When bikers kill bikers.

[Elysium]

So why do you feel the need to ride a 1000 rather than a 650?
The 650 does all of those things and still has a nice flexible engine, why the need for the extra 350ccs?

What was that about "measurement"?

Amen brother.

[Ocean1]

I've got an idea.

Let's take responsibility for our own actions.

Bazzar suggestion. How could yer average dude afford that?

Fookin' ridiculous idea.

Fuggoff Mr H.

This IS KB after all and we wouldn't have delightful threads like this if everbody followed your above advice.!!

Now THERE’S entertainment worth paying for.


Not.

[98tls]

So why do you feel the need to ride a 1000 rather than a 650?
The 650 does all of those things and still has a nice flexible engine, why the need for the extra 350ccs?

What was that about "measurement"?

Saddlebags,backpack and pillon make a 650 feel like a 250 fwiw.

[Sully60]

Saddlebags make a 650 feel like a 250 fwiw.

He should go on a diet then.

[Hitcher]

Saddlebags,backpack and pillon make a 650 feel like a 250 fwiw.

You're riding the wrong 650. Two-up on Mrs H's Bandit bothers it not that much, actually. Indeed fannying around on the Bandit for a couple of months whilst waiting for the FJR to return from the US of A is probably what has tipped me in the direction of middleweight bikes. That doesn't explain my new-found fascination for v-twins though...

[AD345]

You're riding the wrong 650. Two-up on Mrs H's Bandit bothers it not that much, actually. Indeed fannying around on the Bandit for a couple of months whilst waiting for the FJR to return from the US of A is probably what has tipped me in the direction of middleweight bikes. That doesn't explain my new-found fascination for v-twins though...

Come to the dark side.....

(its cooler cos its outta the sun)

[98tls]

You're riding the wrong 650. Two-up on Mrs H's Bandit bothers it not that much, actually. Indeed fannying around on the Bandit for a couple of months whilst waiting for the FJR to return from the US of A is probably what has tipped me in the direction of middleweight bikes. That doesn't explain my new-found fascination for v-twins though...

Just noticed that in your post,read a few articles on them with much interest,nice looking bike,so how are you finding it?Have you done a thread on it?As for riding the wrong 650 dunno really,ridden many of them in my years and didnt like any of them 2 up though in saying that i hate having to ride 2 up full-stop but the odd time theres no way out,hell ive tried everything including offering to pay bus fare and meet them there.

[Kickaha]

The problem here is that most non fatal accidents that people talk about are not the fault of the rider, and dead riders opinions don't count. For example the number of "cager didn't see me" threads vastly outnumber the "I was going to fast for the corner" threads.

I'd be willing to bet there are a lot of non fatal single bike accidents where the rider was at fault that aren't reported though

Oh yeah, letter to the Editor from the Chch press

[Katman]

Oh yeah, letter to the Editor from the Chch press

And I imagine that sentiment is being echoed across the country by residents of every stretch of road that is heavily frequented by motorcyclists.

It stuns me that there still are motorcyclists who don't see that there's any problem.

[Ixion]

As they have been so echoed these 100 years past.

I've seen that letter in the papers every year that I've been riding.

There is nothing that bikers could do (short of giving away motorcycling altogether) that would make those people happy.

Such people are like sheep - they must always be bleating about something.

I refuse to pattern any aspect of my life round the dreary constraints of such people.

[Katman]

As they have been so echoed these 100 years past.

I've seen that letter in the papers every year that I've been riding.

There is nothing that bikers could do (short of giving away motorcycling altogether) that would make those people happy.

Such people are like sheep - they must always be bleating about something.

I refuse to pattern any aspect of my life round the dreary constraints of such people.

Really?

To be mentioned in the same breath as boy racers doesn't concern you at all?

Considering the attention and legislation that boy racers have attracted over recent years, it should.

[saul]

Really?

To be mentioned in the same breath as boy racers doesn't concern you at all?

Considering the attention and legislation that boy racers have attracted over recent years, it should.

You should fuck of Im sick off your condesending rhetoric

[Ixion]

I'd lay heavy odds that the woman doesn't see one boy racer a year. To such as her anyone who does not subscribe to their dreary insipid beige Corolla world (with new washing machine the highlight of her year) , and drives a car, is a boy racer.

It is the bleating of the sheeple : "waah weah boy racer waah waah bikies waah waah". There is nothing any of us can do about it. So I ignore it as I ignore many other things that I wish were not so, but which I can do nothing about. To silence her bleating would be to abandon and deny everything that makes life worth living for me (and many other bikers). Not just bikes of course: she and her sisters have many many other things they go 'waah waah" about and which they would insist we abandon - principally anything that is joyful, fun or liberating.

[Katman]

You should fuck of Im sick off your condesending rhetoric

Let me guess - you typed that whole post without the use of a dictionary?

Bravo (except for the spelling mistakes).

[Katman]

To silence her bleating would be to abandon and deny everything that makes life worth living for me

What a load of shit Ixion. Nobody's asking you to abandon anything. I hate to burst your bubble but I don't imagine you as one of the motorcyclists that are creating the problem.