Question for Hog Owners...

[Maverick]

Her behavior is simply silly. I have a vehicle with a far larger engine that contains 13 gallons, not quarts of oil. I idle less than 2 minutes before moving out on a cold day. I take it easy and don't floor it but 10 to 15 minutes is way beyond the need for any motorcycle including the dynosaur harley. My BMW needs less than a minute to be ready to go.

[Curval]

Originally posted by Jackal1
What big deal Shirley??  You just don`t speak the language. No big deal about it. It`s just the way we lived...........and some still do. It`s sort of a self respect or setting the boundaries you will stop at. It`s way obvious nowadays that that a lot of the Yups on plastic think you can buy their coolness or the feeling you get when you are actualy one of the "real"  folks who derive pleasure from making a scoot "yours" and know it inside out/top to bottom. A check book or plastic card, a trip down to the "dress shop" where you acquire your electric start, plastic enhanced, chrome trimmed windshield, dayglow painted,  YUPmobole on two wheels don`t cut it for old schoolers. No pride, no accomplishment.........well hell.....not a clue in genral. Throw in a couple of grand for the designer jackets with all the "in" name tags.....................inst ant Marlon for a day..or an hour..... till next weekend down at the yacht club with Biff and Buff.  Ya know the ones. The same ones who after parking their half mil motorhomes and unloading the glitter ride will not make eye contact with the uncooth old biker types riding into Daytona or Sturgis or this months Hog roast or run on his purring, sreamlined "got the mine" look , personal pride scoot that he just rode in on from BF Eygpt or someplace similar.  If they would put down their martinis long enough and get their nads back from their Gucci wive`s purse long enough to to check them nasty old ruffians and their hand, made from the soul , machines they just might learn something. Something like..you don`t buy that much satisfaction and pride with a plastic card and it don`t come in a designer labeled bottle marked "instant".  Not to mention that they are passing up the opportunity to get to know about the history, workmanship and just downright some of the best folks on the planet as a whole when the chips are down. Bout the only opportunity they will have to even communicate with these folks is when their Mercedes is sitting on the side of the road, dead in the water. The same ole nasty, uncooth ruffian will be the one who stops to help ya out in a lot of cases while their people cruise by under their AC and look the other way.
It`s sort of like your statement..you and them don`t speak the language, but you think you can get in the conversation long enough to show your on the "rent a nad of the month club.". Well.........keep the faith buckaroo. You can always save face by grabbing the check book and running down to Boyd Codingtons and have him build ya a Instarod. That`ll show them old macho guys like Laz dog gone it.

I got "blah blah blah" out of this post.  With a bit of "lazs you are my hero" thrown in too.

lol

[Jackal1]

Don`t worry Curvey. Broke Butt Mountain will be out on DVD soon.
Then you will have something to relate to.

I got "blah blah blah" out of this post. With a bit of "lazs you are my hero" thrown in too.

Yea, it`s like I said, you don`t speak the language , but you keep trying to talk.
Actualy , after getting to know Laz through the BBS, I found out that we have a lot in common. A lot of the same background. A whole lot of the same beliefs on subjects such as firearm ownership and personal freedom. Then there is the Harley/biker thing we have both lived, along with some outlaw years.(By outlaw, I mean as viewed by yups and limp wrists.)
Laz seems to have gave up on the Harley part of his life I expect due to pure disgust with the trend that  I was discussing earlier. I can certainly understand that. I can guarantee you one thing though, he certainly can still speak and understand the old school language. That`s where you are lost. As far myself, I have loved Harleys and those who actualy understand what it`s about as far back as I can remember as a kid. You`re lost there also. I have lived, breathed and slept it for the majority of my life also. I built and ran a biker supply business  for quite a while. Traveled hither and yon from one run to the next making my living and having a total blast being around something that I truly understood and loved. My wife and myself both developed some health probs , that at the time prevented our traveling with the business. I miss it with a passion that you and folks like you will never understand. That`s a good thing.
Laz my hero? He`s old school bud. Pride and independence. Straight shooter, so to speak. He`s my equal. He`s old school. Not very many of us left in the scheme of things.  
Ole "Dumplin" is still sitting right here , just outside the door like she has been for many years. The instabike crowd don`t even get a second look when they ride nowadays. There mostly all the same. Plastic and glittter, made from pretty much the same mold that the yupsters seem to be satisfied with..or just don`t know. Dumplin will stop people cold in their trackss. It means something...something you will never understand. That`s a good thing too.

[LePaul]

Ha great question.

