[Road] Rage Wednesday - You're Not Invited: Harley Davidson's 105th Anniversary (855 hits)
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Submitted by miss berry (View user info) at 2008-08-27 17:49:44 EDT
I live in a suburb of Milwaukee. In case you haven't heard, Harley Davidson is having their 105th anniversary here this year. Technically, nothing exciting is supposed to happen until tomorrow. Yet there I was, driving home in a sea full of motorcycles. RAGE.
Let me just say this: I realize that "motorcycles have equal rights," but I definitely wanted to beam a few of these assholes on my way home from work today. Just because you are driving a motorcycle doesn't mean you don't have to obey the rules of the road. You still have to stay in the lane on the highway; you can't just decide that it would be quicker and more convenient for you and your fat bitch in her leather chaps to ride down the shoulder to the next exit. It makes me want to ram you.
Also, to control the traffic around here, please note that if you don't own a Harley Davidson, you need to stay at home. I am pretty sure you aren't invited. And if you own one of those pussy motorcycles with the sidecar, you need to stay home as well. Yes, you are having a mid-life crisis, but no, you are not invited.
I think I am done with my rage. What are you all up to this weekend? Anything fun for the holiday?
I am thinking of taking off of work on Friday and looking for a new job.
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Submitted by bob (user info) at 2008-08-28 20:49:36 EDT (#)
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Q: What does an ER Doctor call a biker?
A: An organ donor.
Submitted by BobSandwich (user info) at 2008-08-28 13:15:34 EDT (#)
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+2 Cause my boss just walked in and gave me a promotion even though I spend most my day dicking off on Ubersite. He said I am management material...
Submitted by forensicgirl3 (user info) at 2008-08-28 12:17:58 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Jeanneee (user info) at 2008-08-28 11:00:09 CDT (#)
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My adorable little Jewish boss rides a gigantic Harley. It's hilarious.
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A Semite on a bike?
Fabulous!
Send him this link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Motorcyclists_Alliance
Submitted by Jeanneee (user info) at 2008-08-28 12:00:09 EDT (#)
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My adorable little Jewish boss rides a gigantic Harley. It's hilarious.
Submitted by icarus1987 (user info) at 2008-08-28 11:49:30 EDT (#)
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Knowing the difference between a red light and a green one. Smart this phone is not.
Submitted by icarus1987 (user info) at 2008-08-28 11:48:13 EDT (#)
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Submitted by BobSandwich (user info) at 2008-08-28 11:07:38 EDT (#)
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It is unfortunate that it is like this, I've seen countless squibs out there that don't belong on a bike, same for the lake and their sixty-thousand dollar wake-boarding boats. I can assure you there are some bikers that would take offense to this though, say it to a weekend-warrior and it will be no biggie but I wouldn't call a 1%er's bike a bicycle. Find the guy on stock RoadKing and sass him all you would like, but if you see a rider with some chipped paint on the frame and some rust on the tank then avoid giving him guff.
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Also, the 14-year-olds on ski-dos who harrass the fishermen and the weekenders who can't navigate a channel. Seriously, would you drive a car without knowing the difference
I wasn't intimidated by the bullies in high school. I wasn't intimidated by the street gangs when I worked at a shelter. I'm not intimidated by the local redneck hordes. I doubt I would be intimidated by some biker. This has something to do with a basic understanding of the horde mentality, and something to do with spending years training and carrying an arsenal at almost all times.
I don't go out of my way to disrespect anyone; that's not only impolite, but downright stupid. I also don't walk on eggshells or make any attempt at political correctness.
Submitted by Brdn_Nkd (user info) at 2008-08-28 11:30:12 EDT (#)
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Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2008-08-27 21:48:58 EDT (#)
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On an unrelated note, Miss Berry, would you happen to know if The Safe House is still in business downtown? If so and if you have been there, is it as interesting as I remember from 1981 or... not?
Last I was down in milwaukee it was still there and still entertaining. haven't been in a while, maybe I should take the girlie.
