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Offline ken736cc

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« on: March 29, 2009, 10:14:30 AM »
Check out this motivational style poster, then look carefully in the background.
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Re: slow motorcycles
« Reply #1 on: March 29, 2009, 10:31:32 AM »
Beautiful
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« Reply #2 on: March 29, 2009, 10:57:06 AM »
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Re: slow motorcycles
« Reply #3 on: March 29, 2009, 02:50:07 PM »
Priceless. (Unless someone is doing a "Photo-Shop" on it)
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Re: slow motorcycles
« Reply #4 on: March 29, 2009, 04:28:07 PM »
Quote from: Steve F on March 29, 2009, 02:50:07 PM
Priceless. (Unless someone is doing a "Photo-Shop" on it)

I wouldn't be too surprised if it's real.  I've seen the same sign many times where "trucks" or "vehicles" replace the "motorcycles". 

There's a street sign in my neighborhood that says "slow children at play", even though there's no special needs school in the area.

Can't the DPS afford a freaking comma?   
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Re: slow motorcycles
« Reply #5 on: March 29, 2009, 11:08:31 PM »
Used to be some signs at the corner market when I was younger that read 'Watch that child drive carefully' and on the other drive, 'watch that child stop ahead'

 There's a few signs nearby that will freak you out if you don't know the roads,
 I'm willing to bet on one that you'll go off the road if it's your first time driving it. There's a set of curves and before you hit them there's a curve sign with the arrow pointing right, then after that is the 'S' curve type sign. Problem is, when you actually hit the curve, the first curve is a hard left. (love that curve, it's up and down hill, and very sweet to run.)

 Another curve is marked out for a quarter mile before you hit it with curve signs, then has about 15 of those "<" signs, on that one, when you actually hit the curve what it amounts to is less than a lane change. If you've ever let your car drift over far enough to let the tire cross the center line on a two lane, you've made that curve.

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Re: slow motorcycles
« Reply #6 on: March 30, 2009, 02:25:46 AM »
Re that sign, they've obviously seen me ride. ;D
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« Reply #7 on: March 30, 2009, 09:00:21 PM »
Has nobody else noticed the Hardly Ableto dealership sign in the background?

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Massey Davidson or Harley Ferguson
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Re: slow motorcycles
« Reply #8 on: March 30, 2009, 11:14:05 PM »
Quote from: Steve F on March 29, 2009, 02:50:07 PM
Priceless. (Unless someone is doing a "Photo-Shop" on it)

 Kind of looks like it was, the harley sign is the only one that's readable, everything else is blank except the name on the building, and even that is impossible to make out.

 Most of the people I ran with called them Harley Fergusons too, mostly because they often sound like the old tractors, and like the tractors have torque from the basement up.

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Re: slow motorcycles
« Reply #9 on: March 31, 2009, 04:45:38 AM »
Quote from: bryanj on March 30, 2009, 09:00:21 PM
Has nobody else noticed the Hardly Ableto dealership sign in the background?

Also known over here as
Massey Davidson or Harley Ferguson
OK, let's get something straight right now.....my first name is NOT HARLEY!  :D
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Re: slow motorcycles
« Reply #10 on: March 31, 2009, 06:46:18 AM »
Quote from: bryanj on March 30, 2009, 09:00:21 PM
Has nobody else noticed the Hardly Ableto dealership sign in the background?


Yes, we have.  That's the reason it's humorous. ;)
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Re: slow motorcycles
« Reply #11 on: March 31, 2009, 07:49:24 AM »
My favorite I have ever seen said "limit 10 slow children at play".




Why limit it at 10?







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Re: slow motorcycles
« Reply #12 on: March 31, 2009, 09:54:10 AM »
Quote from: Soos on March 31, 2009, 07:49:24 AM
My favorite I have ever seen said "limit 10 slow children at play".




Why limit it at 10?







l8r

Yeah, you would think that maybe 15 or 20 kids are ok.
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Re: slow motorcycles
« Reply #13 on: March 31, 2009, 10:02:36 AM »
Cuz if you hit any more than 10 slow kids they'll have to give you the death penalty for sure.

This way you have an option of life without parole.  ;D
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Re: slow motorcycles
« Reply #14 on: March 31, 2009, 10:04:52 AM »
Quote from: HavocTurbo on March 31, 2009, 10:02:36 AM
Cuz if you hit any more than 10 slow kids they'll have to give you the death penalty for sure.

This way you have an option of life without parole.  ;D

But slow children, by their nature, are easy to avoid.  It's the quick ones who dart out from between parked cars that you have to watch out for. :o
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« Reply #15 on: March 31, 2009, 10:12:59 AM »
That's why there's the 10 limit buffer.

I can imagine that it would be hard to avoid. So there's a built in safety. ;D
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Re: slow motorcycles
« Reply #16 on: March 31, 2009, 03:02:06 PM »
Quote from: Gordon on March 31, 2009, 10:04:52 AM
Quote from: HavocTurbo on March 31, 2009, 10:02:36 AM
Cuz if you hit any more than 10 slow kids they'll have to give you the death penalty for sure.

This way you have an option of life without parole.  ;D

But slow children, by their nature, are easy to avoid.  It's the quick ones who dart out from between parked cars that you have to watch out for. :o

Hence those signs you can put out in front of your house that read "Caution! Fast children play here"
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Re: slow motorcycles
« Reply #17 on: April 01, 2009, 01:18:35 PM »
I always thought they didn't need signs for the quick children because they could move out of the way!
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Re: slow motorcycles
« Reply #18 on: April 01, 2009, 02:11:22 PM »
i just sent that to my brother, he has a road king. i call him a harley weenie and he asks me when i'm going to buy a real motorcycle. all in good fun though.
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Re: slow motorcycles
« Reply #19 on: April 01, 2009, 07:47:01 PM »
A nearby prison(Lorton, a D.C. prison, now closed) had a road sign.  A typical pedestrian crossing sign with one difference.  The pedestrian had a ball and chain.  My question was "why would a prisoner be crossing the road?"

Side note.  A Friend stopped there one day to photograph the sign.  Guards ran out and confiscated his film.
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Re: slow motorcycles
« Reply #20 on: April 02, 2009, 06:36:18 AM »
Quote from: 333 on April 01, 2009, 07:47:01 PM
My question was "why would a prisoner be crossing the road?"


To get to the other side!  Duh... ::) ;D ;D
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« Reply #21 on: April 02, 2009, 11:04:52 PM »
To get away from Hush. ;D
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I think the thing I most like about motorcycling is the speed at which my brain must process information at to avoid the numb skulls who are eating pies, playing the ukulele, applying make-up etc in the comfort of their airconditioned armchairs as they make random attempts to kill me!!!!!!!
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