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That one lady ("SLOW DOWN")

jraice said:
Haha thats a technique I have seen used a bit ;).

"Oh I thought you were saying rev the bike?"
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As the owner of an old carb'd bike, that runs about eleven turns too rich, I get the added benefit of a sizable fireball when I practice this technique. :teeth
 
Aluisious said:
Yeah, you can't possibly fall down and hit your head in half a block.
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+1.

I road around the block once after doing chain maintenance on the 50cc in a helmet and gloves.

HATED IT.

Not fun riding like that.

Even the first time I road in mesh I felt "naked" compared to my leather.
 
i live near 3 neighbors with harleys, another neighbor that wants a bike, 3 other neighbors with big loud trucks, and another neighbor with a dirt bike, oh and another with an suv, so i dont they care about my bike...then again, my apartment manager always pms's about my motorcycle, even though no one else does...
 
Aluisious said:
Yeah, you can't possibly fall down and hit your head in half a block.
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jraice said:
+1.

I road around the block once after doing chain maintenance on the 50cc in a helmet and gloves.

HATED IT.

Not fun riding like that.

Even the first time I road in mesh I felt "naked" compared to my leather.
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I never roaded around the block myself.. LOL :rofl you two guys are out of whack really.. hope you always double-bag it!
 
Well I hope you feel the same way if you go down checking your chain without your helmet on and end up spending your life as a poster child for wearing helmets.

And for the most part with my riding it wasnt the sensation of not being protected but rather I just felt like I looked like a squid. Not only was I not wearing a lot of gear but I was tearing around on a 50cc motorcycle, atleast when I have some gear on the people around me took me seriously even though I was on a tiny bike.

But yeah when I did borrow my dads mesh harley jacket once to try it out and road in the twisties I was not a huge fan, I have road in the twisties in mesh and jeans, I wont lie but that was a rare occurance and not a smart one at that. I now almost exclusively wear full gear and am looking to get some leather pants to match my jacket for the twisties.
 
If you knew what answers you were going to get, why post?

Right or wrong, every person you piss off is one more asshole on the road that thinks we're all self-absorbed adrenaline charged asphalt stains waiting to happen.

She lives in your neighborhood. Stop and talk to her. Introduce yourself. Explain that you know the bike is loud, but it's not as fast as it seems from the noise. You know there's kids i nthe street in the neighborhood, so you try to keep it down and you actually ride slower than the cars. Worst case, she just scowls from then on and probably stops complaining to everyone about the jerk on the motorcycle. Best case, is she's so surprised by the confrontation that you get the full stammering deer-in-the-headlights that will give you more satisfaction than a throttle blip ever could.

And it's not endangering other riders.
 
AbsolutEnduser said:
I never roaded around the block myself.. LOL :rofl you two guys are out of whack really.. hope you always double-bag it!
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They work better used alone.

True story.

But yeah don't listen to us, this guy knows all about how helmets are for pussies.

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islemann said:
To throw a little adult into the fray:
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As to the 'show her what a drummer exhaust sounds when you roll it on hard' moment...uh...that isn't how motorcyclists win friends and influence people.

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There's an old saying - Don't shit where you eat. If you lived in my neighborhood and acted the tool, I'd have no problem waving, gesticulating or knocking on your front door to let you know in no uncertain terms that you're acting like a tool. Keep it cool, slow and mellow where you live. In fact, keep it cool slow and mellow ANYWHERE people live. It's common courtesy.
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Rad...I dig your style man
 
hehe my neighbor gives me the helmet tap when LEOs are in the area :p

thank goodness i have fellow riders as neighbors :teeth :p
 
islemann said:
To throw a little adult into the fray:
I'd say it depends on the street. In most cities the speed limit on residential streets is a paltry 20mph. In some it's even slower. Eugene is 15mph on 'non-posted residential streets and avenues'. Oh, sure that sounds slow but in reality it's fast enough to mush a kid chasing his or her soccer ball into the street.

Save the angst about riding slow for those knotheads who demand you stick to the 55mph posted limit on the wide-open freeway by blocking your safe passage. Or worse, the morons who slow to the cautionary speed posted in corners on a two-lane, then STAY at that speed for the next mile or ten.

As to the 'show her what a drummer exhaust sounds when you roll it on hard' moment...uh...that isn't how motorcyclists win friends and influence people.

