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Re: Dropped my CB750
« Reply #100 on: August 16, 2014, 06:16:00 PM »
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Re: Dropped my CB750
« Reply #101 on: August 16, 2014, 06:24:26 PM »
Maybe it's time to give it a rest.  You are all like a bunch of teenage girls harassing and stalking the uncool girl in a twitter fight.  Instead of spending time trolling through old posts and videos poke your head out of the basement and do something out in the real world.
No thanks. But you are welcome to freely move along and find a thread of more interest to you.

I am sure you feel strong and powerful picking on somebody who is not even participating.

I guess you meet all kinds of bozos on the internet.
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Re: Dropped my CB750
« Reply #102 on: August 16, 2014, 06:57:16 PM »
Maybe it's time to give it a rest.  You are all like a bunch of teenage girls harassing and stalking the uncool girl in a twitter fight.  Instead of spending time trolling through old posts and videos poke your head out of the basement and do something out in the real world.
No thanks. But you are welcome to freely move along and find a thread of more interest to you.

Excellent advice....I am off to find where the adults hang out. 

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Re: Dropped my CB750
« Reply #103 on: August 16, 2014, 07:01:26 PM »
I am sure you feel strong and powerful picking on somebody who is not even participating.

I guess you meet all kinds of bozos on the internet.
To whom are you directing your query?

Seems obvious to me. ;D

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Re: Dropped my CB750
« Reply #104 on: August 16, 2014, 07:10:36 PM »
I am sure you feel strong and powerful picking on somebody who is not even participating.

I guess you meet all kinds of bozos on the internet.
To whom are you directing your query?

Looks like you are not that quick witted after all.

What is your problem, Cal? Your prick too small, your wife cheating on you, life sucks in general? You come across as used car salesman, always using 20 words were 2 would do nicely.

I dont think you are a nice person and you dont really fit here.
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Re: Dropped my CB750
« Reply #105 on: August 16, 2014, 07:31:40 PM »
Maybe. Maybe not. Not so. You're wrong. Guess again? Maybe so.

That better?

Didn't mean to confound you with complete sentences, 70CB. Thought it was more polite than "slang". My apologies it bothers you.

Ok, maybe we can switch to foreign language than, I speak your language, do you speak mine?

And how about picking on somebody your size next time, not on a guy who already left - dwarf size would fit you nicely.
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Re: Dropped my CB750
« Reply #106 on: August 16, 2014, 08:45:53 PM »

Lets get the fcuk over this and get back to normal, you are all good people and wasting time squabbling over this guy is a total waste of time....
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Re: Dropped my CB750
« Reply #107 on: August 16, 2014, 09:45:48 PM »

Maybe. Maybe not. Not so. You're wrong. Guess again? Maybe so.

That better?

Didn't mean to confound you with complete sentences, 70CB. Thought it was more polite than "slang". My apologies it bothers you.

Ok, maybe we can switch to foreign language than, I speak your language, do you speak mine?

And how about picking on somebody your size next time, not on a guy who already left - dwarf size would fit you nicely.

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Re: Dropped my CB750
« Reply #108 on: August 16, 2014, 10:05:17 PM »
Hey I resemble that comment.
That is impressive!

Yeah, and I find myself leaving the kickstand down far too often, but I ride so prudently upright that it's usually still down when I get to my destination.
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Re: Dropped my CB750
« Reply #109 on: August 17, 2014, 02:18:13 AM »
Maybe it's time to give it a rest.  You are all like a bunch of teenage girls harassing and stalking the uncool girl in a twitter fight.  Instead of spending time trolling through old posts and videos poke your head out of the basement and do something out in the real world.
No thanks. But you are welcome to freely move along and find a thread of more interest to you.

Excellent advice....I am off to find where the adults hang out. 

I tried growing up once, realised there was no fun in it ;D

Maybe. Maybe not. Not so. You're wrong. Guess again? Maybe so.

That better?

Didn't mean to confound you with complete sentences, 70CB. Thought it was more polite than "slang". My apologies it bothers you.

Ok, maybe we can switch to foreign language than, I speak your language, do you speak mine?

And how about picking on somebody your size next time, not on a guy who already left - dwarf size would fit you nicely.


My, My, someone is touchy.  Considering you were one of the first on the bandwagon, or did you forget about that?  ::) ::) ::)

Well she took it rather well, didn't she? ;D

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Re: Dropped my CB750
« Reply #110 on: August 17, 2014, 02:52:02 AM »
It was 1999 and I was riding my first BMW R100RS to work on the recently opened Western Ring Road @ 60 MPH when an aluminum ladder came off the roof of the electricians van in front of me. I had no time to swerve around it, as it flew towards me. It hit the road just in front of my bike at right angles (I'm watching all this in slow motion, as you do) and I'm wondering if my life is about to end.