Submitted by BobSandwich (user info) at 2008-08-28 11:07:38 EDT (#)
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Submitted by icarus1987 (user info) at 2008-08-28 10:53:55 EDT (#)
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Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2008-08-28 00:01:10 EDT (#)
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Icarus1987, you can certainly consider a motorcycle naught but a bicycle with a motor if you'd like, and you can assume bikers are mostly accountants posing as hard guys on weekends. Perhaps your words have some truth to them, especially on weekends. However, as I suspect you'll purposefully avoid places where expressing those opinions might raise an eyebrow, I wish you well should you misjudge your surroundings. Not only that, but I'll offer this bit of advice: If you feel like saying that kind of thing out loud and there is on any wall of the bar you just walked into a sign including the words "Poker Run", just you walk back out, get into your Accord, buckle up, and drive away.
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Thanks for your concern, but I've been through this in real life and have not had to hop into my Cavalier and scoot off to safety or been called out. If people are really that sensitive re: what I call their possessions, they probably need to find something else to do.
Re: accountants, I think you misunderstood what I'm saying. As I said before, owning a stethescope does not make you a doctor. Downloading Linux does not make you a black hat. Owning a motorcycle does not make you anything other than someone who owns a motorcycle. It does not confer any magical status or aura of mystique. It does not make you the Fonz. It also does not make you Poindexter from accounting.
It is unfortunate that a noteable percentage of motorcyclists (particularly in MN where the prospect of owning one is somewhat less practical than it would be in other parts of the country), suffer from mid-life crises. It is equally unfortunate that such people generally have no idea how to operate one, end up behaving like jackasses/killing themselves, and cast a pall on responsible motorcyclists. You get the same thing on the water with the idiot weekenders who don't have the foggiest idea what "slow no wake" means.
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It is unfortunate that it is like this, I've seen countless squibs out there that don't belong on a bike, same for the lake and their sixty-thousand dollar wake-boarding boats. I can assure you there are some bikers that would take offense to this though, say it to a weekend-warrior and it will be no biggie but I wouldn't call a 1%er's bike a bicycle. Find the guy on stock RoadKing and sass him all you would like, but if you see a rider with some chipped paint on the frame and some rust on the tank then avoid giving him guff.
Submitted by icarus1987 (user info) at 2008-08-28 11:06:12 EDT (#)
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Submitted by icarus1987 (user info) at 2008-08-27 22:31:33 CDT (#)
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Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2008-08-27 21:34:53 EDT (#)
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icarus1987, dammit, I've said this before. Biker =/= bicyclist. Need proof? Find a bar with a bunch of motorcycles parked outside. It'll be called something like "Bar" or "The Knuckle". Put on your Spandex bicycling shorts and yellow Raleigh bicycling shirt and walk in. Loudly say something about the exercise you get pedaling keeping you from being as fat as the average guy in "Bar". Biker =/= bicyclist.
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You're right; you can actually get exercise on a bike (even a stationary one).
All joking (and stereotypes) aside, a gadget != attitude/mystique/personality/culture. A .45 doesn't make you an action hero, a stethescope doesn't make you a doctor, and a thing with two wheels and some pistons does not make you a roughneck. While there may be tough people who own motorbikes, there are also tough people who own stamp collections. My sister can operate an AK, yet still collects Barbies and sleeps with a stuffed unicorn.
I've worked with a lot of accountants and middle-managers who assume that just because they ride a bike around on the weekend they are some sort of modern-day barbarian. In reality, they are just suits with personality crutches. I don't care what terminology anyone cares to use. A motorbike is a bicycle with a motor and I'll call the things whatever I like.
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The Man stopped by my place last night. I asked him about his bicycle.
Him: Who's bicycle?
Me: Yours.
Him: What do you mean, my bicycle?
Me: Bicycle! What you're always riding. Geeze.
Him: What are you talking about? I haven't rode my bicycle in at least a couple of years. I need to. I'm getting a little big around the gut. [he's actually thin]
Me: BICYCLE! YOU RIDE A BICYCLE AND YOU KNOW IT!
Him: .... .... .... Have you been drinking?
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See? You didn't get called out either. No seconds. No pistols at dawn or whatnot. I mean, it's not like you're calling a gaff-rigged 58' schooner a "sailboat" or something completely unforgivable.
