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Title: earthquakes
Post by: davipu on June 13, 2005, 12:20:55 AM
anyone ever had a bike fall over from one,  the little one this morning kinda made me wonder about that kind of thing.
Title: earthquakes
Post by: Roadstergal on June 13, 2005, 12:23:28 AM
The price of surfing every day...   :P
Title: earthquakes
Post by: davipu on June 13, 2005, 12:30:51 AM
yeah the great weather, no tropical storms in the summers, the girls, lanesplitting, TJ, the girls,  the beaches, decent bike roads, free beer.  all for earthquakes.
Title: earthquakes
Post by: JCH on June 13, 2005, 08:16:48 AM
I think a big one would be capable of doing it, but I'm pretty sure it would have to be a rolling quake instead of a horizontal quake.  But that's just my guess.

How long are you staying in San Diego?
Title: earthquakes
Post by: davipu on June 13, 2005, 08:24:47 AM
either untill I graduate or i get tired of the weather.
Title: earthquakes
Post by: JCH on June 13, 2005, 11:18:29 AM
Cool!  Make sure you make it up here for a ride.  

I'll show you the crest! :-D
Title: earthquakes
Post by: davipu on June 13, 2005, 11:22:22 AM
i plan on it, it's just a matter of finding a day with crappy surf
Title: earthquakes
Post by: pantablo on June 13, 2005, 11:51:33 AM
Quote from: RoadstergalThe price of surfing every day...   :P

and riding every day. :nana:
Title: earthquakes
Post by: davipu on June 13, 2005, 11:53:27 AM
which leads to my major problem right now, I can't carry my board on my bike.
Title: earthquakes
Post by: RVertigo on June 13, 2005, 11:54:40 AM
Trailer!

Side car!

I need a snowboard rack for mine...   :lol:
Title: earthquakes
Post by: davipu on June 13, 2005, 11:58:30 AM
snow and bikes is a bad mix, just getting to the mountian whould be a experience.
Title: earthquakes
Post by: RVertigo on June 13, 2005, 12:01:05 PM
Quote from: davipusnow and bikes is a bad mix, just getting to the mountian whould be a experience.
I'd just get studded tires!!!



:thumb:





Yes, I'm joking about riding my bike to go snowboarding.   :roll:
Title: earthquakes
Post by: davipu on June 13, 2005, 12:18:25 PM
i thought about it when i was back home last winter,  the sand on the roads is what really got me worried.
Title: earthquakes
Post by: indestructibleman on June 13, 2005, 12:19:22 PM
Quote from: davipuyeah the great weather, no tropical storms in the summers, the girls, lanesplitting, TJ, the girls,  the beaches, decent bike roads, free beer.  all for earthquakes.


free beer?
Title: earthquakes
Post by: davipu on June 13, 2005, 12:20:10 PM
I know people.  :mrgreen:
Title: earthquakes
Post by: Roadstergal on June 13, 2005, 01:59:02 PM
Quote from: pantablo
Quote from: RoadstergalThe price of surfing every day...   :P

and riding every day. :nana:

I ride every day.   :nana:
Title: earthquakes
Post by: themaffeo on June 13, 2005, 02:14:20 PM
Quote from: indestructibleman
free beer?

That would be complients of the beach =)  There last weekend (even though it was cloudy) and there were a bunch of marines with two kegs. Around 5 they realized they wern't going to drink it all by 8 so they were giving it away to people around them.  Good timing too cus we had just about finished ours.

Other places to get free beer too, but I find its easiest at the beach.
Title: earthquakes
Post by: themaffeo on June 13, 2005, 02:16:20 PM
Quote from: davipuyeah the great weather, no tropical storms in the summers, the girls, lanesplitting, TJ, the girls,  the beaches, decent bike roads, free beer.  all for earthquakes.

TJ?  Uck.. that place is dirty.  Soon as I turned 21 I stopped going.  If i want to go clubbing the gaslap is good, and there are a ton of places in the OC and LA.

Had my wallet stolen in TJ.  Heh.. I was so freaked out they wern't gonna let me back across the border.
Title: earthquakes
Post by: RVertigo on June 13, 2005, 02:57:16 PM
Quote from: indestructiblemanfree beer?
Just get a job at a software company!  ;)
Title: earthquakes
Post by: knowlsey on June 13, 2005, 04:33:53 PM
Earthquake whats that then, the only thing that gets close to an earthquake over here, is our lass, wrong time of the month normally :o looks like that in the morning, by tea time she looks like this :x
Title: earthquakes
Post by: scratch on June 15, 2005, 01:19:14 PM
I've had two bikes fall over in the same day. It was the quake of '89, here in California, I was at work as a motorcycle saleman at Grand Prix on El Camino at the time, I had ridden my brand new (week old) '89 FZR400 into work and parked it by the back door. The store occupied a former furniture store with 8' pane glass windows all the way up the face of the two story building (so picture two stories of glass as your office window, that was mine :mrgreen: ). When the quake hit the windows started quivering and making a noise like a two-man saw undulating (how else do you explain that noise?), anyway I start running for the backdoor sideways (with the checkered floor undulating (there's that word again) underneath you, how else would you run?) and as I was headed towards the open door, I watched, as in slow motion, the bike fall over into the doorway. Minimal damage, no broken windows and the only other bikes to fall over were a dirtbike on the showroom floor and the customer's bike that pushed mine over. :P
We began selling generators like crazy, and at the end of the day I went home to find my Vision had fallen off its centerstand and the rear brake lever had punctured a hole in the case and there was oil all over the garage.