Why buy a big bike and not use it??

Please Kill Me

Harleigh Wonderful Melon wrote: »

1992 my wife broke her neck when we came off my RD350YPVS, sure I was having the crack doing crazy speeds and hoping to pick up a dice.

Jeez man I'm so sorry. Kinda puts things into perspective.

Harleigh Wonderful Melon wrote: »

You sound much younger than me OP, so go and have the craic ~ but Jesus be careful and remember the old saying;

"There are two types of bikers, there are old bikers and there are bold bikers ~ but there are very, very few old bold bikers"..

I'm 41 mate, so not exactly a young fella. Fewer days ahead than there is behind me.

Harleigh Wonderful Melon wrote: »

If ya see a big fecker with a Captain America open face helmet on a BMW R1100s on the M50 someday give me the nod and if I'm up to it we're off :P

Stay safe.

Great post man, thanks a mill.

Oh....you're on!!

Cienciano

Please Kill Me wrote: »

Not if I won the lotto chief!! I'd fill the garage with jap crotch rockets and nothing else!! Blades, ZX10's, R1's.... you get the idea.



Yep!

The lotto winning garage is fairly boring, all the jap litre sports bikes. And leaving out the best 1000cc sports bike out there, which happens to be bavarian :P

Please Kill Me

Cienciano wrote: »

The lotto winning garage is fairly boring, all the jap litre sports bikes. And leaving out the best 1000cc sports bike out there, which happens to be bavarian :P

I would make one exception...ONE. But I'd have to change the b@stardisation of a front end! LOL So it'd look like this!

KamiKazi

Meh, I'll take my 'raw' blade over that motorized computer any day.

take out the driver aids and see how well it goes!

Please Kill Me

KamiKazi wrote: »

Meh, I'll take my 'raw' blade over that motorized computer any day.

take out the driver aids and see how well it goes!

Ah it's still nice though mate.

KamiKazi

Please Kill Me wrote: »

KamiKazi wrote: »

Meh, I'll take my 'raw' blade over that motorized computer any day.

take out the driver aids and see how well it goes!

Ah it's still nice though mate.

Wouldn't ride it if I was given it, same goes for anything with that blue & white badge.

I'd sell it and buy a decent bike

Cienciano

KamiKazi wrote: »

Meh, I'll take my 'raw' blade over that motorized computer any day.

take out the driver aids and see how well it goes!

Raw? Hope your points are set correctly and your carbs are nice and clean

Driver aids can be turned off. TBH I have abs, don't think it ever kicked in, if it's even an extra on a bike I wouldn't bother with it.

arybvtcw0eolkf

Please Kill Me wrote: »

J

I'm 41 mate, so not exactly a young fella. Fewer days ahead than there is behind me.



Great post man, thanks a mill.

Oh....you're on!!

41, we're of similar age so (I'm ahead by five).

I was thinking of this thread early this morning, myself and a mate were heading out to the Fatlads MCC rally in Balbriggan at stupid o'clock and had an almost empty M1 to ourselves - so fun was had and I found out what my new beamer was properly good for :pac:

But on the way home I was alone and brought things back down to a more sensible level and enjoyed my heated grips for the journey home, done know whats next ~ would I look funny smoking a pipe on a biker?.

minidazzler

Harleigh Wonderful Melon wrote: »

But on the way home I was alone and brought things back down to a more sensible level and enjoyed my heated grips for the journey home, done know whats next ~ would I look funny smoking a pipe on a biker?.

It would look a bit weird alright sitting on a guy to smoke, not very nice of you :pac:

arybvtcw0eolkf

minidazzler wrote: »

It would look a bit weird alright sitting on a guy to smoke, not very nice of you :pac:

Bollix, must proof read more often

How are you pal, how's Cark. Didn't know you rode a bike?.

bradknowell

Harleigh Wonderful Melon wrote: »

so fun was had and I found out what my new beamer was properly good for :pac:

ah you found out where the cappacino maker was on the bike?

arybvtcw0eolkf

bradknowell wrote: »

ah you found out where the cappacino maker was on the bike?

