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Offline Kevin D

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Re: Your most memorable drive/ride moment
« Reply #25 on: May 26, 2020, 07:48:55 PM »
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Bears as I know it don't tend to go after people, unless they have cubs..

.......said the mountain man to the city boy :)
I sure didn't know any better, but this was a very long time ago when the park bears were fed by passing motorists with marshmallows and jelly donuts. The roadside bears were probably in a coma coming down from their daily sugar buzz.

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Re: Your most memorable drive/ride moment
« Reply #26 on: May 27, 2020, 05:18:59 AM »
Us bears have all ways had a bit of a sweet tooth. ;D
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Re: Your most memorable drive/ride moment
« Reply #27 on: May 27, 2020, 10:39:29 AM »
That was the first moment in my life to see bears in their own habitat and was certain that I was about to be devoured, even though a skinny kid.
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Re: Your most memorable drive/ride moment
« Reply #28 on: May 27, 2020, 01:44:31 PM »
Handy on the way back home from skating a vert ramp, I-90 from Newport Hills to Seattle, on my '75 550K.

a handjob? jesus
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Re: Your most memorable drive/ride moment
« Reply #29 on: May 27, 2020, 01:51:36 PM »
Handy on the way back home from skating a vert ramp, I-90 from Newport Hills to Seattle, on my '75 550K.

a handjob? jesus

What can I say? Definitely most memorable.

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Re: Your most memorable drive/ride moment
« Reply #30 on: May 27, 2020, 02:11:32 PM »
Handy on the way back home from skating a vert ramp, I-90 from Newport Hills to Seattle, on my '75 550K.

a handjob? jesus

What can I say? Definitely most memorable.
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Re: Your most memorable drive/ride moment
« Reply #31 on: May 27, 2020, 05:20:08 PM »
so what, did you just nut into the wind and get it all over your jacket and tank? lol
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Re: Your most memorable drive/ride moment
« Reply #32 on: May 27, 2020, 06:53:29 PM »
How do you follow that one?
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Re: Your most memorable drive/ride moment
« Reply #33 on: May 27, 2020, 07:26:57 PM »
so what, did you just nut into the wind and get it all over your jacket and tank? lol

I seriously can't be the only one with this experience. More likely the only one willing to talk about it? And that was just the first time.

It was, uh, just the start of something that ended at her house.

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Re: Your most memorable drive/ride moment
« Reply #34 on: May 28, 2020, 04:13:06 PM »
 Once, in my Boss's Mark V after taking his relatives home. Not on the bike however. Still the chance though.
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Re: Your most memorable drive/ride moment
« Reply #35 on: May 28, 2020, 05:22:32 PM »
 ;D
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Re: Your most memorable drive/ride moment
« Reply #36 on: May 28, 2020, 09:10:32 PM »
How do you follow that one?

Plot twist, she sits backwards on the tank

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Re: Your most memorable drive/ride moment
« Reply #37 on: June 12, 2020, 06:39:25 PM »
 Put yourself in this place. CB750 K4, sitting at a stoplight turning left and hear tires squealing. In your mirrors, a 59 Oldsmobile apparently with brakes on only one wheel trying not to run you over. Cars on your right at the light, turning cars on your left. You go as far into the red light and to the left as you can with factory traffic in your path. The Olds finally stops, the light changes and you may breathe again.   I'll never forget, I guess that makes it memorable.
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Re: Your most memorable drive/ride moment
« Reply #38 on: June 12, 2020, 07:26:31 PM »
Ouch! Well not ouch, but wow.

This makes me think about the rainy Saturday in late September 2009 I went into Cambridge, MA on my 91 750 Nighthawk to but a used center stand for $40....
I'm stopped at a red light and suddenly I hear tires skidding to a stop on the wet pavement behind me, and then bump!

Some moron on a bicycle somehow contacted tire to tire with my bike after a panic stop. I totally blame the 'skid demon' for this one. We both kept the bikes up and rode away.