Gotta love these people....

[TallTom]

I was out doing an errand this morning and stopped by a person I know who used to be a civilian employee on the base and is a pretty cool guy...

He also has a Ram truck so we were in the garage talking trucks...

He has a 30 something son living with he and his wife who has a mid 2000's Civic that is lowered and tricked out although it has 3 or 4 colors of doors and fenders on it and is in desperate need of a paint job...

He and I were talking about how disappointed we were that Ram has done away with the 5.7 Hemi and said the company that keeps their V-8 will sell the most trucks.......and although the new "Hurricane" engine might make more power it sounds like crap and is very complicated.

The young fellow snorted and said we don't know anything about going fast or power in our "grandpa" trucks and it was high time that Ram moved into the 21st century...we laughed at that.....

My friend said to his son "going fast? do you know what bike this guy rides?" The kid said "probably an old man Harley" and his dad said "he rides a Hayabusa....show him a picture"

So I did and the kid raised his eyebrows then had a hundred questions...."how fast is it. what's the fastest you've had it, how much power does it make.? etc, etc....

I told him that I didn't know how fast I've had it but it's not restricted anymore and I've had it topped out once so it must have been over 300 kms/hr and it didn't take that long to gather in that sort of speed. He asked how I thought his Civic would stack up against it....I told him I didn't want to burst his tuner car bubble but there was no comparison between the two.

The kid had no more talk of speed and power after that although we did go out and look at his Civic that he was busy working on...he had an Acura engine in it and a bunch of shiny bits here and there....

I said it must suck in the winter and he said he is looking for a used winter beater right now and will store this at one of his buddy's places.

Yeah I had a kid in his.....wait for it.......Hyundai Tiburon........talk smack about speed. So I humored him. It was over by midway through 2nd gear.

 

[Bumblebee]

Yeah I had a kid in his.....wait for it.......Hyundai Tiburon........talk smack about speed. So I humored him. It was over by midway through 2nd gear.

Honestly there are people out there with no clue as to how fast a motorcycle accelerates....even big tour bikes or cruisers...

They get a big surprise when they see the tail light disappear into the distance...

Years ago when I was young and fearless one of my guys had a Camaro that he thought was fast.....at the time one of my bikes was an FZR1K that I ran him on......this guy soon learned not to mess with a motorcycle...I probably could have took him with the RD400 Daytona I had as well but figured overkill was the best way to send a clear message.......I also had my twin GSXRs at that time too....so he was going to get trounced one way or another....

 

[Bumblebee]

We had a couple inches of snow yesterday and it was surprising (not really) at how many people didn't even bother to clear their windows before driving....and not driving slow on snow covered roads either......

I watched them drive by with a tiny windshield wiper hole on their windshield to see out of.......they would probably get into a crash and wonder why......

......jackasses.......