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dozer
- Hammer Time
- Location: umbc
- Contact:
It now says that due to contractual obligations, they can't play it on the website til Dec 5th. Goddamnit.
"All you lazy bastards, you don't build no castles!"
-Jim Bishop.
-Jim Bishop.
Sisyphus wrote: If, on the other hand, a full-on revolution starts within one year, you will provide me your mailing address and I will send you the balsa wood box for you to eat. Provided I haven't already eaten it. In which case I will send you an object of equal or lesser value that hasn't been eaten, provided it is as edible as balsa and is of nearly equvalent volume (empty).
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erosvamp
- Sophisticated Meat Machine
- Location: denver
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"If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less." -General Eric Shinseki
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erosvamp
- Sophisticated Meat Machine
- Location: denver
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Respect.

Respect.
"If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less." -General Eric Shinseki
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sweetpea
- Maltov Rattlecan
- Location: Richmond
- Contact:
did you try this link?
http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/251889
that's what i used to watch it about an hour ago.
http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/251889
that's what i used to watch it about an hour ago.
dachshund must be german for 'insane dog'
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erosvamp
- Sophisticated Meat Machine
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This is not a secret society... Bruawbrabrabrabrabra.
We may have blah tastes in bikes but our taste in cars is awesome.
This is not a secret society... Bruawbrabrabrabrabra.
We may have blah tastes in bikes but our taste in cars is awesome.
"If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less." -General Eric Shinseki
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dozer
- Hammer Time
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Due to pre-existing Contractual Obligations, we cannot stream this episode untilsweetpea wrote:did you try this link?
http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/251889
that's what i used to watch it about an hour ago.
12.05.09
Browse below to select another episode
"All you lazy bastards, you don't build no castles!"
-Jim Bishop.
-Jim Bishop.
Sisyphus wrote: If, on the other hand, a full-on revolution starts within one year, you will provide me your mailing address and I will send you the balsa wood box for you to eat. Provided I haven't already eaten it. In which case I will send you an object of equal or lesser value that hasn't been eaten, provided it is as edible as balsa and is of nearly equvalent volume (empty).
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erosvamp
- Sophisticated Meat Machine
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dozer
- Hammer Time
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Omgz ty ily.
EDITZ
the gods must really hate me, with 6 minutes left the website removed the video. I'll just make it up in my head.
EDITZ
the gods must really hate me, with 6 minutes left the website removed the video. I'll just make it up in my head.
"All you lazy bastards, you don't build no castles!"
-Jim Bishop.
-Jim Bishop.
Sisyphus wrote: If, on the other hand, a full-on revolution starts within one year, you will provide me your mailing address and I will send you the balsa wood box for you to eat. Provided I haven't already eaten it. In which case I will send you an object of equal or lesser value that hasn't been eaten, provided it is as edible as balsa and is of nearly equvalent volume (empty).
- Mean Chuck
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The Shifty Jesus
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Not if the front is still missingRev wrote:To paraphrase a friend of mine for whom this is a pet peeve-- All chaps are assless. Chaps that cover your ass have a name. That name is "pants."
You can buy status, but sucking is immutable. After a certain point, upgrading only makes you suck more ostentatiously.
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calamari kid
- Ayatollah of Mayhem
- Location: Lake Shitty
Apparently the admin at Bad Weather Bikers is a South Park fan.


"Go soothingly on the grease mud, as there lurks the skid demon." -Honda manual circa 1962
"Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba...." -Hunter S Thompson
"A psychotic is a guy who's just found out what's going on." -William S. Burroughs
"Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba...." -Hunter S Thompson
"A psychotic is a guy who's just found out what's going on." -William S. Burroughs
- SSCAM
- Barista of Doom
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I noticed today that the "Fags" forum has been changed to:calamari kid wrote:Apparently the admin at Bad Weather Bikers is a South Park fan.
Bravo.BadWeB wrote:Harley is Dead to BadWeB
and so will this topic soon be.

de•moc•ra•cy
\di-ˈmä-krə-sē\ n. 1.Mob Rule, whereby fifty-one percent of the people may vote away the rights of the other forty-nine. 2.Tyranny by majority.
\di-ˈmä-krə-sē\ n. 1.Mob Rule, whereby fifty-one percent of the people may vote away the rights of the other forty-nine. 2.Tyranny by majority.
