Originally Posted by
DX-MAN
HAHAHAHAHA!!
You just DESCRIBED my neighborhood! I live in one!
I have to say, though, that Chipcom's bullet comments (no pun) are pretty accurate. I do, however, violate a couple rules he put out.
I ride a pricey bike, a $2K Dakar XLT, and it's pretty beastly in appearance. (As in 'capable' not 'ugly')
My advantage? The thugs are convinced I'm an undercover/plainclothes cop, or affiliated somehow, and could get them busted. Their logic? No 'cracker' would ride a bike like mine through 'their' hood unless he was a cop.
There WAS one, a few years ago, who was just too stupid to even process THAT; he sat on his screened-in porch across a busy 4-lane from me, hollered, "HEY, WHITE BOY!" and dry-fired his revolver in my direction, 6 times.
I'm mostly mistaken for some crazy (and fairly large) homeless dude (even when I was a cop)...which has served me well both in the hood and in McMansionville.
I'm on a 2k bike myself...but when you put on fenders and a rack it doesn't look like a 2K bike to your average schmuck.
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Last edited by chipcom; 03-21-11 at 09:09 AM.