With nothing else to do, I just hung on and prayed. I hit the ladder, and went straight over it! The car behind me wasn't as lucky, I flicked the ladder up, and it went up his hood and into his windscreen, then flipped over the top of his car. The Electrician had pulled over to the side of the road so he could retrieve his ladder, but when he saw the carnage he'd caused, he took off as fast as his old Mitsubishi Express could go.

I pulled over to the emergency lane to check my bike out and check my underpants too. The car behind me took off after the electrician and I watched them speeding out of sight. I thought about running across 3 lanes of traffic travelling @60 MPH to pick the ladder up, but decided that I'd probably used up all my luck for the day

Luckily enough, I didn't see any other motorcyclists come into contact with that thing, and eventually a car stopped because it was blocking his lane and the car beside him stopped too, and after they'd pretty much blocked the road, they moved the ladder off the road. The BMW was fine (skinny 19 inch wheels and lots of clearance saved any damage) but a modern sports bike with wide 17 inch wheels and not much clearance would have been toast. A KLR would have just jumped over it. ;D
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Re: Dropped my CB750
« Reply #111 on: August 17, 2014, 04:06:42 AM »
Fenders made his on decision and flew the coop from this forum. Not saying that's right or wrong. But I do know this thread has run it's course and then some. So lets put this thing to rest and move on ;) 
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Re: Dropped my CB750
« Reply #112 on: August 17, 2014, 09:41:18 AM »
Maybe it's time to give it a rest.  You are all like a bunch of teenage girls harassing and stalking the uncool girl in a twitter fight.  Instead of spending time trolling through old posts and videos poke your head out of the basement and do something out in the real world.
No thanks. But you are welcome to freely move along and find a thread of more interest to you.

Excellent advice....I am off to find where the adults hang out. 

I tried growing up once, realised there was no fun in it ;D


I agree with you there...nothing wrong with remaining young boys at heart.  I just find grown men acting like 14 year old girls annoying. ;D

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Re: Dropped my CB750
« Reply #113 on: August 17, 2014, 11:04:45 AM »
But I do know this thread has run it's course and then some. So lets put this thing to rest and move on ;)

I agree.
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Re: Dropped my CB750
« Reply #114 on: August 17, 2014, 11:16:41 AM »

 you are all good people

You are right there Stua.....er.....I mean retro.

Let's all watch this Stuart Smalley video and that should be the end of it.  ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ldAQ6Rh5ZI


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Re: Dropped my CB750
« Reply #115 on: August 17, 2014, 06:47:10 PM »
Maybe it's time to give it a rest.  You are all like a bunch of teenage girls harassing and stalking the uncool girl in a twitter fight.  Instead of spending time trolling through old posts and videos poke your head out of the basement and do something out in the real world.
No thanks. But you are welcome to freely move along and find a thread of more interest to you.

Excellent advice....I am off to find where the adults hang out. 

I tried growing up once, realised there was no fun in it ;D


Yeah, At Fourtylevin I'm just about ready to go through my teens again.









But I do know this thread has run it's course and then some. So lets put this thing to rest and move on ;)

I agree.

Excellent advice....I am off to find where the adults hang out. 
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I think that  unfortunately, this thread needs to be one   that persistently won't   go away.

All the bickering aside,  the title is perfectly generic, and there was nothing particularly catastrophic about "Dropped my 750."

My youthful/useful moto experience came mostly on a foxi gt moped I rode for three years before I got into bicycles and cars.  About half my waking hours in the summers were spent in the saddle in traffic. I can't remember ever crashing it or laying it down other than we might have done powerslides on it.

The  unfortunate thing statistically  is a lot of people  on this forum might throw down a 750 or anything else.    It could become the thread for learning not to hit road hazard or leave it on the road or  something that will help you learn to not wreck.
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« Reply #116 on: August 17, 2014, 07:00:14 PM »
Recant:  Once this guy  had pulled his car into the intersection and stopped.  I got a green, started to pull  through a clear lane, got hit  when he pulled forward. I stayed up, got a few scratches on me , I'm hoping my pedal ripped across his car pretty good, but can't really remember.
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Re: Dropped my CB750
« Reply #117 on: August 18, 2014, 09:20:45 AM »
This thread shall be put to rest when the peanut gallery is thoroughly sated!!

More bike dropping and pants sharting stories please!  :)
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Re: Dropped my CB750
« Reply #118 on: August 18, 2014, 01:43:30 PM »
The actual lesson learned is that one pompus dickhead can agitate a group of people who are normally mellow.
He was disruptive by nature a we fell right into it. It would be best to shut this thing down now.
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« Reply #119 on: August 18, 2014, 11:57:11 PM »
Makes me want to get out to the cross country track and dump a bike, get back up , start it up, ride on and forget about it.
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« Reply #120 on: August 19, 2014, 01:25:28 AM »
This thread shall be put to rest when the peanut gallery is thoroughly sated!!

