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FBS posted:my brain is desperately trying to date this image and failing Hurricane Irma, so September 2017  Gay Nudist Dad posted:Is that a linoleum-floored living room? My god. goddamnedtwisto posted:If ever a bike deserved to be in a basement goonhole it's the SV.  I wanted my own house but I'm single and I don't make a lot of money. Sacrifices had to be made 
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If that's 2017 how do you explain that tv
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Slavvy posted:If that's 2017 how do you explain that tv One of those sacrifices is keeping hand-me-downs instead of buying newer things. Plus I'm a computer nerd so I watch most stuff at my desk. Beach Bum fucked around with this message at 20:07 on Jan 16, 2020 |
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So yesterday I got merged into by a dumbass who didn't signal or look before making their move. I saw it happening and almost managed to brake/swerve out of the way, but their mirror clipped my handlebar and that was enough to knock the bike over and also rip off their mirror. Hell yeah. I got my legs pinned under the bike in the crash but possibly thanks to my rigid armored Dainese boots I have no injuries to my feet or ankles. Nothing anywhere other than a scraped knee and general soreness, in fact. Wear your gear. Lots of passersby saw it happen and some guys helped lift the bike off and stand it up. The driver actually left the scene before the police arrived because they had to get to work!!! lol get hosed. but they left their passenger behind to repeatedly tell me it wasn't a hit and run because she was right there, she was staying, it wasn't a hit and run!!! The cops were not super impressed by this move. They asked for the driver's information and she said she didn't know his last name because he was a coworker. Oh and it was her car, but he was driving it. Cops raise their eyebrows and say alright, give me your information and we'll look you up at least. She says oh ahahahahaha if you look me up you'll see why I wasn't driving ahahaha!!!! so I assume she had a suspended license or a bunch of DUIs or something. There's a police report, maybe they'll track down and charge the other guy with leaving the scene, I don't know, gently caress it. Bike needs about 200 bucks of new parts I think, mirrors and pegs and poo poo, and has some new dents and dings but I was able to ride it home fine. Ugh. America.txt: I was standing up and lucid and the paramedics took a look at my rashed up knee and asked if I wanted them to clean it up. My automatic response was "is there a charge?" 
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Sagebrush posted:So yesterday I got merged into by a dumbass who didn't signal or look before making their move. I saw it happening and almost managed to brake/swerve out of the way, but their mirror clipped my handlebar and that was enough to knock the bike over and also rip off their mirror. Hell yeah. I got my legs pinned under the bike in the crash but possibly thanks to my rigid armored Dainese boots I have no injuries to my feet or ankles. Nothing anywhere other than a scraped knee and general soreness, in fact. Wear your gear. Lots of passersby saw it happen and some guys helped lift the bike off and stand it up. That fukkin blows. Glad you're okay and it sounds like it's only superficial bike damage but dealing with insurance is a pain. Was there a charge for some emergency response bactine and a bandaid?
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Sagebrush posted:So yesterday I got merged into by a dumbass who didn't signal or look before making their move. I saw it happening and almost managed to brake/swerve out of the way, but their mirror clipped my handlebar and that was enough to knock the bike over and also rip off their mirror. Hell yeah. I got my legs pinned under the bike in the crash but possibly thanks to my rigid armored Dainese boots I have no injuries to my feet or ankles. Nothing anywhere other than a scraped knee and general soreness, in fact. Wear your gear. Lots of passersby saw it happen and some guys helped lift the bike off and stand it up. As always, good job not dying. Is the display on the hawk ok? This is important.
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builds character posted:As always, good job not dying. Is the display on the hawk ok? This is important. Just to clarify, the display is the important bit.
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The driver leaving the scene is sketch as hell, aren't they supposed to check if they were impaired if there's an accident causing injury?
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Glad you're OK Sagebrush, that sucks rear end. "I'm leaving because I have to go to work" JFC.
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Aw jeez sage thats awful. Wonder how drunk that driver was to ding and ditch. I'm so glad you are ok, and that the bike is (mostly) unscathed. Good job reacting in time to mitigate the incident.
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Just to be clear, we all know that’s the boyfriend, not her coworker, right? I can’t imagine just letting a coworker take my car and run. E: putting money now on him having something open that means he’d have been arrested.
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Glad youre still with us Sagebrush, im sorry for what happened  Yeah, i think most likely the guy had a warrant or was driving under influence, makes my blood boil.
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thanks for the best wishes!GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Was there a charge for some emergency response bactine and a bandaid? nah, honestly I've had worse scrapes from tripping as a kid so I just turned down treatment. I know there's the whole delayed-reaction thing and there was a risk that I'd end up with a knee the size of a grapefruit today but turns out it's fine. again, wear all your gear -- i noticed today that the toe of my boot and the palms of my gloves are also newly shredded, so, you know. Slavvy posted:Just to clarify, the display is the important bit. luckily the display is fine. the screen got knocked out of alignment and there are some dead pixel rows now but i've been working on version 2 anyway so it's gonna get replaced sooner or later  MomJeans420 posted:The driver leaving the scene is sketch as hell, aren't they supposed to check if they were impaired if there's an accident causing injury? Patrocclesiastes posted:Yeah, i think most likely the guy had a warrant or was driving under influence, makes my blood boil. the more i think about it the more this is probably the case, lol. the driver did get out, and he picked up the hubcap from also the lady kept repeating "do you want to exchange information? cause i have to get to work, do you want to exchange information? i can't stay here, i have to work" while i was still in shock so i snapped "i don't loving care" meaning like, just leave me the gently caress alone for a minute, but then she started badgering me about "okay will you say that on camera?? i need to get that on camera if you don't wanna do anything, so you don't act like it was a hit and run later, i need to film you and your driver's license" etc. i didn't, obviously, and the cops came and took all the statements and information, but again, in retrospect, yeah probably something not totally above board was going on. oh well, it pisses me off but not enough to try and press charges or whatever, i just hope that guy gets what's coming to him. karma Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 06:42 on Jan 17, 2020 |
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Sagebrush posted:i was still in shock so i snapped "i don't loving care" meaning like, just leave me the gently caress alone for a minute Shock or not, this is probably the correct answer to someone acting like that. I made several incredulous faces in the process of reading your story. I'm glad you're ok.