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motorpsycho67
- Double-dip Diogenes
- Location: City of Angels
Vespalina wrote: it hits a little too close to home and they're just to embarrassed by the truthfulness of it.
Bingo.
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'75 Honda CB400F
'82 Kawalski GPz750
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'82 Kawalski GPz750
etc.
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Beemer Dan
- Dark Poohbah
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Word just in from one of the Brothahs checkin out this thread that there might be some malware seeds in one of the above links. I couldn't find anything afoul myself, but I'm on the football and it's got arse for drilling equipment. So as the old Latin phrase goes: careful what you click, it might try to stolez yer megahertz. I'll look again when I get back to the fridge and see if I can find any nasty bits.
Back to the subject, I've been outta the loop too much
Someone sent me the linky to this 'sode back when it aired, and I promptly forgot. If there's one thing about a head injury, it's ... um... wtf was I saying? Anyhu, yeah. South Park is genius about poking fun at any and everything. If you're offended, they got it right. If you're entertained, they got it right. If you're baffled, they got it right. It's almost that they only way they can lose is if it doesn't strike a chord at all. I can't wait to see this one.
Adam Corolla is a jackass, but IMO a relatively funny and entertaining one. I don't always or even often agree with him, but entertaining he is. He's a bit like those blowhards on fox news, except we're more likely to agree with some of what he says, and he's not trying to make anyone believe he's telling some truth to be taken as gospel. Would any of us do any better if given a broadband soapbox with thousands of drooling fools on the other end? Nah. I'm willing to be that the crap he's got rolling around in his gray matter is a hell of a lot more enlightening and interesting than what he airs, but most people go for 10cent humor over enlightenment. Hell, it's 6:30am, you're on the second cup of coffee and looking towards a 10 hour day at a job that is a pain in your ass. You don't want enlightenment. If someone started in with Immanuel Kant or Thucidities you would punch them the fuck out. Corolla hits his mark, but don't take it as anything more than flab entertainment. (same could be said for any of us half the time).
Now as far as his rant about dicks, let's not tell him that there are dicks on every and any kind of bike. Hell, he likely knows, it's just that there was a certain kind of dick poking him in the eye so that's the one he went off about. Anytime someone starts talking crap about all these RUBs and how fake they are, and how they aren't like the "real bikers" of the old days, I want to shit in their mouth. That "old school" myth of the "real biker" is a fucking clown suit that was invented by Hollywood, the press, the fashion industry and law enforcement. The only thing that makes a real motorcyclist is you and the fucking bike, riding. Everything else is bullshit you can't say and you can't hear when you're riding. There's a reason we picked a hobby that involves wind noise and bugs that will fly into your mouth. Being a motorcyclist isn't a fundamentalist religion, it requires no fancy clown suit, no payments to false gods. it's something you do. Motorcycling is like philosophy, if you aren't doing it, your aren't doing it at all let alone doing it right.
Also, if Corolla doesn't like dickish people, what ze fuck is he doing in California? No offense to our 'fornian Ootmik, (they be exceptions, even the lawyer) but the only place with more dick per capita is D.C., or the Dickstrict as it's known by many. California, for all of it's wonders, is a damn haven and breeding ground for dicks of all shapes and sizes. This is a city where a fancy car and dippy haircut will open more doors for you than a college degree. Any wonder that it's so packed with dickflesh you can get genital warts from looking at a map of the place? I love the place, but it's full up with dick...and they are getting rid of the palm trees, assholes.
I do agree that super loud pipes that invade everyone else's ears are fucking stupid. I also know lots of really cool folx that have loud as hell pipes, and they aren't bad people. Some of them are the best people I know. I also know some folx with flat black helmets, and I'd trust em with my left nut (not the right one, I don't even trust myself with the right one...damn sinister it is). I think we've all been guilty of generalizing at times, and often when we do so, we generalize in the opposite direction about a similar group, just so we seem like we're being fair about the whole thing. Sounds like that's what he was doing, adding in the wing for the wang.
