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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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ActualHumanGarbage posted:Motorcycle word salad You've got to be loving kidding.  muscle trike
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Nov 5, 2014 04:50
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:I get jokes too!! t  seems plausible
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Nov 5, 2014 04:58
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O'riginal posted:That fucker. It's because of this keyword bullshit that I stopped searching in anything except the fricken title of CL ads, plus a price I'd be comfortable with. Here's another numbnuts that's doing it, although with a string of pretty unrelated bikes. 
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Nov 6, 2014 17:28
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R/R?
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Nov 6, 2014 21:07
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Yall sound like a bunch of horny nerdy 12-year-old boys.
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Nov 20, 2014 21:53
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captainOrbital posted:And you sound like a 40-year-old graphic designer with 4 kids who's frustrated that he can't ride when it's 12 degrees out. Do what now? I mean, yeah, I'm frustrated that I can't ride today because my battery tender couldn't overpower the 12 degree temps and the bike wouldn't start but 4 kids and graphic designer?
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Nov 20, 2014 23:40
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captainOrbital posted:The joke was that I was describing myself. I believe the psychologists call it "Mimeographing". We need a :whoosh: smiley for when I miss the joke.
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Nov 21, 2014 19:15
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Marv Hushman posted:This is the universal signal for "bee in my helmet" as well. And let me tell you, it blows when you're on a shoulderless road with a few miles between turnouts. Didn't Silver have a signal for that? edit: Or was that the signal? edit: Nope. HenryJLittlefinger fucked around with this message at 16:17 on Mar 25, 2015 |
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Mar 25, 2015 16:14
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Transition lenses are only worn by: And maybe Jamie Hyneman. And you won't convince me otherwise.
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Apr 16, 2015 22:15
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The orchestral circus music in the last couple seconds makes it.
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Apr 23, 2015 16:51
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SV, Bandit, XJ6, FZ1, FZ6, etc? I feel like the naked bike explosion killed them off, seeing as most of the half-faired bikes I can think of (see above) are now available sans fairing and seem to be a little more popular.
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Apr 25, 2015 01:33
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Mariana Horchata posted:I just started riding for the first time on a bought and barely used '87 Honda XL250R that had sub-1000mi when I put it on the road. Anyways, are increased bowel movements a side effect of frequently riding a high revving thumper? Because I've lost like 20+ lbs. from my peak weight during winter and I really haven't made any changes in diet or exercise...I'm at a loss otherwise. If this is normal would that imply that the naming of the KTM Duke could be an inside joke? That's weird and you're weird.
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Apr 26, 2015 06:33
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I need recommendations for a motorbike that will make me stop making GBS threads so much.
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Apr 26, 2015 16:34
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Retarded Pimp posted:A Harley, with all that vibration on your prostate, you'll stop going and start coming. So I was in a truckstop bathroom a while back and this old weather-beaten leathered up HD type biker comes in and goes to the urinal next to me. He was straining so hard to piss and just getting a little trickle. All "NNNNNGGGGGH*tinkle drip drip*"
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Apr 26, 2015 21:58
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goddamnedtwisto posted:It'll come to you too one day. Shut up shut up shut up can't hear you la la la la la la la gonna go drink a bunch of water.
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Apr 27, 2015 00:59
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My mother-in-law-to-be and her husband have taken up RVing. They carry around a Vespa 250 for running down the road to the store. That poor little scooter with its nice leather seats and chrome trim and such has never been covered or stored inside, so it's all sunburned and cracked and the seat is torn and it just looks so sad. It's only a year or two old and probably doesn't have 200 miles on it.  That's my rant, hope you liked it.
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Can I post an anti-rant here? I was talking to this younger guy (23 maybe?) that works for me the other day about motorcycles. He told me he wanted to get one and get into it, so I gave him my standard "Do the MSF course first, budget enough for gear, and get a reasonable bike that won't kill you on insurance first" speech. The guy is pretty bro-tastic, even more so by virtue of being in Colorado. Like, sun's out, guns out, flatbrim Dakine hat party boy. I told him about how insane the prices are to insure anything an insurance company considered a sportbike, because I figured he would want a 600RR or something. To that he says, "Well yeah, look at the kind of people that ride those." 
