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The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: Rebel on February 24, 2011, 10:09:46 AM
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http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220744979214
I may look like a goofball, but damnit, I'll be a goofball spending less than 2 dollars a week on gas. :rocker2:
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http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220741475866+&viewitem=
I may look like a goofball, but damnit, I'll be a goofball spending less than 2 dollars a week on gas. :rocker2:
Yeah, but how much is it really??
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I'm glad your secure in yourself to get one of those..... :-)
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Gotta have some big stones to ride one of them in peak hour traffic even in a small town like I live in.
Given the quality of the majority of drivers on the road these days and the size of the vehicles they're allowed to drive - I'd never get on a bike on a public road.
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Gotta have some big stones to ride one of them in peak hour traffic even in a small town like I live in.
Given the quality of the majority of drivers on the road these days and the size of the vehicles they're allowed to drive - I'd never get on a bike on a public road.
*****........
I used to ride a bike in San Diego rush hour traffic, although it was a REAL motorcycle, not a moped. The reason I don't ride now is that my bike got stolen and just couldn't justify a new one when I was up in MN. Getting another has been heavy on my mind now that I'm in Texas. Yesterday would have been a BEAUTIFUL riding day.
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I used to ride a bike in San Diego rush hour traffic, although it was a REAL motorcycle, not a moped. The reason I don't ride now is that my bike got stolen and just couldn't justify a new one when I was up in MN. Getting another has been heavy on my mind now that I'm in Texas. Yesterday would have been a BEAUTIFUL riding day.
I drive a 2 ton pickup with a great big steel cow catcher on it and consider mopeds "fair game".
Open road bike is great - city traffic no way.
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I would ride a moped around town. I ride a little dirt bike at home, but it's not street legal. I just haven't found one that was inexpensive enough to make the numbers work.
But, hey, my run around car is a PT Cruiser so I obviously have poor taste. :-)
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Gotta have some big stones to ride one of them in peak hour traffic even in a small town like I live in.
Given the quality of the majority of drivers on the road these days and the size of the vehicles they're allowed to drive - I'd never get on a bike on a public road.
Saw that just the other morning. Was taking the son to school. We had plenty of time so I was doing the 45 speed limit in the left lane...so was the car in front of me but only because a dude was on a small motor bike. She was...and I'm not lying...5 feet off his ass. He was weaving back and forth looking over his shoulder at her. One time he got close to the white line and she tried to pass him on the left, between him and the grass. I dropped back a ways and told son, "I don't want to be to close when this accident happens".
Well...he turned left at the first stoplight in town and the woman sped away. We caught her at the next light and we both turned left. I told son, "I bet she's headed to the school house too." Sure enough she was...let 2 kids out and I noticed she was in a house coat so she couldn't have been headed to work. We were 30 minutes early so so could make JROTC formation and neither of her kids were in uniform so I don't see any sense in her foolish/dangerous driving.
I guess maybe she had to rush back home to catch Oprah, Dr Phil or somebody important like that...or make love over the internet with her young virtual lover.
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I'm glad your secure in yourself to get one of those..... :-)
More about necessity. Went to get gas this morning and it had already jumped 20 cents in 3 days to 3.19.
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BTW, I live in the South. A snowflake turns these jackasses into raving lunatics. (and I'm Southern).
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BTW, I live in the South. A snowflake turns these jackasses into raving lunatics. (and I'm Southern).
You got a point, some people just can't drive on dry pavement or snow. But most of the people I've pulled out of the ditches around here have been yankees. The snow we get is wet and packs down to ice and they seem to think they can still drive 55+ on ice.
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But, hey, my run around car is a PT Cruiser so I obviously have poor taste. :-)
Quite. :-)
I considered getting a 250cc street bike (Honda Rebel), but those things are expensive! It would be easier to buy a used dirtbike and put lights and road tires on it.
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Yesterday would have been a BEAUTIFUL riding day.
I rode yesterday. :tongue: I had a meeting to go to and I figured I would save the gas and have some fun while I was at it.
KC
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I may look like a goofball, but damnit, I'll be a goofball spending less than 2 dollars a week on gas. :rocker2:
Just put some cool flames on it, you'd be the talk of the town!
~ kk
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Saw that just the other morning. Was taking the son to school. We had plenty of time so I was doing the 45 speed limit in the left lane...so was the car in front of me but only because a dude was on a small motor bike. She was...and I'm not lying...5 feet off his ass. He was weaving back and forth looking over his shoulder at her. One time he got close to the white line and she tried to pass him on the left, between him and the grass. I dropped back a ways and told son, "I don't want to be to close when this accident happens".
