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goddamnedtwisto posted:God I wish BMW riders in London realised that loving fact. I don't know if the R1200 bikes have them, but my Rockster has "City Bags" that aren't wider than the cylinder heads so I could filter with ease if it were legal here in Connecticut. 
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Slavvy posted:gently caress this town. I've deliberately changed my route home from work to one that takes 15-20 minutes longer simply because it's less deadly and I'm still averaging one emergency swerve per day. Not being snarky, but maybe look further down the road? From your post it seems like you're seeing hazards as you come upon them. Maybe proactively look for them about 2 seconds ahead of you?
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Jun 18, 2014 22:06
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Safety Dance posted:visor down -> glasses fog The glasses thing sucks so hard. Can you wear contacts? Contacts + a breath box has done wonders for me in the rain. As long as I'm moving, no fog on the visor and no glasses to worry about. Also, you are right about riding in heavy rain being a completely different dynamic. astrollinthepork posted:gently caress. Dude, very sorry to hear that. What sounded like what should have been an awesome trip turned into a hellish misadventure.  And I'm up for a closed private FB group. My garage, etc. is always open to CA posters.
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Super Slash posted:Cheap helmets, or at least mine is suffering (even with the breath guard) I think there are expensivish balaclavas that specifically force exhaled air down and away from the visor. I haven't seen one in a while and don't know where to look though.
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Jun 20, 2014 20:10
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KARMA! posted:MY MOTOGP OVERLORDS Dainese Space Overlords
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Chichevache posted:I was going through a green light today in my Honda Civic and I nearly t-boned a guy on his phone who just made a right turn right in front of me. I was going 45 mph (in a posted 45), so he probably wouldn't have been walking away from that accident if I had plowed into him. Someone was telling me this morning how he watched someone texting on their phone veer on to the rumble strip, then back on the highway, then back on the rumble strip, then back on to the highway, then back on to the rumble strip, then in to the woods.
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Jun 22, 2014 20:38
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I'm betting he never took an MSF course.
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Jul 3, 2014 16:07
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Beach Bum posted:I had the worst/best dream last night. Maybe get a personal loan for a used bike? Lower interest rate, shouldn't be bad if you keep the purchase price to $5-6000. Just my $0.02.
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Jul 6, 2014 15:59
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apatite posted:Other side of the coin: I see these guys on the road sometimes and it just looks painful. I'm wearing my gear but still a bit cold because it's <50F outside, here comes a guy on a big cruiser -- the only thing he's wearing that he wouldn't be otherwise is a beany helmet skidlid thing. Otherwise just tshirt and jeans, and it looks like he's going to cry because jesus christ even if you are only going 45mph it is still cold as poo poo outside put on a jacket you stupid son of a bitch! I've seen that in the spring here. People who have been jonesing all winter to ride and then going out in a t-shirt and jeans when it's in the 50s.
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Jul 11, 2014 16:45
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nsaP posted:If it's too low, don't accept. Keep looking around. I echo this. Coydog posted:Getting ripped off by the insurance company. Bad luck to have a hard to find year. Bad luck to have a "trusted dealer" under GA law allowed to make a ballpark low ball assessment of the value of my bike. Extra bad luck that I can't find any recent sold 2003 models on ebay for proof of value, because it's some kind of special unicorn bike. What year is your bike? Also, if you'd like, I'm in insurance. If you have premium, you can pm me and I'll give you my email and review your policy to see if the gear could be covered. Sometimes things are covered and insurance companies are just being dicks.
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Coydog posted:Nsap, Thank you. I'm looking, but I'm just not finding. In many cases they're right. Renters and homeowners does a lot to cover your property even when it's not in your house. Depending on the motorcycle insurance policy wording, Liberty may be required to cover it. One reason why you should try to get Liberty to pay for your gear before going to your renter's policy is so you don't have to pay a second deductible. Moral_Hazard fucked around with this message at 21:45 on Jul 27, 2014 |
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Nidhg00670000 posted:I don't ride at the moment (football injury), but I had a discussion with a person at a party last weekend, where she said (and I quote): "People that ride motorcycles are the most egotistic assholes possible, risking their lives just for fun without thinking of their loved ones." This is a stumper, and I'm generally good with geo-politics stuff. CNN was reporting on this war so I imagine it was from the 70s onward?
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Aug 12, 2014 22:32
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Nidhg00670000 posted:It's the second Congo war together with it's subconflicts, the Ituri and Kivu conflicts, and the ongoing LRA insurgency. Huh. My first guess was Rwandan genocide, but I knew the numbers were off for that. I'm not sure I'd include all those together, but no biggie. Geirskogul posted:Cycle Asylum ranting chamber: geopolitical edition. Or rather, D&D light.
