Where you at in MI?

Thats not completely true. You can make a dirt bike into a street bike (called a dual sport or supermotard). A dual sport has OTD dirt tires that can go on the street and a supermotard has basically sport bike tires. Then you get a Baja Designs dual sport kit and you have a street bike.:D Or get a KTM 530 that is already street legal and put a big bore kit that makes it a 610. You now have a wheelie monster and one bada$$ bike. And you break away from the sport bike crowd too.

People who think that dirt bikes arn't cool.:D

-People on motorcycles doing 20 over the speed limit on I-25 while wearing no protective gear whatsoever. Stop doing wheelies to impress the girls in the car beside you, or you're going to be liquefied on the pavement, and I wouldn't feel the slightest bit bad about it.

-squids

-people that think dual-sports are the same as sportbikes. Actually, I should be more clear. You can turn a supersport into a dirt bike but no dirt bike on earth will ever be able to be a supersport :D

-People that think an over-bored KTM 530 would handle, brake, and accelerate like a CBR600rr :D

-People that apparently think all riders are squids and do wheelies in traffic

-People that have never even touched a sportbike and assume it's easy to do the speed limit. It's not easy to do the speed limit, and here's why: between your legs is a 100whp 360lb machine (if you're riding a 600... if you're on a liter bike, it's closer to 180whp and 400lbs... that's right, the new CBR1000rr is as powerful as the original Hayabusa) with a close-ratio 6-speed transmission and a hairtrigger for a throttle. I promise you (and everyone here who's been on a sportbike on a highway can attest to this) that once you get going, if you aren't constantly looking at the speedo, you'll find yourself doing 20 over and not even realizing it; on a sportbike, 75 feels like 55 does in a car. Trying to do the speed limit is like trying to do the speed limit in a twin-turbo'd McLaren F1.

+1! My thrashed 955 was IMPOSSIBLE to keep at speed. City streets were the WORST! Try doing 35 on a bike that strong. You end up rolling up to 45 - 50 and not even notice. Even trying to shift to a high gear doesn't help. To keep at the speed limit, you must constantly look at the speedo. BUT, with all the dumbass drivers out there, you simply can't do that. You have to know what everyone is doing, otherwise you may get hit by the dumb B getting on the highway WHILST on her F'n phone, not looking to merge.

-- People driving with their phone!
--People TEXTING and driving. Seriously. Its not safe. Your not that good of a driver.

-$8/hr 30-day apprentice-ships at dealerships

-dealerships that assume that, even though I maintained a 90% average through a 9-month automotive school, because I have no "shop experience" I don't know what I'm doing

-Lack of any job security whatsoever



I'm going to be very stressed out for the next 30 days =/

Yeah, it's tougher to stay at the speed limit, and I can't claim to have ridden that powerful or high end of a bike, but even if they aren't looking at their speedometers, I can only hope they're not so blind that they can't notice all the cars they go screaming past. Now, I don't have issues with 90% of the riders out there, but for those 10% that I do get torqued about: put on something besides shorts and a t-shirt if you're doing 95 mph wheelies on our roads. (A) your ass might very well get smeared on the highway and (B) you lose control of your bike and you quite possibly throw someone else in danger too.

So basically, you could have summed it up as:




Or as I like to call them... "skin crayons" :D

If they are flying past you, they are lil squiddies. New kids on the big bad bike. lmfao. They are the bike worlds version of ricers. And why wear a helmet and gear? That just keeps the girls from noticing how hot you are. And the gear is just TOO hot!
Dont worry, they will soon learn their lesson. There are 2 kind of riders - those who have been down and those who are going to go down. You find that most of your good riders have gone down and learned their lesson.

Too bad the only color available is RED

Maybe with flecks of bone-white color thrown in there.

I was more addressing whoever it was that hated on people who thought everyone that rides a motorcylce is a squid. Just making sure I was clear.

-People who over explain themselves

-people who list stuff for sale on CL and never reply to messages.

People who drag their feet on motorcycles for more that 10 ft after leaving a green light. Especially on Harleys. If the 400lbs+ bike is gonna fall, I doubt your gonna be able to catch it.

People who argue with me excessively:D

People who think that I could even begin to compare a KTM to a CBR600 in speed, handling and braking (it just would be bada$$ thats all I'm saying):D

+1 - people who drag feet on a bike.

I dunno about yall, but I put my foot up as I start to roll forward. None of this stepping or dragging BS.

-The fact that I'm right-foot dominant and the shifter in front of the left peg. So I either get to hold the clutch the entire time I'm at a light or I get to do that thing where you get to switch which leg is supporting the bike when you go to shift into 1st to pull away.

-The horn button on bikes. I swear to god the first 2 weeks of me riding I hit the horn every time I canceled the turn signal.

-The fact that on a 90-degree day, a fresh tank of gas only stays cold for a few minutes =[

-The fact that I'm currently bike-less until I can afford another one =[

-People that walk bikes in the forward direction. Your bike has a wet clutch... slipping it a little bit to pull the bike 2' forward at a red light isn't going to hurt anything and if you're nice with the clutch you don't even have to mess with the throttle.