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Jun 22, 2015 19:52
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No wonder you're so angry all the time. Edit: for real though I feel bad for your situation. Hope it gets better when the tickets clear. HenryJLittlefinger fucked around with this message at 06:20 on Jul 3, 2015 |
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Jul 3, 2015 05:51
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That's the one that make Dr Faustus come to the thread and lecture.
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Jul 4, 2015 22:21
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revmoo posted:Some hick fuckface rolled coal on me on the interstate while blocking the passing lane. I gave him the finger. He pulled over to the shoulder to try and fight. I don't know what options are like in your area, but we have the smoking vehicle hotline in Colorado.
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Jul 13, 2015 17:09
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Radbot posted:loving people. This woman in a Pathfinder cuts me off, sending me right up her bumper. I veer to the left side of the lane, in the hopes she'll see my headlight in her sideview mirror. After five or ten seconds, she does, makes a surprised face, and starts screaming and pointing at me. I make a little kissy face and smile, she drives off, but then we turn at the same intersection. Why are you riding without a full face helmet in Denver you maniac.
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Jul 17, 2015 17:14
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That's loving insufferable.
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Jul 31, 2015 19:00
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clutchpuck posted:For a group so opposed to *motorcycle marketing*, you all pay an awful lot of attention to it. How else are you supposed to get a proper spite worked up? 
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Jul 31, 2015 20:02
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Well, the example that started it was delivered by email and not sought out so
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Chichevache posted:She's not coming, Marv. Head to the bar. Oh snap Thurman ice burn Vince McMahon etc
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Aug 1, 2015 01:10
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Barnsy posted:Why the gently caress does Honda put cruciform screws on bar-ends instead of allen screws like any sane person?! A 5 minute bar-end removal has turned into having to take the bike to the shop because for some reason one of the two screws seized and stripped. They're probably JIS screws, which are designed to self destruct when a Phillips screwdriver touches them.
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Ripoff posted:Hahahahaha whoa, there son. Show me on the doll where the bicycle touched you. Truth. Also critical mass rides are pretty regressive. Or bring about regressive behavior, I guess. HenryJLittlefinger fucked around with this message at 23:34 on Sep 8, 2015 |
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Sep 8, 2015 23:11
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_Mass_(cycling) It's when a bunch of cyclists get in a group and ride on public streets. The idea is that it's a peaceful demonstration or exercising of rights (since cycling on public roads is entirely legal) to make cyclists more commonplace on roads in the eyes of drivers, thereby promoting general awareness of cyclists. What it usually turns into (in my experience) is a bunch of college students being dicks en masse, holding up traffic, and enraging drivers so they do things like hit cyclists with their cars and take on opinions like our boy Verge here.
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I grew up in a little town in south Arkansas, population 8000 or so. Bikes stop being cool at about 12, and I was a pretty serious cyclist from junior high on. Got run off the road, honked at daily, had stuff thrown at me, had dogs set on me, pretty much all of it. Never figured out where the hate came from, as there was literally nobody pushing any kind of share the road agenda. College and grad school were in a much more bike friendly town, but the most vocal supporters of bike rights seemed to be that kind of guy, so I could understand the hate there. There were frequent critical mass rides in town and lots of confrontations with drivers resulting. I don't see it ever improving. Now I'm in a town with a great bicycle infrastructure and a ton of support from the residents for it. Full bike lanes, tons of dedicated paths all over town, buses with racks inside and out, lots of businesses and workplaces give incentives to patrons and employees, the list goes on. And you don't see that kind of dickhead ruining it for the rest of us. Developing a bike infrastructure and maintaining it is a really socially responsible thing to do and cities absolutely benefit from it.
