Author Topic: Any Bikers in here? (Read 10021 times)

moot · « **Reply #210 on:** February 24, 2005, 05:58:34 AM »

I dunno, do you feel concerned?

Swoop · « **Reply #211 on:** February 24, 2005, 06:27:34 AM »

Explaining the latin quote without making me go look it up would be nice......

Staga · « **Reply #212 on:** February 24, 2005, 06:30:32 AM »

You shouldn't argue about colours and tastes.

Ex oriente lux

(Light will come from east

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indy007 · « **Reply #213 on:** February 24, 2005, 08:09:29 AM »

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Originally posted by cpxxx
Yes but it would only bwwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaa between 6000 and 8500 RPM. Below that it was all ring a ding. You had to ride it fast, (Officer ) to keep it in the powerband. But I did find it weaved a bit on long curves at about 90. One of the best bikes of the eighties and the most stolen. Ask any robber, it was the ideal getaway bike. Mine did two armed robberies that I'm aware of. (I have an alibi, Officer) and had a new identity stamped on the frame.

I used to get stopped a lot because of the way I rode it. I even dressed like on a robber. If I stopped outside a Building Society or a Newsagent, you could see the staff looking nervously out the window. Ah happy happy days. I wonder if I could pick up a decent one somewhere. I thrashed mine to death.

A bike as a getaway ride sure worked great for this guy...

lazs2 · « **Reply #214 on:** February 24, 2005, 08:27:56 AM »

I guess it boils down to taste. I think that the sport bikes are hidious looking. I think road race bikes are hidious looking too... boring and plastic and gaudy.

Street bikes aren't race bikes and they would go just as fast if they didn't look exactly like a dayglo race bike... they are pretenders.

To me.. it is like a car coming out that looked exactly like a NASCAR ride. Or... puting headlights and soft suspension and a licence plate on a formula one car. sure... it would be very capable and you would probly be safer in you nomex suit and helmet and 5 point harness and all but...

You would be a pretender... You may be able to go around corners faster than the family sedan and convince us all how fcomfortable your formula one car wanna be is and how it is "just like" the real F1 car but... you are a pretender

I guess I just like things that don't pretend to be something they are not unless it is the other way around.... I like something that doesn't look that capable but really is... we call them "sleepers"

your phony formula car will never compete with a real one on the track.

To sumarize... I think that it is all pretty phony and a fad. I also think they are smurfy... I would rather talk to a guy on an old moto guzzi than one on a brand new neon sport bike.

Sport bikes are like the old superbird plymouths or dodge daytona things with the hemis and huge wings and such that were sold some decades back.... very fast cars good stuff in em but phony race cars with the whole race car look... incapable of competing with a real race car.

I am not uninterested in the tech of them but... no sport bike would grab my eye or hold my interest half as long parked next to an old indian or sqariel or even a earls fork BMW or 40 inch beezer or trumpet. The cookie cutter evolution Harleys hardly get a glance from either. Can't even figure out how people know which one is thiers.

I could not get up any pride of ownership with a sport bike. But... that's just me I guess.

lazs

Staga · « **Reply #215 on:** February 24, 2005, 09:04:35 AM »

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Originally posted by lazs2

I could not get up any pride of ownership with a sport bike. But... that's just me I guess.

lazs

Why would anyone be proud owning a bike? Well maybe if it's a mint condition Vincent or similar but for newer bike?

I've always thought the fun thing is driving your whatever and enjoying it and not just owning something but guess that's just me.

moot · « **Reply #216 on:** February 24, 2005, 09:06:52 AM »

Good context, but not everyone will have it.

If money wasn't an issue, I'd use a ferrari 360 for everything.
Guess if I could have a supermodel wife (another matter of taste as to which one), her dropping and braking things and saying stupid things, I wouldn't mind.
It's just a car/bike, I don't expect more than a good ride from it. Anything else is icing on the cake.

Most likely the majority of riders just want to ride, the only criteria for this being that the tool under their steak is a functional tool, this determined by the intended use.

