Stupid questions people ask you when stopped

[scottrnelson]

Originally Posted by BK.RD.RNR

Boatman here on ADV, had a sticker on his 950 in the shape of a HD symbol. It read "Austrian Dirt Hog". Wish I could find a picture of it.

I wish someone would make some more and sell them. I would put one on my bike.

Result of 30-second Google Images search:

[BK.RD.RNR]

Originally Posted by scottrnelson

I wish someone would make some more and sell them. I would put one on my bike.

Result of 30-second Google Images search:

I can't see your picture at work, but doing my own search, I think those look a bit different from what I remember. I THINK another inmate's wife printed up the ones that I am reffering to, looks like maybe someone else latched on to the idea.

[BK.RD.RNR]

Cant see the pictures in this thread either, but if you want to order some, these are good people, and members here. Maybe they are the same...



http://advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=519121

[scottrnelson]

Originally Posted by BK.RD.RNR

Cant see the pictures in this thread either, but if you want to order some, these are good people, and members here. Maybe they are the same...

http://advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=519121

It's the same one showing in post 5 of that thread.

[T!Mster]

Went on a cross country trip with a buddy last summer. I'm on my Ducati Monster 696 and he's got a brand new GXR750. He's been riding for years and could smoke my ass if he wanted to. We pull into a gas station in the middle of nowhere Mississippi and there are 4 rednecks sitting on lawn chairs spitting tobacco and drinking beers. Its 2 in the afternoon..... get a freaking job! We gas up and we're walking into the store to piss. One old guys says, "Ducati! I hear thats the fastest bike in the whole world!!!" I laughed..... Paul didn't!

[TrashCan]

Originally Posted by Riteris

Well Duh. What kind of idiot rides their motorcycle to bike week?

Now you tell me.

Next year I will rent a trailer and try to fit in.

[Mambo Dave]

Originally Posted by pretbek

That must have been at least 20 years ago then, because my wife calls the left lane "traveling lane" and the right lane "turning lane". WTF? After hearing that BS, some of my colleagues confirmed that nonsense as true!

Where is this wife from? THis is normally critical the their understanding of highways, or complete lack of comprehension of driving theory.

For example, far too often with friends or whatever, riding along while they were driving, I noticed New Jersey people have the same understanding as your wife. Ohio people, on the other hand, generally seem to drive around with a sense of innate road rage. New Yorkers, for all their faults, and Pennsyl-tuckians, don't even earn a generalization category - they seem to drive alright.

Originally Posted by RidingDonkeys

I spent five years living in Germany, and when I moved back to the States I had almost uncontrollable road rage caused by people lolligagging in the left lane. When the hell did America stop teaching that the left lane is for passing?

IMO, different states either stopped at different times, or never were, teaching European driving theory.

There was a change at my local new drivers' testing center, too - they used to have steel fence poles concreted into the blacktop for the in-out-in hand-over-hand driving part of the test, and it was this was since time immortal. But then sometime around 1990 they pulled those and started using orange cones... I kinda liked it that a potential driver who had not practiced enough would dent the side of their car in...

I imagine now days a new driver could screw up every area on the flat blacktop and still pass if she was cute enough and dressed right.

We all know they took out the parallel parking from many states as well. This, IMHO, wasn't a test for if and when - it was a test of drivers' skills in general. Put it back, and stop pussy-fying the testing process.

[scottrnelson]

Originally Posted by Mambo Dave

We all know they took out the parallel parking from many states as well. This, IMHO, wasn't a test for if and when - it was a test of drivers' skills in general. Put it back, and stop pussy-fying the testing process.

Hey, while you're at it, make them take it with a manual transmission too. I made my kids do that.

[Onederer]

Originally Posted by scottrnelson

Hey, while you're at it, make them take it with a manual transmission too. I made my kids do that.

Make it a three speed on the column with a unsynchronized first gear, and possibly a worn out one that hangs in first if it isn't shifted with skill and feel.

[Mambo Dave]

My mum, bless her, insisted my brother and I do almost all of our learner's permit driving in stick shifts (we had a used car lot, so I can't tell you the numbers of different things I've driven for 3 days to a year, but the numbers are huge).

We were allowed to borrow an automatic for the actual test, though we were still given large cars to do it with instead of, say, a VW Rabbit (which I thought would have been a way to cheat the tests, lol).

[SteveJ]

Originally Posted by Riteris

Well Duh. What kind of idiot rides their motorcycle to trailer week?

Fixted.

[250senuf]

Originally Posted by scottrnelson

Hey, while you're at it, make them take it with a manual transmission too. I made my kids do that.

Way back when, around here, it used to be that if you took your test in an automatic your drivers license was restricted to auto only. Too many things are getting dumbed down. Want to idiot proof cars, don't let idiots drive them!

Ah, the good old days.

[MiamiMotorcyclist]

Our driving tests are a joke compared to most or probably all of Europe. They are actually expected to know something about the car as well as how to drive it.

I kind of hate that cars now have that auto park stuff.

My motorcycle test back in 1991 was way more of a test than the driving test, and now they require the MSF course here, But they pretty much give you your driver's license if you can breathe. Need to take the multiple guess portion in another language? Sure here ya go.

At one point they even had stop signs here that said Alto and Stop. But at least they stopped that nonsense.

[heirhead]

On my way from Eagle Idaho to Yellowstone and Tetons and back was asked at least 5 times if my
1991 TW200 was an Electric motocicle as the side panel says ELECTRIC for the lectric start.
3 times by people on bikes going to Sturgis!!!!!!!!!!!!

Heirhead

[Nadgett]

Originally Posted by MiamiMotorcyclist

Our driving tests are a joke compared to most or probably all of Europe. They are actually expected to know something about the car as well as how to drive it.

Here in Slovenia new drivers have to take a course that includes classroom and on-the-road instruction, then a written and a road test. After successfully passing the course, they proceed to forget everything they learned.