| Author | Message | ||
     Dasxb9s |
I think we have pretty much heard and have seen all variations of what a squid is... but what the hell would this be? I am driving back from a surplus place. About 1/2 mile from my house I see something I cannot find the words to describe. Maybe some one can "splain" this to me! I saw... A Harley dresser... in full accoutrements. All the things you would expect to see on such a machine. Maxed out. Here is the thing that made me scratch my head trying to figure out how to classify what I saw. The guy was wearing shorts and shower shoes! If he would have been on a rice rocket, no doubt he would be a squid. But this was a 30 to 40 something Harley looking dude. WHAT THE HELL DID I SEE??? | ||
| Xblue9r |
a rocket owner that stopped over so his harley buddy could take his rocket out for a ride. what you didn't see, 2 miles ahead, was a fully leather clad (black, with fringes, all harley branded) guy doing twice the speed limit on his buddy's rocket. | ||
| Outrider |
WHAT THE HELL DID I SEE??? A retired tourist from Florida? | ||
| Andrewb |
somethimg similar to HD sightings in Connecticut  | ||
| Glitch |
Saw one yesterday. I just called him stupid. | ||
| Buellkowski |
Not a squid; maybe a SQUOG (squid + hog)? | ||
| Kcfirebolt |
"Squog" Nice  | ||
| Ebear |
UUUHHHHHHH......The reason our INSURANCE rates are so HIGH?????  | ||
| Socoken |
"shower shoes", been a while since i heard that one | ||
| Reepicheep |
It's weird.. I expect that sort of stupidity on cruisers around here. Whats amazing to me is that I am starting to see it on BMW's as well. Saw a guy last saturday, on a fully adventure touring decked out BMW 1150 GS, complete with bolt on aluminum luggage, cruising along in shorts and a T-Shirt. I had seen the same bike earlier in the ride parked outside a Bar. Geesh. Even the BMW riders... | ||
| Blake |
Greg, Thou sucketh. | ||
| Outrider |
Gee...Nobody is immune to stupidity. Just some of us learned from either our own or preferably the mistakes of others. | ||
| Ray_maines |
I can read English and all, but I don't see what the issue is here...... Squids don't have to be on sport bikes. Or more accurately, stupid people don't have to be on sport bikes. In fact, I don't know that you have to be Stupid to ride in shorts and flip flops. Especially on a big ol' Harley. I mean, out of the last 10,000 times you've been out for a ride, how many time have you fallen off? Maybe you should take up knitting. | ||
| Dyna |
I mean, out of the last 10,000 times you've been out for a ride, how many time have you fallen off? Once, & it fricken hurt!! | ||
| Swampy |
I saw a Greywing today, with Grandma on the back in shorts and tennis shoes, Most Greywing riders I have talked will fess up to tipping them over quite regularly at slow to stopped speeds. OUCH! | ||
| Charlieboy6649 |
Dasxb9s, Were you in Yuma today??? Squogs abound! When it's 110 deg. Seems like a good idea, till you crash and lay cooking on 140 deg asphalt!!! Socoken, You know the funny thing... I read shower shoes and didn't even blink; til you said something. LOL! | ||
| Seanp |
Yeah, that's sad, I didn't notice shower shoes either. I'm institutionalized.  | ||
| Blake |
I mean, out of the last 10,000 times you've been out for a ride, how many times have you fallen off? Five dating back to 1980. In an attempt to poke at such "logic", consider the following... Out of the last 10,000 times you've driven an automobile, how many times have you suffered a life threatening crash? Wear your seatbelt anyway? | ||
| Glitch |
how many times have you fallen off? Twice on the street, sure glad I was smart enough to have more on than shorts and shower shoes! | ||
| Outrider |
how many times have you fallen off? Three times on the street. Once (age 16) with shorts. Major road rash on left leg, 1st, 2nd and 3rd degree burns on right. Learned lesson real fast. Happened on Memorial Day weekend and took til Mid-September to heal. No fun that summer. Weekly visits to the doctor to get the green scraped off the burns weren't exactly painless either. Can't count high enough concerning my off road crashes. Was having too much fun raping the deserts and mountains of So Cal to care. Fortunately, never got hurt in those get offs. LOL | ||
| Reepicheep |
This really is an important point. On my first low side on the Cyclone (minor... maybe a 12mph low side) I had armored everything except pants. Was wearing heavy cotton dockers. I had maybe a 2 inch circle of road rash. No big deal, right? I had 6 inch spots through most of high school from soccer.... Wrong! These are not your normal "rugburn" road rash things, they HURT. And they are expensive. My lowside did about $18 of damage to the cyclone (clutch lever, some filing, and touch up paint). I probably spent $100 in dressings, bandages, antiseptics, etc. And if you look at my riding boots (which I was wearing), you can see where one of the leather velcro straps was ground most of the way through, and this is pretty thick leather (much thicker then any skin on my body). Do the math. And don't get me started on what it was like to stand up after a 3 hour plane flight on business where I was stuck in a seat. Ever try and look professional on a business trip while walking through an airport terminal with blood running down your ankle? Well, Court probably has... but people probably expect him to be unusual anyway. So anyway, this was a minor low side with a really minor road rash... and it was very expensive and very painful. Now, whenever I see somebody on a motorcycle with short sleeves and shorts on, my skin *literally* crawls. To this day, riding with just normal pants (not armored riding pants) still gives me serious heebee jeebees. As a datapoint, my second minor low side, was in full gear (including riding pants). Stood the bike up, collected the various turn signal pieces, pounded the banke shifter back from under the primary, and rode of. Not a scratch on me. | ||
