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#11 Post by Johnj » Mon Aug 17, 2009 6:04 pm

Once, during my misguided youth, that is before I was rehabilitated, I picked up a bicycle from a yard and rode it down a sidewalk at a fast pace. About half a block before a busy street I reached up and caught a limb of a tree that overhung the sidewalk and let the bike go. :twisted:
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#12 Post by JC Viper » Thu Aug 20, 2009 3:27 pm

when riding along the side of a tractor trailer I had urges of jumping off my bike and grabbing onto the truck... maybe hi-jacking it (movie fantasy of course).

Or if I see one of those "bad boys" on another bike I have the urge to jump off my bike and on to theirs and throw 'em off action hero style...
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#13 Post by redwing » Thu Aug 20, 2009 5:13 pm

Gunslinger wrote:Has anyone else ever had the urge to jump off of their bike while cruising down the road for no apparent reason?
Last week I was on the freeway (I 49) and as I passed a 14 wheeler (big truck) I felt the wake of air from the truck pulling me into its side, it was spooky. I had no urge to follow the wake to the side of the truck. However after I got even with the driver I did want to pull out my RPG (or PPG) and ... well I didn't.
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#14 Post by RhadamYgg » Fri Aug 21, 2009 1:16 am

redwing wrote:
Gunslinger wrote:Has anyone else ever had the urge to jump off of their bike while cruising down the road for no apparent reason?
Last week I was on the freeway (I 49) and as I passed a 14 wheeler (big truck) I felt the wake of air from the truck pulling me into its side, it was spooky. I had no urge to follow the wake to the side of the truck. However after I got even with the driver I did want to pull out my RPG (or PPG) and ... well I didn't.
Gee...do ya think I did the right thing? 8)
Depends on if you think you could have gotten away with it?
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#15 Post by Nalian » Sat Aug 22, 2009 6:14 pm

Leftover from the days of riding BMX bikes and getting off them by sort of just dropping them in the yard in the grass...for some reason I feel like I should be able to do this with my motorcycle. I know it's illogical and blahblahblah, but I feel so comfortable on the bike it seems like it should be easy to just lay it down where I please and pick it back up like a bicycle.

I know, I'm nuts. :weird:
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#16 Post by BuzZz » Sat Aug 22, 2009 6:59 pm

After blowing down the hiway at 280+ for 10-15 minutes, cruising through the next small town at 80 your brain is convinced you get off and walk beside the bike at that speed.

But really you can't. Trust me on this. :wink:
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