OT: Motorcycles

12 comments

• Warrior15

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  2 years ago

  I grew up in the country with a lot of land around me. I had dirt bikes since I was a little kid. Loved going up and down trails and hills. But I have never wanted a street bike. The bikes themselves are not dangerous. But other drivers not seeing the bikes on a highway IS dangerous.
• conan_mac_morna

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  2 years ago

  ^One of my faves told me about the incident that put an end to her modeling career and damn near her life: riding with her squid bf, too fast, surface street, sun behind them, got left-turned by a fucking minivan. Everything that could have gone wrong, did. I made the appropriate sympathetic noises.
• twentyfive

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  2 years ago

  Rode bikes all my from the time I was 19, all my bikes, except my first were HD, the first was a Triumph. never had an incident until I was 62, stopped for a light an older lady never saw me it was dusk, hit me from behind flew through the intersection landed on the dirt of the median, triple fractured my left arm, I was lucky that I went up in the air, my bike was run over by a guy in a work van making a left turn. Haven't ridden since then.
• CJKent_band

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  2 years ago

  @conan_mac_morna First bike my older brother got, I was in my teens and rode it, was a 1948 Panhead Chopper like the Billy bike in the classic movie Easy Rider, I wanted us to get another and do the ride from Los Angeles to the annual New Orleans Mardi Gras like in the movie, but without the cocaine deal. I got my own in my twenties a Captain American inspired 1949 Panhead chopper (my current ride to the end) and went all 1% biker leather look, and I was invited to join a couple of the larger Motorcycle Clubs in California, I decided because of my work and lifestyle.
• HannibalSmith

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  2 years ago

  2010 Harley-Davidson Sportster. Got it back in 2015. Thinking about buying another bike, just not sure what I want yet…
• bubba267

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  2 years ago

  Been riding since 1974. 3 Kawasakis 2 Hondas-various dirt and street bikes. I'm a fair weather rider now on a Honda Sports Tour bike. As far as accidents, none except a dirt bike vs pine tree stump. I ride like everyone is trying to kill me....
• conan_mac_morna

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  2 years ago

  @Bubba because they are. Cagers, man, IDK.
• tuskular

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  2 years ago

  Question for all you motorcycle guys.... Is Sturgis fun? What happens there? I happened to pass by for work like a week before it started and I'm just curious what they do there.
• conan_mac_morna

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  2 years ago

  *shrug* I don't do group things as a rule, and Sturgis is absolutely not my jam. Mesa (two towns over from Phoenix) does Motorcycles On Main in the less-nuclear-hot months, that's about as groupy as I get.
• captainfun

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  2 years ago

  I am a late bloomer when it comes to motorcycles. Got a 250cc Suzuki to learn on three years ago. Got bored with it quickly and have been riding a 2019 Triumph Bonneville T100 for two years. Considered a Kawasaki z900rs for a minute this summer for more oomph while still looking like bikes of days gone by but I rode it decided that what I have now was a more better ride.
• misterorange

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  2 years ago

  Learned on a used Kawasaki EX500 in late 90's. A few years later traded that in for a Yamaha R6. Eventually got rid of it when I moved to a condo with no garage. Didn't ride for a long time like 12 years. FF to 2017, I'm 50 years old with back problems and a pretty good sized beer belly. Went to look at Ducati. Didn't even bother sitting on one - I knew I'd never be comfortable just by looking at them. Stopped by Harley dealer, test rode a '17 Fatboy, and bought it immediately. What a pleasure to ride, but I often ride alone. My old fart buddies still have sport bikes and start crying after two hours they wanna go home.
• iknowbetter

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  2 years ago

  We rode dirt bikes as kids, back before SW Miami-Dade county became overdeveloped. Honda CR’s and Yamaha YZ’s. I had a Yamaha FJ in college, where I rarely got out of 2nd gear tooling around campus. I still love bikes, and have religiously renewed my Florida Class E, thinking that someday I might need it, but using a motorcycle for transportation in hot, humid, rainy south Florida is far from ideal. Not to mention, our roads are dangerous AF (go ahead and call me a pussy, but I’m still alive).