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Offline BomberMann650

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If Motorcycles Could Talk
« on: September 05, 2017, 11:04:07 AM »
What would a motorcycle say about it's owner?

Here are some possibile answers, chime in with your own!

"Sometimes he hits me with a hammer, but I must have deserved it."

"He locked me in the shed for months."

"He gets angry, but deep down I know it's cause he loves me."



« Last Edit: September 05, 2017, 11:12:24 AM by BomberMann650 »
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Re: If Motorcycles Could Talk
« Reply #1 on: September 05, 2017, 11:14:54 AM »
 Why would he sell me to mister monkeyclaw?
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Re: If Motorcycles Could Talk
« Reply #2 on: September 05, 2017, 11:16:20 AM »
 Why would my owner park me next to a leaky TRACTOR TIRE FULL OF CHLORIDE for years and years?
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Re: If Motorcycles Could Talk
« Reply #3 on: September 05, 2017, 12:46:43 PM »
(EMO bike)

"I know you don't love me."

"Its OK for you to hurt me, but not OK for me to hurt myself."

"I don't live in darkness, darkness lives in me!"

"I like to think that I actually mean something to you"
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Re: If Motorcycles Could Talk
« Reply #4 on: September 05, 2017, 01:05:26 PM »
Quote from: Don R on September 05, 2017, 11:14:54 AM
Why would he sell me to mister monkeyclaw?

A fate worse than death.
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Re: If Motorcycles Could Talk
« Reply #5 on: September 05, 2017, 01:37:35 PM »
Quote from: flybox1 on September 05, 2017, 12:46:43 PM
(EMO bike)

"I know you don't love me."

"Its OK for you to hurt me, but not OK for me to hurt myself."

"I don't live in darkness, darkness lives in me!"

"I like to think that I actually mean something to you"

I wish my lawn was emo, then it would cut itself.   <cue rimshot>



I am personally thankful that motorcycles can't talk. I do enough screaming inside my own helmet, I don't need it to become a chorus.
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Re: If Motorcycles Could Talk
« Reply #6 on: September 05, 2017, 01:41:39 PM »
lol ::)
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Re: If Motorcycles Could Talk
« Reply #7 on: September 05, 2017, 01:57:24 PM »
It'd tell me to lose some weight - I'm breakin' (it's) back!   ;D
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Re: If Motorcycles Could Talk
« Reply #8 on: September 05, 2017, 03:19:54 PM »
Quote from: Don R on September 05, 2017, 11:14:54 AM
Why would he sell me to mister monkeyclaw?
Priceless ;D ;D
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Re: If Motorcycles Could Talk
« Reply #9 on: September 05, 2017, 04:03:23 PM »
Pick up a copy of Conversations with a Motorcycle by Jack Riepe
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"There are some things nobody needs in this world, and a bright-red, hunch-back, warp-speed 900cc cafe racer is one of them — but I want one anyway, and on some days I actually believe I need one.... Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba." Hunter S. Thompson, Song of the Sausage Creature, Cycle World, March 1995.  (http://www.latexnet.org/~csmith/sausage.html and https://magazine.cycleworld.com/article/1995/3/1/song-of-the-sausage-creature)

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1973 CB750K2 "Bionic Mongrel" (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=132734.0) - Sold
1977 CB750K7 "Nine Lives" Restomod (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=50490.0) - Sold
2005 RVT1000RR RC51-SP2 "El Diablo" - Sold
2016+ Triumph Thruxton 1200 R (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,170198.0.html) - Sold

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Re: If Motorcycles Could Talk
« Reply #10 on: September 05, 2017, 04:54:45 PM »
I love you, Man!
But not in a weird way,
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Re: If Motorcycles Could Talk
« Reply #11 on: September 05, 2017, 04:57:04 PM »
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Re: If Motorcycles Could Talk
« Reply #12 on: September 05, 2017, 05:14:51 PM »
get away from me with the visegrips and hammer!bill
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Re: If Motorcycles Could Talk
« Reply #13 on: September 05, 2017, 05:23:50 PM »
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Re: If Motorcycles Could Talk
« Reply #14 on: September 05, 2017, 06:10:33 PM »
Much better TY! ::)
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Re: If Motorcycles Could Talk
« Reply #15 on: September 05, 2017, 06:39:04 PM »
Quote from: Don R on September 05, 2017, 11:14:54 AM
Why would he sell me to mister monkeyclaw?

For a 12 pack of bud light. lol
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Re: If Motorcycles Could Talk
« Reply #16 on: September 05, 2017, 06:48:17 PM »
Who is that weird flannel wearing dude, and what is he planning on doing with that angle grinder and flat black spray paint?
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Re: If Motorcycles Could Talk
« Reply #17 on: September 05, 2017, 06:55:34 PM »
Quote from: chewbacca5000 on September 05, 2017, 06:48:17 PM
Who is that weird flannel wearing dude, and what is he planning on doing with that angle grinder and flat black spray paint?
Ah God no! Get back! Nooo! AUUUGH IT HURTS! Eauuugh! Stop, please stop! AHHHHHGH! NOooooo... have mercy! I'm a classic!

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Re: If Motorcycles Could Talk
« Reply #18 on: September 05, 2017, 06:57:25 PM »
Quote from: CycleRanger on September 05, 2017, 06:55:34 PM
Quote from: chewbacca5000 on September 05, 2017, 06:48:17 PM
Who is that weird flannel wearing dude, and what is he planning on doing with that angle grinder and flat black spray paint?
Ah God no! Get back! Nooo! AUUUGH IT HURTS! Eauuugh! Stop, please stop! AHHHHHGH! NOooooo... have mercy! I'm a classic!



TCM for old bikes!
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Re: If Motorcycles Could Talk
« Reply #19 on: September 05, 2017, 07:07:48 PM »
Quote from: chewbacca5000 on September 05, 2017, 06:57:25 PM
TCM for old bikes!
Well, I do have quite a few parts hanging from the rafters as a warning, you know, to the other bikes....  ;)
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Re: If Motorcycles Could Talk
« Reply #20 on: September 05, 2017, 08:54:00 PM »
Re the Grinder  Why are you doing THAT to me ? I don't want to be NEUTERED  !  !
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Re: If Motorcycles Could Talk
« Reply #21 on: September 05, 2017, 11:57:50 PM »
Hey, what's that other bike doing in here. I thought this was our space.
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Re: If Motorcycles Could Talk
« Reply #22 on: September 17, 2017, 09:23:43 PM »
 Heeeyyy, listen man, Can't you se I'm retired? Keep that trailer away! I've been snuggled up in this attached garage for 20 years man, no crazy folks running me off the road. The mice stay away, no missed gears, sure there might be a little rust ring on a cylinder or two but it's a small price to pay for safety. It's hot and cold and rainy out there, the sun fades my gauges and it's a lot of work going outside, did you see that hill? OK, but my seat is up on the shelf safe and out of the sun, don't leave it behind!
 Dammit, he said Sturgis, that's 15 hours from here. I'll bet he has cold wrenches. Hope I at least get a battery and new tires. Aren't those straps a little loose? And that hill still freaks me out.
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Re: If Motorcycles Could Talk
« Reply #23 on: September 18, 2017, 03:30:44 AM »
GET YA COLD GRIMY WRENCHES OFF MY NUTS !!!
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Re: If Motorcycles Could Talk
« Reply #24 on: September 18, 2017, 02:54:14 PM »
Geez this guy's riding skills suck, I hope he gets his act together before he wrecks me.
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