| Buellkowski |
Perhaps the squogs feel "protected" by their crash bars, fairings, and hard bags? After all, their ride is just a convertible with two less wheels. The one time I tipped my S3T I was truly appreciative of the right side hard case and big airbox! | ||
| Dasxb9s |
NOPE... Wasn't in Yuma... but would like to make the trip someday! Being an old fart. I will be 50 next month. I used the words "shower shoes" as a "modern" term. Back in the olden days we called them thongs. A much different item now!!! HOWEVER... Had I seen a cutie wearing a thong riding a sport bike... I would not be complaining!!! At least not until she went so fast my Honda CR-V could no longer keep up!!! Let's see... Once losing the rear tire on sand (while going straight) in the olden days back (1970ish) when tires were hard. Cracked my wrist, which I broke the next week falling off (yes, I said falling off) a VW bug at about 30 mph. I was much younger, but just as stupid. I once rode out a seized engine which I thought was a tossed and snagged chain at about 65mph+. Other than the need to change underwear there were no boo boos. I don't know who had the worse facial expression. Me looking back at the station wagon that had been tailgating me... or the guy driving the station wagon trying not to run over me!!! On my way back from buying a PERFECT used Honda 175, riding it halfway across Kansas, withing 2 miles of home a clown ran a stop sign in front of me. It had started raining. Mid 1970s tires and rain slick streets were a bad combination!!! As perfect bike slid down the street with me sliding behind it... I was plotting how to strangle the driver and make it look accident related! Then there was the time behind the crowded BMW shop that I put my foot in the pot hole and toppled over in front of God and everyone. Normally, there is no one behind the shop!!! The Hard bag and the guard on the right engine head took most of the abuse. I lost a turn signal on that one. AND I rolled like a "Weebles Wobble" then back up on my feet. Feeling like a moron!!! Riding gear works!!! Survived a low speed car vs truck head on with no seatbelt with minor bumps and bruises. Because of a seatbelt, survived a major t-bone which totaled both cars and sent the other drive off in an ambulance. I always wear a seatbelt now! | ||
| S1joel |
About two weeks ago I was weaving traffic to get up to an accident. Guy in front does the normal thing pulls left (don't they teach to pull right when you see the police in driver's ed) into the path I was planning on taking. I had an out to the right and used it (only going 20-25) but in my usual aggressive riding style I dug the right floorboard to deep and lifted the rear tire up. I managed to get it back up right but did a tank slapper and high-sided. Again, this was only at about 20mph. I went down on my right, my right foot under the saddlebag and my helmet and right side sliding on the pavement. The leather on the top of my right foot was ground down to the steel toe, my motor pants shredded through all three layers, but saved my leg skin, my right glove was shredded at the wrist, and my helmet looked like I spent an hour on it with a grinder. The only injury I received was a scab on my elbow and a HUGE bruise on my hip because I landed right on my gun. I think I broke my foot but it doesn't feel too bad. All this from 20 mph. Had I been in flip-flops and shorts I would have rash all the way up my leg, a mangled foot and hand, and my ear would have been part of the concrete. I see these guys all the time and all I can think is the picture I am going to take at their accident is going to be that much better. It's all about personal choice though, if that's how they want to ride, I say let them. As long as they don't get too pissed off when I stand over them as they are holding their bleeding head together and say "Betcha gonna go buy a helmet when you get out of the hospital, aren't ya". | ||
| M1combat |
Mostly funny S1, but these guys drive up the prices of MY insurance... I ride with full gear. | ||
| Reepicheep |
Glad you are OK S1... never though about that... how did the Gun come out? I can see the add now... "Sig 9mm, polymer frame, for sale cheap, road rash on right side, good for parts or restoration..." | ||
| Court |
>>>>Being an old fart. I will be 50 next month. Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat ? Take'em out thing...where's that dude with the dinged up Sig? CT Tow Vehicle sitting outside my window at the moment.  | ||
| Dasxb9s |