Still looking, but I found out it doesn't like first gear wheelies but second is nice and smooth :cool:

serious3

bradknowell wrote: »

Why buy a 1000cc and not drive it 186mph everywhere so? I know a few chunky women I can ride just by texting them saying I'm up for it. Just cos I can doesn't mean I should do it .

Sometimes I stay in traffic just so cagers can see how cool looking I am. :pac:

any more details on the erm chunky women:D phone numbers would be nice....

Syllabus

Please Kill Me wrote: »

What is it with f**k-wits buying a big bike, simply because they can afford it??? Why buy a 1000cc bike (if not bigger) and not use it the way it’s supposed to be, or be afraid of it?? Commuting is boring and mundane at the best of times. Some days I meet lads on bikes when I’m coming into work or going home and we have a bit of fun. Usually it’s the same lads. Nothing stupid, nothing reckless or dangerous, just a bit of dicing to take the monotony away.

This morning when I was coming in to work, I seen a bike in the distance. I thought to myself “nice one, I’ll catch up to this lad and have a bit of skit, take the boredom away…” Anyway, I caught up to him. It was a BIG bike and I didn’t recognise the guy. “Cool” I thought, “a new friend to play with” LOL. I never go around another bike until I know he has seen me in his mirrors. He looked, saw me, and just stayed as he was. When he caught up to a line of cars, he just sat there! “Em, hello? If you’re gonna sit behind a line of slow moving cars, it kinda defeats the purpose of having a bike!!” :rolleyes:

Anyway, now and again he’d bolt and I’d go after him. Then he’d slow down when he caught more traffic and just sat behind them. This went on for a couple of miles and I was losing time so I just bolted when I knew he wouldn’t. In fairness, he acknowledged me and waved as I went by. I went by a line of cars and round a bend. Looked in the mirror (as I do) and nothing. There was no sign of him. He was still sitting behind the line of cars.

So what’s the point? Why not just get a car and travel in warmth while listening to the wireless and sipping a coffee while talking on the phone and plucking your eyebrows at the same time like every other road user!!?? Sorry, it’s just a waste IMHO. I don’t get it.

Rant over. :P

coming home the m50(southbound) in rush hr traffic a couple of years ago at the blanc exit long before the spagetti junction was installed, back when the queue was back to finglas and about 70-80 cars back in the queue was a lad on a bike just sitting there

wish i could have asked him why

Please Kill Me

Syllabus wrote: »

coming home the m50(southbound) in rush hr traffic a couple of years ago at the blanc exit long before the spagetti junction was installed, back when the queue was back to finglas and about 70-80 cars back in the queue was a lad on a bike just sitting there

wish i could have asked him why

There ya go Niall. This is my point. If he's just gonna sit there, just do it in a car!

Pataman

Maybe he was following a car, or a car was following him for directions.

Syllabus

Pataman wrote: »

Maybe he was following a car, or a car was following him for directions.

fair point however in this case i saw him a few different times doing the same thing

unclebill98

So if you don't filter you should be in a car?

I generally don't do it but I don't drive in built up areas on a daily basis and when I do I'm not in a hurry etc.

Syllabus

unclebill98 wrote: »

So if you don't filter you should be in a car?

I generally don't do it but I don't drive in built up areas on a daily basis and when I do I'm not in a hurry etc.

if its pishing rain on a dark winters evening and you sit on your bike 70 cars back in a very slow moving line of traffic you should be driving a car imo


it'd be a different thing if the lad i saw was out on a leisure spin in the middle of the day taking it handy, enjoying the scenery



imo

arybvtcw0eolkf

Syllabus wrote: »

coming home the m50(southbound) in rush hr traffic a couple of years ago at the blanc exit long before the spagetti junction was installed, back when the queue was back to finglas and about 70-80 cars back in the queue was a lad on a bike just sitting there

wish i could have asked him why

I've seen people do that and wonder the same thing.

