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Blue_eyed_buellgirl
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 23, 2007 - 01:50 pm: | 
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I've been reading this thread and there are so many different reasons people ride or start riding. I took a motorcycle training course because my boyfriend found girls that ride very sexy. That was my motivation.  (couldn't have him thinking any girl was sexier than me)
But once I was riding it was that I loved it. Freedom,wind,and the feel of the road under your tires. That's what does it for me. Not to mention a beautiful "99" Demon Blue Thunderbolt S3 I am fortunate enough to ride! If you ride for any other reason but loving to ride you probably shouldn't be riding.
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Djkaplan
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 23, 2007 - 02:07 pm: |
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That's a really good photograph in your profile. I don't think you need any help (at all) in the sexy department...  |
Oldog
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 23, 2007 - 02:22 pm: |
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whaaaat dj said! |
Stevem123
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 23, 2007 - 04:31 pm: |
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OUCH!!! My eyes are burning and I think I broke my arm falling backwards from my chair.....The BOSS wants to know what happened......Can't tell him I just looked at her profile.
Damn I think I bit my lip too....
You go girlie!!Wahoo!
BC Steve |
Rainman
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 23, 2007 - 05:35 pm: |
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Nice bike. It makes your behind look fast. |
Unibear12r
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 23, 2007 - 08:14 pm: |
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I keep telling her she has a nice Fast!!!
Ok, so it's not JUST her smile that KILLS me! |
Wolfridgerider
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 23, 2007 - 10:39 pm: |
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Well it looks like its going to be a good weekend of riding. After making the run to DC on Thursday. I'm going to the Marine Corps museum on Friday and then heading north to Mexico. PA that is. I hope I can hook up with Toona for the Res. ride and then back to DC Saturday for Rolling Thunder on Sunday. |
Littlebuggles
| | Posted on Thursday, May 24, 2007 - 12:33 am: |
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Corey, I was out there two weeks ago for the Buell Inside Pass track day. I will prolly ride there again Sunday to see my aunt who bought a house out there.
Give me a call when you are out there, I work a lot but am always happy to go for a ride, could show you a couple of the local canyons. Good stuff.
-Mike |
Ceejay
| | Posted on Thursday, May 24, 2007 - 07:33 am: |
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Mike-How was the track day? all the locals that race seem to love Miller. I'm doing one at Mid-Ohio in Oct. and am pretty excited about it.
Will do! |
Dbird29
| | Posted on Thursday, May 24, 2007 - 03:42 pm: |
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The Miller trackday was great. There is another coming up in September.
Maybe time for a Utah ride? |
Littlebuggles
| | Posted on Friday, May 25, 2007 - 12:17 am: |
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Miller was sweet! We got to ride the whole track, they usually split it for East and West tracks. Gonna put away the money for the September track day just to make sure I can go. Hoping to do the ART class this year too, anything to play on some twisty track for not too much money.
Dave that would be a great time for a Utah ride. I still owe you lunch too. |
Dbird29
| | Posted on Friday, May 25, 2007 - 09:05 am: |
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What & when is the ART class? |
Littlebuggles
| | Posted on Saturday, May 26, 2007 - 12:39 am: |
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ART stands for Advanced Rider Training. They teach it out at Miller on the "Monster Mile" cart track, super curvy, technical riding.
It is taught by Utah Sport Bike Assoc. Web address is utahsba dot com I believe. A bunch of the track fairing Utah Rider Ed instructors and some other dudes that know track riding. You can get race track certified or just get track experience with instruction. The website has dates and info on the classes. They also have a SUPER ART held on the big track and a Sport Touring ART, also held on the big track.
Looks like July 15th and Sept 1st if you'd like to get in before the next Inside Pass event. One thing too is they will allow textiles and/or jeans. But they want you wearing double layered blue jeans if you wear them though. Don't know the policy on those kevlar riding jeans...
They have gotten great praise from anyone I've ever talked to who has attended.
I need to replace my rear shock (again) gonna see if one of the local guys will rebuild it with the gold valve kit I was given a few years back. I'd like a Penske but don't want to spend the $$$. Need to have the front end redone too. Sigh, it's never ending but I don't want to complain too much over a seven year old bike. I love my Buell.
(Message edited by littlebuggles on May 26, 2007) |
Dbird29
| | Posted on Saturday, May 26, 2007 - 04:24 pm: |
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Threadjack complete!
Whoo Hoo!
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Tramp
| | Posted on Saturday, May 26, 2007 - 05:32 pm: |
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i started riding because my mom, dad and big brother all rode and competed, so on my 5th birthday i got a new minibike. it was just normal in our family. we all skied in the winter, and rode in the summer, and my dad began supporting our racing endeavours when we were really young.
I actually resisted getting my car license as a teen, as i rode my old triumphs to high school much of the time....and sometimes the hodaka super rat.
motorcycles have always been a central part of life for me. |
Iamike
| | Posted on Saturday, May 26, 2007 - 10:02 pm: |
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Tramp-
We were just looking at a pristine Super Rat at the Anamosa motorycle museum last weekend. Boy do I remember those bikes.
Don't forgt the Wombat. |
Iamike
| | Posted on Saturday, May 26, 2007 - 10:33 pm: |
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This was the first time I read thru this thread-
Jerry, remember in Phoenix that guy in the pickup with the Harley stickers that told us to ride 'real bikes'.
