What do you do with ppl who are full of it?

**clint640** · 10th January 2006, 14:52

Yep there are plenty of bullshit artists out there. I usually try & steer the conversation to some aspect of their 300km/h 450bhp GN250 that I know a bit about (sometimes difficult

) then casually ask a question on some finer technical point. eg: ' ...so was that the hydroisolator off the 1978 or '79 spagthorpe wheezehound you used to farnarkle the thingamy whotsit?... Oh right, so how did you get around the reverse polarity issue?...' Nothing makes a know-it-all squirm like having to admit they don't actually know something.

Mind you every now & then you come across someone you think is a bit full of it who turns out to be the genuine article. When I first met one of my good riding buddies I was a bit sceptical of his many stories of road & track antics, some of them were not very believeable. But after riding with him, watching him win a roadrace championship & meeting a few of his other mates who would reminisce about their crazy youth & confirm his far fetched stories: 'ah do you remember the time you were so far out of shape you got skidmarks on your helmet from the front tyre & managed to stay on the bike...' I realised the guy was on the level.

Cheers
Clint

**The_Dover** · 10th January 2006, 14:58

Originally Posted by ****640

'ah do you remember the time you were so far out of shape you got skidmarks on your helmet from the front tyre & managed to stay on the bike...' i realised the guy was on the level.

cheers
****

sorry ****, don't remember meeting you mate...

**cowboyz** · 10th January 2006, 15:15

Originally Posted by Fishslayer

Hey cowboyz, that guy sounds like a few learners I have come across lately. Tell him to go for a ride with you infront of the girls at work and just throw in the comment "When the flag drops the bullshit stops eh mate" and see his reaction.

I have tried to get both this guy (zxr250) and the other guy (gsx1100) to come on a ride but they are always busy. There are a couple of other bikes at work but they are "commuter" bikes only adnd the owners tell me they are commuter bikes (one is a really nice, great condition 86 katana 400 and the other is a vt250) and they dont want to come on rides. But they don't bullshit all the time (or any of the time) either.

**Fishy** · 10th January 2006, 15:20

Oh well, just have to let them live in their own little fantasy land. They are only kidding themselves at the end of the day. There are some sad sad people out there.

**cowboyz** · 10th January 2006, 15:46

I was talking to a good mate of mine the Sunday just gone and I was saying that I used to think that I was quite open minded and took people opinions for what they are worth but I realise now, after working at Foodstuffs for a bit, that there are people who really would be better just shutting the fuck up.

**Fishy** · 11th January 2006, 07:54

Just try and embarrass the knob head. Next time you're both in the smoko room and they are spouting off infront of everyone pour a glass of water and put infront of them and say "Here you go mate, have a nice cup of shut the fuck up". That might do it.

**750Y** · 15th January 2006, 10:14

Originally Posted by Fishslayer

Hahaha thats hilarious!!. I saw him try and wheelstands his GSX-R 750T outside Red Baron and he somehow managed to lose his footing and his legs swung up and kicked both of his front indicators off!!!

lol, That is some funny shit. I thought he was the NZ 250 champ way back..
he seemed like an ok guy even if he did like to exaggerate a bit.
some of the stories were pretty amusing... like the armed home invasion of his helpless, sexy-nurse neighbours, which he thwarted in his underpants etc... oh I must stop thinking about it, i'm laughing too hard...

**gamgee** · 15th January 2006, 12:41

haha just had a guy at work tell me "you should put a bigger exhaust on to increase your cc's"
i seeeeee he was a scooter rider so i just told him that it was horsepower it would increase... and it probably wouldn't even make a difference on a twin pipe 250 anyway

**cowboyz** · 15th January 2006, 16:42

The easiest way to get more power out of your bike is to put a longer throttle cable on it. Then you can twist the throttle further therefore increasing your revs and in effect increasing your horsepower.

Everyone knows that.

**marty** · 15th January 2006, 16:45

i had heard that mixing about 1 litre of diesel with 20 litres of petrol helps with the horsepower on bikes. especially bikes that already have allegedly high horsepower - they LOVE it.

**Drum** · 15th January 2006, 16:59

What a boring world it would be without bullshit!

No movies, no religion, no wars, no laws.............

**Hondaz** · 15th January 2006, 20:40

"no no no....

The easiest way to get more power out of your bike is to put a longer throttle cable on it. Then you can twist the throttle further therefore increasing your revs and in effect increasing your horsepower."

Funniest thing I've heard all day

but seriously I used to flat with a couple of dudes and a girl who worked at foodstuffs P.N. a few years back and the stories they came home with then makes me think that the bullshit that goes on in that gets spun at that place is epic in proportions

**Ixion** · 15th January 2006, 20:48

Originally Posted by cowboyz

The easiest way to get more power out of your bike is to put a longer throttle cable on it. Then you can twist the throttle further therefore increasing your revs and in effect increasing your horsepower.

Everyone knows that.

Ah, that used to be a well known tune up trick that did back in the day. Fit a lighter throttle return spring , and poke a rod up the silencer to knock a hole in the baffles. "Five quid will do it mate, she goes like a rocket now."

**Fishy** · 10th February 2006, 07:53

Here is a funny one...... A guy tried telling me yesterday that he used to own a 180HP NSR500 road bike with before he had his current bike (1996 Fireblade).

Did Honda ever make a road going NSR500? I don't think so! I know they made the NS400R but that was back in the mid 80's and why would you switch from a crazy ass 180HP NSR500 to a 130HP Fireblade???