I'm in agreement with Brothah Magnus in the principle that yeah, I do give a fuck what other people think. I shower, try to act somewhat polite and respectable, brush my goddamn teef, etc.. But I don't think any of us could give a fuck (existential or otherwise) about idiots out there that would judge us for what we ride, how we ride, what we wear, if our leather pants have asses, etc.. We're not going to bend over backwards to be absolute individuals, too much damn work. At the same time, we don't want to fall lock-step into anyone else's "cool scene". Yeah, I'm pretty sure because we'd all fail horribly. No offense Brothahs and Sistahs, but you would all make shitty poseurs. Any of you that can pull it off however, you aughtta move to Hollywood and get a job in movies. Better brush up on your dicklish tho.
Also Brothah Magnus, I do find myself objecting to you putting apehangers on your bike. At some point Brothah Dozerone is going to take your bike out for a spin (that's just what he does), and I worry about him doing wheelies with those things on there. Please folx, think of the Dozerz.
Back to the subject, I've been outta the loop too much
Adam Corolla is a jackass, but IMO a relatively funny and entertaining one. I don't always or even often agree with him, but entertaining he is. He's a bit like those blowhards on fox news, except we're more likely to agree with some of what he says, and he's not trying to make anyone believe he's telling some truth to be taken as gospel. Would any of us do any better if given a broadband soapbox with thousands of drooling fools on the other end? Nah. I'm willing to be that the crap he's got rolling around in his gray matter is a hell of a lot more enlightening and interesting than what he airs, but most people go for 10cent humor over enlightenment. Hell, it's 6:30am, you're on the second cup of coffee and looking towards a 10 hour day at a job that is a pain in your ass. You don't want enlightenment. If someone started in with Immanuel Kant or Thucidities you would punch them the fuck out. Corolla hits his mark, but don't take it as anything more than flab entertainment. (same could be said for any of us half the time).
Now as far as his rant about dicks, let's not tell him that there are dicks on every and any kind of bike. Hell, he likely knows, it's just that there was a certain kind of dick poking him in the eye so that's the one he went off about. Anytime someone starts talking crap about all these RUBs and how fake they are, and how they aren't like the "real bikers" of the old days, I want to shit in their mouth. That "old school" myth of the "real biker" is a fucking clown suit that was invented by Hollywood, the press, the fashion industry and law enforcement. The only thing that makes a real motorcyclist is you and the fucking bike, riding. Everything else is bullshit you can't say and you can't hear when you're riding. There's a reason we picked a hobby that involves wind noise and bugs that will fly into your mouth. Being a motorcyclist isn't a fundamentalist religion, it requires no fancy clown suit, no payments to false gods. it's something you do. Motorcycling is like philosophy, if you aren't doing it, your aren't doing it at all let alone doing it right.
Also, if Corolla doesn't like dickish people, what ze fuck is he doing in California? No offense to our 'fornian Ootmik, (they be exceptions, even the lawyer) but the only place with more dick per capita is D.C., or the Dickstrict as it's known by many. California, for all of it's wonders, is a damn haven and breeding ground for dicks of all shapes and sizes. This is a city where a fancy car and dippy haircut will open more doors for you than a college degree. Any wonder that it's so packed with dickflesh you can get genital warts from looking at a map of the place? I love the place, but it's full up with dick...and they are getting rid of the palm trees, assholes.
I do agree that super loud pipes that invade everyone else's ears are fucking stupid. I also know lots of really cool folx that have loud as hell pipes, and they aren't bad people. Some of them are the best people I know. I also know some folx with flat black helmets, and I'd trust em with my left nut (not the right one, I don't even trust myself with the right one...damn sinister it is). I think we've all been guilty of generalizing at times, and often when we do so, we generalize in the opposite direction about a similar group, just so we seem like we're being fair about the whole thing. Sounds like that's what he was doing, adding in the wing for the wang.
I'm in agreement with Brothah Magnus in the principle that yeah, I do give a fuck what other people think. I shower, try to act somewhat polite and respectable, brush my goddamn teef, etc.. But I don't think any of us could give a fuck (existential or otherwise) about idiots out there that would judge us for what we ride, how we ride, what we wear, if our leather pants have asses, etc.. We're not going to bend over backwards to be absolute individuals, too much damn work. At the same time, we don't want to fall lock-step into anyone else's "cool scene". Yeah, I'm pretty sure because we'd all fail horribly. No offense Brothahs and Sistahs, but you would all make shitty poseurs. Any of you that can pull it off however, you aughtta move to Hollywood and get a job in movies. Better brush up on your dicklish tho.