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2008-08-28 11:02:35 EDT (#)
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i followed behind a school bus today that went half the speed limit. and every once in a while, on top of going insanely slow, it would slow down just a bit more and do a drive by. it wasn't picking up children. it wasn't coming to a full stop to pretend to pick up children. it wasn't dropping off children. i can only assume it was learning a route, but it decided to do this at 9:20 in the morning causing a 10 mile trip to take me over 40 minutes. he didn't pull over so the at minimum 11 cars (that's as far as i could see behind me to count) could go by.
i really want to shoot him and i think it's justified.
Submitted by icarus1987 (user info) at 2008-08-28 10:53:55 EDT (#)
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Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2008-08-28 00:01:10 EDT (#)
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Icarus1987, you can certainly consider a motorcycle naught but a bicycle with a motor if you'd like, and you can assume bikers are mostly accountants posing as hard guys on weekends. Perhaps your words have some truth to them, especially on weekends. However, as I suspect you'll purposefully avoid places where expressing those opinions might raise an eyebrow, I wish you well should you misjudge your surroundings. Not only that, but I'll offer this bit of advice: If you feel like saying that kind of thing out loud and there is on any wall of the bar you just walked into a sign including the words "Poker Run", just you walk back out, get into your Accord, buckle up, and drive away.
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Gus: <Pulls up to the curb. Idles loudly for a moment. Attempts to draw my attention by revving the thing.> HOW DO YOU LIKE MY BIKE, NEIGHBOR?
Icarus: <Continues planting partridge pea> Mm. Very nice.
Gus: <Turns off bike> I just added a <I forget> and replaced the <I really wasn't paying attention>. It runs like a thief in the night.
Icarus: I imagine it gets good gas mileage. Most bicycles do.
Gus: GMF. It's not a bicycle, neighbor. It's a MOTORcycle.
Icarus: What's the difference?
Gus: Everything! It's got a motor, you know. It's not some kid's ten speed.
Icarus: It's got two wheels. It moves.
Gus: Yeah, but...
Icarus: This makes it a bi-cycle, no?
Gus: I guess so.
Icarus: So why do you care what I call your mode of transportation? What practical difference does it make in your life? You can call my car a quatracycle, or a horseless carriage.
Gus: ... so whatcha plantin' there?
Icarus: Partridge pea. They're a native forb that <goes off onto something he likely didn't care about>
Thanks for your concern, but I've been through this in real life and have not had to hop into my Cavalier and scoot off to safety or been called out. If people are really that sensitive re: what I call their possessions, they probably need to find something else to do.
Re: accountants, I think you misunderstood what I'm saying. As I said before, owning a stethescope does not make you a doctor. Downloading Linux does not make you a black hat. Owning a motorcycle does not make you anything other than someone who owns a motorcycle. It does not confer any magical status or aura of mystique. It does not make you the Fonz. It also does not make you Poindexter from accounting.
It is unfortunate that a noteable percentage of motorcyclists (particularly in MN where the prospect of owning one is somewhat less practical than it would be in other parts of the country), suffer from mid-life crises. It is equally unfortunate that such people generally have no idea how to operate one, end up behaving like jackasses/killing themselves, and cast a pall on responsible motorcyclists. You get the same thing on the water with the idiot weekenders who don't have the foggiest idea what "slow no wake" means.
Submitted by BobSandwich (user info) at 2008-08-28 10:42:01 EDT (#)
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Submitted by forensicgirl3 (user info) at 2008-08-28 08:15:25 EDT (#)
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Submitted by BobSandwich (user info) at 2008-08-27 23:03:45 CDT (#)
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1976 ironhead bobber.
Screwed the last one up.
http://s121.photobucket.com/albums/o227/drewaf86/IronHead/
That will work skrap
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Very nice, Mr. Sandwich. I like the cut of your jib.
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Thanks, I wish I had more pics where you could see the seat. That is my favorite part.
1976 HD Ironhead Bobber
1000cc, Bored, aftermarket top end, original bottom, slightly larger cam, mikuni carb
Hand fabricated apes, oil tank, seat, forward controls, pipes, and rigid frame
The seat is made from an old saddle and has a coiled rattle snake tooled into the leather
there is also an extreme amount of metalflake in the paint on the tank.
