Topic: Handy Hints?

[dpen]

Let's see if this takes off.
Obviously there are a lot of people who read this site.
A lot of experienced riders & some newbies. Therefore a lot of experience & some new ideas that us old farts might not think of.
How about sharing some of the riding hints & tips we've all picked up over the years.
Here's the first.
PAYING THE TOLL:
Rooting around in your jacket with gloves on for toll money sucks.
I clip a "bulldog" clip to the back of my left glove near the wrist. This securely holds several coins.
Offer your hand to the toll attendant & ask them to take the money.
After the first astonished look, they generally smile, pinch the clip open & take the money.
My right hand is still on the bars to blip the throttle if needed and if the money is dropped, the toll attendant blames themselves.
This little trick saves me hassle & puts a smile on those poor bastards who have a lousy job collecting tolls.

[Mark M]

Lets face it bikes are bad news, they cost more than you expect, they break down all over, they can never be relied upon, they can only carry 2 in discomfort at best, they are seen as a target by all those road rage crazies out there. They will drain your bank account, drive away your friends, get your wife to leave you (takeing the kids and probably the dog too) your neighbours will apply to the courts to have you restrained and after all that they will probably try and kill you.

So save yourselves, send all unwanted bikes/parts/manuals/workshop tools etc to me in a plain brown wrapper marked 'hazardous goods' and I will have them disposed of at no expence to yourselves. All cash donations to help support my charitable works will be taken to the pub and exchanged for a warm brown frothy liquid ( This is what we are forced to drink here in the UK).

Name and adress witheld for fear of reprisals!

[Steve F]

All cash donations to help support my charitable works will be taken to the pub and exchanged for a warm brown frothy liquid ( This is what we are forced to drink here in the UK). You boys are drinking old used oil?

[GeoffT]

We only drink Tea!! 

[jaannaktin]

 

I think the "Handy Hints" thread has taken an early turn for the worse! Fire up the defibrillator, 300 Joules. I don't think she's gonna make it ... it would take a miracle of miracles "Handy Hint" to save her now.

 

Jaan

[SteveD CB500F]

My right hand is still on the bars to blip the throttle if needed and if the money is dropped, the toll attendant blames themselves.

Our toll booths are on the right hand side of the road...

[dpen]

My right hand is still on the bars to blip the throttle if needed and if the money is dropped, the toll attendant blames themselves.

Our toll booths are on the right hand side of the road...

So are ours but, being raised on a diet of British bikes I tend to keep blipping the throttle as it's hard to believe a bike will idle.
Besides, passing my left hand in front of my face gives me a chance to wipe bugs off etc.

[Buffo]

Some may need this others may not.

I live in Texas.
Texans carry guns.

When one carries a gun on a motorcycle...if said gun is an automatic NEVER  BUT NEVER chamber the first round...if said gun is a revolver get a holster that locks the hammer in the closed possition.

Don

[kghost]

Leave an empty chamber on that wheel gun Buffo.

On the old Colt Single action's:  Load one, Skip one, and Load the rest. Take it off half cock and lower the hammer. Presto your hammer down on an empty chamber.

That makes you look like a pro, Don't ya think?

[Uncle Ernie]

There are many tunnels on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Pull your sunglasses down your nose before you enter or you forget you had them on and panic when you go blind all of a sudden.

Sheepskin on long rides

[eldar]

If there is frost on the bike, take the car!

[Buffo]

good Idea on the load one skip one, hammer down on the empty.

I carry an automatic, a .45 ruger. It's a little big so it has to go under my arm.

Don

[Steve F]

If there is frost on the bike, take the car!

If there's frost on the fall leaves, take the car!!!!  Broken collar bone from that one......

[jotor]

If there is frost on the bike, take the car!

If there's frost on the fall leaves, take the car!!!!  Broken collar bone from that one......

Don't stop with the wheels straddling a gutter.  Foot won't reach the ground--brand new 600 lb. bike will tip over.  :-<

[the_genrl]

How about just dont ride with a gun?  the .357 i use has a 2" barrel and is small enough to fit in my back pocket but still it is always pissing me off or getting in the way where ever i put it.   good to some proud owners on this board though 

tip, prob already known, use other cars as sheilds.  at intersection, if car is going left and you are going stright, pull up next to him and just stay along side through the intersection.  common sence i know i know, but you can get out of congested areas MUCH quicker by taking less time to look.  chances are he looked right for you when he made the left, and who cares if someone is comming the other way, it will hit him not you.  All you have to to is look stright ahead.

 now everone say "DUHHH, old news dave!"

oh yea, also...brush your teeth in the shower to save time 

[Jonesy]

Lets face it bikes are bad news, they cost more than you expect, they break down all over, they can never be relied upon, they can only carry 2 in discomfort at best, they are seen as a target by all those road rage crazies out there. They will drain your bank account, drive away your friends, get your wife to leave you...

Didn't work. She bought her own motorcycle.....

[Uncle Ernie]

If you're in THAT much of a hurry, use tooth paste instead of mayonaise on your sandwich.