The cars and bikes thread!

[Raza]

Just rode to work for the first time. Cruise control is awesome! Still cold though...

Did you have to go in early to stash your Power Rangers outfit or did you just wear it all day?

[geoffbot]

Did you have to go in early to stash your Power Rangers outfit or did you just wear it all day?

The former!

When you gonna get a bike?

[Raza]

The former!

When you gonna get a bike?

I offer you an answer as a song:
https://youtu.be/AujzD0xWGnY

[geoffbot]

And what would you get?

[Raza]

And what would you get?

Triumph Thruxton is kind of my dream bike:


Or a Scrambler:






But I’ll probably start with a Bonneville Street Twin:




I think the Bonnie Street Twin is their most accessible beginner bike that I won’t tire of quickly. Although they have a new version of the Scrambler that I don’t know anything about called the Street Scrambler.

[boatme99]

I understand the allure of motorcycles but I'll stick to four wheel enclosed vehicles, thank you.
I'm 63 and in this short life I've personally known two killed, three who've lost a leg, and one who almost lost his head when clotheslined by a steel cable strung across a rural road. Apparently someone's idea of joke.
Please be careful!

[Raza]

I understand the allure of motorcycles but I'll stick to four wheel enclosed vehicles, thank you.
I'm 63 and in this short life I've personally known two killed, three who've lost a leg, and one who almost lost his head when clotheslined by a steel cable strung across a rural road. Apparently someone's idea of joke.
Please be careful!

That’s the voice I hear every time I think about it. I don’t really know anyone who rides who hasn’t been in a crash. I have a friend who has been in enough bad ones that he finally gave it up.

[mlcor]

That’s the voice I hear every time I think about it. I don’t really know anyone who rides who hasn’t been in a crash. I have a friend who has been in enough bad ones that he finally gave it up.

I too gave them up years ago for this reason. Too many awful and/or distracted drivers who simply don't see you, and big rigs that simply can't see you. If I lived in the country, it might be a different story, but not in the 'burbs or city.

[geoffbot]

I don't think about the consequences of stuff - it's boring.

[Jato]

June 12 of last year I’m at a local lumberyard a mile from my shop. Load up my order and prepare to leave. As I leave I pass a tractor trailer waiting to gain entry to offload parked on the hard shoulder.
I get to the shop, start unloading and I get a call from the yard telling me I’d forgotten the 10 pounds of screws. Then all hell breaks loose, I can hear the whole thing over the phone.
The tractor trailer had pulled into the traveling lane and started the right turn into the yard at the same moment a 19 year old kid try’s to pass on the right at 70+ mph.
A lot of people I know witnessed the event. It was horrible is all they say.

Just sayin.

Be careful out there, Mr. Bot.