Also Brothah Magnus, I do find myself objecting to you putting apehangers on your bike. At some point Brothah Dozerone is going to take your bike out for a spin (that's just what he does), and I worry about him doing wheelies with those things on there. Please folx, think of the Dozerz.
They swore it was the correct one, but swearing doesn't make a sprocket fit where it doesn't want to. --WeAintFoundShit
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motorpsycho67
- Double-dip Diogenes
- Location: City of Angels
I disagree.Beemer Dan wrote:That "old school" myth of the "real biker" is a fucking clown suit that was invented by Hollywood, the press, the fashion industry and law enforcement.
It wasn't invented by Hollywood or anyone else.
(Most of) The guys that were riding HDs before the marketing onslaught by HD in the late 80s/early 90s rode them because they liked the freakin bikes and wanted to buy American and wanted a piece of that lifestyle.
Then HD decides to market that lifestyle to all and sundry.
Thus was born the RUB, credit card biker, chromosexual, etc.
People who bought the hype first, the bike second.
The "old school, real biker" is by comparison anyone who rides an HD
and doesn't buy into all the hype. The "FTF" guys for example. (Fuck the Factory, for those uninitiated)
The way I see it, I'd have fuck all in common with these chromosexual RUBs if you took away their Harleys.
I only half agree.Beemer Dan wrote: The only thing that makes a real motorcyclist is you and the fucking bike, riding. Everything else is bullshit you can't say and you can't hear when you're riding.
When you're on your chromed out douchecanoe that screams "HEY, LOOK AT ME!" wearing your official HD Motorclothes, and the attention you draw is more important than the ride, you're a douchebag poser.
But, that's my perspective. Gained from working for HD for 8 years and being subjected to both RUB and genuine HD enthusiast (biker).
'75 Honda CB400F
'82 Kawalski GPz750
etc.
'82 Kawalski GPz750
etc.
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dozer
- Hammer Time
- Location: umbc
- Contact:
As I understand the term RUB to mean rich urban biker, I find nothing wrong with the definition itself, and a rich person that lives in a city (or, i suppose, isn't a fucking country ass bumpkin..) and rides a bike has my respect as much as anyone else that goes out on the streets on a motorcycle. It just seems like anything can be complained about; too much chrome, too big a windshield, fucking highway pegs, some bullshit...I'm riding a big ass fucking douche canoe these days while my bike is in the shop, full bagger...radio, windscreen, radio, and a bunch of chrome, pretty paint...and a few months ago, I probably would have laughed at myself, waving but thinking "oh what a twat". But you know what, I've been putting probably 100 miles a day on it, easily..and cars cut me off just as much, people ride my ass just as much, pay just as little attention to my exposed but slightly more cushioned ass...and even if I had some loud ass pipes on it, who the fuck cares? it's nobody's bike but my own, and nobody has to like it...
Motopsycho, you say you have fuck-all in common with the chromosexual (i like the term) HD biker guy...so? what the fuck brings this place together? barbie dolls? It's about motorcycles, for the most part...and this place happens to be filled with people of above average intelligence and interesting ideas...I mean no offense when I say this, but if we just saw eachother on the street, how likely would it be that we spontaneously started a conversation? More likely if motorcycles were involved in that equation, methinks...
If someone got into biking because they thought the hd marketing was coooool, and they wanted to, ya know, ride with teh wolves or whatever the fuck, who gives a shit...I've met some kick ass people on harleys, people that didn't hesitate to help me out, giving me a place to work on my bike and letting me admire their hidden collection of old harleys...and you know what? they had jean vests on and some fucking HD sturgis or whatever goddamn place tee-shirts on...so wtf is it with all the judgment being passed on the different biker groups..if the people are assholes, they are assholes, but I'll try my best not to try and nail people into a certain square just because of the bike they ride or their aesthetic tastes in motorcycles...god knows what the fuck people think when I roll up, why do I want to do that to someone else...