S1joel... Sorry to hear about your crash. It no doubt would have been much worse without proper gear. Which brings two things to mind. My opinions! 1. It never fails to amaze me that wheel officers basically do not wear protective gear. Boots get full credit, assuming they are not cavalry type motor officer boots, then 3/4 credit. Typical helmet gets 1/2 credit, a little more than a peanut helmet, but it is DOT approved. Breaches are for riding horses, not motorcycles. One bonus point for soft body armor, minus 1/2 point for it being covered only by a shirt or soft uniform jacket. I know a bunch of these guys, and they expect to be in a few accidents during their career. I WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND why "tradition" supersedes proper safety gear! 2. That is exactly why I do not carry a gun on my person (or even my cell phone) when I ride. I have heard of so many injuries because 200 pounds landing on a gun, is gonna leave a mark!!! OR... walking up and down the crash scene looking for a lost gun hoping to find it before someone else does. OR having a HUGE bruise AND a destroyed frame where the pavement ground it off. Up until last year, I have carried a personally owned weapon since 1976, I was forced to transition to an agency weapon. Do ya think I would be miffed about a trashed bike and a trashed gun. I am not thinking my vehicle insurance is gonna cover replacing a frame or the whole gun! Do not think I go without... it is in the tank bag or a hard bag while I am rolling. PS... I realize when on duty motor officers are restricted to mandated uniform items. But part of my rant related to accidents where an off duty motor officer or regular cop wears a hip holster and no more gear, often less that department motor officer uniform standards. I have seen a few with no gloves, no soft body armor on duty. I used to be a uniform cop, and I know the stuff about situational prep. I also must say that the low speed head on was in a marked car and no seatbelt (prior to seatbelt laws), and I didn't wear a seatbelt because it snagged on my badge. Off duty, I always wore a seat belt. I'd like to see bike safety gear specially designed for motor officers, that combines protection without hindering an officer from responding to an attack. You guys are hanging out there too far, and many departments seem to be hung on tradition and seem to have little or no concern about the most likely way a motor officer will be injured... in an accident and not a confrontation. edited by dasxb9s on June 04, 2004 | ||
| Tripper |
Ohmygod. So now I find out the reason you go on a roadtrip without a roadmap is because the tankbag is full of armor!  So why did you not shoot the dancing fool next to you?   | ||
| Dasxb9s |
Court... >>>>Being an old fart. I will be 50 next month. Yesssssssssssssssssssssss ? I am the oldest member of the KC Mob. I work with a bunch of 20 somethings. If I ask either group if they have and wear thongs... they will look at me like I am nuts (which may be the only way to look at me) and they WILL NOT be thinking shower shoes or flip flops! ...and trust me... I want to see none of them wearing a thong!!! On the other hand... When I go out with the Kansas City BMW club, of which I am a member... I am the young pup and not an old fart in that venue! It is relative. I did the four track, then 8 track, 78s, 45s, and LPs, two stroke street bike, kick starter, cars without air conditioning, gas at 19.9 cents a gallon, bulk oil sold at the pumps for 10 cents a quart, every station was a full service gas station, groceries were taken to the cars at put in the trunk for every customer... no matter which end of the parking lot you parked, soda for 10 cents a bottle out of machines, penny candy, we had a B&W coin operated TV that had been "hot wired", my first job (at a business) payed 25 cents an hour, if it was made in Japan it was junk, walked to school... up hill both ways, wire recorders then reel to reel tape recorders, when I was 15 I took my .22 in the woods in the city limits and could shoot all day for less than a dollar, had TVs and portable radios with tubes, paid a small fortune for a transistor radio and was the talk of the neighborhood, cigarettes were 25 cents a pack, a new car could be bought for less than $2,000.00, nickel pay phones, telephone number with named exchanges... listed as two letters and five numbers, party line telephones, people who did not have telephones, me and my buds could run around all weekend on 2 or 3 three bucks worth of gas and oil (one guy had a car that was literally check the gas and fill the oil), I remember a conversation when my mom was talking about some extravagant spending and life style by someone and the comment was made... "Well I guess they can, they have a $10,000.00 home!", which ironically in the neighborhood I grew up this very day there are still some $10,000.00 homes but they are not as nice as the one she was talking about 30 years ago, etc, etc, etc, just as you can relate to me. But when you talk about this stuff to the 20 somethings one often sees a... yeah right look on their face, and they are not surprised because, duh... I am an old guy! Think of the changes and advancement you and I have seen in our life, and the "kids" seeing what we experienced as what they read in a history book in school. Yep... older than dirt!!! edited by dasxb9s on June 04, 2004 |
