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Messing Around While Riding

Bonerov said:
Exactly, mean dad. Reminds me of that shitty Kelly Clarkson song about never walking too far from the sidewalk. As previously stated, there is a time and place, and the trust has to be there. Sure, if someone from whom I wasn't expecting it did that to me, there would be hell to pay. If it's my brother, I would just get him back later while laughing my ass off. Lighten up and live a little, folks.
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Am I the only one disturbed by this post?

Quoting a Kelly Clarkson song?

:wtf
 
corndog67 said:
And ST guy, I've been doing this a long time, if shit happens, well, nobody to blame but ourselves. I guess fun has a different meaning to different people. A lot of people ride scared, afraid to take risks, if I was afraid to take risks, I wouldn't ride a streetbike.
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Nobody to blame but yourselves.......

How's that going to feel if something goes wrong? "Oh, I'm sorry I fucked up you big time. 'Hope you heal up fast and can ride again some day."

And for the record, while some may ride "scared", I sure as fuck don't ride scared. I love riding and it's fun as hell. And I don't ride slow either. And I love street riding for the challenges it provides getting from point A to point B safely. But I also know that riding is a risk every time get on the bike. There's enough risk and danger riding without increasing that risk for someone else for stupid pranks.
 
Sure are making a lot of judgements there ST, but it sounds like you ride scared. Having fun is different things to different people. I doubt if you would like riding with our little group. I trust the guys I ride with. I would assume they trust me, or they wouldn't ride with me.

If something happens, it happens. You could get hit by a bus just sitting in your living room.

But apparently, we accept the risks involved with riding together, or we wouldn't do it. You make a big jump from some guys having fun, and accepting the way we do it, to making it a deadly way of riding, which it isn't.

But hey, have fun out there. See you on the road.
 
8 years ago but not anymore. Maybe at most click their kill switch when stopped at a light now days. Even back then, hitting each other's kill switch while crusing down the open highway was about it.

Oh yeah and the occasional tire bump when coming to a stop or at a stop. Or trying to make the other guy "tippy" by pushing on the side of the rear wheel with my front tire when I'm stopped behind. Or smacking the other guy's visor shut as you ride by. Or putting the kick stand down at a stop, so when the other clicks into gear to take off, the engine dies.
 
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Over the years, there have been a variety of shenanigans among trusted friends. Nobody lost an eye or died:

A fellow coach kill-switched me coming into the hot pit at VIR. Parked his bike and hopped over the inside pit wall to debrief his students, who were facing his bike. And me, as I drifted up next to it quietly. We keep sharpies in a holder on our tanks to keep notes; I dropped his into one of his gloves with the tip facing out. Everybody saw it but the other coach. When it came time to go back out, he tried to put his glove on and scribbled all over his hand.

Back when we had fuel petcocks, it was great sport for the mechanic to shut off a guy's petcock. You'd take off after a student and a quarter of a lap later you'd suck the float bowl dry. Pretty stupid and was fortunately a brief phase. It didn't take long before everyone checked the petcock before every ride.

Standing burnouts at red lights with a buddy right behind.

Brought a co-worker's motorcycle up the elevator and into the fourth floor lobby on his birthday. The rest of the team had just left to take him out to lunch; it was the first thing he saw upon returning to work.
 
Whatever........

I've never ridden scared. Just respectful of what I'm doing. Have I pushed it and damn near killed myself? You bet. I have little respect of the double yellow, no hesitation for passing when it's safe, lane split all the time, and I can't remember when I rode at the speed limit.
 
mean dad said:
dude, stfu. it's been explained numerous fucking times that it is done relatively safely, with people who are known and trusted.
if you can't see that, then fuck off and cry.
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There we go....."relatively safely".

And thanks for the sentiment. The moderators might be interested in that one. Who shoved a catus up your behind?
 
ST Guy said:
Whatever........

I've never ridden scared. Just respectful of what I'm doing. Have I pushed it and damn near killed myself? You bet. I have little respect of the double yellow, no hesitation for passing when it's safe, lane split all the time, and I can't remember when I rode at the speed limit.
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You're amply making the point that we each get to choose which unwise things to do. :)
 
ST Guy said:
Whatever........

I have little respect of the double yellow...and I can't remember when I rode at the speed limit.
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So you're reckless, but not playful. Got it. :rofl

Yes, I am aware that my deletions changed the context of your statements. :rolleyes




















(If you had a sense of humor you would have known that before scrolling down this far) :twofinger
 
tzrider said:
Over the years, there have been a variety of shenanigans among trusted friends. Nobody lost an eye or died:
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Nobody lost an eye. Did you run with the scissors, too? If Billy jumped off a cliff, would you have to, also? (well, Yeah!).

I had a clamp type cruise control. It only took a couple of redline starts before I would check it every time I walked up, and then took it off completely.

One friend we did that too was scared shitless the first time it happened to him, but he eventually turned into one of the bigger instigators.

Some of you guys would be fun to ride with. And we probably wouldn't die while doing it, but you never know, might get hit by a bus while eating lunch. Or a scorpion would crawl in your glove (in case we rode out to the desert) on a break.
 
barf proves, once again, that humor IS subjective :laughing

As long as one HAS a sense of humor, does it matter what others may think ?


Kinda like this; :twofinger
 
As a wise man once said: There's a time and a place for everything. It's called college. :cool
 
revnort said:
That's not funny. :x
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*Nelson voice* Ha Ha :p



I don't think I've EVER been dirt biking when someone didn't get roosted, knocked over, or suckered into a "mr toad's wild ride" :laughing
 
tzrider said:
You're amply making the point that we each get to choose which unwise things to do. :)
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True.

The difference is that what I do when I ride has no direct or immediate effect on others. The intent of the action isn't to mess with anyone else. (Though that's not to say that something couldn't happen, we all know it does.)

However, deliberately messing with someone or their ride is a direct and immediate intrusion with immediate consequenses. Hopefully the consequenses are benign and not dire.
 
ST Guy said:
True.

The difference is that what I do when I ride has no direct or immediate effect on others. The intent of the action isn't to mess with anyone else. (Though that's not to say that something couldn't happen, we all know it does.)

However, deliberately messing with someone or their ride is a direct and immediate intrusion with immediate consequenses. Hopefully the consequenses are benign and not dire.
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:facepalm :rolleyes
 
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