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When are you officially a biker?

When you learn how to ride	0 votes - 0 %
When you start riding your first bike	0 votes - 0 %
After your first crash	1 vote - 100 %
After your first fatal crash	0 votes - 0 %
When the vets stop calling you "Barbie"	0 votes - 0 %
After $20 grand and 20 miles	0 votes - 0 %

1 Total Votes

Now you're a biker. | 18 comments (18 topical, 0 hidden) | Trackback

I think I hate you now. ;-) by toxicfur (4.00 / 1) #1 Fri Oct 05, 2007 at 05:44:31 PM EST

It's going to be a little less than 8 months before I'm eligible for a bike, since it will be a reward for a year without a cigarette. I'm getting there, though, and I'm planning to get my permit in the next few months and take the course in the spring.

Click the link in my sig to see what my planned bike is....
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If you don't get a Bonnie, my universe will not make sense. --blixco

Looks cool by rizzo (4.00 / 1) #7 Fri Oct 05, 2007 at 10:51:55 PM EST

except for the flat seat...

You know the 2-day MSF course goes from zero to endorsed in 16 hands-on hours without requiring a permit?
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: I'm pretty sure... by toxicfur (4.00 / 1) #12 Sat Oct 06, 2007 at 07:34:59 AM EST

that in MAia, you have to have a permit to take the motorcycle safety foundation course. Then you don't have to do anything after to get a full license. The permit is a piece of cake, though -- just a written exam, and it focuses almost entirely on general rules of the road.
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If you don't get a Bonnie, my universe will not make sense. --blixco
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: I like the flat seat by wiredog (4.00 / 1) #14 Sat Oct 06, 2007 at 12:42:46 PM EST

The king/queen type always seems to dig into the small of my back.

Earth First!
_{(We can strip mine the rest later.)}
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Be careful out there by ad hoc (4.00 / 2) #2 Fri Oct 05, 2007 at 05:46:44 PM EST

My cousin and his wife, who have both been riding Harleys for about 30+ years, were rear-ended last week. She's still in the hospital with a broken leg and ankle, severe concussion, damaged spleen and liver. He's home, but with a concussion and three damaged disks in his back.

A year ago, their son, also a Harley rider, was rear-ended by a 17-year-old bimbo on a cell phone and thrown onto some train tracks. She ran around like a chicken and didn't even help get him off the tracks before he passed out. He's still got lots of leg and arm problems.
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Heat, pressure, and time: the three things that make a diamond also make a waffle.

: naaasty... by rizzo (4.00 / 2) #10 Fri Oct 05, 2007 at 11:04:08 PM EST

Well between the safety course, Proficient Motorcycling (highly, highly recommended), and the experienced riders around me, I hope I can skillfully minimize my risk of getting rear-ended.

I have been thinking about a rear brake light modulator that makes it flash instead of stay solid, since we all know from Wheel of Fortune that small shiny blinky objects are the best way to get the attention of semi-retarded bimbos drunk on microwaves from their self-entitled star trek communicators.
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That shit'll kill you, by blixco (4.00 / 3) #3 Fri Oct 05, 2007 at 05:49:23 PM EST

which is part of why you do it.

Goddamn. Nice story and nice bike. Glad to see yu on two wheels.
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"You bring the weasel, I'll bring the whiskey." - kellnerin

: Thanks man by rizzo (4.00 / 3) #11 Sat Oct 06, 2007 at 12:07:33 AM EST

And right on exactly, I guess. :-)
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Awesome by georgeha (4.00 / 1) #4 Fri Oct 05, 2007 at 06:19:03 PM EST

I haven't ridden more than 100 miles this year, I still haven't fixed that oil leak.

oh bummer by rizzo (4.00 / 1) #8 Fri Oct 05, 2007 at 10:55:27 PM EST

well, I lost count but I'm pretty sure it's somewhere over a thousand but probably under two... all in all, a very good riding season.

It's not over yet, though! Plenty of time to double or triple your odo... how much to repair the leak?
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: It's a part thing by georgeha (4.00 / 1) #13 Sat Oct 06, 2007 at 11:12:01 AM EST

I haven't found anyone who stocks the oil seal I need for my crankshaft (though I'm still waiting on speedsupplies), so I may need to make my own. Teh hazards of riding a 32 year old non-Harley.

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Why... by Sapphire (4.00 / 1) #5 Fri Oct 05, 2007 at 09:13:14 PM EST

...are you fucking a generator?

what generator? by rizzo (4.00 / 1) #6 Fri Oct 05, 2007 at 10:45:05 PM EST

that's my old Nighthawk... all 700cc's of it...

BZZZZZZZZZZZZ!
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: Thanks for covering. by mrgoat (4.00 / 1) #9 Fri Oct 05, 2007 at 10:57:13 PM EST

No one knows I'm really industrial equipment.
Years pass, things change, you end up living in Kansas. But the bag of dicks never leaves your side... - blixco
--top hat--
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Both times I've laid a bike down by wiredog (4.00 / 1) #15 Sat Oct 06, 2007 at 12:45:29 PM EST

It was due to road conditions. Loose gravel on a curve, oil on a hill while approaching a light.

Nice bikes, btw.

Been a beautiful fall for riding so far. Warm and dry.

Earth First!
_{(We can strip mine the rest later.)}

Nice dude. [nt] by vorheesleatherface (4.00 / 1) #16 Sat Oct 06, 2007 at 04:09:57 PM EST

"Stabbing someone in the head with a pitchfork is rarely beneficial to the relationship." - MereKat

Hawg. lolz by webwench (2.00 / 0) #17 Mon Oct 08, 2007 at 01:29:26 PM EST

Hey, I lost a shoe off my bike yesterday. We rode about 10 miles of gravel mountain road, and I keep a spare pair of shoes under a net on the back of the bike. When we stopped for gas a while after getting off gravel, I discovered that my spare pair was reduced to a spare single shoe, like that's gonna do any good.

So, your story was way better.

^{Getting more attention than you since 1998.}

vs2fp by debacle (2.00 / 0) #18 Mon Oct 08, 2007 at 10:13:30 PM EST

"I'm very responsive to certain stimuli, and pain is pretty much at the top of that list." - BadDoggie

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