OB_c_rod2000
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kirk , that is a good (common)story. Whenever i ride a chick(age 18-mid20's) i always play mega defensive in the city. First off they are not covered on insurance. second i dont want to drop the bike.
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Railing with hotties on back.
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Meta tagsSometimes I feel like putting my life on the line, and sometimes I don't. With the Bus, you are never more than about one second of poor judgement away from death, and you are never more than a fraction of a second away from what most people refer to as an "accident". I don't believe in "accidents", I think that there are only compound screw-ups. I didn't want to die Sunday, so I lined hotties all week for the other guys because I figured it would slow them down. I also think that it is good to expose hotties to our sport, because about 100% of them will love it, and then there are more hotties hanging around. Worst case, their boyfriends have to buy bikes to keep them. I don't think that it is appropriate to make them "pay", but I get some flack for that. One of the hotties that I invited for Sunday was a female police officer. Because of the number of hotties versus the number of available rear seats, I ended up with her on the back of my bike. I checked tire pressures front and rear about half a dozen times throughout the day. I can recite my suspension set-up from memory. I ride a model year 2000 motorcycle (Bus) in perfect repair. I even lubed my shifter pivot to avoid false neutrals while railing. The only thing not 100% on my Bus is that my rear tire is squared off from high speed runs- the center is worn down to the tread wear indicators. The rest of the tire looks great. I self imposed a top speed limit on myself in the interest of safety because I didn't want to push it and have a compound screw-up, expecially with officer hottie on the back. I had to pick her up at Central Precinct, so I took her on a quick check-out ride up to Starbucks where we were meeting everybody else. She did some of the usual stuff- she tried to crush my pelvis to the point that I didn't think I'd be able to get my feet down at the first stoplight. Once we had that sorted out, she rode like a 20lb backpack. I really enjoyed it. This girl is a natural. (to be continued)
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OB_Thradar
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Hahaha, another one thinking he's gonna get a chick because he rides Busa. You might get some ranky action, but that's about it.
OB_hayabusaGSX1300R
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Being a woman, I guess I can see the humor in this...but is there any particular reason it's posted 3 times? Was it really that good! 12:14pm 12:15pm & 12:17pm
Wish I got to go riding too...my guy doesn't carry on his Busa.
Wish I got to go riding too...my guy doesn't carry on his Busa.
OB_hayabusaGSX1300R
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Not always true...besides between Kirks dogs and his wife I don't think he is actually trying to pick anyone up.
So an hour after our scheduled depature time for the coast, We call to wake up the last rider/pillion. Two hours after our scheduled departure time, we depart. The young lady on the back of my bike had never been out with us, so I asked a lot of questions in the interest of her being comfortable with what was going on. She did fine with warming the tires up, she did fine riding within close proximity (mirrors overlapping, legs up against other bike's fairing) to other bikes. She was okay with speed, at least as much speed as she was going to see from me today. The front end came up a little at the top of second and into third gear while passing cars, and she didn't know it, so she was okay with that. She was okay with acceleration, Hayabusa style. We talked before hand and I told her that that I wasn't going to show off or try to scare her- that's not cool. It was really fun railing two up. I would tuck, and she would lay on my back. She commented later that she especially liked when I would let everybody else pass and then we would reel them in. I was doing it because I can pass anywhere, anytime, in any gear, but I have nightmares about an F4 becoming a hood ornament because he was one gear off or below 10,000rpm when he committed, so I let the others go first. We as a group raced go-carts at the beach (I won both times, coming from 1/2 way and 2/3 way back in the starting grid). We all had lunch together. We all went for a walk on the beach. Then one of my riding buddys really wanted to give the female officer a ride, so we swapped for the trip back. He did a couple of sketchy passes and attempted some two up wheelies on his ZX-9. He passed against a double yellow line. He ran 150mph on a bald rear tire with her on the back. I wasn't comfortable with what I was seeing, but I trusted this guy and his skills enough that I didn't say anything. Up to this point, I thought of his skills as being better than mine. Now I think that I should have. On our way back into town, he blew a red light to catch the lead bike (my regular riding buddy with the world's best pillion on His new R1). The lead R1 slowed and pulled off onto the shoulder to stop because he saw that the rest of us were stopping for the light. The ZX-9 guy, with the female officer on back, tries to stop on the shoulder, but locks up his bald rear tire and slides into the back of the (now stopped)lead R1. Both bikes went down. Both girls fell off. Lots of plastic. Ripped the right rear footpeg and the back half of the exhaust system off of the R1. The front end of the ZX-9 did not look good. I think that the rider of the ZX-9 broke his hand, but wouldn't let on. That made three bikes out of 10 that went down, including the F3 that flopped off the sidestand during a mass traffic stop, and three girls that fell off, including the one that slid off the tail of the R1 during a second gear two up wheelie (she did not part company with the motorcycle completely, and there were no injuries. She is an expert pillion, but was a little shaken). In discussing it later, we figure that showing off may have been a causal factor. I was even accused of it, but honestly I was not. Not even a little bit. I am a homeowner, and I want to continue to be one. I tend to ride towards the back of the pack, because it is real easy for people to misunderstand the performance envelope of the Hayabusa to the point that anything other than deceleration looks like showing off.
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Update- ZX-9 may be a total. R1 is approaching $5000 in damage. Officer hottie has not returned my phone call. Houston, we have a problem. What do you guys usually do - how do you approach it when you invite a female police officer on her first ride and one of your riding buddys blows a red light and wrecks with her on the back? I don't have a lot of experience in this area.
OB_insinu8
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hottie female police officers???
Just found out that another one went down on a different ride. High-sided at 50-55mph off of an F4 under a Ford explorer that stopped in a corner. It was bad. Broken pelvis, broken femur (leg) with about a foot long steel rod installed, broken ribs, punctured lung(s?). He was puking blood on the scene and his helmet was wedged between the body and one rear tire of the exploder. The other riders said that his rear tire was sliding more and more into each corner before he went down. They thought he was being ham-handed with the rear brake, but the rider says that he doesn't use the rear brake when railing (although he doesn't remember the accident). He is stable and using lots of morphine. He said that he doesn't like his rear tire. He says that it is a Michelin Hi-Sport, which sounds like a TX-25 to me, but he refers to it as a touring tire. He said that it never gets sticky. It's hard even when it's hot.
OB_Best Cycle Parts
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The stories I could tell, about me and my wife on the Ortega Hwy, in So. Calif.........We were notorious up there for riding in the canyons, while the other guys were riding solo....
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