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Renaissance Robot posted:Surely Florida Woman would be making pancakes or something ridiculous like that rather than merely texting (a feat any old dumbass can accomplish) Please. Florida woman is making shake n bake meth while driving to work.
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Renaissance Robot posted:Surely Florida Woman would be making pancakes or something ridiculous like that rather than merely texting (a feat any old dumbass can accomplish) Isn't the problem with texting and driving that not just any dumbass can accomplish it but all of them try?
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Nov 3, 2015 14:55
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Chichevache posted:Isn't the problem with texting and driving that not just any dumbass can accomplish it but all of them try? Pretty much. Like talking, but worse.
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Nov 3, 2015 21:33
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You guys ever notice that cagers view motorcyclists as like...some sort of born-in person, like it's a race or gender? They look at us with envy sometimes (I'm not being mean, this was sparked my a coworker's look) as if to say, "I wish I had a motorcycle," as if this hobby is somehow forbidden to non-motorcyclists. It has its ups and downs breh but it's not hard to trade in the cage for the freedom wheels. Of course then again once it starts raining they be like, "YOU RODE HERE!??!?!" and are always worried the rain will cause me to slip and die so maybe they think you have to have either just a cage or a cage and a bike.
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Nov 10, 2015 01:24
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I go multiple bikes and multiple cages. The multiple bikes thing necessitates a truck and then I don't want to drive a truck if I don't have it full of bikes so I have another car that runs and then another car that sits because I love engineering tragedies that are even worse than Buells.
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Nov 10, 2015 01:36
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Yeah man cagers man rabble freedom rabble rabble blah. I've decided 'cagers' seems to be mostly a term only squiddy knobheads and Harley machomen use.
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Nov 10, 2015 02:03
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Yeah, the term is childish imo
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Nov 10, 2015 02:21
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Especially considering that pretty much everyone here also has a car. Are there any posters riding 100% of the time?
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Nov 10, 2015 03:38
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Especially considering that pretty much everyone here also has a car.
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I ride 100% of the time. Just did 2000 KM in 40+ degree heat over the weekend, and straight back into commuting on the same bike. It's loving grand. I'm wearing a suit and tie right now, but I can see my overloud rear end in a top hat hooligan bike out my window.
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Nov 10, 2015 03:59
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I do. It's the only way to park at work, so that's what I do. I ride like the postal service motto. Hot cold, pissing rain, whatever. I buy the best tires on the market and own an aerostich and heated gear. I own a car but it's basically falling apart from lack of use. For a while I was driving it to get groceries like every other weekend just to be driving it. A month and a half ago someone smashed out a window (which was twice as insulting since i leave the doors unlocked) and i havent touched it since. I couldnt get the window replaced since there's a short someplace that's killed the window motors for the past year or so, and IDGAF enough to try and figure out how to find it or to pay someone else to. In the past 2 years i've put maybe a few hundred mi on it. When I get a new job I'll trade it for peanuts in the down payment on a focus ST just to have something reliable and sorta practical since i won't be FORCED to ride to work in the rain like i currently am. Or I should probably just donate it someplace to get rid of it. e: and like the guy above knows, basically nothing feels more loving awesome than hitting the road in a suit on a motorcycle. even under the aerostich it just FEELS different.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Especially considering that pretty much everyone here also has a car. Me. It's bay area riding though, so worst we get is a little rain. Edit: cagers is still a dumb term though. Z3n fucked around with this message at 04:15 on Nov 10, 2015 |
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I work like 2 miles away from home so naaaah. Plus I don't like taking the SV for errands just cause it's kinda unwieldy on the street for a small person (probably just me). I prefer to do fun mountain rides with it, if I had a dual sport I'd use that for city a lot more often.
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Man I envy you guys. I'm too much of a puss to ride full time. I also love cars too so I guess I would be bummed if I didn't have a car too but really once the temperature drops below like 45 degrees I am pretty much done. I live in New England and still take the bike out a few times a month just to keep it moving even in winter time but I don't commute on it during those days when its 37F in the morning even if its going to get up to 50F during the day. But hey shout out to global warming for extending the comfortable riding weather. I got out Saturday for a great ride, first time in a while I've gotten out for more than just back and forth to work.
