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I have never gotten a puncture on a motorcycle. I assume I'm not riding enough. edit: Gaaah new page. Content: I loving hate the new Ducati Scrambler promo movie so loving much. I'm literally angry about it right now. It's stupider than so much of the poo poo that goes on HNasty's blog. The only thing that could make it worse is a stupid fuckin voiceover about the real motorcycle lifestyle and how you have to own one to understand it. HenryJLittlefinger fucked around with this message at 23:33 on Oct 1, 2014 |
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I've never seen a group able to get more worked up over a marketing pitch than goons do.
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# ? Oct 1, 2014 23:47 |
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:I have never gotten a puncture on a motorcycle. Saying anything like that is the kiss of death. I once said something even dumber, "I haven't gotten a ticket in a year and a half!" Then I got two in the next two days. Ouch.
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# ? Oct 2, 2014 01:18 |
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clutchpuck posted:I've never seen a group able to get more worked up over a marketing pitch than goons do. We've been living with your Buell pitch for ages and only a few people in CA can't stand you.
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# ? Oct 2, 2014 02:37 |
n8r posted:We've been living with your Buell pitch for ages and only a few people in CA can't stand you. Yeah but with clutchpuck it's not marketing, man, it's a lifestyle.
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# ? Oct 2, 2014 03:06 |
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The only way it could've more hipster is if they had a scene with angle grinder sparks that transformed it into a cafe racer.
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# ? Oct 2, 2014 03:31 |
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clutchpuck posted:I've never seen a group able to get more worked up over a marketing pitch than goons do. I don't really hate it that much, it's just all I could think of to rant about on short notice.
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# ? Oct 2, 2014 04:52 |
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I think I hate the Scrambler ad more than the usual videos on BHBV. The hipster videos are about desperately chasing, but failing to capture, authenticity and manliness. Videos like the Scrambler ad are chasing the fake-authenticity and cargo-cult-masculinity of the hipster videos, while homogenising it down to wallpaper paste consistency so it will see approval by a board of dead-eyed middle marketing 'brand managers'. There was meeting upon meeting about whether the pushing-a-guy-into-the-piss-bush clip was "too much" for the target demographic, you loving know it.
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# ? Oct 2, 2014 14:05 |
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I'm going to buy the scrambler and turn it into a standard cruiser.
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# ? Oct 2, 2014 16:05 |
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Then you can say you were buying lovely café bikes and turning them into comfortable tourers before it was cool.
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# ? Oct 2, 2014 16:28 |
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Yes, make a modern Indiana
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# ? Oct 2, 2014 16:31 |
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n8r posted:We've been living with your Buell pitch for ages and only a few people in CA can't stand you. To be fair it's worked. I'm now convinced that I want a Ulysses at a subconscious level. I don't think I've ever seen one though.
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# ? Oct 7, 2014 09:40 |
Backov posted:To be fair it's worked. I'm now convinced that I want a Ulysses at a subconscious level. This problem resolves itself: once you've seen one, you won't want one anymore!
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# ? Oct 7, 2014 09:55 |
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n8r posted:We've been living with your Buell pitch for ages and only a few people in CA can't stand you. I think its funny.
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# ? Oct 7, 2014 13:46 |
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Backov posted:To be fair it's worked. I'm now convinced that I want a Ulysses at a subconscious level. I did the same thing, except with a versys. Then I test rode one and was all "wow I was right". My condolences though
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# ? Oct 7, 2014 19:12 |
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Helmet, jacket, gloves and... shorts. I can't ride at the moment due to just having major jaw surgery (my face looks like a swollen potato) and likely won't be able to for at least three months. Just as Texas is beginning to cool down.
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# ? Oct 7, 2014 21:37 |
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:I did the same thing, except with a versys. Then I test rode one and was all "wow I was right". My condolences though what kind of sick bastard pitches a versys
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# ? Oct 8, 2014 01:04 |
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n8r posted:We've been living with your Buell pitch for ages and only a few people in CA can't stand you. It's no pitch, I live this poo poo.
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# ? Oct 8, 2014 01:16 |
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KARMA! posted:what kind of sick bastard pitches a versys A convert :smileywhosjawfaalsoffandthetonguewagllesaround:
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# ? Oct 8, 2014 01:37 |
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Sock Weasel posted:
Well, maybe he's afraid of having his wallet fall out of his jorts and the jacket has zip-up pockets.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:A convert :smileywhosjawfaalsoffandthetonguewagllesaround: unsmigghh. Two g's and two h's, that's how I remember it
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# ? Oct 8, 2014 04:55 |
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My personal fave is the guy in a t-shirt, shorts, tennis shoes, and for safety's sake, an Icon spine protector.
