Wake n Bake, Nothing Better!

[Twistyman]

I have ridden a valkrie and they are bad ass. when they first came out they were fsater than a corvette 0-60. I would not want one as my travel bike though, I don't like to ride with my feet out in front of me.

When I sat on one I thought my hip was going to dislocate..way too wide.. my Virago was the most comfortable....

Well, i agree to the first part but we just had our chance to dump Congress and it didn't happen. So we deserve the economic beating we are about to receive (over and over and over again). As for wall street...yep if you allow the Govt. to meddle in the free market game and guarantee and encourage bad loans to be written and then packaged up with good loans, you get abuse. The human condition was at play i both the Govt. and wall street, but it was washington which set the game board up, not wall street.



As for cycles ....

All I can say is Leather and a full face helmet at all times regardless of the weather. I have had a few spills and let me tell you...denim will last ONE bounce on the road...ONE. I know. If you doubt the full face... I can dig up one of my old helmets and send you a pic. If i wasn't wearing it, those gouges would have been implanted in my face permanently.

If you ride long enough, you will spill. It may be some one else fault, but that will be small consolation afterward.... leather and Full face helmet.



out.

Meddle no.. but make sure the inmates aren't running the asylum...

I love my full face helmet. I wouldn't ride around the block without one.

I live in a state with no helmet laws. We ride with doo rags, I have a helmet, it's in my cloest in a pillowcase. It's just in case we ever go anywhere where buckets are required.

I am always on the look out for drivers with cranial-rectal disorder, and I don't drink so drinking and driving is a never situation for me. I'm careful, only cut lose with I know it's safe. Only on paved roads, never on rock and oil ones.

A helmet is the 1st thing that goes on.. at all times ,, There has been a thousand deaths here since they passed the ""No Helmet "" Law here

I was hit head on at 50mph(car) 15(me) by a 1966 Pontiac Strato Chief ... I cracked my helmet and they wouldn't operate for 12 hours because of potential head injuries..If I'd not had one I'd be dead or a drooling mess.... OK more drooling.....

 

[misshestermoffitt]

Actually when you check the statistics, there are less deaths per registered motorcycle owner in non helmet states than in helmet states.

http://www.abate-of-maryland.org/xhmt_pa.htm

http://www.geocities.com/rt_66.geo/helmet.html

Part of the problem now is they'll give anyone a bike license. They changed the law in IL, now you can take the bike test on a 125 automatic scooter and get a license for any size bike. Too many dumbasses on the road not knowing what they're doing.


I'm not an organ donor, I'm still using my organs. Nobody around here wears helmets, it's not just me. It's the way it's always been.

 

[Twistyman]

Actually when you check the statistics, there are less deaths per registered motorcycle owner in non helmet states than in helmet states.

http://www.abate-of-maryland.org/xhmt_pa.htm

http://www.geocities.com/rt_66.geo/helmet.html

Part of the problem now is they'll give anyone a bike license. They changed the law in IL, now you can take the bike test on a 125 automatic scooter and get a license for any size bike. Too many dumbasses on the road not knowing what they're doing.


I'm not an organ donor, I'm still using my organs. Nobody around here wears helmets, it's not just me. It's the way it's always been.

LOL.. when I wanted to take test they say I could rent 125 or ride MY bike there and take test.. I said to her.. "I drive my bike 20+ miles to take a test to prove that I can drive a bike...?" yep was the answer.. to me the crotch rockets were the problem but they changed the laws so you need to have owned a bike under 500cc I think before you can get a big bike... the Harley and touring bike deaths are usually caused by car drivers where as the crotch rocket drivers smear themselves on the road or embed themselves into trees on curves.....

 

[CrackerJax]

Regardless of statistics of death.... believe me you don't want to go through head trauma of any kind. it simply takes one fall...the odds are against you Miss....sorry to say. I don't know about nationally, but Florida's hospitals and doctors are screaming at the legislature to change the law. The emergency rooms are becoming nightmarish since the helmet laws were repealed down here. Again, more than likely an accident which mutilates or takes your life on a bike won't be your fault but..... so what.