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Marv Hushman posted:There are people who seem to latch onto a given pursuit exclusively for some imagined element of oppression. Unfortunately, they wind up becoming self-appointed spokespersons and attempt to prove points no one honestly cares about. See: open carry jackalopes who want to take an AK to the library, The Entire Helmet Debate, etc. quote:I've come to terms with this reality of the roadways: there are times and places where supersized vehicles just flat out own the proceedings. Honestly, they can't see you from their perch, you can't see anything past the tailgate, and their spontaneous lateral moves trump everything. It just isn't fun, and while you have a right to be there, you have no business being there. But fine, if someone wants to organize a show of force on behalf of the larger 2-wheel community, it isn't going to make coexistence more pleasant, and will likely be counterproductive, as was the case with Mean Mr. Mustache. A little bit of Googling turns up a handful of sources saying that road maintenance and infrastructure development is only in part funded by gas and vehicle taxes. Most of it comes from property and sales taxes, local millages, and the sort of fees that basically everyone pays. Considering that in the US, most people on bikes also drive cars, cyclists aren't contributing any less to roads than anyone else. So the "pay gas and road tax" is basically some parroted bullshit from Fox News or your drunk uncle.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:This is a definite bugbear of mine - my commute includes the most-imaginatively-named road in the world, The Highway and the Limehouse Link (still, adjusted for inflation, the most expensive per-mile road in the world). Bikes are specifically banned from the latter (and for good reason, as you can see in that picture it's got really steep entrance and exits and is full of blind corners so is pretty much a death-run for cycles. The Highway isn't much better - it's got very tight lanes and cyclists have got nowhere to hide, and cars don't have room to give them space. Our main drag through town is 5-6 lanes through most of it, and has been under various stages of construction for about 2 years now, so it's 4.5 miles of construction zone. And there's idiots continuing to ride on it, even though bikes are banned from it and there is a dedicated bike path with its own stoplights at all cross streets that parallels it for practically the entire length. I think people are just trying to remove themselves from the gene pool sometimes.
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Radbot posted:Another reason to hate cyclists is that, around here at least, people love to give them 5 feet of space around blind turns, pushing people across the DY. When I honk, invariably the cyclist makes some lewd gesture at me - apparently the lycra makes you unable to understand that I'm not talking to you, dickhead. I don't know if this is a Colorado thing or a cyclist thing, or a Colorado cyclist thing, but they just looooooove to ride up in the loving canyons. Every loving time I drive up or down Poudre Canyon, these dingdongs are there, just grinding away at 10 mph because it's a 10% grade. It's a loving canyon with no shoulders, a rock wall on one side, and a river on the other, and it's all blind curves. I can't think of a more inappropriate place to ride a bike. It's not ok to hate all cyclists because of that any more than it's ok to hate all motorcyclists because of squids or cruiser pirates, but it's ok to hate those specific cyclists because they cause brodozers to try to pass on a dy with an oncoming convoy of Winnebagos.
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Here4DaGangBang posted:Formic acid, I believe. Some ants also produce butyric acid, so they smell like rancid butter or vomit when you smush them. 
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 Yall got some bonkers insurance. $165/year for me, that's including $2500 in medical payments, comprehensive, $3000 in accessory coverage, roadside assistance, and the higher (but not highest) levels of coverage for under/uninsured injury, injury liability, and property damage liability. $500 deductible for damage to my bike in the case of uninsured motorist, and $75 deductible on comprehensive. HenryJLittlefinger fucked around with this message at 19:10 on Sep 22, 2015 |
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Sep 22, 2015 18:49
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bigbillystyle posted:Yeah this part of the thread makes me pretty happy with my insurance situation. I have basically the same thing, except I don't carry any medical payment coverage, and pay $178 for the year. Massachusetts through Commerce insurance. My bike is a 9 year old Suzuki Katana 750 and my driving record isn't exactly spotless if that helps put any of that into perspective. I have an electric Vectrix scooter, 400cc equivalent, and I have the bare minimum on that thing and its like $68/year or something like that. Progressive in Colorado, 20-year-old bike, clean record, couple small discounts.
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Sep 24, 2015 13:57
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Chiche, tell me about your insurance fraud when you left a 300 lb bike with a siezed motor on the side of the 101 for 3 days. Somehow I missed the conversation that got you your new red text.
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Akion posted:Jesus Christ. Man, that gave me that sick feeling all over again. Looks like it was dipped in acid. That happened to me a couple years ago. It looked like this:  And when it got found, it looked like this: 
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