I'll give you a laugh, a few years ago I was coming up the quays (Dublin, south side) and hit a lot of traffic on one quay.. I was knackered, hot and sweaty and decided I wouldn't filter, I'd just sit and move/wait awhile.

After a few minutes my lane wasn't moving at all, the other's were so I was like 'feck this', moved into the left (moving lane) and then I noticed it! ~ I had stopped behind a line of parked cars all a long

blu3r0ri0n

Harleigh Wonderful Melon wrote: »

I've seen people do that and wonder the same thing.

I'll give you a laugh, a few years ago I was coming up the quays (Dublin, south side) and hit a lot of traffic on one quay.. I was knackered, hot and sweaty and decided I wouldn't filter, I'd just sit and move/wait awhile.

After a few minutes my lane wasn't moving at all, the other's were so I was like 'feck this', moved into the left (moving lane) and then I noticed it! ~ I had stopped behind a line of parked cars all a long

LOL Brilliant!

Cienciano

Harleigh Wonderful Melon wrote: »

I've seen people do that and wonder the same thing.

I'll give you a laugh, a few years ago I was coming up the quays (Dublin, south side) and hit a lot of traffic on one quay.. I was knackered, hot and sweaty and decided I wouldn't filter, I'd just sit and move/wait awhile.

After a few minutes my lane wasn't moving at all, the other's were so I was like 'feck this', moved into the left (moving lane) and then I noticed it! ~ I had stopped behind a line of parked cars all a long

When you do that you have to get off the bike, check something closely at the side, then hop on and drive off.

arybvtcw0eolkf

Cienciano wrote: »

When you do that you have to get off the bike, check something closely at the side, then hop on and drive off.

I do something like that if I fluff a wheelie, I slow right down and stick a hand into the carbs like something had to be adjusted

wellboytoo

Cos he can.....

copeyhagen

the rider could have had a bad 'off' in the not too distant past and is only trying to get used to / the courage to get back on the bike properly again.

thats what i always think when i see someone just sitting there..

tk123

copeyhagen wrote: »

the rider could have had a bad 'off' in the not too distant past and is only trying to get used to / the courage to get back on the bike properly again.

thats what i always think when i see someone just sitting there..

+1 I drove to work today for the first time in 3 years!! :P New job and don't know the roads so took it handy enough, managed to go the wrong way and had to drive around in a circle to get back to where I was and was still 15 mins early - nuts to you Dublin Bus!! :pac:
(I had an operation which meant I couldn't lift anything and left me with neck problems so thought it was too dangerous to chance the bike..then i just never got around to sorting the bike)

Pipz

Sometimes I don't bother filtering, usually down to 1 of 2 reasons.

1) Some days I want nothing more than to chill out on the bike, don't bother pushing it, and am happy enough to just sit and wait for the traffic to move.

or

2) Sometimes because I'm still pretty new to being out on the bike, I'm not always confident that there's actually enough room for me to get by, and wouldn't risk getting stuck between two lines of cars, and I'm also still wary about using bus lanes to filter.

Might prefer to sit on his bike for an extra while some days.. The quicker ya go, the sooner you're off it.

KTRIC

Deleted User wrote: »

Might prefer to sit on his bike for an extra while some days.. The quicker ya go, the sooner you're off it.

Usually when I'm out for a spin on my own and not going anywhere in particular then i'd be like that.

paddy147

You got to love this thread and the way people treat bikers who sit in traffic.

We give out when people act the gobshyte on their bike,and we give out when a person sits on his/her bike in traffic.

So a biker cant win regardless.

Who cares if the biker wants to sit in traffic,at least he/she is being responsible and acting in a safe manner.

You all should stop taking this matter of sitting in traffic so seriously and maybe focus on something more important instead.