More bike dropping and pants sharting stories please!  :)

Well if you insist............ It was late June 1978 and I was a handsome young man of 18 years, and the (questionably) proud owner of a shiny new CB750F0. Yes, I know that doesn't make sense, everyone knows that the F0 came out in 1975, Right? Right. But, here in Oz, the motorcycling public recoiled in horror at the unpallatable fugliness of the F, and sales dried up quicker than that of Milli Vanilli records after they were found out. (being found out is a terrible thing, and some members here should be careful about re-writing their own personal histories, lest the same fate befalls them) I'd tried to buy a new Kawasaki KZ1000, but couldn't get the finance, so took the "NOS" (still in the crate) F-ing F as plan B. But I digress...........

Being the handsome young chap that I was, I had a girlfriend who was a real b1tch. Fair dinkum, she was as loyal as a Boa Constrictor, but had far fewer morals. With luck, she's been murdered since I last saw her. Anyway, we'd had one of our regular alcohol fuelled arguments and I stormed off home, on foot, as I was a responsible young fellow of course. It'll be hard for some of our younger readers here to believe, but back then, there were no cell phones. True, as incredible as it sounds now, you couldn't just reach into your pocket when you wanted to communicate with someone, you either had to have a house phone, or find a public phone. (do they still exist?)

Back in those days I was a young soldier, and as happens all too regularly in a peace-time army, (Vietnam was over and we were all sitting around twiddling our thumbs and praying for another war to overcome our boredom) I was rostered for guard duty the next morning, and as I'd recently dropped my F-ing F, (the real reason I'd walked around to that b1tch from hell's evil lair) I was in need of a phone box, so I could call a taxi to get me to work the next day.

The first phone booth had been vandalised so I walked to the next, a mile or so away. No luck, the vandal had struck again. Tired of walking, I stormed home, jumped on my slightly damaged F-ing F, and rode off in search of a f-ing phone that actually f-ing worked. My search took me past the mega-b1tche's stinking pit, so I opened the taps and roared past her house at full song to let her know exactly what I thought of her.

The trouble with that was that the street terminated in a T intersection (well actually a T with a sloping top rail that was angled at 45 degrees to the left, but I don't know what that's called?) so I hit the gutter at close to 100 MPH, got some awesome air, went thru a small tree, and flew sideways into a "Yeild" (Give Way in Oz) sign. The 3 inch diameter steel pole didn't break, but bent at 90 degrees about 3 feet up from the ground, and I continued on to slide to a halt about 100 yards from where I first hit the gutter.

Now I mentioned that I'd been drinking, and alcohol is a wonderful local anaesthetic. So good in fact, that I hardly felt any pain at all, so had no difficulty picking up the (now much more damaged) F-ing F, and realising that the alternator cover was smashed, decided to push the bike the two miles home. (past the she-dragon's cave, (but luckily she was asleep in her coffin I presume, as the sun was rising) albeit a little quieter than before. Luckily for me a sympathetic mate offered to drive me to the barracks, and I got there just in time.   

It didn't take long for the Duty NCO to notice that I wasn't all that well, so he sent me down to the Regimental Aid Post. They in turn sent me across to the Repatriation Hospital, where I was XRayd, treated for several broken ribs and muliple grazes and lacerations, then sent back to finish my guard duty. (the unfeeling bastarrds even threatened to charge me with a "self inflicted wound", WTF?)

Now I'd like to say that I sharted, but being as drunk as I was, I just went with the flow, and wasn't sober enough to be frightened. Another mate opined that the reason I was still alive might have been due to my drunken state relaxing me and he might have been right. All I know is that I'm still here and it's all that b1tches f-ing fault anyway......... ;D       
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Re: Dropped my CB750
« Reply #121 on: August 19, 2014, 02:02:36 AM »
One heck of a story Terry :o You can't make stuff like that up. I remember pay phones to ;) Glad you made it through your young, wild, and crazy days and be with us here today. Your girlfriend sounded like a real sweetheart ::)

I had told myself to put this thread to rest, but when I saw Terry's CB750F0 experience with the help of his #%^& girlfriend  I had to comment. Us Wang guys got to stick together!
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Re: Dropped my CB750
« Reply #122 on: August 19, 2014, 04:37:27 AM »
Holy cow Terry some tale ! But it started to ring warning bells for me, stuff in my deep subconscious was stirred.

I began to realise there are parallels in my life also, deeply suppressed but still there.

Probably I should see professional help to bring them to the surface and help me address them.

But I suspect I know what happened. Your fcuken ex moved to Ireland in the early 90's and I ended up with her for over 10 years ! That has to be the answer as there could not be two such bi**hes on this planet, could there ?

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Re: Dropped my CB750
« Reply #123 on: August 19, 2014, 04:51:39 AM »
Thanks for the story Terry. What I took away from it is that I am now only going to ride when I am totally drunk and smashed, heck it just may save my life  ;D   ;D

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« Reply #124 on: August 19, 2014, 06:15:36 AM »
That was a lovely story.....and you tell it so well!
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