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Do I produce more oestrogen than testosterone?
Do I have a lady garden - or perhaps half of one?
I can honestly say that I've never wanted to ride or own a motorbike. I think they are crude, noisy, two wheeled suicide machines.
Am I on my own with this one?
DS
WGAF. Really.
FREAK........... 😈
feeling the need to tell everyone is the weird part...
suicide machines
100% - living in North Yorkshire it seems to be a regular occurrence to see headlines of people dying - just this weekend someone in a group riding in the Dales went straight on into a drystone wall 🙁
But I have always wanted one. My dad wouldn't let me have one as a kid (even though he had one... and went straight on into a field via a gate (thankfully he missed the wall as my yet to be mum was on the back).
Then I got to an age where he couldn't stop me but I couldn't afford one.
Now I can afford one but have children and daren't take the risk.
I've ridden for 40 years; you don't know what you are missing.
I used to love them until I fell off a few times and scared myself silly. Now I wouldn't go near them.
feeling the need to tell everyone is the weird part...
Sorry - was having a luchtime chat about motorbikes with some very enthusiastic enthusiasts. It seems that everybody had a bike or wanted a bike except me.
The title of the thread should have precluded your looking as it was obvious what it was about.
Precious ****.
Had one and they are fantastic - speed, cornering and braking all feel amazing. Got away with it for long enough and now MTB is my vice. Two kids and a wife to think off.
you don't know what you are missing.
true. I got my first moped almost exactly 30 years ago, I've owned motorbikes almost all the time since. I've had a lot of fun on two wheels in my life. Motorised or not, two wheels good.
Two kids and a wife to think off.
That is exactly where I am at. I get close enough to scaring myself enough times in my car still, never mind on something that can end in much more abrupt results.
Two good friends have just got into them though and love them to bits - completely transformed them both having something to focus energies on. But they are both single men living alone so the only people picking up pieces would be the emergency services.
Precious ****
ooooeeee.
your right, handbags don't go with motorbikes.
why the abusiveness Derek?
m/cycles are great fun by the way.
See my post on photos I'm proud of this month. Then re-evaluate!
Motorcycling - A mode of transport where the people that know the most about it are the ones who never participate.
No, not really.
what a dull world it would be if we all liked the same stuff. I've got a car, not because I want one, but because I need one for work and for towing stuff. I cannot understand why people get all worked up over cars. Clarkson creaming himself over some hundred thousand pound ****mobile that frankly will never go any faster than a 17 year old plumber in a 16 year old Astra van.
you don't know what you are missing
...the chance to become an organ donor perhaps?
Too many people I know who have had bikes have found themselves bouncing down the road at some point. Never felt the need to join in with the 'fun'.
Some people like coffee, some people like tea.
And having a motorbike doesn't mean you have to ride it like a knobend. I ride mine like a 40 year old spinster librarian. Honest.
Motorcycling - A mode of transport where the people that know the most about it are the ones who never participate.
That's certainly true for people who think they know the most about it.
Always wanted one, but wouldn't be able to trust myself. Bad enough with 4 wheels. More to the point bad enough with 2 wheels and my own power, without adding a engine to it.
Im sure I'd really like riding a motorbike and all would be great.
But I do with your statement that they seem crude and noisy. However some people seem to love the fact there they are ear splittingly noisy and smell terrible I dont get this at all. (I can see the noise is good for not killing pedestrians though)
I've seen some electric bike/motorcross hybrid type things. If this eventually become cheap and reliable enough. I'd love to have one of them.
Motorcycling - A mode of transport where the people that know the most about it are the ones who never participate.
Indeed, and I love getting advice from people who had a Fizzie 30 years ago
you can't carry anything, you have to dress up to go anywhere, mpg is rubbish, you can't eat, you can't smoke.....they are rubbish
Crude?
Now I'll admit that the 69 Matchless I have is a bit simple in design & agricultural in looks but that's not a bad thing - I'm even going to race it next year
Modern sports bikes are a million miles from being crude
Sold my last one about 3 years ago and I miss it. I had bikes from being 17 to 40 odd.
Tools for the job - for me its HEAPS cheaper to get to work in respect of petrol and parking costs, and I get about an hour a day of my life back compared to the bus. And I get to dress up in serious kit - how is that a bad thing ?
(and yes I know my 125 is only really a pretend motorbike but very practical and not at all obnoxious)
I wouldn'tbe without my motorbike but I ride it with a completely different attitude to the way I ride bicycles. When I'm pedalling I'm competitive to the point of annoyance but on a motorbike I just want to waft along feeling like I'm on holiday.
[i]That is exactly where I am at. I get close enough to scaring myself enough times in my car still, never mind on something that can end in much more abrupt results.[/i]
And that really is one of our biggest problem, car/van drivers who can't drive.
OP probably didn't want a blow job either until they knew what it was like?
maybe?
full chat on a motorbike is insane, dangerous and not worth the risk - unless you've experienced it....
And that really is one of our biggest problem, car/van drivers who can't drive.
Let's not get into that sort of silly stuff ehh?
Passed test at 17 and had bikes for years. Got rid of the last one when I moved to a house without a garage and couldn't bear to see it rot outside.
Have thought long and hard about getting another one (went to look at couple last year) as Ms Spanner's a fan too.