Wow. I don't even understand your problems on the bike from a stop. As I come to a stop I put it in N, and come to rest on my right leg alone, leaving my left foot on the peg. When light turns, push down for 1st and ease out.
Your a funny one.

-When a site links me to a cracked.com list. One thing's for sure, and that's that cracked has it's name right; once I get on that site I'm on it for the next 6 hours until I run out of lists to read thanks to their handy-dandy links at the bottom of each page. Thanks a lot, you bastards.

And sorry, I think my ADD kicked in during the middle of that last one... not sure what my right leg dominance has to do with anything lol... what I meant is that I usually rest on my left leg so I can have my foot on the rear brake and just pretty much sit there until the light turns green (usually it turns into me playing the tank like a bongo drum lol). So when it turns green, I have to get off the rear brake, switch which foot is on the ground, shift into 1st, and then go.

Trade feet and hold the bike like a man? =P
I understand you now. That kinda sucks. Use your front brake to hold you at a stop as you change feet so left stays on peg. OR, go biker style and put both feet on the ground.

I tried the front brake/left foot on peg thing... it was really awkward for me. And I tried both feet on the ground, but old habits die hard... I always ended up going to just my left foot on the ground, then I'd realize I wasn't in gear and have to do the ol' switcharoo again lol

Maybe I'll just work on my balance enough that I can just balance the bike in place for a few minutes until the light turns green again... convenient and pure bada** :D

-Spending more than an hour riding a sportbike on a hot day. As far as I'm concerned, nobody should be allowed to talk about how bad their balls are sweating or how bad their swampa** is until they've done this.

-When your parts itch while you're riding, and while you're scratching with one hand you hit a bump and almost eat it. Happened to me one time... good thing I didn't lay it down because I don't think anyone would consider scratching your balls a good excuse to dump a bike in a straight line :D

-The fact that the last thing you think before you lay a bike down is quite literally "oh s**t." I've laid a bike down twice... both times those were my exact thoughts before I laid the bike down.

-The realization upon entering a turn that you're not going to make said turn

-The fact that my first lowside was done around a 25mph turn at around 45mph. The same 25mph where I set a personal best of 328% the advisory limit. That's 82mph around a 25mph turn. I had the bike leaned so far over that the front tire started losing traction. Coincidentally that's about the closest I've ever come to s**ting myself on a bike :D

*edit: before anyone chastises me, the turn I'm talking about is on a freshly (as of last summer) paved 2-lane highway with very little traffic. The turn itself is in the middle of a field (welcome to western PA), and you can see if any traffic is coming well before you enter the braking (or in my usual case, accelerating) zone for the turn.

*edit #2: Fun fact of the day - My old civic's record around that 25mph turn was 74mph... and still no body roll and it didn't break traction, nor did I leave my lane. God I miss how well that car handled :D

+1 on walking the bike. Slip the clutch a little, its much easier than pushing a 300lbs bike. It's even better when people try to push up a slight hill, makes me laugh everytime.

--when people forget to put their feet down whilst on a bike.

A year or two ago, some noob was riding a sweet arse R1. Came up to the light, and left both feet on the pegs. I laughed soo hard when he hit the ground. Then he couldn't pick it up! I got out and did it in 2 tries. I forgot the brake the first time. haha.

^ I wouldn't have helped him pick it up. I would have sat there and laughed at him. But then again, I'm a dick like that.

I help people out when ever I can. I figure if I do enough good things in life, karma will start to leave me alone. God knows I'm not on karma's good side right now.

-people who drive out to " see the country side" some of us live here so get the **** out of the way and at least do the god dam speed limit.

- sears telling me that if i purchase tires that arent the same thread pattern as the ones in the back, that it could ruin my transmission. (parents 97 jimmy)

LOL great thread!

Well, it seems like at one point they knew what they were talking about and just forgot lol

having two different tire sizes on the front and rear of a 4wd/awd can ruin the transfer case. Having two different tread patterns won't really do much.

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On your way to the classifieds?

thats funny.
I'd be up in their faces for saying shiz like that.

bahahaha

Well I looked at the kid with the look of common dude. I aint that stupid. And then said. Its alright. I don't need my transmission anyways.

-The fact that no one has noticed my lovely avatar. I rawwkkksss.

-The fact that punisher didn't notice me commenting about his avi in another thread a few days ago

*edit: wait, nevermind. I think that was the post I decided to say f**k it with and didn't post it lol... either way, I noticed it a few days ago and LOL'd.

-the fact that you think we care enough to post saying we like your new avatar

-the fact that Jprommel acts like he doesn't care about my avatar. We all know its the reason for your existence upon this earth.

The fact that punisher hasn't check my post in "Who has photoshop skills" and totally stole my work. :D

I saw your avatar... didn't think it was necessary to commend you on it.