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Title: You know you been on your bike too much when...
Post by: roosterbike on June 01, 2007, 07:01:29 PM
1. When you fall out of your Dodge Ram truck cause your trying to put down its kickstand.
Or 2. When you driving the wifes Focus and find your twisting the steering wheel throtle and leaning in the turns.
Title: Re: You know you been on your bike too much when...
Post by: Alphamazing on June 01, 2007, 07:09:21 PM
I do head checks when I walk.
Title: Re: You know you been on your bike too much when...
Post by: manofthefield on June 01, 2007, 07:18:16 PM
When you drive your GF's Focus and you think it's bogging cause it's just not accelerating quickly enough
Title: Re: You know you been on your bike too much when...
Post by: roosterbike on June 01, 2007, 07:21:45 PM
That too!!! :thumb:
Title: Re: You know you been on your bike too much when...
Post by: Egaeus on June 01, 2007, 07:29:17 PM
You bounce your cage's engine off the rev limiter for the first time ever in years of ownership because you don't realize it's revving too fast.
Title: Re: You know you been on your bike too much when...
Post by: ben2go on June 01, 2007, 09:03:57 PM
or you try to change gears and realize you're stepping on the clutch  :laugh:
Title: Re: You know you been on your bike too much when...
Post by: csnowman00 on June 01, 2007, 09:57:58 PM
...you are walking down the street and instead of turning to see behind what is behind you, you look where your mirrors should be...but there is none.
Title: Re: You know you been on your bike too much when...
Post by: NiceGuysFinishLast on June 01, 2007, 10:08:41 PM
Quote from: ben2go on June 01, 2007, 09:03:57 PM
or you try to change gears and realize you're stepping on the clutch  :laugh:

BAHAHAHAHA
Title: Re: You know you been on your bike too much when...
Post by: ducati_nolan on June 02, 2007, 12:19:33 AM
You're driving your car and singing as loud as you can without realizing that you have a radio.
Title: Re: You know you been on your bike too much when...
Post by: ledfingers on June 02, 2007, 12:41:20 AM
hmm. perhaps i'm just retarded, or i just don't ride my bike enough, but i slip easily into whatever situation i'm in. if i'm driving a car after riding a bike, i remember that. if i'm riding rather than driving, i remember that. if i'm driving and auto instead of a stick, i remember and don't go for the clutch.

:dunno_white: i wish i rode my bike more...
Title: Re: You know you been on your bike too much when...
Post by: zephler on June 02, 2007, 01:59:34 AM
having just started bike riding.... I find in the car now I physically twist around to see before changing lanes... always usta just use the mirrors  :laugh:

Title: Re: You know you been on your bike too much when...
Post by: roosterbike on June 02, 2007, 02:48:55 AM
I thinkits not about slipping in and out (hehe) of car/bike mode, its hust that some of us prefer riding our bikes and it consumes our thoughts. I love my truck, but prefer the solitude, concentration, and the feel of riding. Driving a cage can almost feel like riding in a bubble to me.
I also find myself looking for my turn signals with my thumb at times,
Title: Re: You know you been on your bike too much when...
Post by: manofthefield on June 02, 2007, 06:55:18 AM
Quote from: csnowman00 on June 01, 2007, 09:57:58 PM
...you are walking down the street and instead of turning to see behind what is behind you, you look where your mirrors should be...but there is none.

I was doing that on my bicycle last night, I even commented to my GF that it was so weird to be on the road and not have mirrors to check
Title: Re: You know you been on your bike too much when...
Post by: nastynate6695 on June 02, 2007, 07:16:32 AM
 1 while being stuck in traffic in my truck   i keep think " if i was on my bike i wouldnt be in this mess"

2.  a bike group rides by and you  go to catch them to ride along. only to realize you are in your gf  jeep.
Title: Re: You know you been on your bike too much when...
Post by: roosterbike on June 02, 2007, 07:51:19 AM
I did that this morning on the way to work. See, I live in the NC mountains, and living downtown, Im 2 blocks from a local favorite twisty called Town Mountain road. Its a nice uphill to the Blue Ridge Parkway. I got in behind a couple of Ninjas at the redlight, and took of behind them only to remember in the first turn I was in MY DODGE RAM. Good thing I can still remember how to drive a cage. :cheers:
Title: Re: You know you been on your bike too much when...
Post by: simon79 on June 02, 2007, 08:08:43 AM
Quote from: roosterbike on June 01, 2007, 07:01:29 PM
1. When you fall out of your Dodge Ram truck cause your trying to put down its kickstand.
Or 2. When you driving the wifes Focus and find your twisting the steering wheel throtle and leaning in the turns.
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:thumb:
:cheers:
Title: Re: You know you been on your bike too much when...
Post by: roosterbike on June 02, 2007, 08:30:05 AM
Cant help Im an occasional tard :oops: :cheers:
Title: Re: You know you been on your bike too much when...
Post by: ohgood on June 02, 2007, 10:37:15 AM
"Am I out of gas ?" ( trying to accelerate in a cage)