There's an old saying - Don't shit where you eat. If you lived in my neighborhood and acted the tool, I'd have no problem waving, gesticulating or knocking on your front door to let you know in no uncertain terms that you're acting like a tool. Keep it cool, slow and mellow where you live. In fact, keep it cool slow and mellow ANYWHERE people live. It's common courtesy.
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All due respect to you , but you're a bit off base with your criticisms of the O.P. , not that your words don't have merit. BUT in the majority of Calif. the speed limit in residential neighborhoods the speed limit is 25mph , the O.P. was *already* proceeding slowly and *under* the speed limits and exercising courtesy and caution.

What he's got is the equivalent of a neighborhood hall monitor , these sorts of people will inevitably complain no matter WHAT you do and quite frankly are a pain in the ass , typically they can't be talked to , can't distinguish one bike from another and will lay the blame at the door of the most convenient target, Which of course will frequently be *any* motorcyclist due to the fact that they often exhibit an anti-motorcycle bias.

And no I personally wouldn't blip the throttle or anything , I just ignore them and go on my way.

We had to deal with a set of these in Mt.View many years ago , at one point they called to local gendarmerie claiming that I was wheelying up and down the street , I opened the garage and pointed out to the officer that every single bike in the garage was dead cold and hadn't been out of the garage at all that day. The irony of this is the fact that they complained so much that there was finally a radar trap set up and guess who the first individuals ticketed were? Both of them , her for 12 over and him at a cool 51 mph in a 25 zone.

And of course then they complained to the entire neighborhood about that.



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Bluenote said:
What he's got is the equivalent of a neighborhood hall monitor , these sorts of people will inevitably complain no matter WHAT you do and quite frankly are a pain in the ass , typically they can't be talked to , can't distinguish one bike from another and will lay the blame at the door of the most convenient target, Which of course will frequently be *any* motorcyclist due to the fact that they often exhibit an anti-motorcycle bias. .
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My sister has one of those in her neighborhood, and she (the LOL) shakes her fist at any vehicle she feels is going too fast. :laughing

I actually stopped and talked to her, explained that I was doing under 25 MPH and that smaller vehicles appear to be going faster than larger vehicles. She wanted to argue- I wished her a good day.

After that I'd just wave back to her.:rofl
 
I always stand on the pegs and make violent thrusting motions with my pelvis when that happens.
 
I think it's time to stop being nice AT ALL to people who are out of bounds. Of course, that makes it all the more important that you aren't actually being a douche yourself, but if you really aren't, get off your bike and give them hell!!

Go ahead, set them straight, and be angry about it. Bring up all the SUVs that get a pass, and the fact that they are just prejudiced against bikes because they watch too much TV and don't live in the real world.

Being nice to these fucks just makes them think they're doing good, and they are actually more likely preventing rational people from speaking up, because who wants to be *That guy* when there already is a kook in the neighborhood?

Personally, I'm ready to heave a brick through the windshield of passing speeders on my street....I try to think of that when I'm going a little fast through a populated section of a mountain road.
 
I took a quick look at some of your previous posts. Lets see. . . you're under 21, been riding about a year, live in Los Gatos and own a BRAND new Buell. You write about your "dad" alot. Do you still live at home? My first guess was that you fitted a loud fucking exhaust pipe on your Buell, which explains why your neighbor thinks you're a toolbox.

The thing about being old is that you've been around the block a few times and can somtimes draw correct conclusions. I certainly did.

http://www.bayarearidersforum.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4855205#post4855205
 
When people yell at me (which isn't very often because I try to be respectful), I blow them kisses and say, "I love you, too".

Really throws them off. :wtf
 
A polite conversation explaining how you are doing the speed limit and maybe explaining how bikes sound faster than they are going? Dunno call me ccccccraaaaaazzzyyyy for thinking people can actually talk to each other in an adult civil manner to resolve ordinary occurances like this.
 
I gotta admit that I'm the 38 year old male Little Old Lady in my block.
I live a block from a library, a block away from a park, two blocks from 3 different church/religious schools. And it's not the motorcycles. I rarely, if ever, see them speed in the neighborhood. And it's rarely the racer/imports.
Typically it's the soccer mom's in their SUV's doing way over the speed limit and blowing the stop signs to drop off junior at school because they are late for work or speeding and blowing stops signs after picking up junior. Typically with a cell phone glued to their ear.
It's biased... mom's dropping off junior at catholic school are better/more upstanding people than those hoodlum motorcycle heathens.
My picture of the world differs from that.
 
When someone motions that I should slow down, I immediately stoppie, get off the bike, push it onto their lawn, and then mow their grass via the burnout method.

The kids love it.
 
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