Do you think you were born a motorcyclist?

[pandy]

and like none of you have ever picked up streetwalkers on your bike....

I can honestly say that I never have.

[scratch]

and like none of you have ever picked up streetwalkers on your bike....

Holy $#!+, how'd you know?!?

[pandy]

and like none of you have ever picked up streetwalkers on your bike....

Holy $#!+, how'd you know?!?

Nooo Nooooo Nooooo!!! You're one of the sweet ones!! davipu is one of the evil ones!! Don't let him drag you over to the dark side!!!!

[Alphamazing]

I can safely I say I was born to ride. As soon as I started, I had a knack for it. I had a knack for crashing, as well, but that's beside the point. Everyone I've ridden with says it's nice to see someone with such little saddle time controlling the bike as well as I do (as quoted from many of my father's friends, as well as my father himself).

Riding is my passion.

[Ed_in_Az]

 

[pandy]

So far, we share one good attribute. Well, maybe two, you are human right?

So then what attribute would you two share?  :dunno:


:mrgreen:

[scratch]

and like none of you have ever picked up streetwalkers on your bike....

Holy $#!+, how'd you know?!?

Nooo Nooooo Nooooo!!! You're one of the sweet ones!! davipu is one of the evil ones!! Don't let him drag you over to the dark side!!!!

Aw, no, it was some Harley dood that just needed a ride down the street.

Oh, and to actually answer the thread starter's question: No, I was not born a motorcyclist, but I do think I was born to be a bicyclist, so the transition to motorized two-wheeled transportation seemed easier, since I hate cars (having been ran over by one when I was 3, traumatized by my driving instructor, and not coordinated enough to drive a stick).

[Alphamazing]

So far, we share one good attribute. Well, maybe two, you are human right?

So then what attribute would you two share?  :dunno:  :mrgreen:

The riding is passion thing, I'd assume. I recently joined a club here on campus called the UT Sportbike Rider's Association. They do track days! I'm freakin' excited.

[oppy00]

I've had a hard-on for motorcycles as long as I can remember.  I had a great-great uncle or something like that who raced Harleys on board tracks.  Apparently he was a little nuts. :lol:   I bought a bike a several months before I turned 21, and like others I get cranky when I haven't ridden for a while.  This is my best point of reference for what ladies go through once a month, PMS.  I call mine NMS, No Moto Syndrome.  I get abdominal cramps, hot/cold flashes, head-aches, and general crankiness.  Fortunately I can just go down to the garage, sit on my GS, and make 'vroom vroom VROOOOOOOM!' noises, and I'm mostly cured.  Otherwise I just go for a ride.
I swear on the grave my mother isn't in yet, that I will do everything in my power to continue riding until it kills me.

[callmelenny]

Motorcycling is a lifestyle choice and we need to stop pretending such a perversion is genetic! Just because a small percentage of the population rides on two wheels does not mean it is normal. It makes me sick to see motorcyclist in public, can't they just stay at their little tracks where they are only a danger to each other?

Encouraging helmet use only condones riding! We need to teach people that any time you get on a bike you are risking your life.. Wearing "protection" doesn't always work!! Teaching MSF classes is just giving people permission to ride.

Don't hate the motorcyclist, hate the motorcyle.

[jake42]

my earliest memory of being on a bike is riding a benelli minibike with my older brother at age 4 or 5.

since that time I've tried to ride at every chance in my 33 years.
in no particular order, but somewhat chronologically, all the different bikes I can rmember riding. Not all mine mind you, but each one was fun in it's own way.

honda 50 - older style 3 speed auto.
honda XR 75

kawasaki 100 - the green monster, with a bad coil.

suzuki ts 185 - i used to walk 4 miles to brothers house when i was 12 or 13 to take this bike out and ride it. I loved that damn thing.

honda xr 600 - had a broken compression lever and I couldn't kickstart, it once threw me over the bars.

kawasaki kdx 200 - one of my favorite bikes to ride ever. great all around woods bike.

Husky 250 - set up for my 265 brother. This thing was so tall i had to practically jump off it when i stopped, but man that bike was fast as hell and scary when you hit hte powerband.

Husky 430 - This was the same brother's bike, it was awesome.  Power galore, but it fouled plugs alot and one day it fouled a plug and surged afterwards and tossed me int he woods and I dislocated my shoulder.

rm125 - neighbor kid's bike, really tall for a 125 and wanted to wheelie like crazy.

gl1100? - big suzuki belt drive from the 80's. same brother that had the husky's owned this.

intruder 1400- my other older brother's bike. Kind of a tall skinny crusier I thought. But man, it would really open up.  The mirror blew off when i was doing about 80 in 3rd gear.

vulcan 1500 - my nighbor's big cruser. Probably the most balanced bike I've ever been on.  You can stop and not put your feet down at stop signs and then just roll on.

klr650 - again my neighbor's bike. It's a fun dualsport. It's a little tall for me, but i was suprised at how comfy it was to ride around.

yamaha ycs1 180 - 1967 - my first street bike.  bought in 2000 in a box for a 150 bucks. I spent all winter rebuilding it and it started on the first kick. I was so excited I started it in the garage in mid january and called my brother to listen to it. My wife almost killed me making the house smell like 2 stroke.  

96 GS500 - my second bike. bought in 2003 off ebay.  I drove to dearborn michigan to pick it up.  been tinkering with it ever since.


i'm sure there's more I can't remember, but just taking the time to write this has made me feel better. So yeah, I guess I was born to ride. A large part is due to my older brothers. At least 5 of them have had bikes at one point or another so I've been around them all my life.


Jake

[Blazinjr]

Nooo Nooooo Nooooo!!! You're one of the sweet ones!! davipu is one of the evil ones!! Don't let him drag you over to the dark side!!!!

What's wrong with the DARK SIDE?  (see windscreen)

[pandy]

WooHoo!! THAT kinda dark side I can live with!  

Nooo Nooooo Nooooo!!! You're one of the sweet ones!! davipu is one of the evil ones!! Don't let him drag you over to the dark side!!!!

What's wrong with the DARK SIDE?  (see windscreen)

[aaronstj]

I can confidently say that I wasn't born a motorcyclist.  Far from it.  I was always pretty much a sissy growing up.  My brother was always the daredevil, and I never wanted to do anything remotely dangerous - take big jumps on my bicycle, climb any higher in the tree, ride the roller coaster with the loop.  

Over the last several years, I've been getting away from that attitude, but I'm still kind of a sissy at heart.

And until last Saturday, I'd never ridden a bike, or a dirt bike, or a scooter or moped or anything.  But for some reason I decided I motorcycle would be fun, so I signed up for the MSF and got all excited and, well, here I am.

So I wasn't born to ride, but I gotta admit, I love it.  (At least, as much as you can tell after one weekend on a 125cc bike )

[un1261]

Born to ride...OH YEAH!

Told my mother at the age of 10 that I would ride motorcycles and drive big rigs when I got older. She laughed at me :x ....now I'm the one laughing, all the way there and back again unless it's raining. 1st bike @ 14, drove my 1st semi @ 16...on a dirt road out in the middle of no where.
Also told her not expect grandkids. 43 and no youngins yet.  

[RVertigo]

I signed up for the MSF

You do it out in Renton?  Who was your instructor?