Hardcore Biker
Yeah 750Y thats enough for me...(stops looking at motorbikes for sale and looks at nice safe cars instead) no fascination of gore, just mother says 'all the people i've talked to whove owned a motorbike don't recommend them...' She used to be a nurse, saw lots of motorbike accidents so is wary of them, and wary of her son getting one.
fuckin grumpy leave me alone
Well as the resident bike pickerupper a for the northern waikato district, I could tell a few stories, but I think those who binned should have the fun of sharing their stories..... they know who they are, even if you guys don't
F/F
"Kiwi Biker, still a great place despite the mods "
"Would crawl over broken glass before owning Suzuki"
The only reason I only ride in the Iron man Class is I have no friends left to enter the two man events,
my own fault really.
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Might wanna show your mum this postOriginally Posted by jeremysprite
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Blah blah blah.
Nurses also see a lot more Syphilis and Leprosy than the rest of us too. They certainly don't stop reccommending sex or travel as a result.
For some reason this attitude pisses me off. It's faintly heroic to break your neck in a rugby scrum. It's highly unfashionable to to break your scaphoid when some dick in a truck charges across three lanes of highway and knocks you off your bike.
For the record my wife is a Nurse and has been injured twice by motorcycles and motorcyclists. Once as a pedestrian, and once as a pillion. She'd rather I had a bike and was out riding from time to time than sitting at home whinging about not having a bike, or worse still spending the equivalent in what I spend on bikes on beer.
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
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Someone here somewhere made the point that bikes are more of a sporting good than a transportation appliance.
When you look at it that way, then it's not that much different for rugby or some other recreational past time.
Injuries do happen, but like any sport you can work to minimise the risk of and severity of injuries- in our case accomplished through wearing good quality protective gear.
if you're just looking for something to get around on, then consider a scoot or a smaller bike like a gn125 or some such. Most people percieve scoots as safer than a motorbike, so you might get that past your mum easier.
But don't forget that falling off a scoot is going to hurt just as much as a bike, so gear is an essential.
Hardcore Biker
Yeah! Although I'm only 15 and don't drink beer, I could be sitting at home whinging about wanting a bike instead of out riding. Hey wait a second, I do do that cause I don't have a bike...Well its a good excuse I'll remember when I finally get my FXR150....
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I feel like telling the people over the road that when their daughter takes off on her scooter she got for xmas, but they stick their nose in the air and walk away everytime I even go to say hello.... might be something about their million dollar house, and my tattoos living so close......
Hardcore Biker
lol thats the way of some snobs. Just get up at like 6am and drive your bike up and down the street at like 10000 revs. And thanks paparazzi, but I'm an awesome salesman, sold her onto the idea of me having a bike (stops quicker, so I'm in less danger, will have about $1000 of safety gear which I wouldn't dare ride without, accelerates faster than cars so I can escape danger, easy to look 360 around myself to make sure I'm not in danger...blah blah blah.) And I also want a bike like the fxr so I can pull wheelies past annoying tourists in their cages in downtown queenstown hehehehehe.
Here for the arcade.
Its great going through Riverstone (new upper class subdivision in upper hutt) on the CBR. Still don't rev it too hard, I only get to 14000rpm tops
Hardcore Biker
and accidently leave the muffler at home while you do it?
The instructions are simple...
Sorry to burst your bubble oh wise, venerable one whose experience is so far beyond us poor excuses for wannabees.....
Do you realise how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?
Here for the arcade.
Nah, can't be too cruel
Hardcore Biker
i don't have to try annoy my neighbours, my little fox terrier does that for me. Bought an electric dog containment system off trademe today, should keep him within the boundaries or ZAP!!!
Come warm yourself by the fire
Bent everything that could possibly bend on the cafe racer, broke the rest of the parts. Distroyed the safety gear was wearing at the time. Shattered leg - and severe bruising all over body.
Lost all hope in the world, became depressed. Found it hard to pick up uni again - throwing $$$'s away. Pissed my G/F off. Became a bitter twisted person for about 6 months. Lost my job.
Yeh 2004 sucked for me
Mind due you soon find your true friends in situations like that.
If you keep a good frame of mind, loss of bike/money, and a damaged body dont seem too bad.
Keep smiling and the world is a good place
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Electric dog? Like an electric eel?
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