I am about to replace the rear fender with a steel fender to get rid of the polished aluminum.
Also thinking about dropping a five speed to uprade from the four.
Submitted by myshit (user info) at 2008-08-28 08:37:55 EDT (#)
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When did Doodles become fucking funny?
Submitted by forensicgirl3 (user info) at 2008-08-28 08:15:25 EDT (#)
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Submitted by BobSandwich (user info) at 2008-08-27 23:03:45 CDT (#)
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1976 ironhead bobber.
Screwed the last one up.
http://s121.photobucket.com/albums/o227/drewaf86/IronHead/
That will work skrap
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Very nice, Mr. Sandwich. I like the cut of your jib.
Submitted by forensicgirl3 (user info) at 2008-08-28 08:08:27 EDT (#)
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Submitted by icarus1987 (user info) at 2008-08-27 22:31:33 CDT (#)
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Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2008-08-27 21:34:53 EDT (#)
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icarus1987, dammit, I've said this before. Biker =/= bicyclist. Need proof? Find a bar with a bunch of motorcycles parked outside. It'll be called something like "Bar" or "The Knuckle". Put on your Spandex bicycling shorts and yellow Raleigh bicycling shirt and walk in. Loudly say something about the exercise you get pedaling keeping you from being as fat as the average guy in "Bar". Biker =/= bicyclist.
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You're right; you can actually get exercise on a bike (even a stationary one).
All joking (and stereotypes) aside, a gadget != attitude/mystique/personality/culture. A .45 doesn't make you an action hero, a stethescope doesn't make you a doctor, and a thing with two wheels and some pistons does not make you a roughneck. While there may be tough people who own motorbikes, there are also tough people who own stamp collections. My sister can operate an AK, yet still collects Barbies and sleeps with a stuffed unicorn.
I've worked with a lot of accountants and middle-managers who assume that just because they ride a bike around on the weekend they are some sort of modern-day barbarian. In reality, they are just suits with personality crutches. I don't care what terminology anyone cares to use. A motorbike is a bicycle with a motor and I'll call the things whatever I like.
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The Man stopped by my place last night. I asked him about his bicycle.
Him: Who's bicycle?
Me: Yours.
Him: What do you mean, my bicycle?
Me: Bicycle! What you're always riding. Geeze.
Him: What are you talking about? I haven't rode my bicycle in at least a couple of years. I need to. I'm getting a little big around the gut. [he's actually thin]
Me: BICYCLE! YOU RIDE A BICYCLE AND YOU KNOW IT!
Him: .... .... .... Have you been drinking?
Submitted by Nellypaal (user info) at 2008-08-28 07:13:33 EDT (#)
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Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2008-08-28 06:55:16 EDT (#)
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Submitted by BobSandwich (user info) at 2008-08-28 00:17:52 EDT (#)
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Those are real rat bikes, how do they drive?
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The chopper hasn't been on the road yet - I'm putting the new engine in soon. The grey KZ is a great bike, and runs 11.6sec/122mph in the 1/4mi on nitrous. Not bad for a 26 year old 3/4 liter ratbike.
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2008-08-28 06:21:20 EDT (#)
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i woo hooed my foo foo
Submitted by F.J.Bell (user info) at 2008-08-28 04:17:42 EDT (#)
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Bank holiday was last weekend, and I spent it in bed.
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Submitted by Wildman (user info) at 2008-08-27 19:08:38 EDT (#)
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You've got some serious fear issues if you still feel unsafe in a 2-3 thousand pound car.
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Where did I say I felt unsafe?
You may now join the line behind korthrun.
Submitted by BobSandwich (user info) at 2008-08-28 00:17:52 EDT (#)
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Those are real rat bikes, how do they drive?
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2008-08-28 00:15:14 EDT (#)
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BobSandwich - nice. I likes ol' bikes.
http://www.ratpackcycles.com <---two of my three. Other one is my daily driver '85 Kaw GPz750.
Submitted by BobSandwich (user info) at 2008-08-28 00:03:45 EDT (#)
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Submitted by BobSandwich (user info) at 2008-08-27 23:40:15 EDT (#)
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Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2008-08-27 22:36:01 EDT (#)
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BobSandwich - you ride Sporty, Fat, Road, or what?
