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A cartoon strip: https://rhymeswithorange.com/ I can't copy and paste it so it's probably only good for one day.
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Haha, good one. I have to admit that when I see someone riding during commute times in street clothes or work uniform with no safety equipment, I think recent DUI.
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What's the difference between owning a MC or car, they both use fossil fuels, and some MC's get less MPG then some cars, and if you ever need to carry some stuff, or take a date on a foul weather day, etc, there's quite a few limitations of what you can do on a MC. Lot to think about. Or, you keep your car and ride the bicycle and MC most of the time and save the car for those times you're limited to a car.
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What's the difference between owning a MC or car, they both use fossil fuels, and some MC's get less MPG then some cars, and if you ever need to carry some stuff, or take a date on a foul weather day, etc, there's quite a few limitations of what you can do on a MC. Lot to think about. Or, you keep your car and ride the bicycle and MC most of the time and save the car for those times you're limited to a car.
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Far more fun? Really? I guess you haven't been drifting in a car for awhile, or racing a car against a MC through winding mountain roads. A car will out handle a motorcycle due to the fact the car has 4 wide tires on the pavement vs just 2 narrower tires on the pavement. Fun? You really don't know the meaning of that between those two.
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Far more fun? Really? I guess you haven't been drifting in a car for awhile, or racing a car against a MC through winding mountain roads. A car will out handle a motorcycle due to the fact the car has 4 wide tires on the pavement vs just 2 narrower tires on the pavement. Fun? You really don't know the meaning of that between those two.
Given the choice (which my finances don't), I'd be on two (maybe three) wheels for life, NEVER drive a car again. Just being IN THE BREEZE is fun, so your point is right FOR YOU AND YOU ALONE.
Why do you ask "Far more fun"? No one else said that.
To everyone else: the automatic thought of DUI because of a lack of helmet and/or blinkie lights is an insult, the type drivers visit on all of us. You should be better than that. The stereotype is a LITTLE closer if the bike is a Wally Special, poorly adjusted, the rider is not fitted to the bike, and in a grossly wrong gear, going about 6-7 mph. But STILL....
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What's the difference between owning a MC or car, they both use fossil fuels, and some MC's get less MPG then some cars, and if you ever need to carry some stuff, or take a date on a foul weather day, etc, there's quite a few limitations of what you can do on a MC. Lot to think about. Or, you keep your car and ride the bicycle and MC most of the time and save the car for those times you're limited to a car.
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I want a motorcycle because it saves gas, the insurance is cheaper, maintenance is easier, and the girl would have no choice but to hold me tight . Talk about an ice breaker.
The only downside I suppose is safety... and if I were to go grocery shopping, or buying something on craigslist (like say a bicycle). There's no good way to carry something like that, except for a burley trailer hooked to a bicycle. But if there were something that would allow me to carry luggage with a motorcycle, I'd be down for it 100%.
The only downside I suppose is safety... and if I were to go grocery shopping, or buying something on craigslist (like say a bicycle). There's no good way to carry something like that, except for a burley trailer hooked to a bicycle. But if there were something that would allow me to carry luggage with a motorcycle, I'd be down for it 100%.
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Okay, wreckedmiata, so fun for you is breaking the law; cool, just don't hit one of mine. That WILL bring fun to an end.
Given the choice (which my finances don't), I'd be on two (maybe three) wheels for life, NEVER drive a car again. Just being IN THE BREEZE is fun, so your point is right FOR YOU AND YOU ALONE.
Why do you ask "Far more fun"? No one else said that.
To everyone else: the automatic thought of DUI because of a lack of helmet and/or blinkie lights is an insult, the type drivers visit on all of us. You should be better than that. The stereotype is a LITTLE closer if the bike is a Wally Special, poorly adjusted, the rider is not fitted to the bike, and in a grossly wrong gear, going about 6-7 mph. But STILL....
Given the choice (which my finances don't), I'd be on two (maybe three) wheels for life, NEVER drive a car again. Just being IN THE BREEZE is fun, so your point is right FOR YOU AND YOU ALONE.
Why do you ask "Far more fun"? No one else said that.
To everyone else: the automatic thought of DUI because of a lack of helmet and/or blinkie lights is an insult, the type drivers visit on all of us. You should be better than that. The stereotype is a LITTLE closer if the bike is a Wally Special, poorly adjusted, the rider is not fitted to the bike, and in a grossly wrong gear, going about 6-7 mph. But STILL....
Breaking the law? If there's no law around where's it being broken? Ever heard of track racing?
You want a breeze? Convertibles provide a great breeze, besides on a MC you're wearing a full face helmet...wheres the breeze?
Here's an example of a car kicking the arss out of a MC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_JsA1DgDhU And that freaking car leans like crazy and it still kicks the MC around the track. But I really like the last few words from the announcer before the video ends.
By the way in case you haven't figured this out yet, all that I said in the previous post and this post was tongue in cheek, for some reason you missed that...that just made this whole thing funnier.
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Far more fun? Really? I guess you haven't been drifting in a car for awhile, or racing a car against a MC through winding mountain roads. A car will out handle a motorcycle due to the fact the car has 4 wide tires on the pavement vs just 2 narrower tires on the pavement. Fun? You really don't know the meaning of that between those two.
