Posted on 09/30/2008 11:02:27 PM PDT by Spktyr
You definitely would not like a BMW R1100 then, but they are so much lighter, that maybe you would.
LOL!
[well, you’re the one who’s riding topless, not me]
So, the Hog Rider is waiting at the light, and a Beemer pulls up next to him.
The Beemer driver calls out: "Hey, you know what's the difference between Hoover and Harley?"
The Hog Rider is silent.
"With a Hoover, the dirt bag is on the inside. Haw haw haw!"
The Hog Rider shouts back: "Yeah? And you know what the difference is between a Beemer and a pineapple?"
The Beemer driver is silent.
"With a pineapple, the pricks are on the outside"
And he roars off.
At which point, the Hog Rider is pulled over by a cop on a Kawasaki, who gives him a ticket for running the light, no helmet, no registration, no insurance, no motorcycle license and disturbing the peace with his straight pipes.
You left that part of the joke out. :D
Most metrics sit *way* too high for me.
I have long legs for my height [32” of 53” total] *but* have narrow hips.
[my dad always said I was built like a tree frog]
No matter how flexible I might still be, the narrow hip width means I have trouble getting my legs out past the motor far enough for flat-footed standing.
The Sporty was no problem and it was light but it felt like I was sitting on bar stool doing 60 mph.
Didn’t like it a bit.
The guy hubby bought his Night Train from had a metric bike that I could actually sit properly.
I’ll have to ask what it was because I can’t recall what it was.
*rimshot*
Oh no, you made me remember many a joke I shan’t repeat here ;)
[she said unapologetically over the guttural roar of her cut-off Vance & Hines straight pipes]
Careful what you wish for...hubby occasionally pines for the ‘old days’ when I was pressed against his back, arms lovingly wrapped about his waist....LOL!
[I get to crack *my* throttle now and I ain’t *never* goin’ back!]
;-D
[and thanks for the props!]
ouch
His crash bar probably saved his hide....or most of it, anyway.
We once did a trike a for a guy who wanted his crash bars left on.
All we could ask was “Why?”
Then again, just for [weird] laughs, we used to leave the kickstands on our trikes and get off and put them down everytime we stopped.
Woo!
I don’t know how long I could ride hunched over!....:))
I’ve sat a Valkyrie.
I think that’s as “metric” as I could ever go and still have a spine when I got home.
On a Beemer its not that hunched over really.
Back in 2002 I did a 800 mile ride in 10 hours (with gas and rest stops included!)
*Ow!*
There’s a local guy who I *think* has either that BMW or one very much like it.
He commutes to who knows where on it and I see him coming home in the evening wearing his suit under a leather jacket.
It was a strange sight, at first....:))
90-120+ all the way!
In the 70-120 mph range it would walk away from most anything on the road I encountered back then.
Passing was like loading up a slingshot, then wham!
Big Iron Turtles = Harley Davidson
Have you noticed an odd temperature phenomenon at high speeds?
We went up I-81 north last week and with clear highway and no exits ahead of us, we played a little.
It was rather chilly but over 85 mph, it seemed to actually “get warmer”.
Some weird fluke or is there a “scientific” reason?
He noticed it, too.
So far I’ve had mine up to 90.
There’s really not much opportunity for both clear lanes and no cops around here.
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