Forum: Face plant
09-22-2006, 12:48 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 656
Look out on the right -- potential averted
How many times have we discussed quick reactions to a potentially dangerous situation? For years I rode (and after my motorcycle destroying accident also drove) all around the L.A. area learning to...
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Forum: Face plant
09-22-2006, 12:22 AM
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Replies: 22
Views: 2,844
This isn't Europe, Curtis, and forcing someone...
This isn't Europe, Curtis, and forcing someone into a narrow half lane in a country where that is not normally done is being an accident instigator. Far as I know the rules taught here are still to...
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Forum: Face plant
09-22-2006, 12:10 AM
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Replies: 14
Views: 1,362
Couple of points.
As first medical...
Couple of points.
As first medical responder by default (ie, yes I am a medtype, no I am not an EMT/para, just was in right place at right time before 911 call brought help) to several accident...
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Forum: Face plant
09-21-2006, 12:42 AM
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Replies: 22
Views: 1,663
Don't blame the deer. That's what happens when...
Don't blame the deer. That's what happens when idiot humans destroy all the predators in an area. No wolves to keep down the deer, hey presto, overpopulation and total destruction...until they start...
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Forum: The perfect line and other riding myths
09-15-2006, 03:15 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 712
More experience here with this stuff than mine,...
More experience here with this stuff than mine, so I'll just add a quick comment. I know of at least one bike originally shipped into Canada by the manufacturer that could not be ridden here due to...
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Forum: Pics, pics, pics...
09-14-2006, 07:06 PM
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Replies: 7,182
Views: 2,182,507
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Forum: The perfect line and other riding myths
09-14-2006, 06:53 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 690
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Forum: The perfect line and other riding myths
09-14-2006, 06:50 PM
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Replies: 57
Views: 2,578
Geez that looks dark reddish orange on my...
Geez that looks dark reddish orange on my screen...is it a red near orange?? If so, tell me whetre I can get one that fits in that color....:lol3
Other than that possibility, white...although I...
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Forum: The perfect line and other riding myths
09-14-2006, 06:41 PM
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Replies: 72
Views: 3,412
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Forum: Ride reports
09-12-2006, 11:49 PM
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Replies: 48
Views: 4,692
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Forum: Face plant
09-12-2006, 01:04 AM
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Replies: 124
Views: 12,345
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Forum: Face plant
09-12-2006, 01:01 AM
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Replies: 124
Views: 12,345
So...you're advocating habitually riding at...
So...you're advocating habitually riding at speeds so much too fast for conditions that you scrape both sides of your bike? Interesting. "Course, if you do ride that way normally you'll definately...
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Forum: Face plant
09-11-2006, 06:39 AM
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Replies: 124
Views: 12,345
Well, my 2 cents.
I am not comfortable in...
Well, my 2 cents.
I am not comfortable in mountains and on what y'all call twisties. I frankly do not understand the huge attraction severe curves at great speed on public roads have for some...
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Forum: The perfect line and other riding myths
09-10-2006, 01:29 PM
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Replies: 24
Views: 1,067
Hey Sun, bring me a set too! :lol3
I don't...
Hey Sun, bring me a set too! :lol3
I don't think yellow tint on the visor would help in fog...it's not so much a low light condition as it is an obscuration and diffusion of light situation....
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Forum: Face plant
09-08-2006, 05:21 PM
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Replies: 45
Views: 3,815
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Forum: The perfect line and other riding myths
09-08-2006, 05:04 PM
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Replies: 24
Views: 1,067
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Forum: The perfect line and other riding myths
09-07-2006, 08:34 PM
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Replies: 62
Views: 4,423
hmmmm
Fraid I can;t contribute to this...
hmmmm
Fraid I can;t contribute to this thread unless we bring in other vehicles. I might be able to put in something from my flying days that would qualify...the bike stuff just isn;t bad enough...
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Forum: The perfect line and other riding myths
09-07-2006, 08:15 PM
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Replies: 24
Views: 1,067
:clap :clap :clap
YES! Those are my old...
:clap :clap :clap
YES! Those are my old glasses! The ones I wore back before the bike killer crash put me into crappy cars for years!
Geez I'd forgotten the name...and didn't know they...
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Forum: The perfect line and other riding myths
09-07-2006, 08:08 PM
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Replies: 37
Views: 1,988
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Forum: The perfect line and other riding myths
09-07-2006, 08:04 PM
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Replies: 37
Views: 1,988
Not at all.
Take another example in...
Not at all.
