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Wolfridgerider
| | Posted on Saturday, October 27, 2007 - 10:25 pm: | 
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Just hope him and the new bike made it home in one piece!
Did he? |
Etennuly
| | Posted on Saturday, October 27, 2007 - 10:31 pm: |
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I see here, and have seen from my own experience, that most people who learned to ride prior to the mid eighties did so in the back yard, or woods trails, or fields on a small bike of some sort.
I was about eleven when I rode some Chaparral mini bikes, that my Uncle sold, in his field. Then I rode my brother's Bridgstone 90 in our yard. My first wreck.
Then I got a used XL250 and crashed it every time out in the woods.
Now days it seems the norm to take a three day safety course and get right on a 1200cc machine capable of 130 mph. What is wrong with this picture. |
Birdy
| | Posted on Sunday, October 28, 2007 - 09:51 am: |
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Yep, Etennuly that's how I learned as well. Kid in the bushes crashing into trees at 10-15 MPH! NOT cars at 80+. It's also the reason I was drawn to the Buell Linghting...you sit on it like a big old dirt bike.
I do see lots of squids out there with bikes that are way beyond them and always will be. Kind'a like me and this monster. Difference is I KNOW it and they haven't a clue. |
New12r
| | Posted on Sunday, October 28, 2007 - 10:54 am: |
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My very first ride I was about 5, Briggs powered rigid frame bike. I went straight into the first tree I spotted in the back yard! Shortly after that we moved to AZ and I rode a Honda 70 3 wheeler in the dessert for 2 years till we moved back to Mich. Then I got the Rupp!
Well You get the idea. Had a lot of fun toys gradually getting bigger until the bolt. Learned a lot crashing when I was young, easy to recover too. |
Thumper74
| | Posted on Sunday, October 28, 2007 - 08:02 pm: |
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Wait... My owners manual never said I couldn't trim my hedges with the mower.. |
Ft_bstrd
| | Posted on Sunday, October 28, 2007 - 08:28 pm: |
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Wait... My owners manual never said I couldn't trim my hedges with the mower..
"Here's your sign." |
Molly_hatchet
| | Posted on Sunday, October 28, 2007 - 08:39 pm: |
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yz 80 at age 11 spent more time crashing than riding....raced dirt for many years....first street bike was the most beat RD250 in the world...crashed that one a couple a few times when it actualy ran...worked my way up to an RD400 and then a a KZ900 that was waaaay too much traded her for a gs 500 and it goes on...i dunno how somebody could have the balls to jump on a new liter class machine without much experience.. mine still gives me moments of fright once in a while...thats like handin a baby the keys to a ferrari. |
Thumper74
| | Posted on Sunday, October 28, 2007 - 09:00 pm: |
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The people that hop on a liter bike for the first time don't realize how fast a 'slow' bike is... I sold metrics for a bit. At first, I tried to get people towards the more practical bikes... They would just leave and I'd see them the next week looking at helmets with a new R1/1000rr/Busa outside. I gave up. No amount of preaching will keep an uninformed consumer from making a bad decision. Once I worked at a Pontiac dealer and some dad bought his 16 yo son a new GTO 6.0... The next week, that same car was in the back lot of the dealer with alot of blood in it... It's up the consumer to determine what amount of risk they are willing to accept. |
Molly_hatchet
| | Posted on Sunday, October 28, 2007 - 09:26 pm: |
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stupid hurts....or can get ya killed. |
Ft_bstrd
| | Posted on Sunday, October 28, 2007 - 09:36 pm: |
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Unfortunately, we're all born with a "stupid won't happen to me" sneak circuit that impedes correct logical decision making. |
Vortec57
| | Posted on Sunday, October 28, 2007 - 10:35 pm: |
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"Did he make it home?"
Well, I assume so. Haven't heard anything on the news about any wrecks, didn't get any calls about how to put back together a broken bike.
He didn't get the bike from our dealership, we'd never have let him off the lot like that!
HOPEFULLY he will come in and get some gear and be safe. |
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