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Verge posted:You guys ever notice that cagers view motorcyclists as like...some sort of born-in person, like it's a race or gender? They look at us with envy sometimes (I'm not being mean, this was sparked my a coworker's look) as if to say, "I wish I had a motorcycle," as if this hobby is somehow forbidden to non-motorcyclists. It has its ups and downs breh but it's not hard to trade in the cage for the freedom wheels. I have a coworker who rides a motorcycle. He knows I ride too and likes to talk to me about bikes, but he always has some retarded comment that makes me roll my eyes. The last time I talked to him he went on about seeing a squid in flip flops and shorts and how dangerous that is, but then went on to talk about how he can't understand why I wear a jacket and full face helmet no matter the weather. It's always poo poo like that or complaining about how I would ride anything not made in America. Every time I see him walking towards my cubicle I kind of wish I never started riding bikes. I get the same feeling every time I read one of your posts.
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M42 posted:I work like 2 miles away from home so naaaah. Plus I don't like taking the SV for errands just cause it's kinda unwieldy on the street for a small person (probably just me). I prefer to do fun mountain rides with it, if I had a dual sport I'd use that for city a lot more often. Buy a tw200. Koruthaiolos posted:I have a coworker who rides a motorcycle. He knows I ride too and likes to talk to me about bikes, but he always has some retarded comment that makes me roll my eyes. The last time I talked to him he went on about seeing a squid in flip flops and shorts and how dangerous that is, but then went on to talk about how he can't understand why I wear a jacket and full face helmet no matter the weather. It's always poo poo like that or complaining about how I would ride anything not made in America. Every time I see him walking towards my cubicle I kind of wish I never started riding bikes. 
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Especially considering that pretty much everyone here also has a car. For the past two years, I was riding pretty close to 100% of the time except during freezing or super wet weather (no heated gear and my gloves were not waterproof at all). I commuted to work every day, as well as ran all my errands and small shopping trips (like picking up some bolts from the hardware store, or grabbing a couple DVDs, nothing big like grocery shopping). Basically anytime I wasn't going somewhere with the wife, or needed a trunk, I was on my bike. Put on drat near 11,000 miles in 2015 alone.
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HotCanadianChick posted:For the past two years, I was riding pretty close to 100% of the time except during freezing or super wet weather (no heated gear and my gloves were not waterproof at all). I commuted to work every day, as well as ran all my errands and small shopping trips (like picking up some bolts from the hardware store, or grabbing a couple DVDs, nothing big like grocery shopping). Basically anytime I wasn't going somewhere with the wife, or needed a trunk, I was on my bike. Put on drat near 11,000 miles in 2015 alone. How's the recovery going?
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The past year for me, up until last month, has been 100% on two wheels because I didn't actually have a car. Now I have a car and I use it maybe once a week for grocery getting. Parking near work is a bitch, but since I've lent out my scooter, purchasing anything that can't fit in a backpack is very difficult. So, ergo, car. Also for the occasional work related trip to the next city over, because my 150cc isn't allowed on the freeways.
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I miss having no car 
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Especially considering that pretty much everyone here also has a car. I caged a cage just yesterday, because it was blowing a gale out and half the roads were flooded, and also I had to give someone a lift. When I no longer have my own car available I'll magically grow enough foresight to be able to successfully either use public transport or carpool with a colleague.
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Nov 10, 2015 08:09
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I'm bike only, no car license. It loving blows.
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Slavvy posted:I miss having no car Here in the Southeast it has been raining for what feels like 3 weeks pretty much everyday. And now the cold is setting in. I'm so happy a bike isn't my only choice.
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I sometimes work 8 or 12 hour graveyard shifts here in the bay area so I dont ride the bike on those days so i use my car. On other shifts I will use the motorcycle. Also I mainly use my car when I go to workout because my BJJ Gi is bulky as poo poo and is a pain in the dick to pack in a backpack. Which is why I am getting a convertible duffelbackpack.
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I'm member of a car pool, but I only use it maybe twice a month. The bike is my only personal vehicle.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Are there any posters riding 100% of the time? Hello.  Mostly because it is illegal for me to drive. Don't have a driver's license for a car.
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I don't have a car anymore so I usually ride. Plus riding is better for my bad back than driving is. Currently borrowing a car though until I get some proper cold weather/rain gear. Also till I replace the six year old Shinko rear tire.
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Chichevache, please explain your custom title.
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Coredump posted:Chichevache, please explain your custom title. Some guy doesn't know how to spell seize. I hope that clears up the confusion. Read my posts in the "What did you do to your bike today?" thread.