Motopsycho, you say you have fuck-all in common with the chromosexual (i like the term) HD biker guy...so? what the fuck brings this place together? barbie dolls? It's about motorcycles, for the most part...and this place happens to be filled with people of above average intelligence and interesting ideas...I mean no offense when I say this, but if we just saw eachother on the street, how likely would it be that we spontaneously started a conversation? More likely if motorcycles were involved in that equation, methinks...
If someone got into biking because they thought the hd marketing was coooool, and they wanted to, ya know, ride with teh wolves or whatever the fuck, who gives a shit...I've met some kick ass people on harleys, people that didn't hesitate to help me out, giving me a place to work on my bike and letting me admire their hidden collection of old harleys...and you know what? they had jean vests on and some fucking HD sturgis or whatever goddamn place tee-shirts on...so wtf is it with all the judgment being passed on the different biker groups..if the people are assholes, they are assholes, but I'll try my best not to try and nail people into a certain square just because of the bike they ride or their aesthetic tastes in motorcycles...god knows what the fuck people think when I roll up, why do I want to do that to someone else...
"All you lazy bastards, you don't build no castles!"
-Jim Bishop.
-Jim Bishop.
Sisyphus wrote: If, on the other hand, a full-on revolution starts within one year, you will provide me your mailing address and I will send you the balsa wood box for you to eat. Provided I haven't already eaten it. In which case I will send you an object of equal or lesser value that hasn't been eaten, provided it is as edible as balsa and is of nearly equvalent volume (empty).
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motorpsycho67
- Double-dip Diogenes
- Location: City of Angels
dozerone wrote:As I understand the term RUB to mean rich urban biker, I find nothing wrong with the definition itself, and a rich person that lives in a city (or, i suppose, isn't a fucking country ass bumpkin..) and rides a bike has my respect as much as anyone else that goes out on the streets on a motorcycle. It just seems like anything can be complained about; too much chrome, too big a windshield, fucking highway pegs, some bullshit...I'm riding a big ass fucking douche canoe these days while my bike is in the shop, full bagger...radio, windscreen, radio, and a bunch of chrome, pretty paint...and a few months ago, I probably would have laughed at myself, waving but thinking "oh what a twat". But you know what, I've been putting probably 100 miles a day on it, easily..and cars cut me off just as much, people ride my ass just as much, pay just as little attention to my exposed but slightly more cushioned ass...and even if I had some loud ass pipes on it, who the fuck cares? it's nobody's bike but my own, and nobody has to like it...
Motopsycho, you say you have fuck-all in common with the chromosexual (i like the term) HD biker guy...so? what the fuck brings this place together? barbie dolls? It's about motorcycles, for the most part...and this place happens to be filled with people of above average intelligence and interesting ideas...I mean no offense when I say this, but if we just saw eachother on the street, how likely would it be that we spontaneously started a conversation? More likely if motorcycles were involved in that equation, methinks...
If someone got into biking because they thought the hd marketing was coooool, and they wanted to, ya know, ride with teh wolves or whatever the fuck, who gives a shit...I've met some kick ass people on harleys, people that didn't hesitate to help me out, giving me a place to work on my bike and letting me admire their hidden collection of old harleys...and you know what? they had jean vests on and some fucking HD sturgis or whatever goddamn place tee-shirts on...so wtf is it with all the judgment being passed on the different biker groups..if the people are assholes, they are assholes, but I'll try my best not to try and nail people into a certain square just because of the bike they ride or their aesthetic tastes in motorcycles...god knows what the fuck people think when I roll up, why do I want to do that to someone else...
It ain't the bike, it's the douchebag on it.
I have plenty of friends that ride Harleys.
RUB and chromosexual don't refer to anyone on a Harley, but a certain type. The type that has to have constant attention, hence the chromed out douchecanoe. The type that must buy every chrome bit and non-functional bauble to dangle off their douchecanoe and the latest piece of HarleyWear...... bro.
I have no problem with the bikes, I've owned one myself.
I'm intimately familiar with HD and it's riders, having wrenched for 'em for 8 years. Some of 'em were cool, but the majority (at the stealership) were RUBs that didn't get it.
If UTMC were all chromed out douchecanoe riding HOG members, would you have joined? I wouldn't.
Why not invite all the chopper guys here? I mean, they ride right?
Hooray For Choppers!