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Glad to hear you and the bike are mostly ok. vaporwave dash for sale when
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Holy poo poo man, I'm glad you made it out of that ok, sorry about the experience and the damage to the bike. That poo poo makes me really angry just reading it. I know you seem to be done with it, but I wish you'd press charges or file a report. People don't need to be allowed to get away with that kind of behavior. They need to lose their license for a very long time and have to be off the road. The driver needs to be able to appreciate that they actually CAN drive themselves to work, much less leave the scene of an accident early. And now they need to be in a situation where they have to take transit to work or ride a 49 cc scooter.
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They'll do neither of those things and instead drive a car unlicensed and uninsured because people suck.
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Carth Dookie posted:They'll do neither of those things and instead drive a car unlicensed and uninsured because people suck. Sadly yeah, they are probably on the road right now, neither of them licensed or insured and have totally forgotten about almost maiming someone. I don't blame you for not pressing charges or pursuing it, because what's the point, but if I were the police I would crack down on this kind of stuff so hard. It's one thing when people make mistakes it's another when they lie to cover it up. If I were the cop I would have called her on her bluff and driven her to "work" to find her "co-worker". Glad you're ok, and good thing Hawks never die their riders just get very very old.
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Dumb thing I just realized - I got new tires 6 months ago, planning on doing a track day, but since then I've just been commuting and haven't even hit up the canyons. I was looking at my chicken strips and the right side is about half the left side, which I was taking to mean I'm more comfortable turning right, but after paying attention I realized for some reason I naturally hang off the bike a lot more on left turns, and I'm not as comfortable hanging off on right turns. Which means I'm using more of my available lean angle to turn right, so I'm actually better at left turns (or at least making them with more "room" to spare grip wise). It wasn't even a conscious thing, so now I'm trying to make myself hang off more on right turns, but it doesn't feel as good for some reason.
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I get that too. I'm much better at going left and usually feel like I'm absolutely railing poo poo only to find a few mm of unused tyre whatever I do, whereas turning right I can feel like I'm taking it easy staying well within my limits and the rubber will be worn right to the edge. It's definitely a factor of leaning off less, I often struggle to lean off on the right because I find it difficult to maintain fine control of the throttle with my elbow all scrunched up.
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IF👏YOU👏REMOVED👏YOUR👏CHICKEN👏STRIPS👏ON👏THE👏STREET👏YOU👏HAVE👏hosed👏UP👏
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:IF👏YOU👏REMOVED👏YOUR👏CHICKEN👏STRIPS👏ON👏THE👏STREET👏YOU👏HAVE👏hosed👏UP👏 You're not my mum
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:IF👏YOU👏REMOVED👏YOUR👏CHICKEN👏STRIPS👏ON👏THE👏STREET👏YOU👏HAVE👏hosed👏UP👏 This nearly got me kicked out of the local motorcycle Facebook. Then like a month later the street rossi admin got himself killed hooning around a local "circuit" and they're all ATGATT and "Be Safe" and organizing tribute track days. It's a loving shame someone had to die for them to get sensible.
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Getting rid of them on the street is easy on a sumo
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Slavvy posted:You're not my mum Well not with that attitude
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Razzled posted:Getting rid of them on the street is easy on a sumo On any bike with a fat tyre you can make them stop existing using a roundabout, they don't really mean anything except when they're embarrassingly huge on a really sporty bike, and all they mean then is that the person bought the wrong bike.
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Beach Bum posted:This nearly got me kicked out of the local motorcycle Facebook. Then like a month later the street rossi admin got himself killed hooning around a local "circuit" and they're all ATGATT and "Be Safe" and organizing tribute track days. It won't last. They'll be back to squidding it up in no time
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:IF👏YOU👏REMOVED👏YOUR👏CHICKEN👏STRIPS👏ON👏THE👏STREET👏YOU👏HAVE👏hosed👏UP👏 What if it's a lovely dot knobbie?
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cursedshitbox posted:What if it's a lovely dot knobbie? Then that means you removed your chicken strips via siiiiiiiiiiiick drifting.
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YET ANOTHER reason to "dark side" it, no chicken strips.
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Gorson posted:YET ANOTHER reason to "dark side" it, no chicken strips.
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That's right you vulvas I removed the chicken strips on this detomaso pantera tire I had installed on my busa
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captainOrbital posted:That's right you vulvas I removed the chicken strips on this detomaso pantera tire I had installed on my busa drat... this guy is a bad rear end...
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captainOrbital posted:That's right you vulvas I removed the chicken strips on this detomaso pantera tire I had installed on my busa What's it like having a turning circle bigger than Earth's diameter?
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Oops have I been removing them wrong?
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Goofus argues on the internet about chicken strips while Gallant enjoys riding his new CanAm Spyder.
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