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Hey, 26 new posts in the rant thread, did Verge post again?
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Chichevache posted:I blew up 2 DRZs and one of them got stolen off the side of the freeway Fixed for the newbies
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Marxalot posted:Fixed for the newbies I blew up one drz, twice. Get it right.
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I biked for two years solid, late 2009 to 2011, in northern Idaho, on my 17hp (at best) Royal Enfield. It sucked balls, but I am proud of some parts. Highlights include: - Low-amperage alternator, so heated anything was out of the question. - Riding up to a friend's house 35 miles away, having it snow overnight, having my girlfriend bring me all the clothes I own, then riding back once the plows hit the roads in (no poo poo here) 4 degree F weather (a highway patrolman apparently followed me the entire way, but I didn't see him because the moisture from inside my gloves froze on the mirrors when I tried to clean them). The carburetor iced up towards the end of it - Buying 4x watermelons and 4x 750ml vodka for boozemelons for a 4th of July gathering, losing two vodkas on the road when they fell out of my jacket at a stoplight - Buying pumpkins for Halloween - Generally cocking about - Putting "hippo hands" on the handlebars to survive the winters and having a motorcycle that looks like a retarded moose - Having major things break and having to go to work the next day so you're up all night fixing stupid poo poo eg: my wiring loom caught fire and I did a total rewire in one day on my day off. Like joining the Army, it's something I would never do again if I were reincarnated, but I'm glad I did it.
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I sold a bike on craiglist and didn't get stabbed. It took about 75 texts back and forth over 4 days, but it's done. 
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Craigslist is pretty amusing. Horse swapped on craigslist. The biggest pain was the guy on the other side of the trade got super anxious when I didn't immediately take my ad down after talking to him. After the trade he complained that he missed the Buell and his wife never rides the Vstar. Sold a car on CL. Guy drove 3 hours up from Portland, asked if the wheels came with it, put a stack of 20s in my hands, and drove off. I thought it was a test drive but he never came back. Since I had full price in my hands after it being listed for a day I wasn't upset. I got a call 6 weeks later about getting him the title. WTF
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Besides the standard people offering half my asking price I got one legit offer and it ended up being the buyer. 75 text messages. Asking for me to lower the bike. Can I have your rear stand. Do you have some frame sliders you can install for me. It ended up being a French nurse in her early 30's that trains jujitsu that promised not to hurt me while I drover her from her apartment complex to a nearby grocery store parking lot to do the deal. Her job is dealing with people that have been baker acted. She stood there in a dark parking lot with $7k cash waiting for me to return with the bike. We swapped cash, title, plate, etc. Then I walked a quarter mile home with all that cash in my pocket. Maybe I live a real boring life, but everything about dealing with craigslist just feels shady. BlackLaser fucked around with this message at 18:31 on Nov 11, 2015 |
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It can feel shady, but you can do some common sense stuff to protect yourself. If I'm buying, I usually do it at the county office where we can transfer the title right there. We both go to the counter, tell them what we're up to, and they can give an immediate all-clear on the title situation. Plus being at the county office with armed guards mitigates some of the risk of being there with thousands of dollars in cash. Stuff that doesn't take a title transfer like a junk bike or some parts I will try to do in a courthouse or police station parking lot. My thought is that shady meth heads who might stab me usually try to stay away from those places. Though one time a court clerk accidentally activated the silent alarm about when we arrived and a group of very excited deputies yelled at us and brandished weapons around. That was fun.
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Geirskogul posted:- Buying 4x watermelons and 4x 750ml vodka for boozemelons for a 4th of July gathering, losing two vodkas on the road when they fell out of my jacket at a stoplight This is hilarious. I hope someone was there to see that happen.
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I ride every day to work. We use the car for stuff like groceries, or when we just want to pop out and pick up a pizza or something. Last summer we didn't use the car at all, and when fall came we had a problem with the heater, so I opened the hood. A mouse had built a lovely nest using pink insulation right on top of the motor housing. Been riding daily since March 2014, have 23k miles on my bike now. Rain, sun, whatever. It's funny when people go all big-eyed and say, "You ride in the rain?!" like I'm BASE jumping from a mountaintop or something. It's just water. I have good, waterproof gear, and good rain-lovin' tires.
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BlackLaser posted:Her job is dealing with people that have been baker acted. I do something similar in California! It's a real fun field.
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