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HotCanadianChick posted:Shaft drive supremacy Until the day the BMW god of mechanical failure, Torx, decides to eat your shaft splines. Also, re: extended vacation / retirement chat, I think a two-three week road trip would be the max for me. I haven't had any extended vacations and was only away for an extended period on two reserve deployments. I found I really missed my family the most. Even if I was having a blast on some motorcycle trip cross-country, two-three weeks would be the max. Now if my wife could get over her fear of the highway and came with me, that would be a different matter.
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:The splines don't go out unless you ride it 200k miles without greasing them. The final drive bearings go out, depending on the model, though. I forgot about the final drives. My buddy had the final drives go when we were on a trip together, not fun.
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Lynza posted:Yep, I feel bad for you dudes with SOs who don't/don't want to ride. My wife is terrified of the highway so she'll only two-up around town. I've been working on her to do one exactly one exit on the highway as a starting point. Still no biggie, an SO that doesn't ride, but doesn't mind you riding is worlds better than an SO that forces/manipulates you to stop riding.
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That really sucks. I had something similar in leaving vents open. How much rain could possibly get in there? Lots, actually. All this D&D chat reminds me of one of my favorite jokes: Heaven: Where cooks are French, mechanics are German, police are English, lovers are Italian and everything is organized by the Swiss. Hell: Where cooks are English, mechanics are French, police are Germans, lovers are Swiss and everything is organized by the Italians. Moral_Hazard fucked around with this message at 22:32 on Aug 26, 2014 |
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Aug 26, 2014 22:28
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Slavvy posted:gently caress my loving life. Literally three hours after I slam down $280 for a new chain and sprockets, the puncture repair on my practically new PR4 fails. That does loving blow.
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Filling up a few weeks ago, this squid comes into the gas station. He has the helmet on the helmet lock. He had just bought it and hadn't bothered to take it out of the helmet bag. The drawstrings on the bag had gotten caught in the rear wheel and damaged the helmet. It was an expensive helmet too, Shoei or Arai, if I remember correctly.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I saw some chickens, there was something wrong with them though because they had feathers instead of breadcrumbs. One of these days I'm going to go visit the country bits of
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Sep 15, 2014 20:50
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I just keep all my repair records on 5.25 Floppies that work in a late 80s IBM clone I keep in the garage. DOS spreadsheets are the best. Every so often I take an angle grinder to the monitor housing to feel like a hipster.
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Akion posted:I feel like we should message him en masse "Gee! I was looking for a [unrelated bike in keywords] but this Goldwing just Tickles my Pickle! Can I come down to look at it tomorrow?" That would be funny. I'm not terribly surprised anymore, but reading sales ads still leaves still curious how people own a bike for 10 years and have less than 2000 miles on it.
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Creepy Real Dolls  . Sweet Odin, you own a Ducati, just go out and meet real women. 
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Day Man posted:I've been approached by women asking about the bike. Granted, I've been approached by weird dudes at the gas station a lot more often. I've caught women checking me out while on the bike, but if they say anything, it's almost always about the gear. Probably the best compliment I got once was not directed to me, but to my wife. One November, a couple of years back, I went to vote. Most of the voting volunteers are retirees, but there were two pretty good-looking women there. They didn't say anything other than "hi" and a smile, but unbeknownst to me, they were friends of my wife. When she came in later to vote, they were talking about the "hot guy in all leather".
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I think the point is that the sort of person who is sexually attracted to bikers is attracted because of the person (or at least the idealised version of them). Nobody's going to go "Well I was going to gently caress that biker but I've just realised they've got the base model Panigale, not the R". Do you have fat, hairy, Harley riders in the UK?
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gently caress me am I sick of winter. I even avoid the CA forums because I miss riding so much. It will be neg digits this weekend and I'm not talking Celsius.
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M42 posted:Same. I've put together some winter gear I got cheap on closeout in the last month, but I'm still missing boots and gloves, so.... not this winter, I guess Even with winter gear, snow all over + less than 20 deg F, it won't make a difference. It's tauntaun or go home.
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Douche in an Audi is another tautological phrase. I'm not sure if they're worse than BMW drivers, but they're close.
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nsaP posted:Wow, I never see scooter riders wearing gear. I've seen hard core scooterati wear gear, the people who make scooters a lifestyle. That gear is usually jacket, helmet, gloves, and tall, non-motorcycle boots. The average rider, no.
