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Dschingis Khan posted:Picked up a 2005 EX500 with ~6,500 on the clock for $1,000. drat right you got a good deal on that bike  That color came out loving awesome. I'm glad I chose it over bedliner. My only regret is now not having a bike for the awesome roads up here in NY
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Just got this today, my first bike, a 1993 GS500e The guy I bought it from dropped it off, and I gave him a ride home and did the paperwork. Got back and I had to get it off the street since it doesn't have plates. I've never even sat on a motorcycle before, so I was sitting there fiddling with the controls and figuring out how to start it. Not two minutes after sitting on it, an SUV rolls by and rolls down the window: "Yo, is that a Ducati?" I suddenly understood a slight iota of the hilariousness in store for me as a motorcycle owner. The next hour or so consisted of me learning how to start the thing and ride for a few feet, getting it over a curb, up two grassy hills covered in roots, and into my back yard. I dropped it twice in the process, but let it down gently and on grass so there was no noticeable damage that I could discern from the scratches already present on a 17 year-old bike. Riding it even just a few feet at a time was loving awesome, and I can't wait until I get tags on it and take my MSF so that I can actually get out on the road.
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Jun 12, 2010 17:27
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Red = Ducati. I've had people ask me if my VFR is a Duc. Apparently the Honda logo isn't much of a tip-off.
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Jun 12, 2010 17:34
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Makes you wonder how guys on Indianas feel having to tell people it is one
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Jun 12, 2010 21:01
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SlightlyMadman posted:"Yo, is that a Ducati?" The 3 stranger sportbike comments: Hey dude nice crotch rocket/Ducati! How fast is that thing? or I know someone who had a motorcycle and he crashed into a bridge then flew into an orphanage and when his limbs flew off they impaled infants overall he killed like 48 people. Do you have any idea how dangerous those are?!?! or the combo Hey dude, nice crotch rocket. Those things are really fast. I knew someone who had a bike like yours, he died a couple years ago after he got a tattoo of a panther on his back, got drunk celebrating then rode his bike into a tree.
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Jun 12, 2010 21:14
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So the real reason people wear half helmets is so everyone can see the hate in your eyes when they say things like that, right?
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Z3n posted:My riding mentor constantly bitches about how he sold his YZ. Cool bikes, and nice car YZ or YSR? Thanks, They'll be better when they both run.  anyone know where to get a decent cheap LED headlight?Oh, I've also got this mini bike I made. I welded up the whole frame, aluminum fuel tank, marine vinyl seat, and made the handle bars. Everything else was from a stand up scooter.  
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Jun 12, 2010 22:44
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NinjaTech posted:Oh, I've also got this mini bike I made. I welded up the whole frame, aluminum fuel tank, marine vinyl seat, and made the handle bars. Everything else was from a stand up scooter.
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Jun 12, 2010 23:13
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Is that a ducati?
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Jun 12, 2010 23:32
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no way dude, it's my custom chopper. It's super fast though like a crotch rocket. 25mph top speed man, I need to slow the gently caress down before I die.
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Jun 13, 2010 00:17
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SlightlyMadman posted:Is that a ducati? Is it broken? It sounds like it's broken.
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Bucephalus posted:Is it broken? It sounds like it's broken. I know of someone who got out of a big ticket playing that card with a dry clutch Duc.
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I'd really like to have city/state info to go with all the dumbass comments in this thread. In the SF bay area I never get any comments ever, no matter what kind of bike I'm on. Sport/standard/brit/touring/ADV - no one gives a poo poo about bikes here I guess. Of course the whole culture of 'Busa idiocy doesn't exist here either. I was amazed by the extended swingarm crap I saw all over the place in Virginia Beach, by comparison. AnnoyBot fucked around with this message at 09:38 on Jun 13, 2010 |
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Jun 13, 2010 06:35
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NinjaTech posted:YZ or YSR? Thanks, They'll be better when they both run. YSR is what I meant. I've had this issue with typing lately. And yeah, my experience in the bay and SB is that people generally give no gently caress about the fact that I ride. Although I've gotten a lot of grins and thumbs ups for hooliganism on the DRZ.
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Z3n posted:Although I've gotten a lot of grins and thumbs ups for hooliganism on the DRZ. Those grins are snarling cops and when a security guard gives the thumbs up, make sure its not his middle thumb. Hooligan.
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AnnoyBot posted:I'd really like to have city/state info to go with all the dumbass comments in this thread. In the SF bay area I never get any comments ever, no matter what kind of bike I'm on. Sport/standard/brit/touring/ADV - no one gives a poo poo about bikes here I guess. Baltimore here, and while you do see bikes fairly often in the city, I have literally never seen anyone wearing gear.
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Endless Mike posted:I copied Becktastic. But I didn't do the tank since the graphics are under the clearcoat. My roommate says it looks like a zebra wrapped in barbed wire and I should put a sticker reading "gently caress You PETA" on it. Armacham posted:haha its definitely a lot cleaner than hers I like my bike this way because it's a DIRTbike!  Just did two weeks in Mexico. 
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Jun 13, 2010 20:40
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 Somewhere in Arizona.
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AnnoyBot posted:I'd really like to have city/state info to go with all the dumbass comments in this thread Birmingham, Alabama area for me. I had a guy ask me if my Ninja 250 was a Ducati. We were at the Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum and he was wearing a Ducati hat. I'm still not sure if he was joking or not.