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1976 ironhead bobber.
Screwed the last one up.
http://s121.photobucket.com/albums/o227/drewaf86/IronHead/
That will work skrap
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2008-08-28 00:01:10 EDT (#)
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Icarus1987, you can certainly consider a motorcycle naught but a bicycle with a motor if you'd like, and you can assume bikers are mostly accountants posing as hard guys on weekends. Perhaps your words have some truth to them, especially on weekends. However, as I suspect you'll purposefully avoid places where expressing those opinions might raise an eyebrow, I wish you well should you misjudge your surroundings. Not only that, but I'll offer this bit of advice: If you feel like saying that kind of thing out loud and there is on any wall of the bar you just walked into a sign including the words "Poker Run", just you walk back out, get into your Accord, buckle up, and drive away.
Submitted by icarus1987 (user info) at 2008-08-27 23:40:25 EDT (#)
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There would be less road rage against bikers if there were fewer bikers who did idiotic things on the road. It's what comes from being a part of the same demographic as several million mid-life crisis sufferers. I once saw some balding prat on a harley try to dodge in front of a semi to make an exit at the last minute. Got his face spread across a quarter mile of I94.
Submitted by BobSandwich (user info) at 2008-08-27 23:40:15 EDT (#)
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Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2008-08-27 22:36:01 EDT (#)
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BobSandwich - you ride Sporty, Fat, Road, or what?
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1976 ironhead bobber.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2000223&id=1538310007
Submitted by icarus1987 (user info) at 2008-08-27 23:31:33 EDT (#)
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Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2008-08-27 21:34:53 EDT (#)
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icarus1987, dammit, I've said this before. Biker =/= bicyclist. Need proof? Find a bar with a bunch of motorcycles parked outside. It'll be called something like "Bar" or "The Knuckle". Put on your Spandex bicycling shorts and yellow Raleigh bicycling shirt and walk in. Loudly say something about the exercise you get pedaling keeping you from being as fat as the average guy in "Bar". Biker =/= bicyclist.
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You're right; you can actually get exercise on a bike (even a stationary one).
All joking (and stereotypes) aside, a gadget != attitude/mystique/personality/culture. A .45 doesn't make you an action hero, a stethescope doesn't make you a doctor, and a thing with two wheels and some pistons does not make you a roughneck. While there may be tough people who own motorbikes, there are also tough people who own stamp collections. My sister can operate an AK, yet still collects Barbies and sleeps with a stuffed unicorn.
I've worked with a lot of accountants and middle-managers who assume that just because they ride a bike around on the weekend they are some sort of modern-day barbarian. In reality, they are just suits with personality crutches. I don't care what terminology anyone cares to use. A motorbike is a bicycle with a motor and I'll call the things whatever I like.
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2008-08-27 23:30:20 EDT (#)
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Afraid. Heh.
You remember how you used to have training wheels on your bicycle? And one day your dad took them off and you were afraid you were going to fall over without them? And you wobbled around until you did fall over, the first time, but then the next time you stayed up a while longer, and longer the time after that, and eventually you were riding the Big Boy Bicycle with your friends, and racing each other around the block?
That is all the power 'afraid' has.
Submitted by Doodles (user info) at 2008-08-27 23:23:36 EDT (#)
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I can't ride bikes sadly.
I've been afraid to since I was nine and my back brake cable had been cut.
I didn't realize the aforementioned cable had been cut until I was coasting down a fairly large hill.
I mean a small mountain sized hill, not just a little hill.
It seemed like I was going at least 30 mph when I tried to use my brake.
It didn't work.
In a nine year old sense of panic, I slammed on my front brake.
On a side note who thought putting a front brake on a bike was a good idea? I want to slap that faggot's face with a horse cock.
I flew down the last bit of the monster hill and landed (thankfully) in grass.
I still cried like a bitch because I chipped a tooth.
Fuck bikes.
