Stupid questions people ask you when stopped

Dirt bikes.

Guy at work: "I know you ride a motorcycle what kind is it?"

Me: A BMW 1200gs

Guy: "That is a dirt bike right."

Me: "Sometimes"

Guy: ":huh"

I then went into all of the different types of bikes.

What a hoot! I had an HD cruiser rider call my DL 1000 a "crotch rocket".

The ignorant manage to make us all look good, whether we deserve it or not.

I dunno, my pops can't make heads or tails of bikes like the DL1000. They didn't have adventure tourers back when he last rode, so when he started looking at the list of bikes I had given him to price on CL, he thought they were all either ugly or "crotch rockets". Some people don't sub divide like us.

LOL! I hear you, Phlemdog! Good on your Dad for taking a look at all the toys these days.

Hope you and your Dad can lay down some miles together, no matter what he feels comfortable riding. It's all good there!

I wish he could, but his health is such that riding has not been possible for the last ten years or so.


So I ride hard enough for the both of us, and he has more say then he realizes in what I buy for a bike.

One word….URAL!!!

Or two words: Claude Stanley!

The man can build a sidecar for ANYONE!


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Unfortunately, it's not just holding the bike up that is the issue (believe me, he would have a GW trike in a heartbeat if that was the case), it's the fact that he has no feeling in his hands and feet, and virtually no strength either.

Yep filling the KLR up this morning and a yokel asked me if my bike was a 250. Now there is nothing wrong with that cause there are definately some good 250 dual sports out there, but this guy assumed it was a full on dirt bike form the way he asked. He was shocked when I said it was a 650. To him it looked like a dirt bike therefore it was a dirtbike(I assume).

I didn't have the time or inclination to talk to him about different kinds of motorcycles, so I was polite and rode off. I should have told him it was a 2 stroke, then he would tell his buddies about the badass riding the 650 2-smoke dirt bike.

I started using the term "crotch ninja."

My Mom called my DL1000 V-Strom a "gorgeous bike".

Um. Yeah. :huh

Near as I can tell she hasn't gone blind or been hit in the head, so I dunno.

Does she drink... heavily?

Please, please, please confirm that you did that in Bubba's voice and style from "Forrest Gump!"

Chris

It's a bit torn up from a drop, but thats beside the point.

2008 zx6r, and aleast once a month I hear:

"Hey, your bike is really bright"
"Yes, I like the color. Nice and visible"
"Did you nickname it bumblebee?? It looks like a bee to me."

Thanks...haven't heard that one before. ghead:

MY FAVORITE is:

"hey what type of bike is that??"
...it's written on the tank jack ass...
(maybe there asking because the gas tank decal is the only decal on it)

Same deal with my dad. He just can't figure out why I own an FJR, since it's not a crotch rocket or a cruiser. I showed him a picture of the GS I'm picking up tomorrow, he commented 'that's just like that yamaha thing, why do you want another one?'

So I stop for gas this week at a station in Western New York. After I pay a guy comes up to me and comments on the bike. He said he liked the look of it and then asked me where I was going. So I tell him my goal is to make West Virginia. With a quizzical look on his face, he asks me if that is a different state than Virginia. I responded in the affirmative. He just says oh, okay and walks away.

Isn't that basic civics? Something taught in 3rd grade?

Well, to save me the time, is it the same state or not?

If you'd said "West Ohio" or "East Kentucky", would he have asked a similar question? I guess at least he had an inkling it was a different state...

More to the point, Buffalo is significantly closer to Wheeling than it is to NYC; only an afternoons riding or driving; it's near enough local.

Now my turn for a confession; I think I was into my 30s by the time I worked out why every time I thought I understood which side of the US Washington was on, it moved.

But then, how many Americans know where to find Perth or Victoria on a map of Australia?