Take another example in California. The new clock it or ticket seatbelt enforcement. When I still had a car I was stopped and ticketed anf fined for a seatbelt violation. Why? I had...
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Forum: Face plant
09-07-2006, 07:44 PM
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Replies: 45
Views: 3,815
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Forum: The perfect line and other riding myths
09-07-2006, 05:06 PM
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Replies: 24
Views: 1,067
Foggy Nights
For those who know the area, I ride down Skyline just south of San Fran whenever I go to work at night. My schedule changes week to week, but usually that means 4 nights out of 6 I am going north or...
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Forum: Face plant
09-07-2006, 03:35 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 1,067
This is definately one of those very few...
This is definately one of those very few accidents people are gonna hold up someday and say that riding with a helmet killed him, you watch. What a freaky thing to happen....
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Forum: Face plant
09-01-2006, 03:02 PM
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Replies: 73
Views: 4,645
Glad to see this trhead calmed down some into...
Glad to see this trhead calmed down some into useful suggestions. Blockign the street with several camcorders running and a call in to the cops is a good one, always given the street racers not being...
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Forum: Regional forums
09-01-2006, 12:34 AM
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Replies: 2,906
Views: 463,290
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Forum: Regional forums
09-01-2006, 12:05 AM
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Replies: 2,906
Views: 463,290
Actually, not quite. When and where I started...
Actually, not quite. When and where I started riding most of the "real bikers" were men on harleys. "Real" means you weren't just some rich kid playing on a bike during the summer. "Summer rider" was...
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Forum: Face plant
08-31-2006, 09:51 PM
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Replies: 62
Views: 12,225
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Forum: The perfect line and other riding myths
08-31-2006, 09:07 PM
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Replies: 27
Views: 2,225
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Forum: Ride reports
08-31-2006, 04:50 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 810
The way back
A flock of crows made noise enough to wake up anyone Monday morning. Here's the view looking out of the tent.
http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n57/bmwbard/Macks%20Memorial/eaglemorning.jpg
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Forum: Ride reports
08-31-2006, 04:38 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 810
Day 3 - The Memorial Wake
Day 3 dawned heavily overcast. In fact with the diffused light I nearly overslept and had to hop it to make the 30 min ride to Mack's mom's house by 11 am. (Guess those two long rides tired me out!)...
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Forum: Ride reports
08-31-2006, 04:12 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 810
Day Two
A couple hours up I-5 to Oregon highway 30, one of two advised by regional area advriders for someone not into twisties. A pretty route.
Nice and green after California's dead dry landscape.
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Forum: Ride reports
08-31-2006, 03:59 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 810
The other orange K motorcycle ride Aug 4-6 (-8)
It took some doing, but the mods needed for the ride got finished late afternoon on the last day before we had to start out. :clap
Day one: 80 out of San Francisco, 505 connector to I-5 north....
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Forum: The perfect line and other riding myths
08-31-2006, 12:44 AM
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Replies: 66
Views: 5,686
Wow. some nice pics and ideas here!
edit: ...
Wow. some nice pics and ideas here!
edit: oh I forgot! Tip for keeping duffles from undoing and your stuff from flying all over...lock them. That is, get a small padlock and use it to lock the...
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Forum: Face plant
08-31-2006, 12:16 AM
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Replies: 68
Views: 7,164
I think he meant when the bike sits. I've gone...
I think he meant when the bike sits. I've gone into a store or something on an errand and come back out to the bike to find it too hot to touch and darned near too hot to sit on in the gawdawful...
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Forum: Ride reports
08-30-2006, 11:50 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 737
Chinook WA restaurant
If you're going down the coast highway you might want to check out Chinook, WA (about 4 miles north of Astoria, OR). I you get there in the early afternoon you might stop at this little family owned...
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Forum: Face plant
08-30-2006, 05:35 PM
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Replies: 62
Views: 12,225
I really don't know whether to laugh or not.
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I really don't know whether to laugh or not.
Are you just a jumper, or do you jump in tandem too? Just curious...always wanted to try it, inspite of the fact that that makes skydivers and pilots...
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Forum: Face plant
08-30-2006, 05:30 PM
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Replies: 68
Views: 7,164
Gotta call you on this one, V.
Lack of...
Gotta call you on this one, V.
Lack of services = excuse.
Gear can be worn over the top of swim trunks and a teeshirt. Gear can be locked up in whatever sort of locked on case the particular...
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Forum: Face plant
08-30-2006, 05:23 PM
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Replies: 68
Views: 7,164
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Forum: Face plant
08-30-2006, 05:20 PM
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Replies: 68
Views: 7,164
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