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2008-08-27 23:16:06 EDT (#)
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I'm with FG3 - JCW is teh devuhl. On an unrelated note: my 1985 Kawasaki ZX750 GPz turned over 50,000 miles today on my way home from work. At the time it was busy hauling my 230-lb ass at 80 mph up the Suncoast Parkway while passing SUVs like they weren't worthy and getting 57 mpg just for fun. I'd have done a little 50K mile dance, but I'm a biker so I made a Nissan XTerra driver do the dance for me. Not at all bad for a $700 eBay find, 9,000 miles and $320 in sprockets/chain/tires/fuel valve kit ago. Bikes are teh rule.
Submitted by forensicgirl3 (user info) at 2008-08-27 22:50:06 EDT (#)
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On an unrelated note, JC Whitney LIES!!! http://www.jcwhitney.com/Motorcycle-Parts/10111.jcw
I had to buy some turn signal stems. I plug in the make and model and year of my motorcycle, and they tell me which turn signal stems fit it.
In theory.
So, I place my order. It arrives and I happily go into the garage to install them. The front turn signal stems fit perfectly. The rear ones don't. Customer service tells me that is the only set of rears that they stock for my make, model and year.
So now I have to go have them cut down and re-threaded.
Bastards.
Submitted by forensicgirl3 (user info) at 2008-08-27 22:37:26 EDT (#)
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I'm tooling around on a metric. I'm definitely not invited.
I know a few of the type you described. These are also the ones who do burn-outs and fill the surrounding area with smoke. That's always lovely. In fact, I should do a post and tell you all about this one dude named Burr and how he has gotten himself banned from every hang-out and event in this area. We call him 'Burn-out Burr.' We generally snicker at him behind his back.
They think they're being a badass. I just think "Scrot (i.e. scrotum) Alert! Everybody stop what you're doing and look at the scrotum on the Harley!"
Most of the guys I know showboat a little, that's true, but they don't generally act like scrotums out on the road. Most of the guys I know don't hang around with the scrots like you described.
Bicycles, Icarus?!?!?!?!?! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2008-08-27 22:36:01 EDT (#)
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BobSandwich - you ride Sporty, Fat, Road, or what?
Submitted by Doodles (user info) at 2008-08-27 22:10:07 EDT (#)
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No, you're not.
Queers aren't really excepted at 'biker conventions'.
Even in the rocky horror picture show.
You could see the hate eddie and for doctor frank furter.
Submitted by BobSandwich (user info) at 2008-08-27 22:07:35 EDT (#)
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I have a Harley, so I am invited.
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2008-08-27 21:48:58 EDT (#)
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On an unrelated note, Miss Berry, would you happen to know if The Safe House is still in business downtown? If so and if you have been there, is it as interesting as I remember from 1981 or... not?
Submitted by Doodles (user info) at 2008-08-27 21:44:32 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Doodles (user info) at 2008-08-27 21:17:31 EDT (#)
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Tries really hard to hate, below.
Submitted by JoeAverage (user info) at 2008-08-27 21:43:23 EDT (#)
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If you're looking for a new job, why don't you go apply to be a hallway monitor at a school? Then you can bitch and complain about everyone running or not staying in a straight line just like you bitched about motorcycles not following all the "rules of the road". Unfortunately, you probably won't pass the background check because you're a pedophile. Fuck-off.
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2008-08-27 21:34:53 EDT (#)
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icarus1987, dammit, I've said this before. Biker =/= bicyclist. Need proof? Find a bar with a bunch of motorcycles parked outside. It'll be called something like "Bar" or "The Knuckle". Put on your Spandex bicycling shorts and yellow Raleigh bicycling shirt and walk in. Loudly say something about the exercise you get pedaling keeping you from being as fat as the average guy in "Bar". Biker =/= bicyclist.
Submitted by icarus1987 (user info) at 2008-08-27 21:09:20 EDT (#)
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One thing bikers need to learn: owning a bicycle does not mean you have attitude. It does not make you badass or interesting in any way. It does not make you any less of an accountant, nor does it confer some manner of mystique on your cubicle-dwelling "gang". It simply means that you commute to work six months out of the usable Minnesotan year on a two-wheeled vehicle instead of a four-wheeled one, and that you behave like an idiot in traffic until someone has the good graces to spread you across the pavement.