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Renaissance Robot posted:What's the legal status of those lovely legoman helmets they do with the non-opening bubble visor and zero vent holes? Fashion Violation in the Second Degree? I generally don't gear Nazi people I interact with, but if it's brought up, I always suggest to the gloveless to just rub their hands on the pavement and if it feels unpleasant to rub one's hands along dirty asphalt how much worse would that be at 25 mph, never mind 50 mph. Also, since boat shoes are a fashion craze right now I've used, "That's about as stupid as wearing motorcycle boots on a boat. Chichevache posted:If you're stealing bikes for a living then it is a good bet your life has already been full of terrible harm. Some of them do it for kicks or for cash.
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YF19pilot posted:There was an article recently about some kid road tripping to Washington or somewhere for Uni, has his life savings plus the college money that his grandma gave him, something like $20k in cash, and the cops pull him over and seize it on the grounds that only a bad person would carry that much cash. Oh, and they'll have to sue the police department to get it back, which will probably cost more than the $20k he was going to use to go to college with. Meanwhile it'll be put into the general fund, so the cops just got a $20k bump in their budget, and even if the kid wins, it won't be the cops who have to pay it back. Yay 'murica. Thank God both people on both sides of the political spectrum are starting to wake up to the excesses and evils of asset forfeiture. I think the best lesson I've learned on the road is just to ignore the stupidity. It can be frustrating, especially the people with their noses buried into their phones, but no amount of raging, blowing the horn, flipping them off, etc. is going to fix it. The only response most of these idiots will have is, "rear end in a top hat motorcyclist." So I just let them go and stay away as much as possible and keep my blood pressure where it should be.
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PhoenixWing posted:I want the CHP to run some sort of campaign saying lane splitting is legal for all the angry fuckwits in my area. I've just gotten my license after passing the riding test and having my permit for 6 months, but, still like to practice every day. There's nice outlets near the mall that have an unfinished parking lot to the side, and I've been practicing u-turns, threshold braking and one foot stopping for the past few weeks there since it's huge and always empty. The exit to this area though is horribly designed - Traffic always seems to back up through the whole area, as the lights let only a handful of cars out at a time. Instead of dying in the 100+ degree heat, I do the smart thing and filter between two turn lanes to the front. Normally I get a few honks for whatever reason, but, today I had two cars I was filtering past blast their horn and attempt to block my path by swerving out of their lane These are the same people, of course, who upon seeing you roasting in the sun or getting soaked in a downpour while waiting your turn(!) will think happy  thoughts about their choice of transportation.
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And some guy at the very front in his truck yell something about cheating to me (Light went green, didn't wait around for angry truck guy).
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Catching up on the thread; glad to see Captain Orbital didn't get any real damage.  Also, re: Millennial Chat, from reading a biography of John Adams, the 2nd US President, he and his wife corresponded often which gives historians both a look into their personalities and life in the late 1700s. Adams at one point went on a rant about KIDS, THESE DAYS!!!  so if people in 1790 were doing it, we'll be doing it for the rest of time.
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Pope Mobile posted:"2nd adult owner." Would someone other than a gray-haired BMW rider write that? Whoa, whoa, whoa. I resemble that remark.
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Pope Mobile posted:Do you use the lasers for cavity removal or still have drills? Neither; they just pulled my teeth. I have wooden ones, just like George Washington.
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Ripoff posted:Dear person who hit my parked bike last night and ran without leaving information: What a colossal douche.
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astrollinthepork posted:Had a co-worker who is president of some motorcycle club ask me how much my bike weighs. I told him and he went "yeah well mine is about a thousand!" like it was some sort of thing to boast about. I then listened to him describe to another person about how he used to be "sergeant at arms" and was in charge of security for his club. What a joke lol  I've answered that stupid question with, "No, but GEICO saves me 15% if I wear this stuff."Also, half the reason why half the people ride motorcycles is so they can wear leather.
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Keket posted:So for the last couple of days a group has been trying to steal my friends scooter, first night they just tried getting the steering lock broken before they where chased off, today this. The cops will be interested once your buddy lays a hand on the perps. The cops will then arrest your buddy. Chichevache posted:Jesus. When you say no protective gear, that's including a helmet? It's how so many roll around here.
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Keket posted:I was walking back from the shops yesterday, waiting to cross the road and looking at a guy in complete highvis (loving everything, helmet jacket gloves pants backpack) sitting on his bandit in traffic, who seemingly was getting [i[very[/i] pissed off at the static bmw infront of him, revving his engine and doing the usual hand motions. Because, bmw? Like for the entire time i was waiting for the light on my side of the road the bmw hadn't done anything glaring. There's a point where ~safety~ can be taken to extremes.
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