And you could very well have someone with a taste for variety keeping anything in his garage.
Would you selectively ignore that guy on the days he rides your less preferable bikes?

empty banter :-)

Staga · « **Reply #217 on:** February 24, 2005, 09:28:51 AM »

Now here's the Bike I'd be proud to have... alas, I don't think I'm going to carry such moneys anytime soon...
Maybe I could buy a HD and pretend it's a Vincent

Swoop · « **Reply #218 on:** February 24, 2005, 09:45:43 AM »

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Originally posted by lazs2
I guess it boils down to taste.

By jove I think he's got it!

Yup, it's taste matey. You seem to think sportsbikers are all wannabe racers. I think a sportsbike is the most capable machine legally allowed on the road and choose to ride one exclusively.

Taste.

APDrone · « **Reply #219 on:** February 24, 2005, 04:36:03 PM »

Age
40: 81 Honda CX500D
41: 2001 Honda Sabre

Helmets: I wear one.. even if it weren't by law. Should be rider's choice.

Other types of bikes... If I see you, you get a wave.. no matter what. Just please don't drive in a manner to give all bikers ( motorcycle riders, for you purists ) a bad name.

wombatt · « **Reply #220 on:** February 24, 2005, 04:41:45 PM »

Nice Saber.
Honda is putting out some really good looking bikes of late.

APDrone · « **Reply #221 on:** February 24, 2005, 05:00:16 PM »

Thanks.

I had been looking to upgrade ( wife said I could have a newer one after I got my license ).. saw this beaut on the consignment floor of the local dealer.. and with the Corbin seat, it fit perfectly.

lazs2 · « **Reply #222 on:** February 25, 2005, 08:50:34 AM »

swoop... the taste part comes in where the capable leaves off. I like older stuff but enjoy capable new stuff...

I simply see no excuse for all the plastic on the 'capable' sport bike. I think all that crap not only looks silly and pretentious (imitation racer) but it makes the bike less useful not more... It would be just as capable without all the phonieness.

The guy at work has both a 160 hp road king and a screwedzuki 1000 neon warrior. He tells me that after all this time he still agrees with my premis that the "sport bike" is no fun at all unless you are breaking laws or on the edge of killing yourself.

weather it be a plymouth superbird or a sport bike.... the phony racer aspect takes away from the experiance. I think you guys look like pretenders on em and so do most. That may not be what is happening but that is what it looks like.

perhaps the only way you can own a capable bike is to whip out the credit card and take what ever neon palatic wrapped pretend racer is this years most capable.

lazs

Swoop · « **Reply #223 on:** February 25, 2005, 08:58:10 AM »

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Originally posted by lazs2
I simply see no excuse for all the plastic on the 'capable' sport bike. I think all that crap not only looks silly and pretentious (imitation racer) but it makes the bike less useful not more... It would be just as capable without all the phonieness.

No it wouldn't.

It's called aerodynamics mate. And you know exactly what I'm talking about here.

That CBR I mentioned earlier.....after the crash it got repaired and the owner was riding it around with no 'plastic' on it for a while. He got invited to a magazine shoot for Performance Bikes.....took his bike through the timing lights with everyone else's CBRs and his went 15mph slower.....purely due to not having the plastic on.

You think it's not needed and looks silly. I don't think it looks silly and that it's absolutely paramount.

Here comes that personal taste thingy again......

P.S. Oh and believe me now, I have fun on my bike every damn day and have a totally clean licence. Plus, it may be covered in plastic but that plastic is blue and white matey, no neon in sight.

lazs2 · « **Reply #224 on:** February 25, 2005, 09:06:15 AM »

LOL! now I get it... your street bike would only do 175 MPH instead of 190 mph if you removed all the garbage... I mean.... real race bikes need that last 15mph (arguable since a plasticless boosa had the best top speed at the Texas mile) and..

since you buzz it on up to 190 mph so muchn more often than you ride to the store you really do need that extra last little bit... what is a little discomfort and silliness compared to the joy of 190 or the agony of bein humiliated going 175 while the other sport bikes are passing you at 190?

lazs