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I want a motorcycle because it saves gas, the insurance is cheaper, maintenance is easier, and the girl would have no choice but to hold me tight . Talk about an ice breaker.
The only downside I suppose is safety... and if I were to go grocery shopping, or buying something on craigslist (like say a bicycle). There's no good way to carry something like that, except for a burley trailer hooked to a bicycle. But if there were something that would allow me to carry luggage with a motorcycle, I'd be down for it 100%.
The only downside I suppose is safety... and if I were to go grocery shopping, or buying something on craigslist (like say a bicycle). There's no good way to carry something like that, except for a burley trailer hooked to a bicycle. But if there were something that would allow me to carry luggage with a motorcycle, I'd be down for it 100%.
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Yes I am a car nut, but I use to have MC years ago while in the military, a Moto Guzzi...a what you ask?
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What? You like wind in your face but don't skydive? I don't get your logic. Anyway for normal everyday driving the car still has the advantage in both emergency maneuvering (as demonstrated in the video that you didn't like but couldn't see how that might relate in normal driving), emergency stopping (because the vast majority of riders don't know how to stop fast with a MC), and accident protection.
Yes I am a car nut, but I use to have MC years ago while in the military, a Moto Guzzi...a what you ask?
Yes I am a car nut, but I use to have MC years ago while in the military, a Moto Guzzi...a what you ask?
First you might try untwisting yourself from mixing up different posters in your brain. That might help you follow others post. As a clue, I never said anything about wind in my face or that I don't skydive. Now I have a better understanding of why so many of your post over the last couple of years have seemed so odd.
As to your comment "because the vast majority of riders don't know how to stop fast with a MC", the same is just as true for cagers.
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You act like others here are idiots and act like no one who rode motorcycles would know what a Moto Guzzi is.
First you might try untwisting yourself from mixing up different posters in your brain. That might help you follow others post. As a clue, I never said anything about wind in my face or that I don't skydive. Now I have a better understanding of why so many of your post over the last couple of years have seemed so odd.
As to your comment "because the vast majority of riders don't know how to stop fast with a MC", the same is just as true for cagers.
First you might try untwisting yourself from mixing up different posters in your brain. That might help you follow others post. As a clue, I never said anything about wind in my face or that I don't skydive. Now I have a better understanding of why so many of your post over the last couple of years have seemed so odd.
As to your comment "because the vast majority of riders don't know how to stop fast with a MC", the same is just as true for cagers.
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For the record, petrolium based fuels don't originate with fossils. That thought has be de-bunked pretty well. The latest research suggests that the Earth produces oil and natural gas in large quantities, but from a process that isn't well understood. Not fossiles or ancient swamps, though.
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For the record, petrolium based fuels don't originate with fossils. That thought has be de-bunked pretty well. The latest research suggests that the Earth produces oil and natural gas in large quantities, but from a process that isn't well understood. Not fossiles or ancient swamps, though.
That's why humans have flatulence because we came out of the swamp...swamp gas...next please!
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DUI? What hat did you pull that one out of?
Breaking the law? If there's no law around where's it being broken? Ever heard of track racing?
You want a breeze? Convertibles provide a great breeze, besides on a MC you're wearing a full face helmet...wheres the breeze?
Here's an example of a car kicking the arss out of a MC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_JsA1DgDhU And that freaking car leans like crazy and it still kicks the MC around the track. But I really like the last few words from the announcer before the video ends.
By the way in case you haven't figured this out yet, all that I said in the previous post and this post was tongue in cheek, for some reason you missed that...that just made this whole thing funnier.
Breaking the law? If there's no law around where's it being broken? Ever heard of track racing?
You want a breeze? Convertibles provide a great breeze, besides on a MC you're wearing a full face helmet...wheres the breeze?
Here's an example of a car kicking the arss out of a MC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_JsA1DgDhU And that freaking car leans like crazy and it still kicks the MC around the track. But I really like the last few words from the announcer before the video ends.
By the way in case you haven't figured this out yet, all that I said in the previous post and this post was tongue in cheek, for some reason you missed that...that just made this whole thing funnier.
Sure, I've heard of track racing; also heard of street racing, in fact, used to DO it. If it's on a track where you're doing all this, you've got an expensive hobby.
Tongue-in-cheek -- meh. Some people just aren't very funny, and you remind me of an older brother I have, who's made me laugh about three times in 50 years. (On the other hand, I have made him spray food on the table twice.)
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I'm really having a hard time what I like more..the 'Stang full throttle out of a 101 wide radius turn, the Colnago on a winding beach front asphalt trail with a 20 knot tailwind or the MTB down through a Benhams Falls rock garden.
For shear power (and a touch of terror...which means your beyond sanity)..nothing on earth beats, and I mean nothing....beats the feel and power of a green broke 1/2 ton+ of rider and Quarter-horse/Arabain charging through and out of a narrow woodland forest trail into the setting sun.. Keep those knees in!
For shear power (and a touch of terror...which means your beyond sanity)..nothing on earth beats, and I mean nothing....beats the feel and power of a green broke 1/2 ton+ of rider and Quarter-horse/Arabain charging through and out of a narrow woodland forest trail into the setting sun.. Keep those knees in!
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that basically sizes up my attempts at being funny.
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