Let's see, we were on bikes, he was in a truck, now he was a dickhead!
As I commute to work on a regular basis, passing or being passed by pickups with Harley stickers on them. Now who is the real biker in this picture.
p.s. I do admit to trailering to Springfast. My name is Mike, and I trailer my bike sometimes. |
Diablobrian
| | Posted on Saturday, May 26, 2007 - 11:54 pm: |
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I remember the old Hodaka Combat Wombat and Road Toads! We even had a dealer here in our
little 12k people town.
When we were kids Diablomichael and I used to have an old Kawasaki early 70s KD100. Orange
four stroke trail bike. It was nothing special, or new, but to us it was EVERYTHING!
The time we spent (illegally) riding in the field across the street behind the neighbors'
houses was priceless for us.
Riding that motorcycle is the happiest memory either one of us has of our childhood.
Every time I ride I'm chasing a little piece of that pure joy.
I'm also making a gesture of defiance at all the people that gave up on me after my accident.
They tried to convince me to give up and accept the idea of being in a wheelchair, or maybe
(if I'm lucky!) a walker for the rest of my life. Well up theirs! I'm walking again (well,
to be honest it's more like hobbling with a cane) and I've modified a motorcycle so that I
can get out on 2 wheels again. I'm not settling for what I can "get by with" not by a
long shot.
...........(dramatic pause to collect myself after a rant)
.....That's why I ride a motorcycle.... |
Blake
| | Posted on Sunday, May 27, 2007 - 01:19 am: |
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I used to take dates to the movies on my Dad's CB450. I just always dug riding a motorcycle. Not so much for utilitarian transportation though, more for adventure and rolling away if you know what I mean.
I really enjoy riding alone. It's very cathartic and spiritually refreshing for me, some might say in a Zen zone.
Other times I just dig the noise, the arm stretching torque, and going fast.  |
Court
| | Posted on Sunday, May 27, 2007 - 08:35 am: |
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>>>I really enjoy riding alone. It's very cathartic and spiritually refreshing for me, some might say in a Zen zone.
There is nothing more fun than getting on an S-2 at 4:30AM and pointing it in a "direction" with no more detail and ending up 1,000 miles away . . . just cruising. |
Tramp
| | Posted on Sunday, May 27, 2007 - 10:07 am: |
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many posts here (Blake's especially) hit it on the head for me.
iamike- i loved the super rat and combat wombat. My mom first had the ace 100, which got handed down to me, my brother had the super rat, and then mom got the 125 combat wombat.
by the time i shoulda been handed down the combat wombat, i was racing en elsinore and using my rickmann-zundapp (w/the 'sunrise' fin config) as my daily rider- in the woods, to school, to the movies, etc.
the greatest thing about the rickmann/zundap was having the ability to go somewhere by taking logging roads, railroad tracks and public roads, all in one trip.
used to ride to NYC on it, i got really strange looks in midtown manhattan, all covered with mud & branches.... |
Newfie_buell
| | Posted on Sunday, May 27, 2007 - 01:37 pm: |
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I'm with Court on that comment.
Just leaving and going anywhere with nowhere to go. |
Cityxslicker
| | Posted on Sunday, May 27, 2007 - 01:46 pm: |
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Nothing better than a full tank of gas, a general direction, and light pack for what ever the weather... Just ride |
Tramp
| | Posted on Monday, May 28, 2007 - 09:35 am: |
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When I was a kid, I'd often do that, only without a bike; hitchhiking.
I had more fun, and met more interesting folks and have more great stories as a result of hitchhiking than from just about any other endeavour.
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Mikej
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 29, 2007 - 01:29 pm: |
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"There is nothing more fun than getting on an S-2 at 4:30AM and pointing it in a "direction" with no more detail and ending up 1,000 miles away . . . just cruising."
In the map pouch on the tank bag for the M2 I just last week put in a condensed map of the 48 contiguous United States. Probably a good thing it isn't on the S2. The temptation is always there to just turn left (or right) at the next intersection and go for a long ride, until the sun rises the next day or until the wallet is too empty for fuel, to ride to the next destination where the destination isn't really a place where it's more like a state of mind different for everyone and different every time but always known once one has arrived.
I haven't read the whole thread, think I've read bits of it, doesn't matter. Attitude and actions speak louder than words or appearance.
Why did I buy a bike? Why not. "That you ride" is more important than "why you ride".
YMMV. |
Ponytail
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 30, 2007 - 07:09 pm: |
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Diablo, your story is very similar to a very good friend of mine. His accident turned his life around and made him strive that much harder for his dream.
check out www.ballisticeagle.com. His name is Kevin Martin of Martin Motorsports LLC. I think he hit his head, but they treated his knee.
I ride for many reasons. I grew up around bikes. All of my uncles and grandfather had big Harleys. I rode dirtbikes for fun on the farm cuz grandfather refused to get sheep and I just wasn't sure that they'd do it for me anyway.
As was mentioned earlier, I ride chasing that lil bit of fun and mischief that I felt riding that ol dirtbike. |
Rainman
| | Posted on Friday, June 01, 2007 - 03:37 pm: |
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I just love to ride and if riding to work and for work gets me out and about, I enjoy it as much as going for a couple of hours. If I didn't ride to work I'd have to wait until I got some down time to go and with family, home and MSF, that's not very often. |
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