Now I will worry about you Miss....


out.

 

[misshestermoffitt]

A lot less bikers would die if people in cars would quit running them over.

When I got my license you had to test on at least a 250 for a big bike license.

I know what they're up to, they're handing out license's to anyone so they can jack up the death statistics so they can take away another right and make a helmet law.


Don't worry about me Jax, if I'm meant to die I will, if I'm meant to live I will. Whatever is in the cards for me is already there, can't shuffle the deck. I've been riding for 10 years now. I don't drink, so there is no drinking an driving. The land here is flatter than a pancake and you can see for 7 miles in any direction. I don't take stupid chances or do dumb things. It's all good.

 

[SmokeyMcSmokester]

what kind of bike did you get miss??

 

[misshestermoffitt]

I have a 97 sportster hugger, I've actually had it for about 2 years now, but I've been riding a lot longer than that.

 

[tipsgnob]

there are 2 types of riders, the ones that have been down and the ones that are going down...

 

[misshestermoffitt]

Well I already fell over at a standstill in indiana one day, so I'm good. Broke the knobby end off my clutch handle, haven't replaced it either, it's a reminder to be more careful.

 

[NewGrowth]

do you guys mind if I put some universe over here?

 

[Twistyman]

Here they're jacking the cost of registration from $350.00 to about $3000.00 per year in the coming years... plus most insurance companies won't cover just a bike without you putting your house/fire/car in the policy..... My insurance was from an ex Montreal Canadiens player that started selling after playing... he charged me $75.00 per year.. cheaper than my car $105.00

 

[CrackerJax]

I'm not here to change your mind Miss, just be extra careful, since you will be in dire straits if you have an accident.

I can still remember like it was yesterday, driving to work on my 750 and a truck crosses the lane to cut over and simply stopped in my lane as I came up on him. At the last second I swerved just enough but the left mirror clipped his trailer end, I was that close to dying. I swerved and rubbed the far right curb (i was in the left lane before the truck stopped in it). Of course at that instant if there would have been a car in that lane, I wouldn't be here today. As it was, I got to my job shaken and bloody....the mirror exploded and 11 pieces of glass were lodged in my neck. The school nurse (I was working at a school then) used a UV light to find them all.

That was just one close call.

out.

 

[SmokeyMcSmokester]

I have a 97 sportster hugger, I've actually had it for about 2 years now, but I've been riding a lot longer than that.

wait a min...i knew that!!

im a stupid stoner

I took the fatboy out today...it was a chili/windy ride, but fun nonetheless...

 

[Twistyman]

Shit..I've been booted off twice trying to do this post.. my friend was doing 100 mph on his CB 750 when he got a fluid leak wobble in his forks ..he went down and slid... he looked like hamburger in the hosp. bed..

 

[korvette1977]

Shit..I've been booted off twice trying to do this post.. my friend was doing 100 mph on his CB 750 when he got a fluid leak wobble in his forks ..he went down and slid... he looked like hamburger in the hosp. bed..

Dont lie ........................... You dont have any friends .................

 

[Twistyman]

Judging by the last couple of days I must agree..........

 

[korvette1977]

Judging by the last couple of days I must agree..........

Why is that Twisty,, You feel alone ,?

 

[Twistyman]

I just spit tea everywhere.. Paul Bagala is talking about the Pres. news conf. and he said he spoke well..then he said listening and watching Bush speak was like watching a drunk fat guy trying to cross an icy road.. you just knew he wasn't going to make it... funny shit....

 

[korvette1977]

A spot of tea .. do you have crumpets too..

 

[Twistyman]

Why is that Twisty,, You feel alone ,?

Lets see... two days in a row smoke deal blew up in my face.. the money order I sent Jan 27th just got to Ontario today..11 days to go 400 miles..... By the time I get my HPS I'll already be smoking the weed at this rate.. my tummy hurts..... and thats the other side of life... where I'm really getting flailed........ comp has crashed about 10 times today been one of those weeks....