I remember my ZX-9R had a "street legal" (yet a kinda loud) Vance & Hines race pipe.  I had a police officer pull me over and while he was commenting on my bike's noise level, a herd of Harley's rumbled by.   Once they were a mile away and we could hear each other again, he didnt mention my noise levels again.

My bike mighta sounded like a wild dragonfly in heat...but you didnt feel as though your roof was about to rumble down on ya

[Curval]

ROFLMAO....

I'm not the one jumping to lazs defense, rambling on and on about how great his type of people are and generally fawning over the guy.  That would be you.  It's like you have a crush on him.

[bj229r]

When I rode.. you kicked the bike and it had pretty much straight pipes... you kicked it round a couple of times with the key off and then bumped it round on compression... key on... one good push through with about an eighth of a throttle and it would fire.

That's pretty much my Pan (am ashamed to say it has Kehin carb tho) Bout 5 squirts of gas, 3 cycles dry kicks, 1 more squirt, leter rip. I hooked up the choke, but never use it Bet them girly bikes also have HAND clutches:D

[Holden McGroin]

Show your neighbor how much louder your .44 mag is and then point out how her hog leaks fuel from the bullet holes.

[Jackal1]

Originally posted by Curval
ROFLMAO....

I'm not the one jumping to lazs defense

Hehe! I don`t believe Laz needs any defense. He can handle that just fine.
What I`m telling you is, if someone being  being a man with pride and speaks about something you don`t understand then keep your nads in a box where they belong. You just don`t speak the language. You can`t relate.

[Delirium]

Originally posted by MiloMorai
Ride and you will become a better driver of your tin box.

No thanks, I like my skin right where it is... nothing like hearing screams of people with road rash, swear they are being tortured.

I won't even mention the morons that don't wear helmets, real sad.

[x0847Marine]

Originally posted by Seagoon
Ok every morning ever since it started getting cold, my entire family is woken up between 6 and 6:30 am by one of our neighbors. She wakes up and starts her Harley so it can idle for roughly 15 minutes. This bike has the loudest pipes I've ever heard, and she comes out every once in a while to gun the throttle because the idle is rough and it will occasionally conk out - restarting it is even louder. When she guns it, my teeth rattle.

Most of our neighbors are military, so they are already up when this ritual begins, but we don't have to be out of bed till 7:30 AM, so we are being woken up an hour before we need to be and needless to say, a 2 year old, a 3 year old, and a 5 year old don't go back to sleep after being rattled for 15 minutes.

Now we are moving next month, so the ordeal will end soon, but I'm at a loss as to what I would have done had we not been moving. It seems unreasonable to ask the woman to stop riding her bike to work in the morning, but does it really need to idle for 10-15 mins when its cold? Also, I know "Loud Pipes Save Lives" but this thing makes a Stuka Siren seem mild by comparison. Isn't there a maximum legal noise limit for bikes somewhere below "Nuclear Exchange?"

- SEAGOON

No matter what time of day or night, your peace can be disturbed.

Disturbing your peace is a crime of intent, ergo the offending party must be informed that thier actions are disturbing you...

After that, they are subject to citizens arrest, or if an officer witnesses said disturbance... s/he can make an arrest.

But your best bet might be to call the local gendarme and ask if they have a "quality of life" officer (I'm not kidding). LAPD has something like this where a uniformed cop will actually come sit, watch and take enforcement action, if needed.

I can almost 100% assure you that her pipes are illegal, 1 fix it ticket should put and end to that.

A bananna or Idaho spud in the tail pipe can also effectively silence a loud bike.

[culero]

Originally posted by Nilsen
Put your robe on when she starts it... pick up the bat (no, not the wife..the baseball-bat") and walk at normal pace over to the
snip

Hehe...I had a laff at this, it brought back memories

culero (was once woke up at 6AM by the neighbor's rooster...and took this walk)

[Curval]

Originally posted by Jackal1
What I`m telling you is, if someone being  being a man with pride and speaks about something you don`t understand then keep your nads in a box where they belong. You just don`t speak the language. You can`t relate.

ohhhh the language of manly pride.  

[nirvana]

Originally posted by Holden McGroin
Show your neighbor how much louder your .44 mag is and then point out how her hog leaks fuel from the bullet holes.

That's a cool way to do it too.  Humorous as well, so get it on film.

[bj229r]

Originally posted by nirvana
That's a cool way to do it too.  Humorous as well, so get it on film.

LOL, fun as that might be, you might try sticking a note in her mail box. If she's a yuppee biker, she will probably try to work something out. If she's a 1%er...then she probably has a LOT of friends:eek: