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     Firebolt020283 |
Since Dec i have been stationed in Korea. Since being here i have seen some of the most interesting motorcycle custimizations i have ever seen in my life. Now in Europe the street fighter scene is huge and in the states the chopper scene is big but here in korea it is all about making there Hyosungs look like other bikes. I have seen Hysungs with cbr1000 nicky hayden editon plastics, i seen one with an r1 tail hysung gas tank a gixxer front end painted green with zx6r stickers on it. i have even seen a hysung motor in a softtail springer frame. The other interesting thing about korean bikers it how much stuff they tie to the back of there bikes its nothing to see a motorcycle or scooter with boxes and crates that are taller than the rider is. And the last crazy thing about them is the fact that they truly act like they own the road in ways we would all go to jail for in the states. I am waiting on my girl friend to send me my camera but when she does i will take some pictures to show every one just different the bikers are here in korea. | ||
| Spiderman |
I am not sure, maybe you can answer, but it is either Vietnam or Korea. Motorcycles are not allowed on the freeway... | ||
| Firebolt020283 |
might be Vietnam cuz they are all over the place here and if u drive or walk here u have to be very carefull cuz they do what ever they want to. Korean bikers dont obey stop signs or lights, they jump on to the side walks they squeaze in and out of cars in traffic jams. Like i say the stuff they get away with here would land u bikeless and in jail in the U.S. | ||
| Liquorwhere |
Nothing like seeing a motorcycle pass a waterbuffalo loaded with rice on the MSR 1 heading south to Seoul, the difference is the MSR would be packed three lanes and the puller is in the breakdown lane and the bike would pass in between the puller and the traffic...wild place Korea...I was there at the 1/506th at Camp Greaves from '90 to '91. It was excellent in terms of exposing me to a new culture, but I wasn't thrilled with the weather there. Between the Orange Crush dumptrucks, taxi's that never slow down even after they have hit someone, waterbuffalo's stacked so high with rice you couldn't see the old man running it and the buses crammed four wide in three lanes THEN the bikes riding like mad I think it would be a great place to ride with all the mountains and curves to the road....not to mention the neon swastika's everywhere in Seoul...didn't know it was a Buddhist symbol until I got there...the land of the morning calm... | ||
| Firebolt020283 |
i am in Seoul at yangsan and yea the roads here are crazy i was coming back from a range in an LMTV at about 5 in the afternoon and i had never in my life been scared to drive as i was that day. | ||
| Liquorwhere |
Not to mention if you wreck you get a nice statement of charges deducted from your paycheck..that would suck. When I was in the 1/12 Cav at Fort Hood I had a fellow medic take a Humvee Ambulance over a cliff at North Fort...yeah..that cost him for over a year. One of the Medics I was stationed with in Korea lost a front wheel and flipped during Team Spirit in '91, he and his TC had to pay because the motor sgt wrote that it was a PMCS issue..it is expensive to wreck the Green machines toys..yangsan..so close to Itaewon..man, you are in the rear with the gear my friend, good job!!! You don't even need a yooboo from the village, you have good ol american, german or Aussie stock to choose from there..if you are not already married or whatever..enjoy it buddy..do the 300 foot repel in Chejudo..sweet there and if you can take the MWR tour to Australia by way of singapore or thailand..it will change your life!!! | ||
| Firebolt020283 |
well im about to get hitched so no need for any "yooboo" or anything like that. and i will definatly have to look in to that mwr tour your talking about sounds awsome. Itaewon is right out side the gate that is like 2 min from my berreks i know i stumble home from there every weekend just about. Oh and you was in ft hood too? wow sounds like i have been the same places you have just quite a few years later. I just spent the past 5 years in ft hood, I was in 15th finance there which is the finance unit for cav. and i was in iraq with 1/12 at camp war eagle (well 3 days out of the week anyway). | ||
| Teeps |
From the sound of your post, it appears that Korea has become well motorized since I was there (Camp Stanley) in '71. There were virtually no privately owned vehicles by either G.I.s or civilians. | ||
| Liquorwhere |
Cool Korea and Fort Hood and Iraq....good ol Killeen...I owned a house in Willow Springs just off the main gate on Bobby Lee Dr..man.that was a way back, I was married with children then..lol..times sure change....now, get stationed at the Pentagon, the Sinai, Bosnia, Rwanda and a couple short stints in Honduras and Panama and you and I will have some stuff to talk about my friend!! Congrats on getting married, I remember that part well too...but divorce is good for the soul sometimes...Teeps...Camp Stanley huh? I think that was a helicopter and artillery post when I was in country 20 years after you..of course I was born in '70 so when you were there was it 2nd ID? Didn't all of the units in the ID get combat patches until the 80's? I know one of my NCO's had been at JSA when Capt Bonifas was murdered by the North with a hatchet and he received a combat patch for that duty station..although I want to say..and my memory is not so good, that stanley was close to Su Song Dong or something to that effect east of Camp Red Cloud and just north and east of Seoul...but again that a few years back..... (Message edited by liquorwhere on March 12, 2007) | ||
| Loki |
South Korea is jus plain krazy! Having spent my tour at Osan, someplace just slightly more laid back. Ever wonder about those strange markings on the big wide roads? | ||
| Bcordb3 |
Don, correct me if I am wrong. Are the" Firebolt" who was Kuiwat/Iraq about 2 years ago? If so, Did you re-enlist? My memory fails me at times. Or there was another Firebolt user military guy. It seems I remember you had gotten out and was riding the crap out your Kawasaki. OR i am remembering someone else. GETTING OLD IS NOT FOR SISSIES! as I approach medi-care. | ||
| Teeps |
Yes, Second Division Big Indian Head, "Second to None" Hoo-Ah! They had folded the 7th Div colors a few months before I got there in Oct/71. As my faded memory says Cp Stanley was a few miles east of Uijeongbu. About 12 miles south of Camp Casey. At that time it was an artillery post. I was with D-702nd Maint Btl. with wheel/track repair mos. | ||
| Swampy |
Son-in-law was at FortHood, That was the place that RUINED ME I have hardly been out of the Midwest all my life, never traveled, then I saw Texas! Then Alabama, now I am looking for work somewhere other than here. I never knew that there was another place than the place I was from. Oh yeah, I saw a Hosung at Fort Rucker and mistook it for a Fat Boy....momentarily. | ||
| Swordsman |
Those Hyosungs aren't bad looking bikes for the most part. The sport bikes look like naked Suzukis with Duc front fairings, but the cruisers are a little too upright and cartoonish overall (except for the big ones... those are cool). I dare say the scooters are better looking than what we have here in the States. Interesting... I've never even heard of them. ~SM (Message edited by Swordsman on March 12, 2007) | ||
| Liquorwhere |
Well Teeps I wore that Indian Head too...2nd ID..man I love that division!! THE most decorated division in the Army!! The most powerful Division on Earth!! Or at least that is what they told us..hehe...yep good ol Uijonbu that is where MASH was supposed to have happened, at Camp Red Cloud, but that was so far south of my unit, a party place of sorts for us and of course my most fond memory of Korea is SOOOO inappropriate for this forum...but it is a good one!! I do remember the first night on the Z...the loudspeakers blasting away some terrible music, I thought I wasn't going to sleep for a year..the next morning seeing that North Korean Flag that was as big as a football field or bigger and the South Korean Flag that was just a little bigger and the stories start for the new guy..a million dollar bounty paid by soldier of fortune for the guy that can bring them that North Korean Flag..the Cpl that fell for a North operative and ran off to the north with her and then they found him floating in the Im Jin Gak river tortured and quite dead, then the honest to goodness true stories of the axe murders, Capt Bonifas and the Tree and the bridge of no return, sniper posts and people "crossing" in and out of the country...wow..crazy $hit happened on the ground..and a few weeks in..I didn't even notice they were still broadcasting to us from the north until I heard Twisted Sister playing...or english spoken on occassion....the snow, the mission, team spirit the trains the "red light" houses, the cheap shoes and blankets...and of course the OB and Soju...I wish I could have done it when I was a bit older, I think I would have gotten even more out of it... | ||
| Firebolt020283 |
i was In Iraq about 2 years ago and yes i had a kawi that i road the crap out of untill it craped on me but no i never got out i re-uped when i was in iraq then went back to ft hood and got stationed here in korea in late dec were i am now. And about the kawi i have learned my leason and i am now looking foward to getting back to the states and buy me another buell seeing as how in the past 4 years i have had 4 bikes and 3 of them was in one year and they was not near as fun or reliable as my buell was. | ||
| Teeps |
Firebolt Enjoy the Korean spring, summer is on the way... | ||
| Bcordb3 |
Good to see you are still posting Don, stay safe. | ||
| Djkaplan |
"if you can take the MWR tour to Australia by way of singapore or thailand..it will change your life!!!" On his way to Australia for R&R via Singapore is where my father was hurt during the Viet Nam War. He got the kind of injury you don't get a Purple Heart for... at least not the heart. Nothing a magic bullet couldn't clear up though. Dad... a true warrior. | ||
| Hotrats |
freeways in vietnam.... don't think so, at least in my experience. crazy drivers? yes, at least in my experience. especially the mini buses |
