BadComrade wrote:There's this jerk-off with a Harley that fucks some 50 year old barfly that lives across the street from me. A couple of times, he's decided to get on his bike and ride around the neighborhood at 4am, shooting up and down my street at wide open throttle for no reason at all. Sometimes he leaves the neighborhood, and you can actually hear him on his "lap", blocks away, before he comes back and parks it. I seriously think that the next time he does this, I am going to go out side and push his fucking motorcycle over.

i dare you.

Loud motorcycles are CRAP. No question, no waffle. And hey, in Chicago, they're quite illegal. Not like cops do anything about it 99 times out of 100. But still, it's a crime to drive a loud motorcycle... and by the definition set forth in the law, pretty much every single motorcycle qualifies as illegally loud.

Motorcycles in general are CRAP. And stupid. But totally your right to have and ride and whatnot. Knock yourself out. Hell, kill youself.

Fuel efficient, yes, and this makes sense. So fun, yes, that's what you've told me. CRAP.

If 100% of guys on motorcycles didn't have bullshit attitudes, and didn't drive like morons, and weren't pricks who go out of their way to be loud and obnoxious... if all motorcycles were used so responsibly, by non-asshole people who were genuinely concerned about fuel efficiency and fun and not being a dick... then they wouldn't be riding motorcycles. They'd be riding scooters. Like little girls. Cause bikes are for real men, tough guys, with boots!

The number of guys I've met who ride motorcycles who aren't jagoffs is far outweighed by the number of guys I've met who ride motorcycles who *are* jagoffs.

The guys on the street who I never meet, who are fucking loud assholes, or who think they are entitled to drive in between two lanes of traffic at a red light, those guys can fuck right off and keep giving motorcycle riders the bad rap that they have. Cause it looks like most of the time, the guy on the bike is a jagoff driving like an idiot, gunning it under the overpass so he can be SO loud, him and his buddies going out cruising... maybe that's just cause I'm in the city and not, uh, wherever all the fat guys with Goldwings live.

And Graham... any woman that's gonna ride off on your bike, and now you've stolen my woman, hell, you can have her. What was I doing with her in the first place? I'm not so taken by women who are easily impressed by the excitement of riding off with a douche like you on a bike.

Loud bike, CRAP, WF:0. Shit's illegal for a reason. You're a douche. Eat shit. Etc

The Hells Angels clubhouse are a ways down the street and I can't stand them when they're blazing by my house. Walls shake.

I HATE them.

That said, I think that there are some 'reasonably' loud bikes that don't bother me at all... A British motorcycle owners group meet up about a couple of blocks away and I LOVE the sound of the old BSAs, Nortons and Triumphs. I've got an SR400 and a GSXR 750 that I think are reasonable in this regard.

I've heard many hopped up 5.0L Mustangs doing chewies, broken mufflers, fart cars (the dumb pipes that make the car sound like it's farting extremely loud), unattended cars with car alarms going off for hours, and some very annoying boomcars that are MUCH worse than my bikes.

I'm conscious of MY footprint in society, and that's all I would expect from others. Needless to say, I'm not too impressed with some of my fellow citizens.

I own four motorcycles. My main ride is a 1975 Moto Guzzi 850T. I think the tappets are louder than the pipes. I've been riding since I rode my minibike in the alleys of Chicago around Cicero and Diversey in the late '60s.

You're probably hearing jackass Weekend Warrior fat-ass Harley dudes. They seem to think their farty-sounding poseur-bikes sound cool. Or, the dayglo-clad idiots on their whining plastic-shrouded donor bikes.

But motorcycles in general: Fun, good transportation, economical, etc. So not crap.

Now, Bicycles are really crap. They're always in the way, the riders are exclusively arrogant dorks. Why, I've never met a Bicyclist that wasn't.
It's like they want you to run them over.

i ride a bicycle.

i dont want you to run me over.

cervixFORaHEart wrote:i ride a bicycle.

What a shocker.

zom-zom wrote:
You're probably hearing jackass Weekend Warrior fat-ass Harley dudes. They seem to think their farty-sounding poseur-bikes sound cool. Or, the dayglo-clad idiots on their whining plastic-shrouded donor bikes.

Crotch Rockets. Fiberglass Suppositories. I think Vockins has one. He's not an idiot though..

I really hate Harleys and most of the people that ride them. It is especially annoying around Sturgis time, when traveling in the Midwest. What a way to ruin the scenic views of the Black Hills, Badlands or Devil's Tower- with fat greaser dudes on loud ass Harleys.

And I would argue that Bicyclists are far less annoying than Harley dudes.

Motorcycles, even when fat meth huffing Harley dudes and Crotch Rocketeers are considered are still NOT CRAP.

Motorcycles are good, cause they have excelllent gas milage and give us reasons to wear bad ass jackets.

I am in love with bicycles tho. Cannot ride them enough. Astoundingly good gas milage, tho they give people reasons to wear unfortunate hats.

2 wheels is always best.

I only posted the spurious comments on bicycles to show how stupid it looks to make sweeping generalizations about people who choose a certain means of conveyence.

I ride motorcycles and bicycles, drive cars and trucks.