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NinjaTech posted:YZ or YSR? Thanks, They'll be better when they both run. Requesting a pic of someone sitting on it/riding it.
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I'm beginning to need a garage, but at least I will always have 1 bike reserving the best parking spot for the other 
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Here's me on my first ever bike, feeling really   It's a Minsk, an old Soviet two-stroke probably built in the 80's. I bought it three weeks ago from some French guy in Saigon for $360 US, and me and a couple of friends are riding up to Hanoi with three bikes between us. Right now we're in Pleiku which is about a third of the way there. 360 was probably way too much to pay, since it's an absolute piece of poo poo. I only learned to ride a motorbike about a week before I bought it, on a nicely-maintained XR250 in Cambodia, so I guess I was a sucker. The gears constantly stick (I had to ride 20 k's into Mui Ne stuck in second), there is literally no front suspension, the steering column is shaking loose and the brakes are very weak. I also had my first accident yesterday, on a lonely mountain trail, which snapped off my (single) wing mirror and the clutch, and bent the handlebars and gear lever. Got a new clutch fitted by a drunken Vietnamese redneck and then had to ride fifty k's to Pleiku in a tropical thunderstorm. I love my life right now.
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Jun 17, 2010 04:13
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Goddamit I want your life right now. Seriously.
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that bike is pretty awesome
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Jun 17, 2010 05:08
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sklnd posted:that bike is pretty awesome that trip is pretty awesome
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MrZig posted:
those things look so insane stripped back naked. I love them, I'm hoping to pick one up in the next couple of months to turn nekkid... so many bikes.. so little time
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Tsaven Nava posted:Goddamit I want your life right now. Aren't you the dude who spent like four months riding all over North America? I want YOUR life. I saw your Alaska post and thought "that is awesome," and then found out it was part of a larger trip and thought "that is SO awesome." Even though we're loving the poo poo out of this trip, we're still daydreaming about the next one. Our pipe dream is to ride all the way from the north tip of North America (Murchison Promontory) to the southern tip of South America (Cape Froward). I've been researching the north tip though, and it looks pretty impossible. There are no roads in Nunavut - like, at all. So it may have to be from Prudhoe Bay to the south tip. Anyways, to be honest I wasn't loving yesterday my life yesterday. The crash was bad enough, aand then as we were riding in the heaviest rain I've ever seen along a muddy road at 5 k's an hour I was actually thinking "I hate my life,I hate my life, I hate my life, what the gently caress am I doing here when I could be back home in a pub." It's all great memories in retrospect, but at the time I was thoroughly fed up. I also have to mention that while riding a rickety bucket of Soviet bolts sounds like a hilarious, fantastic experience, it's actually a lot more unamusing in practice. I really can't wait to get back to the first world and own a bike that works properly. Other than yesterday, though, this trip has been fantastic. Here's my blog if anyone's interested: http://gentlemenoftheroad.wordpress.com/ I have to give props to another goon though, Pompous Rhombus, who did Northern Vietnam and Laos a few years back and gave me some tips and advice. And took better photos than me.
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freebooter posted:Here's me on my first ever bike, feeling really Safe travels, and raise a glass to the memory of Sean Flynn while you're out there. You're no less daring, but at least you won't have to contend with AK-wielding psychos.
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freebooter posted:Aren't you the dude who spent like four months riding all over North America? I want YOUR life. I saw your Alaska post and thought "that is awesome," and then found out it was part of a larger trip and thought "that is SO awesome." Eh, to steal from Dan Walsh: These are the days that must happen to you. Good luck out there, stay safe, and post a trip report if you feel up to it
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freebooter posted:Here's me on my first ever bike, feeling really Hi Richard Hammond! What brings you to SomethingAwful??? (I wasn't the only one thinking that right?)
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Ziploc posted:Hi Richard Hammond! What brings you to SomethingAwful??? You probably were, since he doesn't look like Richard Hammond.
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freebooter posted:Here's me on my first ever bike, feeling really Spot on, mate. You rock.
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TheFonz posted:You probably were, since he doesn't look like Richard Hammond. Yes but he's riding a Minsk from Saigon to Hanoi, which is precisely what Hamster did.
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freebooter posted:Even though we're loving the poo poo out of this trip, we're still daydreaming about the next one. This. And I get hating the adventure when you're in it, my week spending northern Alberta and the Northwest Territories was like that. I hated motorcycles, hated Canada, hated everything in the world, and I especially hated myself for not just taking the Alcan like a sane person. And yeah, I'm pretty sure a ride from the tip of Nunavut would be next to impossible without a LOT of support, and even then I doubt it. There aren't even any ATV or hiking trails into Nunavut, and the only ice road barely peaks over the border from the NWT connecting to Yellowknife. You'd be dealing with 2000+ miles of very, very dense forest and hundereds of river crossings. Only realistic option would be either from Prudhoe or Inuvick.
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Tsaven Nava posted:This. "An adventure is misery and discomfort, relived in the safety of reminiscence.” - Marco Polo That's what it's all about
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wrong thread.
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'83 Honda Nighthawk 750. More staying power than A Flock of Seagulls, and slightly more horsepower.
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I've always loved the honda 4 into 4 pipes. Is the bike as clean as it looks in the picture?
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BlackMK4 posted:Nice ninja,but sort that license plate holder out,sticks out way too far! I like the dog just chilling in the pick up behind too Where are you?The US?How come the super unleaded is only 91RON?It's 99 RON over here in the Uk
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