Topic: The snobism of the parking lot

[Bailgang]

I've got a 71 cb175 that given enough straightaway will do 65 maybe 70 with the wind behind me. The bike was given to my youngest son by an older bro of mine but my kid prefers his current cbr600, quite a bit of contrast between the 175 and the cbr you know what I mean but my kid still thinks the 175 is cool. We just have no clue what we're going to do with it though.

[CrankyOldGuy]

Careful Terry .... they have their own army!!!   

Harry O.

Inside the Moped Army

[Frankensteins Bride]

Aww for cute! They've taken fossilized Canadian National Birds, commonly known as mosquitoes, and managed to ride them somehow! And they still run in little clouds irratating everyone as they buzz about. Just swat em!!! 

[brooze72]

Check out the Mad Bastards Scooter Rally, a 600 km run here in Ontario annually.  Truly crazy!



http://rallies.canadamotoguide.com/more-info

[CrankyOldGuy]

Hmmm ... what is the weight restriction on my 750K1 - 330 lbs?  Classic tune though!

Harry O.

Born 2 be Wild

[dave500]

only park in a proper parking space,if you park say in a loading zone at loading docks meant for delivery and garbage trucks only and the garbage guy cant access the bin and has to leave and come back later,,youll end up with a glob of filthy black grease wiped from somewhere of the trucks lifting mechanism under the drivers door handle.

[Terry in Australia]

Careful Terry .... they have their own army!!!   

Harry O.

Inside the Moped Army

"Lady Birds"? They may as well just all themselves the "Shirt Lifters"!

[Xnavylfr]

You want to get the real SNOB effect. Pull up on your bike and park in a DISABLED parking space.  I get it all the time, I just tell them to check my plate before they speak. Just because you're disabled DON'T mean you can't ride MOTORCYCLE!!!!!!


Xnavylfr(CHUCK)

[70CB750]

You want to get the real SNOB effect. Pull up on your bike and park in a DISABLED parking space.  I get it all the time, I just tell them to check my plate before they speak. Just because you're disabled DON'T mean you can't ride MOTORCYCLE!!!!!!


Xnavylfr(CHUCK)

funny

[Terry in Australia]

Years ago, I broke my ankle playing volleyball, of all things. I went to hospital and had it put in a cast. The next day, I drove around to a hardware store, and the only parking nearby was "Handicapped" parking.

My car was an Aussie Ford XY Falcon with 4V 351C engine and was a bit loud. I drove into the handicapped car park, and two little old ladies who were standing nearby were giving me the evil eye, here was I, a degenerate hot rodder, stealing some poor cripple's car park!

When I got out of the car and hobbled around to the back seat to get my crutches out, their attitude changed completely. I hobbled past them and said "Good Morning", and they were all smiles, and asked me what I'd done to myself, and "Oohed and Aahed" in sympathy. People are funny...........

[FunJimmy]

Bikes were my only form of legal transport for the first 25 years i was on the road,  i got comfort, especially when doing long trips, knowing that the other guys that waved or gave recognition of a fellow rider , would also be there if anything happened to me whilst out on the road, and they have done. We have always been a downtrodden part of "regular" society, frowned on and looked down on, especially earlier on, and that is part of what gave us the brotherhood sense of being, maybe some of you haven't been around or ridden as long or as passionately as some of the older guys here but i can assure you that there still is a brotherhood,  unspoken, to and for the dedicated and i hope it lasts for as long as i do because i'm proud to be a part of it...  I don't have to know them to know them......  Maybe you just don't understand..... By the way, i don't give a fcuk what anyone else rides..

99% Mick.
I can't quite get the hand out for trikes.

[Terry in Australia]

Jimmy's a trike snob!

[FunJimmy]

Jimmy's a trike snob!

Ya, I guess so but I've been called much worse Terry.