Well...he turned left at the first stoplight in town and the woman sped away. We caught her at the next light and we both turned left. I told son, "I bet she's headed to the school house too." Sure enough she was...let 2 kids out and I noticed she was in a house coat so she couldn't have been headed to work. We were 30 minutes early so so could make JROTC formation and neither of her kids were in uniform so I don't see any sense in her foolish/dangerous driving.
I guess maybe she had to rush back home to catch Oprah, Dr Phil or somebody important like that...or make love over the internet with her young virtual lover.
Very few (it seems) have much respect for those on motorcycles. I see it all the time but since I'm riding I'm paying more attention.
One of the things that I see a lot of is drivers coming toward you moving toward the center line as they approach a bike. I haven't quite figured out why that is but I have a theory.
When you're riding by yourself you are supposed to position yourself in the left wheel track of your lane so you 'own' your lane. This prevents folks from pulling out to possibly pass a car that is behind you without knowing there is also a motorcycle to pass.
My theory is that a lot of folks don't realize this and feel the rider is simply using up 'too much' of their lane. Maybe they feel it is their responsibility to push you back to the right side of your lane where you 'belong'.
I've actually had folks in cars have their drivers side tires well over the center line as they pass me.
KC
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I've seen some motorcyclists ride so far left that their handlebars are actually over the centerline.
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Dude, I would so knock you off that thing and rip the man card right out of your hands.
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I've seen some motorcyclists ride so far left that their handlebars are actually over the centerline.
Yeah, I've seen that too. That is about stupid. I've ridden drag bike on many group rides and if I see a bike with any part of it out over the center line I'll ride up next to them and ask them to scoot over. I've seen one head on bike vs car and I don't want to see another.
Some riders don't take into consideration how much they lean when they are in a curve too. I've seen them with their tires on the right side of the center line but a lot of the bike leaning over the center line. :banghead:
KC
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Dude, I would so knock you off that thing and rip the man card right out of your hands.
:lmao:
^5
KC
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Dude, I would so knock you off that thing and rip the man card right out of your hands.
Uh, hello! That's why I'm putting some baseball cards in the spokes to make it sound more manly! :evillaugh:
BTW, I just bought it. Should be arriving from Texas sometime next week.
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BTW, I just bought it. Should be arriving from Texas sometime next week.
Good for you! I'll be sure to break if I see you!
Side note- I've always wanted to start a moped gang. We'd wear denim jackets, carry water guns, etc. We'd be all kinds of scary. haha
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Wanted blue, but they were out of stock so I went with red:
(http://allamericanautosales.net/ESW/Images/MP-150B-1.jpg?xcache=2674)
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I occasionally read a website who's owner has a moped like that. He loves it.
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Heh. You just reminded me of something. Several years ago my wife decided she wanted to ride with me so we began a search for a trike. We couldn't really find anything she liked that didn't cost $20k and up so we did some more looking and found a Goldwing she liked then we found a trike kit.
I took both the Goldwing and the kit to a bike builder in Beaumont and we paid him to put the two together and put a pearl white paint on it. When it was done it looked awesome. It looked like a chick bike but an awesome one.
When we went to get it I thought she would ride it home .... I should have thought better of that and took a trailer!
We picked it up and *I* had to ride it back to Huntsville ... about 130 miles. Holy shite! I've never been waved to and laughed at by so many people in my life!
:lmao:
KC
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:rofl: Ouch.
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Got my hog! It rides like a charm. Got it up to 62.
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Got my hog! It rides like a charm. Got it up to 62.
62 kph? :lmao:
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If I'm up in the city (Rochester), occasionally I'll see a large group on motorcycles on the freeways around town, 20 to 50 guys riding almost tire to tire and peg to peg at 70mph, like one big single entity. Amazing to see them ride like that yet inevitably somebody has to crowd them and tailgate. That is, until they get close to enough to notice the Hells Angels patches emblazoned across their backs. You'd think they just swooped up on an unmarked trooper and suddenly realized their mistake, OOPS, BREAK LIGHTS!
Seriously, it is truly unreal the way those guys ride. Kids with their crotch rockets and annoying little foreign "tuners" sporting no fear bumper stickers are not even in the same universe.
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Okay, Kev--which one is you? I think Jeremy Clarkson fits you . . . :tongue:
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1zfuBgCUqY[/youtube]
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Okay, Kev--which one is you? I think Jeremy Clarkson fits you . . . :tongue:
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1zfuBgCUqY[/youtube]
"somebody has written penis on my helmet"
"I did that" :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:
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Okay, Kev--which one is you? I think Jeremy Clarkson fits you . . . :tongue:
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1zfuBgCUqY[/youtube]
Hilarious! Thanks for posting that.