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# ? Oct 9, 2014 03:45 |
Lynza posted:My personal fave is the guy in a t-shirt, shorts, tennis shoes, and for safety's sake, an Icon spine protector. Bro your skin can heal and poo poo but if you land on your spine IT'S ALL OVER YO.
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# ? Oct 9, 2014 06:34 |
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hosed up a bunch of poo poo in my wrist and can't work a clutch. There goes any chance of riding before the snows come.
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# ? Oct 11, 2014 16:04 |
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switch it to the right hand. that front brake is just a suicide lever anyway
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# ? Oct 11, 2014 18:37 |
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:hosed up a bunch of poo poo in my wrist and can't work a clutch. There goes any chance of riding before the snows come. Buy an nc750.
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:hosed up a bunch of poo poo in my wrist and can't work a clutch. There goes any chance of riding before the snows come. I've managed to sprain both wrists this year. I'm back to 90% good so can ride a bike fine but moving something slightly heavy the wrong way and I'm back to braces and pain (I'm a mechanic so this happens quite a bit). Wrists take loving forever to get back to normal especially when you can't really give them much of a break because it's either letting them properly heal or going to work for me. Bugdrvr fucked around with this message at 02:12 on Oct 12, 2014 |
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Riding home today I pulled up at a large intersection and there was a guy on a harley waiting to turn on the other side of the intersection. He had his little kid on the back and when they turned and went past me the little boy looked at me and stuck his arm out and gave me a thumbs down
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# ? Oct 13, 2014 08:54 |
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Slavvy posted:Riding home today I pulled up at a large intersection and there was a guy on a harley waiting to turn on the other side of the intersection. He had his little kid on the back and when they turned and went past me the little boy looked at me and stuck his arm out and gave me a thumbs down http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ytCEuuW2_A
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# ? Oct 13, 2014 15:55 |
That's what I get for riding the most boring bike....in the world.
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# ? Oct 13, 2014 18:41 |
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Slavvy posted:That's what I get for riding the most boring bike....in the world. It's okay though! You know when a homophobic father teaches his son lots of anti-gay slurs, the kid probably ends up being gay? That kid will end up hating Harleys and start riding supermotos, therefore disgracing his father.
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KARMA! posted:Buy an nc750. I fully expected two responses: yours, and "Snow? Ha ha, what a pussy." Or a combination of the two: "Buy a DRZ, pussy."
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# ? Oct 13, 2014 19:17 |
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Buy an autobox DRZ, dick. Err, I mean pussy.
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# ? Oct 13, 2014 19:19 |
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I rode in falling snow once riding home from work one day on my DRZ, wasnt that bad even with a light dusting of snow. Dont wanna try with any more than a light dusting without having studded tires.
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# ? Oct 13, 2014 21:07 |
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Ripoff posted:It's okay though! You know when a homophobic father teaches his son lots of anti-gay slurs, the kid probably ends up being gay? That kid will end up hating Harleys and start riding supermotos, therefore disgracing his father. Old white man probably in his 50 is sitting down in a kitchen table. The man is wearing a leather vest jacket with no shirt, said jacket sports a big rear end Harley logo. His body is strewn with tattoos a Harley tattoo is visible as well as a 20 years later… The old man is doing his favorite thing in the world, driving his Harley. He is using the most stereotypical Harley gear you can imagine but the guy is having gently caress so who cares. A hooligan in a Japanese sport touring bike pulls up and nods to the old man, the old man not taking any of this hooligan poo poo flips the bird at him. The hooligan flips open the helmet revealing that it’s in fact the son, only 20 years older. The son shakes his head disapproving in the old man rude behavior. Suddenly in a sound that can only be described as deliciously Italian an European super sport bike pulls up between them. The stranger then flips off the old man and the son, accelerates and wheelies off to the distance. The son stares befuddled at the rudeness of his own son while the old man merely laughs. The camara then pans into the old man tattoos again, the Harley tattoo is a little bit faded and his other Tattoo had a second modification. I loce my son And Grandson ElMaligno fucked around with this message at 21:11 on Oct 13, 2014 |
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If I still lived in my little Canadian hometown I would totally get a TW200 and put spiked ice tires on it and commute to work on that from November to March.
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# ? Oct 13, 2014 21:09 |
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Looks like I'm about to become medium-temporary caretaker of my friends DRZ400SM. Should be fun!
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# ? Oct 15, 2014 07:17 |
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2,000 miles? Nah dude, it had 22,000. Definitely.
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# ? Oct 15, 2014 07:23 |
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DEUCE SLUICE posted:Looks like I'm about to become medium-temporary caretaker of my friends DRZ400SM. Should be fun! The best burden
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Normally I get upset at people who cut through parking lots to try to cut the line into work every morning, but today an AGATT guy with a sweet old FJR was trying to so I let him. Maybe the second or third ATGATT guy I've actually seen at work.
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# ? Oct 23, 2014 21:19 |