Motorcycle Thread

lurkingdirk_sl said:

This. A thousand times this. Great post.

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Yep, I feel the same.
I took the can off for that skid, but it's nice and quite on the road.

Loud pipes are ghey.

I don't ride, but you can't really hear that shit as a driver unless you're behind or right beside it. When coming up behind or head on from the side or front its not noisy until after the bike passes.

Famm_sl said:

I don't ride, but you can't really hear that shit as a driver unless you're behind or right beside it. When coming up behind or head on from the side or front its not noisy until after the bike passes.

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That's really what it comes down to, for me. The vast majority of the noise is being projected in the opposite direction of travel. The only situation it might help is if you're an idiot and driving right beside other cars in their blind spots, they might hear you there and not sideswipe you to make a lane change. But even that's doubtful. My biggest fear when riding a motorcycle is people turning left in front of me in the opposite direction of travel, and loud pipes don't do a fucking thing for that.

That said, I do have an after market exhaust on my R6, but that's primarily because the stock one was ugly as fuck, while the after market one looks cool.

This shit drives me crazy. Dumbasses.

An oldie but a goodie.

Borzak_sl said:

An oldie but a goodie.

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That's awesome. I continue to be very happy with my BMW, even though it is now 14 years old. Just doing regular maintenance, nothing big ever needs doing. It's so reliable.

I was really looking at getting a triumph this spring before I got put out of comission. Maybe next year.

lurkingdirk_sl said:

That's awesome. I continue to be very happy with my BMW, even though it is now 14 years old. Just doing regular maintenance, nothing big ever needs doing. It's so reliable.

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Mine's 27.

That, sir, is a fine looking bike. Here's my gal:

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lurkingdirk_sl said:

That, sir, is a fine looking bike. Here's my gal:

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Thanks. I've been too busy to ride much this summer but if I had your bike, I'd find time.

lurker_sl said:

Thanks. I've been too busy to ride much this summer but if I had your bike, I'd find time.

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I ride mine every day. It's my primary vehicle, especially when the kids are in school and I don't have any of them with me. The oldest three of my kids are now big enough to ride as a passenger, which is fun. I think I'm taking one of the twins with me for an overnight camping trip with another dad and daughter friend who also has a bike. We'll probably ride about 4 or 5 hours north, camp a couple nights, ride home. Fun times.

I've seen two people killed on motorcycles in the past two months. The blood from one is finally starting to wash away due to the rain storms. Kind of a good reminder not to give in and buy a motorcycle when every day leaving the apartment I have to drive over a huge red patch of blood, gore and the cleanup shit they had to put down to pick it up.

Each one of us has to decide for ourselves which risks are acceptable and which are not.

This is true, but when I stop and think about it, I'm putting a lot of trust in other people and how they drive. I take the precautions I can, such as wearing the motorcycle suit and helmet and gloves, and I drive very defensively and am very careful, but at the end of the day, if a dumb ass is incautious and swipes me, I'm going down and I'm going to get damaged.

However, this is a risk I'm willing to take. Hot damn, I love driving a motorcycle.