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Re: Whats the dummest thing a non biker has asked you?
« Reply #50 on: 22 April 2014, 09:21:12 pm »
Not so much a question but a dumb saying I have heard a few times is "I'd kill myself on a bike" - like getting on one relieves them of their self preservation
Perhaps theyre concealing their fear or lack of the required skills to ride behind a sort of bravado?

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Re: Whats the dummest thing a non biker has asked you?
« Reply #51 on: 22 April 2014, 09:21:55 pm »
"Do you know what speed you were doing sir?"   :o

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Re: Whats the dummest thing a non biker has asked you?
« Reply #52 on: 22 April 2014, 09:29:48 pm »
"Do you know what speed you were doing sir?"   :o

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Re: Whats the dummest thing a non biker has asked you?
« Reply #53 on: 22 April 2014, 10:30:07 pm »
"Do you know what speed you were doing sir?"   :o
Whats worse-- saying that you dont know how fast, or admiting that you were that fast.
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Re: Whats the dummest thing a non biker has asked you?
« Reply #54 on: 22 April 2014, 10:42:03 pm »
"Do you know what speed you were doing sir?"   :o
Whats worse-- saying that you dont know how fast, or admiting that you were that fast.

But I was only doing 30, honest guv  :lol

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Re: Whats the dummest thing a non biker has asked you?
« Reply #55 on: 23 April 2014, 12:45:25 am »
Did you fit a bike rack on your car for it?

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Re: Whats the dummest thing a non biker has asked you?
« Reply #56 on: 23 April 2014, 08:42:49 am »
:rollin

Erm yeah, I call it a "trailer"

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Re: Whats the dummest thing a non biker has asked you?
« Reply #57 on: 23 April 2014, 10:12:27 am »
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Erm yeah, I call it a "trailer"

At some point, I want to tow a Fazer - behind a Fazer!!! :lol
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Re: Whats the dummest thing a non biker has asked you?
« Reply #58 on: 23 April 2014, 12:06:45 pm »
As the biking bug was biting me in the 1980s, I started buying motorcycling magazines. I had no real idea back then what they were waffling on about (I was 15 or so I think, coulodn't drive and the family didn't have a car). My dad was silent on the issue (his brother whom I was named after died in a bike accident in WWII).

My mum didn't approve. She kept wondering aloud how there could be so much news on motorcycles every week or every month and weren't all the "stories" just boring repeats! Years later, when she saw my FZ1 she was impressed!

Apart from that possibly understandable nonsense, I have remembered a silly incident from over ten years ago. I was working at a startup and had trundled to a company to install the software we were creating. I was on my Fazer 600 at that time.

When I was done with the installation and tutorial, I called the office on my mobile from the car park. After conversing with my boss for nearly fifteen minutes, he started getting a bit flustered. He thought I was calling him on my mobile whilst riding the bike and he was fearful I would fall off!

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Re: Whats the dummest thing a non biker has asked you?
« Reply #59 on: 23 April 2014, 06:46:20 pm »
"Eat here or take away?"

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Re: Whats the dummest thing a non biker has asked you?
« Reply #60 on: 23 April 2014, 11:04:26 pm »
Standing at a till wearing Hein gerrick jacket and trousers carrying my crash helmet I asked for some directions and the assistant asked if I was driving a car.
 
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Re: Whats the dummest thing a non biker has asked you?
« Reply #61 on: 24 April 2014, 07:34:32 am »
"Does it hurt if you come off?" Of course not, it feels like being licked by rainbow ponys!

"My mates got a bike, its a blue one...do you know him" oh the bloke on the blue bike, of course I know him, why didn't you say so before? TWAT

"Looking at you I would have thought you would ride a Harley" What? Are you calling me a homosexual?

"Why do you have a bike that does 160 if you only allowed to do 70 in this country?" Why the fuck does your car do 110 then?

"Why is one of your brakes hydraulic and one cable?" (looking at the levers on the bars) There are no words that can be used to respond to a question like this just a head shake and a slow walk away
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Re: Whats the dummest thing a non biker has asked you?
« Reply #62 on: 24 April 2014, 10:52:43 am »
when I got my brand new BMWF650 in 96 rode round to show parents & mum asked " where's the number plate?" she meant the one on the front as the last bike they had in '63 was a BSA lol!
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Re: Whats the dummest thing a non biker has asked you?
« Reply #63 on: 24 April 2014, 12:11:03 pm »
:lol quality, a bloke at work insists my bike is a fraser despite numerous times of me telling him, i gave up in the end

That's funny - I used to have a Honda Fireplace. 

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Re: Whats the dummest thing a non biker has asked you?
« Reply #64 on: 24 April 2014, 10:32:03 pm »
"Are motorcycles not dangerous?"
If you worried about falling off your bike, you'd never get on.

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Re: Whats the dummest thing a non biker has asked you?
« Reply #65 on: 25 April 2014, 04:07:04 pm »
At some point, I want to tow a Fazer - behind a Fazer!!! :lol
Well, you're half way there.  You just need the running Fazer to do the towing........