Submitted by Doodles (user info) at 2008-08-27 20:35:22 EDT (#)
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weaksauce.
Submitted by creep_firebombing (user info) at 2008-08-27 20:29:21 EDT (#)
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hee hee.
I misses you.
Submitted by Quint (user info) at 2008-08-27 19:31:30 EDT (#)
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What do Method's Mom and Harley Davidsons have in common?
They both get ridden by lots of bikers every night.
Submitted by Wildman (user info) at 2008-08-27 19:08:38 EDT (#)
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You've got some serious fear issues if you still feel unsafe in a 2-3 thousand pound car.
But...you're probably ugly so it does make some sense
Submitted by Banjo (user info) at 2008-08-27 18:52:25 EDT (#)
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Excuse me while I keel over as a result of your overwhelming dullness.
Submitted by strwbryfanatic (user info) at 2008-08-27 18:50:49 EDT (#)
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Yes, but hypothetically speaking... if the bike could make the venture, you would still has brainz.
Miss you. :)
Submitted by Genko (user info) at 2008-08-27 18:49:50 EDT (#)
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I has brainz and a bike that wouldn't make it to Wisconsin.
Submitted by strwbryfanatic (user info) at 2008-08-27 18:47:50 EDT (#)
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But you are not going to Harley Fest USA with that shit, right?
No... because you has brainz.
Submitted by Genko (user info) at 2008-08-27 18:47:06 EDT (#)
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I have a motorcycle. It's a 1991 Honda.
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2008-08-27 18:42:04 EDT (#)
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Probably riding my motorcycle and looking for some strange snizz.
Submitted by strwbryfanatic (user info) at 2008-08-27 18:36:51 EDT (#)
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Well then who's the fucking idiot here, korthrun? Me or you?
You pretty much just answered that. Thanks for playing.
Submitted by korthrun (user info) at 2008-08-27 18:25:47 EDT (#)
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Due to the (non existant) cooling systems on most motorcycles, they are under certain traffic conditions allowed to use the shoulder.
"Lane sharing", that is the use of a single lane on a public highway by two motorcycles, is permitted in all but 12 states and the District of Columbia. Only in California is "lane splitting" legal where motorcycles can drive between cars but not on the shoulders.
Submitted by orphelia (user info) at 2008-08-27 18:12:55 EDT (#)
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i wikied it, so basically it is bank holiday monday.
this weekend i will be weeding the garden and getting a manicure and pedicure (not those vile plastic things everyone here insists on wearing) which is good as i struggle to reach my toes. have a nice labor day, miss berry.
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2008-08-27 18:09:52 EDT (#)
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I hate seeing bikers whitelining (when it's illegal and unsafe; it isn't always illegal or unsafe) and riding on the shoulder - you are right that they should not do that kind of thing. Not because it makes you anfry-jelus because you can't do so, but because it's not a safe way to ride. It would be a bad idea, however, for you to act upon your impulse to ram their bikes. Bikers tend to take that kind of thing seriously, and "Well, he was riding on the shoulder!" isn't likely to change their minds about your fate. Especially during HD's 105th anniversary in Milwaukee. Suck it up for now and laugh at the HD guys this February from your heated sedan.
Submitted by strwbryfanatic (user info) at 2008-08-27 18:00:36 EDT (#)
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It's Labor Day in the U.S. on Monday.
Submitted by orphelia (user info) at 2008-08-27 17:58:44 EDT (#)
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what holiday?
Submitted by SullyThePirate (user info) at 2008-08-27 17:58:10 EDT (#)
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This weekend I plan on entering the Beverly Hills Fingerboardin' Tourney. The grand prize is $25 and I finally get to show off my finger skateboarding to the world. Check your local listings on ESPN2.
Submitted by The_Drake (user info) at 2008-08-27 17:53:31 EDT (#)
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I've been waiting all my life to read something that would fill the gap in my soul like this post did.
LAME!
Submitted by Yozz (user info) at 2008-08-27 17:52:43 EDT (#)
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Sadly, Uber will allow me to have only one post up at a time for any given day. Otherwise, I would fill these virtual halls on Road Rage Wednesdays. See, for example, http://www.ubersite.com/m/113852.