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    Pet peeve of the day, wearing shorts and flip flops while riding a motorcycle! Stop doing this. Also a back pack, are you trying to be decapitated?
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    My first road bike was a Yamaha 250, but I still had a Harley leather jacket and gloves. Road rash is at least partially preventable.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Utopian View Post
    My first road bike was a Yamaha 250, but I still had a Harley leather jacket and gloves. Road rash is at least partially preventable.
    Yes it is some what preventable, I saw a guy today, helmet, shorts, and sandals. Why the helmet? Does he want to remember why his legs are skinned to the bone?
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    Funny you mentioned that, one of my biggest peeves is the male menopausal crew who rode their friends 90 cc 2 stroke yamahaha when they were 14 and think they can hop on a road king at 58 years of age.
    Not hard to spot them, the bike is immaculate with low mileage and every conceivable factory extra. They wear Harley helmet, jacket, gloves, boots, socks, probably underwear and have 300 pins and patches on their vest.
    They ride too fast or too slow. They have an intercom on their helmet so they can communicate with the pillion, which is usually a 350 lb behemoth squeezed in to a size too small matching leather jacket and pants.
    They all belong to the HOG club and wear a beard.
    On Monday they get in their suits and toddle off to the office in their Audi.
    I give them a wide birth.
    The only up side is they buy a new bike every two years, so you can pick up a low mileage bike for cheap.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grazor View Post
    Funny you mentioned that, one of my biggest peeves is the male menopausal crew who rode their friends 90 cc 2 stroke yamahaha when they were 14 and think they can hop on a road king at 58 years of age.
    Not hard to spot them, the bike is immaculate with low mileage and every conceivable factory extra. They wear Harley helmet, jacket, gloves, boots, socks, probably underwear and have 300 pins and patches on their vest.
    They ride too fast or too slow. They have an intercom on their helmet so they can communicate with the pillion, which is usually a 350 lb behemoth squeezed in to a size too small matching leather jacket and pants.
    They all belong to the HOG club and wear a beard.
    On Monday they get in their suits and toddle off to the office in their Audi.
    I give them a wide birth.
    The only up side is they buy a new bike every two years, so you can pick up a low mileage bike for cheap.

    Sent from a moto x far far away

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hirlau View Post
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    +1 on that!
    Yeah, I guess they have a worldwide group of those yuppies!!! They'll have low miles because they'll usually make an appearance at the local biker bar talking big & so on. They're the ones that if they go to a biker event several states away, they put their scooters in trailers & drive them there pulled by a pickup truck, then about 50 miles away or less, they'll pull them out of the trailer & ride in acting all worn out from such a long ride.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Grazor View Post
    Funny you mentioned that, one of my biggest peeves is the male menopausal crew who rode their friends 90 cc 2 stroke yamahaha when they were 14 and think they can hop on a road king at 58 years of age.
    Not hard to spot them, the bike is immaculate with low mileage and every conceivable factory extra. They wear Harley helmet, jacket, gloves, boots, socks, probably underwear and have 300 pins and patches on their vest.
    They ride too fast or too slow. They have an intercom on their helmet so they can communicate with the pillion, which is usually a 350 lb behemoth squeezed in to a size too small matching leather jacket and pants.
    They all belong to the HOG club and wear a beard.
    On Monday they get in their suits and toddle off to the office in their Audi.
    I give them a wide birth.
    The only up side is they buy a new bike every two years, so you can pick up a low mileage bike for cheap.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grazor View Post
    Funny you mentioned that, one of my biggest peeves is the male menopausal crew who rode their friends 90 cc 2 stroke yamahaha when they were 14 and think they can hop on a road king at 58 years of age.
    Not hard to spot them, the bike is immaculate with low mileage and every conceivable factory extra. They wear Harley helmet, jacket, gloves, boots, socks, probably underwear and have 300 pins and patches on their vest.
    They ride too fast or too slow. They have an intercom on their helmet so they can communicate with the pillion, which is usually a 350 lb behemoth squeezed in to a size too small matching leather jacket and pants.
    They all belong to the HOG club and wear a beard.
    On Monday they get in their suits and toddle off to the office in their Audi.
    I give them a wide birth.
    The only up side is they buy a new bike every two years, so you can pick up a low mileage bike for cheap.

    Sent from a moto x far far away
    Well aside from the ones they scrap because they cant ride and end up going over a cliff or hitting a tree/truck/wall/car/each other etc etc...
    Round here they made variable prices for licence plates dinging sport bikes 1400$/year then anything else over 400cc 600$/year and under 400cc 400$/year.
    A car costs 250$/year to plate Yes plates are ridiculous here! Bikes and cars used to be the same till about 5 years ago
    The excuse was that the sport bikes were more dangerous but the govt stats showed it was 50+ first time riders on cruisers that crashed the most. Youngsters already couldn't afford the massive insurance on sport bikes so it really wasn't that much of a problem but they did succeed in driving a lot of bike shops out of business.

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    Bicycle riders claim that they shouldn't have to stop at a stop sign because they have to take their feet off the pegs!

    If they were in the Tour DE France and in the lead I would agree with them.

    A yellow jersey is just wishful thinking.....................

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