[Retro Rocket]

Bikes were my only form of legal transport for the first 25 years i was on the road,  i got comfort, especially when doing long trips, knowing that the other guys that waved or gave recognition of a fellow rider , would also be there if anything happened to me whilst out on the road, and they have done. We have always been a downtrodden part of "regular" society, frowned on and looked down on, especially earlier on, and that is part of what gave us the brotherhood sense of being, maybe some of you haven't been around or ridden as long or as passionately as some of the older guys here but i can assure you that there still is a brotherhood,  unspoken, to and for the dedicated and i hope it lasts for as long as i do because i'm proud to be a part of it...  I don't have to know them to know them......  Maybe you just don't understand..... By the way, i don't give a fcuk what anyone else rides..

99% Mick.
I can't quite get the hand out for trikes.

They are training wheels for bikes aren't they....

[Xnavylfr]

MY disabled plate came to me courtesy of 20 years in the US NAVY and some close runs near NAM. As they say , if I see someone worst off then me then I gladly give them the parking space. The ones that piss me off are the TEENS that borrow grandmaws car to run out to shop and park in DA space when they could run a marathon 2 times over on not even be out of breath!!.  I just park my bike in the YELLOW zone around the DA spaces and nobody has said anything about it!!!


Xnavylfr(CHUCK)

[754]

FUNexceptaroundTrikesJIMMY....         lmao...

[FunJimmy]

FUNexceptaroundTrikesJIMMY....         lmao...

Perhaps a re-phrase would be in order.
“I just can’t get it up for trikes”. How’s that?   
 

[Terry in Australia]

“I just can’t get it up for trikes”. How’s that?   
 

Note to self, only ride Trike in Jimmy's presence............

[faux fiddy]

I found a zhongu scooter cleaning up a friend's mothers' place and it looks like a bunch of plastic crap. Kick start articulates near the front of the swingarm and shows no resistance, motor can't be that forked I would think. It has 320 miles. On second thought it's china copy of the Honda so no telling.



Can't push the thing to start it or even know if the motor is turning either way/ any suggestions?  (other than sell it at a garage sale)?(?)!

[Terry in Australia]

I found a zhongu scooter cleaning up a friend's mothers' place and it looks like a bunch of plastic crap. Kick start articulates near the front of the swingarm and shows no resistance, motor can't be that forked I would think. It has 320 miles. On second thought it's china copy of the Honda so no telling.



Can't push the thing to start it or even know if the motor is turning either way/ any suggestions?  (other than sell it at a garage sale)?(?)!

Here you go Fiddster, there's an "appreciation society" for anything it seems, even unloved Chinese scooters. Now send me all those chopper parts, I need more "Garage Art"! http://chinesescoots.forumwise.com/

[scrapvalue]

There is snobbism everywhere. Even people who ride the same brand of motorcycle, especially between the guys who like to modify and the guys who leave them stock.
I have never seen it here, but have heard about it on other sites.

[LoVel]

I just wish the sorry #$%* on the Can Am would quit parking in MC parking.  Damn thing takes up as much room as a car.  If they didn't have cameras all over the place I would let the air out of the bastards tires.

[70CB750]

Can Ams are multiplying in my area; I don't get it.  Seems like it has all the disadvantages of a car and motorcycle combined.

[brooze72]

I guess that's sort of the glass 1/2 empty view, when I'm too old & decrepit to hold the CB up, I will go test ride one of those  . At least the wind will still be in my face 

[Terry in Australia]

Yeah, I think most folks are snobs when it comes to Trikes, which is a little sad. My older brother has diabetes, and had to have his right foot and lower leg amputated just before Christmas.

Even before the operation, he couldn't hold a bike up as his legs had pretty much withered away, so he's decided that he'd like to get a trike because he can't hold a bike up any more.

He's not wealthy, so he won't be buying a new Can Am etc, so I'm thinking about converting my 'Wang into a trike for him. There are a couple of options, I can either use a car rear axle and build a "proper" trike, or build something similar to the "Voyager" kit, which effectively adds a set of "Training Wheels" to any bike. I think I'll go with the "Voyager" style kit (I just bought some plans on eBay) as I can remove the kit and convert it back to a bike when he's done with it.

He'll have his new prosthetic foot by then, so most guys won't know that he's handicapped, so he'll probably be the subject of snobism from some bike riders, but I don't think that'll wipe the smile off his face that being back in the wind will give him. Cheers, Terry.