Whats the dummest thing a non biker has asked you?

[Exupnut]

Codgie....u been at that scrumpy again....?

[The Gentleman Biker]

I filled up and went to pay and the lady said are you on the bike.  I still had my helmet on. What gave it away said I. You walk funny in those boots says she.

Ha that's brilliant!

"I bet you're hot in that?" during Summer is the best I've had

[taylor]

shoei mc fee, :lol

[Dave48]

Went out one winters evening rain lashing down. to meet a group of friends. I walk into room in DRY light coat (Used Cage to get there)  -no gloves, jacket, helmet, m/c trousers or boots. One says " Are you on the bike this evening?"!!!! :rolleyes

[MadDogMcQ]

Full leathers, biker gloves, crash helmet. Go to barbers, have haircut and at the end he asks.... "You wanna some gel"? :-D

[Mattsplat]

"Are you crazy?.......Your gonna die! 

[taylor]

a lady friend of mine asked once how long is your chopper

[ChrisJH]

standard question when someone discovers i ride a motorbike at work (its a bit corporate so mainly middle-class oxbridge second home in provence types)

"is it a Harley"

to which i reply "no", next question

"is it a chopper"

to which i reply "no" next question

"do you wear chaps"

to which i reply "no"

It might be easier and save time to explain from the outset that Easy Rider was a 1960`s film and poster from the US

to be fair the conversation in the opposite direction when i ask "do you have a boat" goes like this,

me "has it got a big feck off engine"

to which they reply "no"

me "are you rowing it"

to which they reply "no its a sailing dinghy laser class"

your thinking of Miami Vice or the University boat race

[NorthWestern]

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

[Mark YPVS]

I was once asked why my bike was called a gene 515  :eek
No its a GENESIS :lol
Mark

[Dave48]

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?

[nick crisp]

"Do you know what speed you were doing sir?"  :o

[ChristoT]

"Do you know what speed you were doing sir?"  :o

Oops.

[fazersharp]

"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.

[nick crisp]

[quote author=nick crisp link=topic=12695.msg143719#msg143719 date=1398198115]
"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.
[/quote]

But I was only doing 30, honest guv  :lol

[cfoley]

Did you fit a bike rack on your car for it?

[richfzs]

:rollin

Erm yeah, I call it a "trailer"

[ChristoT]

:rollin

Erm yeah, I call it a "trailer"

At some point, I want to tow a Fazer - behind a Fazer!!! :lol

[peterjca]

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!

[Farjo]

"Eat here or take away?"