"Holy Crap Batman ! I can't merge into THAT traffic in THIS POS! " (onramp to I-4 @ 5pm)

"What the hell just hit the side of my bike !?" (bump that only effects one side of the car)

"The brakes are out !" (slowing to a redlight in the car)

"Wow. Look at that radio. I can stop whistling."

"Oh ya- she can see me checking her out without my helmet." (cruising in a wagon)

" I'm gonna crash !" (seeing a patch of sand in a turn at decent velocity)

And alot of other G-force related things, traction issues.
Title: Re: You know you been on your bike too much when...
Post by: roosterbike on June 02, 2007, 10:47:56 AM
 :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :o :icon_lol: :icon_mrgreen: :cheers: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Title: Re: You know you been on your bike too much when...
Post by: nastynate6695 on June 02, 2007, 12:21:26 PM
whos is crazy enough to try and drive I-4 at  rush hour? :dunno_white: :cookoo:   
Title: Re: You know you been on your bike too much when...
Post by: ohgood on June 02, 2007, 02:14:23 PM
Quote from: nastynate6695 on June 02, 2007, 12:21:26 PM
whos is crazy enough to try and drive I-4 at  rush hour? :dunno_white: :cookoo:   

Sometimes it's the way to get where we're going. It's never a 'normal' thing for us ;)
Title: Re: You know you been on your bike too much when...
Post by: xb9ser on June 02, 2007, 05:33:10 PM
I didn"t Know you could be on a bike to much! If it wasn"t for getting stuff from store I wouldn"t drive the cage at all!!!
Title: Re: You know you been on your bike too much when...
Post by: Jay_wolf on June 02, 2007, 05:58:09 PM
i only have a bike liceice , i cant drive a cage
Title: Re: You know you been on your bike too much when...
Post by: nastynate6695 on June 02, 2007, 07:53:59 PM
i only take my truck on i 4  i try to keep the bike off of it. 

Title: Re: You know you been on your bike too much when...
Post by: ben2go on June 02, 2007, 08:52:17 PM
You guys are speaking of I-4 in Florida?If so,I bout got ran over in my chevy caviiler.
I'll happily add time to my commute to avoid it.  :2guns:
Title: Re: You know you been on your bike too much when...
Post by: coolboarder on June 02, 2007, 10:15:20 PM
I rode my bike so much this week I forgot to put on my seat belt.   :nono:

I catch myself waving at bikers.    :cookoo:

Your inside a department store and think Holy Crap My Leather Jacket.................  but its at home.


8)
Title: Re: You know you been on your bike too much when...
Post by: NiceGuysFinishLast on June 02, 2007, 10:34:35 PM
I only own a bike. No car. w00t.
Title: Re: You know you been on your bike too much when...
Post by: Reddog787 on June 02, 2007, 11:30:20 PM
Quote from: ledfingers on June 02, 2007, 12:41:20 AM
hmm. perhaps i'm just retarded, or i just don't ride my bike enough, but i slip easily into whatever situation i'm in. if i'm driving a car after riding a bike, i remember that. if i'm riding rather than driving, i remember that. if i'm driving and auto instead of a stick, i remember and don't go for the clutch.

:dunno_white: i wish i rode my bike more...

Yeah, if you go on a trip with a bike for like a week, you'll definately tell a difference when you get in a car.


Your @$$ hurts all the way to your neck!
Title: Re: You know you been on your bike too much when...
Post by: Crash-n-Burn on June 02, 2007, 11:56:25 PM
When you wave to a bike passing in oncoming traffic and realize only after they give you a strange look that you are in your suv.
Title: Re: You know you been on your bike too much when...
Post by: Kasumi on June 03, 2007, 01:16:25 AM
I get the traction issue things!

Going into a turn and i see a line of gravel in the middle of the road im going streight for the brake before i tell myself, wait no! the wheels in a car go either side your not on a bike.

Same in the rain and im always looking for small patches of sand or dirt on the roads to try and avoid.

Have you ever had it where your over taking a slowish moving vehicle in your car,  you put your foot down and first off you dont get anywhere near as much power as you were expecting, then a split second later you realise you havn't pulled out far enough either to go past it in a car. I tend to forget when overtaking about the whole passanger side of the vehicle lol.