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"somebody has written penis on my helmet"
"I did that" :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:
I about fell over in my chair when I first saw that. Tears flowed, and they weren't sad ones. The best part of it all was Clarkson stressing the word "penis."
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I about fell over in my chair when I first saw that. Tears flowed, and they weren't sad ones. The best part of it all was Clarkson stressing the word "penis."
yeh, that was a great belly laugh and I haven't had one of those in a long time! :lmao:
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yeh, that was a great belly laugh and I haven't had one of those in a long time! :lmao:
Go about a minute to a minute-and-a-half later when Richard--the one with the wooden boat on the back of his bike--knocks over a garbage can (?) with that damned boat, then knocks over a barricade fence . . .
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I can turn it into a drag bike:
http://forum.scooterforum.net/forum/f88/my-other-gy6-scooters-162516/
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Honda-GY6-Racing-CDI-Coil-GY6-50cc-150cc-139QMB-_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQhashZitem1c0c4c37fcQQitemZ120465405948QQptZMotorcyclesQ5fPartsQ5fAccessories
SWEET! :evillaugh:
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I can turn it into a drag bike:
http://forum.scooterforum.net/forum/f88/my-other-gy6-scooters-162516/
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Honda-GY6-Racing-CDI-Coil-GY6-50cc-150cc-139QMB-_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQhashZitem1c0c4c37fcQQitemZ120465405948QQptZMotorcyclesQ5fPartsQ5fAccessories
SWEET! :evillaugh:
Those pics, and others associated with scooters/mopeds, reminds me of the local Moped Gang that we had in the small Bavarian town we lived in in 1979-80. Those kids thought they were so badass...... :rotf:
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Those pics, and others associated with scooters/mopeds, reminds me of the local Moped Gang that we had in the small Bavarian town we lived in in 1979-80. Those kids thought they were so badass...... :rotf:
I've been thinking of starting a scooter gang. Did they have a cool name?
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I've been thinking of starting a scooter gang. Did they have a cool name?
Badasses on Bikes (http://www.threadless.com/submission/63167/hot_rock_moped_club)
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Wait, I catch hell for my Crocs, but Rebel gets a pass on this??? :mental:
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I've been thinking of starting a scooter gang. Did they have a cool name?
the Anti-MoPedifiles? :fuelfire:
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Here's a for-real web site for moped riders in Oldenburg, Germany.
I've played a few gigs in this town, actually, which is up in the north. Kinda cute.
Badasses with Babes on Bikes (http://www.mopedfreunde-oldenburg.de/)
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Wait, I catch hell for my Crocs, but Rebel gets a pass on this??? :mental:
A lot of people I know have Crocs. They stay on the boat.
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yeh, that was a great belly laugh and I haven't had one of those in a long time! :lmao:
Ya know something? I was just looking at that clip again, and check out the colander James May uses as a helmet . . . :lmao: :rotf: :lmao: :rotf: :lmao: :rotf:
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http://www.motopartsmax.com/index.php/main_page/product_info/products_id/507/tID/3/cPath/117_14
http://www.motopartsmax.com/index.php/main_page/product_info/products_id/11405/tID/3/cPath/117_197
Aw yeah. I'm gonna have this thing doing 6's through the 1/8.
(http://www.gunaxin.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/dumb_dumber_kobal-8893-560x346.jpg)
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Ah, I see. No one wants to comment on my badass ride because they're jealous. :stirpot:
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(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3420/3397963377_0707d15bc3.jpg)
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http://www.motopartsmax.com/index.php/main_page/product_info/products_id/507/tID/3/cPath/117_14
http://www.motopartsmax.com/index.php/main_page/product_info/products_id/11405/tID/3/cPath/117_197
Needs training wheels and safety foam to complete the image!
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Moped driver's offers to officer land him in jail
A moped-riding would-be gigolo is behind bars this morning for trying to bribe a female police officer with $5 and an offer of intimacy.
IndyStar (http://www.indystar.com/article/20110314/NEWS02/103140357/Moped-driver-s-offers-officer-land-him-jail?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|IndyStar.com)
Five bucks, huh? :lmao:
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Moped driver's offers to officer land him in jail
A moped-riding would-be gigolo is behind bars this morning for trying to bribe a female police officer with $5 and an offer of intimacy.
IndyStar (http://www.indystar.com/article/20110314/NEWS02/103140357/Moped-driver-s-offers-officer-land-him-jail?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|IndyStar.com)
Five bucks, huh? :lmao:
Was Rebel in Indianapolis lately?!?!?!?!?
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IndyStar (http://www.indystar.com/article/20110314/NEWS02/103140357/Moped-driver-s-offers-officer-land-him-jail?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|IndyStar.com)
Five bucks, huh? :lmao:
Was Rebel in Indianapolis lately?!?!?!?!?
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