Topic: Bored while Riding...???

[754]

Used to do this a lot..

2 or 3 or 4th gear.. give a bunch of throttle and accelerate for 10 or 15 seconds, the flick the kill switch off.. then wait about 5 or 10 seconds (opening the throttle a few times is otional) the flick kill to ON..

KAAAaaaBOOOOOMMMMm!!!!!!!!!!

Used to scare the piss out of a few animals and the odd pedestian!!    One day there was a cat watching a mouse hole and I lit off, that cat went about 2 feet straight up, turned 180 and came down running.. a bit tensed while on the hunt!!

Please dont even think of doing this near horses on the roadway or with riders on them


Used to be geat fun till one night something went wrong...


Another thing that can scare the absolute piss out of someone new riding with you... stand on the centrestand at about 60mph, make sure they are off to one side.. heh..heh .. dont ask how I know..

[Terry in Australia]

Geez I miss El Cheapo..................  Come back Tom, all is forgiven!

[JLeather]

LOL.  We used to do that in my buddy's '70 F100 pickup.  Thing is, the dude he bought it from was a cheap redneck so the exhaust was done in that flexible tubing and it was rusted.  One day we left it off too long and blew both pipes off at the manifolds  .  Freakin' loud...  Anyway, I wouldn't do this with pipes you care about (unstamped or something)...

[BobbyR]

I used to do that with a Bus when some smartass in an MG or something like it was showing off for his girlfriend. If they have the top down it is better.  They get about 30 feet of built up rust and carbon fired right at windsheild level. That was before I became the great guy I am today.

[754]

LOL at the MG story... gret for tailgaters..

One day in my brothers car we split the whole muffler open!!

Ever worked on static timing your bike and opened the points with a screwdriver?? I used to do this in the carport and one day it went off . sure wasnt expecting that


Some of you who have spent endless hours on these bike probably noticed that some rebrevate (?) If you rode up a steep grade certain bikes would start making this noise.. like wuhh.wuhh..wuh.wuuuhh..etc. and then if you just slightly open or close your throttle you can change it or play with it..ever notice that?

[heffay]

works best on 4 into 1 piped bikes... do it alot on all the rockets i've had. 
when i had my 94cbr600 w/ a vance and hines i terrorized most city streets just by riding at a normal pace from the decibel level.  and you probably know i like to get on the throttle... blips here, blips there, lots of times those blips turn into whacks and then people think you're being an ass for riding your bike.  anyway, riding through my neighborhood one day and this lady comes screaming over by the street and i see her in advance, flick the kill, get w/in 15-20 feet of her, point my finger at her like a gun and KABANG!... i've never seen a crotchety old lady scamper back in a house so fast!   



i've heard that by doing this you run the possibility of bending valves...    so, we're lighting off a lot of unburned fuel in the pipe and in the combustion chamber... what's your take?

[754]

In the northeast corner of Wyoming there is a lot of sheep. We pass thru that corner on the way to Sturgis.

One day I start playing with my horn button. and I realize that if you hold it just right the road vibration makes it go on and off like a  buzzer breaking contact... well anyone it scared the crap out of the sheep!! Well maybe only one but when it runs thaey all think it is a good idea at the time.. So there it is a WAVE of sheep turning and fleeing.. looks pretty funny..


Hey how come all the Aussie bikes are pulled over there and they are all going fer walks in the rangeland    

[Rocking-M]

Old log hauler round here use to be quite proficient at backfiring.
Everytime he went through the mill he'd backfire about 4 times at least.
Hauling off the mountain one day he came up on the chain gang cleaning the
side of the road, he back fired them and they hit jumped in the ditch and the
guard laughed..

Anyway, he use to back fire at me evertime I'd see him on the road and I took
to carrying my black powder revolver loaded with powder and packed with cream of wheat.
Caught him at the mill one day and walked up to his door and said,
"I'm damn tired of this backfiring #$%*, you even made an old lady drop her groceries in town.
Whipped the gun out and aimed at his door and he ducked behind it, bammm!!!!
He waited a second an popped his head back up and stuck it out the window and looked
at his door" 

Ole Lonny always kept things a going but that day I bested him. 

[CBJoe]

I shouldn't be reading these stories  

I keep tellin' my wife i'm a responsible and respectable rider