However, don't feel the same compulsion to ride as I used to, and cycling gives me most of the thrills, less of the expense and keeps me a bit fitter.
Roads seem a bit more crowded and more of a free for all with the reduction in traffic police and I'm not sure I've got the free time to do justice to an expensive bike anymore.
Really fancy something like an Enfield or Ural to fettle and mess about with when I retire and , sadly, I still buy the magazines occaisionally to see the latest kit and get a bit of a vicarious thrill.
If you've never ridden one, I'd recommend trying it - you might just find yourself falling in love.
But I do with your statement that they seem crude and noisy. However some people seem to love the fact there they are ear splittingly noisy and smell terrible I dont get this at all. (I can see the noise is good for not killing pedestrians though)
It's all about involvement, character, feel, enjoyment. You either understand that or you don't. And the speed does help a fair bit too. 😉
If I wanted to get somewhere and not remember the journey, I'd use a car, in the same way that if I want cold beer, I use a fridge. Cars are now simply 'white goods' to me.
Bikes (Engine or not) ar for enjoyment.
(And bikes don't come from the factory "ear splittingly noisy" the riders fit loud exhausts to make them that way. Most bikes these days are nice and refined)
Motorbikes are Marmite. You either love them or hate them, mostly.
I'll gladly take anyone out for a spin once we get another big bike next year.... 🙂
And having a motorbike doesn't mean you have to ride it like a knobend.
People can still drive into you and send you flying without any protection tho. That's the biggie for me.
I'll gladly take anyone out for a spin once we get another big bike next year..
The one thing scarier than razzing around on a motorbike is razzing around on a motorbike that someone else is driving!
Jamie - Member
WGAF. Really.
My name is also Derek and I agree with the OP on abusing people who post things like the above (and the one he abused).
I also have never wanted a motorbike.
Re: the WGAF posting - I seem to recall the rules saying "treat the forum like conversations in a pub" or something - if you walked past a table in a pub where a conversation had started that you had no interest in, would you stop, turn and say "Who gives a F.."?
No, you'd walk by and go sit back at your lonely table and nurse your pint. So do the same here.
Sorry, just something that really bugs me!
People can still drive into you and send you flying without any protection tho. That's the biggie for me.
Just like cycling on the road then? Except with even less protection.
PP is right, the trouble is that the people who'd most benefit (in all aspects of road use) from learning to ride, don't.
It's just another way of enjoying the roads as far as I'm concerned. And I like some variety in my modes of transport too.
Just like cycling on the road then?
Yes, except that you have a lot more of your own speed to make things a lot worse.
People can still drive into you and send you flying without any protection tho. That's the biggie for me.
100,000 miles + so far and as yet nobody has managed it. I did avoid a van that was about to run into the back of me at some lights once though! (The pedestrain crossing just past the BMW garage in Farnborough as it happens Molgrips, I imagine you know it...?)
Go on, ask me how I did that! 😀
Keep you wits about you, get some advanced training and it's safer than riding a pedal cycle IME.
Why? Because nobody overtakes you on a motorbike, and that's where a lot of the danger is on a pushbike 🙂
The one thing scarier than razzing around on a motorbike is razzing around on a motorbike that someone else is driving!
Oh, you'd love it. I'm very experienced with passengers: Not lost one yet. I'm very smooth. I like smoothness. 😉
It makes you a lot better as a cyclist, particularly on the commute. Plus it is great fun.
I can honestly say that I've never wanted to drive or own a car. I think they are crude, noisy, 4 wheeled suicide machines.
😉
Peterpoddy thats interesting - I cycled to work for the first time in ages, bus pulls over in front of me and I signal and go to go around it - nearly taken out by a couple of car drivers. On motorbike safe movement as I am in the line of traffic. On bicycle suicidal as you don't count as traffic and have a Cloak of Invisibility ! Luckily I looked over my shoulder as trained...
I am finding I am missing having some mirrors on the bicycle.
On motorbike safe movement as I am in the line of traffic.
Nail on head there Hels. 🙂
You're part of the traffic, in line with it and at the same speed. So you don't get people squeezing past all the time. I'm quite assertive on a pushbike, I don't ride in the gutter, but you can't ride in the middle of the road and that leaves you exposed to the chancers. I've been clipped a couple of times and I've lost count of the close calls.
Used to have one. It was fun, had some great times and fond memories. can't say I mad keen to have another bike, like PP is with cars, can't get excited by them any more
bassspine - Member"you don't know what you are missing."
true. I got my first moped almost exactly 30 years ago, I've owned motorbikes almost all the time since. I've had a lot of fun on two wheels in my life. Motorised or not, two wheels good.
Me too. Some fantastic times - A clear run down Lochtayside on a gsrx streetfighter, international high speed runs on the BMW, a Pootle round the coast road north from lochinver The cat and fiddle road before it became popular. Melting down the A6 shap.
Interesing points about the relative safety of motorbiking and pedal biking - I can imagine positives and negatives to both.
Now I've never ridden a motorbike, but I imagine you can't hear surrounding traffic as well as you can on a bike? And since you can't ride a pedal cycle on motorways I expect people changing lanes into you is more of a risk a motorbike.
Is the incidence of people pulling out infront of you greater or less on a motorbike?
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