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roadmissile
- Chief Marketing Schwaggerizer
- Location: CO
I may have misinterpreted here, but I'm pretty sure Dan was going back to several decades before the eighties and nineties with his fucking clown suit line....motorpsycho67 wrote:I disagree.Beemer Dan wrote:That "old school" myth of the "real biker" is a fucking clown suit that was invented by Hollywood, the press, the fashion industry and law enforcement.
It wasn't invented by Hollywood or anyone else.
(Most of) The guys that were riding HDs before the marketing onslaught by HD in the late 80s/early 90s rode them because they liked the freakin bikes and wanted to buy American and wanted a piece of that lifestyle.
Also, as far as I know all the chopper guys do have a standing invite here, but in the UTMC, like fight club, you decide your own level of involvement, and most of them don't seem to gel.
Pretty much the universal glue that I've encountered this last year meeting a whole bunch of the non-denver crew is a fucked up sense of humor and some good conversation.
Hey dozer, what's it like having two radios on that bike?
/RM
/Speed is our religion.
"If requests are an option, I'd like to be hit by a beautiful and highly trained nurse, driving a marshmallow. Naked. And then she would buy me an ice cream." - Rev
"If requests are an option, I'd like to be hit by a beautiful and highly trained nurse, driving a marshmallow. Naked. And then she would buy me an ice cream." - Rev
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dozer
- Hammer Time
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It works really, suprisingly well. Cruise at 85-90mph with a full face helmet on, and I can hear every word of every song or podcast I'm listening to. I really, really love the Royal Star Venture, it can boogey suprisingly quickly and with relative agility, once you get used to it and stop fearing its heft.roadmissile wrote: Hey dozer, what's it like having two radios on that bike?
/RM
"All you lazy bastards, you don't build no castles!"
-Jim Bishop.
-Jim Bishop.
Sisyphus wrote: If, on the other hand, a full-on revolution starts within one year, you will provide me your mailing address and I will send you the balsa wood box for you to eat. Provided I haven't already eaten it. In which case I will send you an object of equal or lesser value that hasn't been eaten, provided it is as edible as balsa and is of nearly equvalent volume (empty).
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calamari kid
- Ayatollah of Mayhem
- Location: Lake Shitty
QFTmotorpsycho67 wrote:
It ain't the bike, it's the douchebag on it.
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The problem with Harley is they've decided to market a lifestyle, and lots of folks have bought into that. That's not a problem with the bike, it's a problem with the MoCo and the folks that buy into their BS. The type who think that Harley is the only "true bike" and look down their noses at any other marque.
Having ridden a Guzzi standard for the last three years has been an interesting experience. Ferry docks make a good lab for observing social interaction in the motorcycle community. All sorts of bikes and riders standing around for twenty minutes or so waiting for the next boat. I enjoy checking out the different bikes, and striking up the occasional conversation. Riders on metric cruisers, standards, older bikes, are almost always up for a bit of yakking, and the oddball on the Cagiva will talk your ear off. I'd say I run into the same ratio of nose in the air douche bags on Harleys as sportbikes. The latter just have the advantage of being spread out across a number of brands.
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"Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba...." -Hunter S Thompson
"A psychotic is a guy who's just found out what's going on." -William S. Burroughs
"Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba...." -Hunter S Thompson
"A psychotic is a guy who's just found out what's going on." -William S. Burroughs
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motorpsycho67
- Double-dip Diogenes
- Location: City of Angels
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dozer
- Hammer Time
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I totally agree. At first, I was hesitant about it, trying to tell my cousin that he should have bought something else. I have since reconsidered, my only real gripes with it are that it won't let you use cruise control over 85mph, and there is a distinct lack of ground clearance. I scraped both sides crash bars in corners, nothing too bad but definitely disconcerting when you realize that's as much as you're going to lean the fuckin thing over and you're still turning...Do you know of any mods that garner some extra powaahhh? I think it's sufficient, but my cousin mentioned it lacking grunt for him.
"All you lazy bastards, you don't build no castles!"
-Jim Bishop.
-Jim Bishop.
Sisyphus wrote: If, on the other hand, a full-on revolution starts within one year, you will provide me your mailing address and I will send you the balsa wood box for you to eat. Provided I haven't already eaten it. In which case I will send you an object of equal or lesser value that hasn't been eaten, provided it is as edible as balsa and is of nearly equvalent volume (empty).