I haven't seen any much reckless riding around here.
Probably the dumbest thing I've seen so far.
On a really hot day about 95F I was out riding around. I see another biker stopped at the lite across from me. He was wearing flip flops + socks. When the lite changed he couldn't get the bike into gear. I guess the socks didn't help as much as he thought they would.
Around here I see a lot of folks on $20k H-D's, with another couple thousand dollars of chrome bolt-on's and loud aftermarket pipes, etc...and they're wearing like another $1,000 worth of signature Harley gear -- chaps, boots, fringey things. They've got the little beanie-helmets, and are just dripping with biker attitude.
Then they have to stop at a red light, and they awkwardly paddlefoot it up to the line...and the light turns green and they stumble it away, weaving and clunking their shifts -- basically what I'm saying is that they have absolutely ZERO riding skill and have simply bought their way into the "lifestyle."
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Disclaimer: I have no problem with Harleys or people who ride them. I have no problem with sportbikes, or dirt bikes, or dirty sportbikes, or sporty dirtbikes, or anyone who rides any of them. I may have a little problem with Vespa-riders, but it stems from a childhood incident involving a Vespa, a clown and a trained ferret that I don't like to talk about. I'm not putting down a lifestyle, a mentality, or anyone who either embraces or rejects that lifestyle or mentality, or any mentality at all. Please, no flames, my asbestos briefs are at the dry cleaner. Thank you. I love motorcycles.
1979 XS650F -- "Hi, My name's Nick, and I'm a Motorcyclist. I've been dry for four years." (Everybody: "Hi, Nick.")
Then there was this one time when a guy who looks a lot like me (on a bike that looks a lot like mine) pulled up to a stopsign in the dark, put on his right blinker, turned right and rode right off into the ditch. He then put out the wrong foot, found no ground under it, and toppled over into the darn thing.
1979 XS650F -- "Hi, My name's Nick, and I'm a Motorcyclist. I've been dry for four years." (Everybody: "Hi, Nick.")
Last month I was in my car driving along the freeway in the country and I see this cruiser on the frontage road. I start looking real close to see what kind of bike it is. The guy was riding one handed with the other in his lap, which wasnt too odd since he was just cruising straight at ~60. Then all of sudden he reaches up with his left hand and takes a big swig of his beer bottle then returns it to his lap and keeps on riding down the road.
this isnt really crazy but is something ive never seen before, wondering if anybody knows what these are. on the highway was a guy on a goldwing w/ full fairings, but he had these like custom bars attached up front (like where side protector bars would go on a sportbike) that he used as pegs to put his feet up on, and were a good foot and a half in front and above the real pegs. he looked like he was just kicking back and relaxing while going on down the highway
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