less.
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I'm pretty sure I could do a burnout inside of my apartment and no one would even notice or complain. Y'all need get some cooler neighbors 
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Jan 23, 2014 23:52
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My neighbours actively encourage me to do hoon poo poo as I'm leaving :/
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Guinness posted:Never dong it up within a mile of home or a mile of work. We did have someone say they'd called the cops on us once after we tested our race sidecar around a parking lot for 15 minutes after removing the exhaust baffles and retuning it. I didn't think it was THAT loud.
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The Futura forum has a thread from a guy who took his bike in for a minor issue and a shop tech totalled it on a test ride. I would suspect thrashing the poo poo out of a customer ride is a horrible idea unless you intimately know the bike history and the customer.
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:I dong it up FOR work. Actually had a customer tell us once that we needed to ride the pants off an R1 to look for a problem with it. And then another guy with an R6. I didn't really do it that much, for obvious reasons. I don't think it was the sound, more of a public safety issue with the welds.
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TheCoconutman posted:I don't think it was the sound, more of a public safety issue with the welds. 
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TheCoconutman posted:I don't think it was the sound, more of a public safety issue with the welds. Who knows how far a piece of angle iron could fly if one failed...
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hot sauce posted:I'm pretty sure I could do a burnout inside of my apartment and no one would even notice or complain. Y'all need get some cooler neighbors My garage is in one of those condo canyon dealies where it's garages on the ground level and bathroom\kitchen windows above the garage doors, all arranged in long rows on branch roads about two cars wide. I've only had my bike at home for a week and every morning when I'm idling it to warm it up I'm wondering if I have any snobby shits for neighbors and how long until they complain. But so far I've met one neighbor with a beard nearly as awesome as mine who rides choppers after graduating from sportbikes (I'm sure my day will come one day, too), and one who drives a subaru with no fewer than 5 VTEC stickers on it. I doubt I'm going to have problems with those two, at least. Plus it's 9:00AM when I'm warming up so it's not exactly an inhuman hour.
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spacemanspliff posted:My garage is in one of those condo canyon dealies where it's garages on the ground level and bathroom\kitchen windows above the garage doors, all arranged in long rows on branch roads about two cars wide. I've only had my bike at home for a week and every morning when I'm idling it to warm it up I'm wondering if I have any snobby shits for neighbors and how long until they complain. But so far I've met one neighbor with a beard nearly as awesome as mine who rides choppers after graduating from sportbikes (I'm sure my day will come one day, too), and one who drives a subaru with no fewer than 5 VTEC stickers on it. I doubt I'm going to have problems with those two, at least. Plus it's 9:00AM when I'm warming up so it's not exactly an inhuman hour. My neighbor made fun of my quiet stock muffler on my dyna. I was like really you WANT my bike to be louder??? Yeah my neighborhood is very much a wow your not a drug dealer? awesome you can do no wrong type of neighborhood.
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I've been waiting all day for my neighbor to leave so I can wheel the FZR out and start it up for the first time. My garage shares a wall with her apartment and I'm positive she won't appreciate that my can is a Yosh rather than some cheapo slip on. I've got the gas tank bungeed up and the sync gauges all hooked up. Why won't you leave? You're never usually home on Saturdays 
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Bugdrvr posted:I've been waiting all day for my neighbor to leave so I can wheel the FZR out and start it up for the first time. My garage shares a wall with her apartment and I'm positive she won't appreciate that my can is a Yosh rather than some cheapo slip on. Here's my bike, a mostly stock 2012 Ninja 650 (her name is Diva, if you think naming your bike is stupid or don't like my name then FUH-Q!). You win a prize if you spot my 1 modification. :] http://imgur.com/AdlKXWk http://imgur.com/hTq1n7I http://imgur.com/FzDnNL5 http://imgur.com/DGajr0k http://imgur.com/R7iP5Pm But yeah since it's all boxed in like this, even with its stock decibel level it echoes like mad. The kid scooting around in the background belongs to my cool neighbor who has been riding bikes for a number of years, so far all of the neighbors I've encountered seem friendly to bikes. One of them alternates taking up his parking space with a Ferrari, a Hummer, and a trailer with 2 Jetskis on it, so he clearly likes to have fun as well :o
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spacemanspliff posted:(her name is Diva, if you think naming your bike is stupid or don't like my name then FUH-Q!). Mine is named Ulysses. <- belongs in this thread
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The $COLOR bike. Much more than that is just creepy.
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Safety Dance posted:The $COLOR bike. Much more than that is just creepy. This is what I do except now I've got two white/red/black bikes. If someone asks me about which bike I'm fixing or riding or whatever I still reply "the white bike" and fully expect them to know which one.
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I'd stretch it to say "The blue Ninja" and "The blue WRX" or whatever you have.
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"The Ninja" "The Hyosung" "The blue bike" alternatively "The black bike" "The red bike" "The turd"
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I ride a Honzuki YXV-830.
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Yamasaki RX580SPR-RR.
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A RED DIRTBIKE
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I just use the VIN.
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Orange nerd bike here.
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Snowdens Secret posted:A RED DIRTBIKE *wheelies over a footbridge* There is a guy in my neighbourhood with a CBR250 that has all the fairings missing and a hollow can, he sounds like he's doing a million miles an hour just accelerating up to 50km/h. He rolled past when I was at the gas station this morning and you could see the wave of tut-tuts pass over everyone on the forecourt. Also, my friend lives in a light industrial area in a two-storey apartment thing with his shop/garage on the lower floor and his living stuff on the top floor. Someone called the body corporate on him for riding his race bike around the parking lot.
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Do you not have private property laws in NZ?
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The parking lot is shared by the other shops/apartments, it's a horseshoe of buildings with the parking lot in the middle. The complainant was one of the people renting a building nearby.
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