[No Worries]

I do most of my motorcycle riding on streets. When I am waiting at a traffic light, bicyclists always seem to pull up next to me and talk. Even if I'm not first in line, and both male and female riders. It may be because I am in the left tire track, which gives them some room. Or they associate more with motorcyclists than cagers.

I was riding home today and a bicyclist pulls up next to me on a carbon-fiber racing bike (probably worth more than my CBR) and starts talking to me. I told him I just came from Lookout Mountain, and he says that he did too. We were 12 miles from Lookout Mt., and he had gone up and down 2,000 vertical feet. If I had done that on a bicycle, I wouldn't have been able to talk.

I take my bicycle to the gym early in the morning so I am warmed up when I get there. I started wearing a bicycle helmet several years ago. It was windy on my ride home from the gym on Wednesday, and it felt like someone threw a rock at my helmet. I stopped the bike and turned around and there was a broken tree branch on the ground. It was only an inch around and three feet long, but it must have fallen 25 feet. Helmets do save lives.

 

[jeeps84]

Bicyclist talk to you because your out in the open with them.

 

[DLIT]

I like buzzing by bikes at high RPM and scare the crap out of them. I use to watch my buddy do it with his D&D (loud as ****!!) and you could see them jump. I'm sorry but it's fun.

 

[R1up0n1]

I like buzzing by bikes at high RPM and scare the crap out of them. I use to watch my buddy do it with his D&D (loud as ****!!) and you could see them jump. I'm sorry but it's fun.

:lol:

D&D uke:

 

[R1up0n1]

when I went on one of my trips to the GAP last year there was some bicycle rally..ahhh man that pissed me off. There was like thousands of bicyclist on the cherehola skyway and all over the place, yet all of us on the sportbikes were trying to get out there and rip up the skyway at 100 mph+ and there's all these bicycles peddeling 2 mph, cops and safety patrol staged everywhere, and rest area's with water station at every pull off. Man I was so:cursin: them!

 

[jeeps84]

I hate those events. Cant have fun for fear of hitting one. Not to mention all the extra cops.

 

[R1up0n1]

I hate those events. Cant have fun for fear of hitting one. Not to mention all the extra cops.

yeah for you it's not that big of a deal tho, for me it's a 10.50 hour trip.

oh and the Miata fest...I hate that one too! I've been their twice during that even...those guys drive like freakin morons sliding around the turns, leakin crap all over the place, wrecking off the side of the mountains.

 

[DLIT]

F Miata's.

 

[R1up0n1]

F Miata's.

:withstupi I have a friend that went to the gap with me on his SV1000 and he was so impressed with those miata's he bought one last year. uke: the miata is a "beotch car" anyway.

my friend has been into auto cross since he was 14 years old or something tho, so that about 8 or 9 years i guess. I don't think he's that impressed with it on the autocross track tho.

 

[Gas Man]

Yeah I think DL is right...its cause a MC rider is out in the open and easy to talk to.

But I'm sure that the guy with the CF bike is probably REALLY into it so a 20-30 mile ride is nuttin.

I've been at the GAP when the SV rally starts up... that was kinda cool.

The year before I went... some of the guys said that there was a Saburu rally and they are :nuts: They had a head on collision trying to pass thru the GAP... its hard enough on a MC... down right STUPID in any car!!!

 

[jeeps84]

I went to a Subi really last fall and didn't even drive the Gap. I knew it was going to be :crazy: and just avoided it. But then again. I can go when I want too.

 

[ne1469]

I was riding home today and a bicyclist pulls up next to me on a carbon-fiber racing bike (probably worth more than my CBR) and starts talking to me. I told him I just came from Lookout Mountain, and he says that he did too. We were 12 miles from Lookout Mt., and he had gone up and down 2,000 vertical feet. If I had done that on a bicycle, I wouldn't have been able to talk.

Those cyclist are some fit mofos....and yeah I cant beleive how expensive those bikes get.......You want me to pay how much?? & I still gotta pedal it to get anywhere:scratch: ...Helllll no....:lol: But to each his own:dthumb:

 

[Gas Man]

I went to a Subi really last fall and didn't even drive the Gap. I knew it was going to be :crazy: and just avoided it. But then again. I can go when I want too.

Yeah but what about this year with the new one?

 

[jeeps84]

I cant beleive how expensive those bikes get.......You want me to pay how much?? & I still gotta pedal it to get anywhere:scratch: ...Helllll no....:lol: But to each his own:dthumb:

Allot of these new bicycles cost more than a good used car or motorcycle. Some are even more than a new one.:crazy:

Yeah but what about this year with the new one?

I'm sure Ill go but doubt Ill be driving on the Gap during the event.

 

[jtemple]

I'm a bicyclist and a motorcyclist. I have two mountain bikes, one of them cost about $600 less than my new motorcycle. I built it myself.

Believe it or not, my mountain biking experience helped me in learning how to handle a motorcyle quite a bit. And yes, bicyclists and motorcyclists can and should relate to one another. Both of us have to ride like we're invisible. I can't count the number of times I was nearly hit by a driver that wasn't paying attention while on my bicycle.

 

[DLIT]

I'm a bicyclist and a motorcyclist. I have two mountain bikes, one of them cost about $600 less than my new motorcycle. I built it myself.

Believe it or not, my mountain biking experience helped me in learning how to handle a motorcyle quite a bit. And yes, bicyclists and motorcyclists can and should relate to one another. Both of us have to ride like we're invisible. I can't count the number of times I was nearly hit by a driver that wasn't paying attention while on my bicycle.

Yeah well they both don't have to ride in the street either.

 

[fnfalman]

I have a lot of respect for bicyclists. They are riding up the mountains on their own power and then they come hauling ass down at 40+MPH wearing nothing but a foam helmet and spandex.

I always make sure to pass them with a large safety margin and give them a wave.

As to the one claiming to buzz the bicyclists, I hope that you're joking. Because if you're not and you do that shiot around me, I'd chase you down and kick your ass for being a jerk.

 

[DLIT]

I have a lot of respect for bicyclists. They are riding up the mountains on their own power and then they come hauling ass down at 40+MPH wearing nothing but a foam helmet and spandex.

I always make sure to pass them with a large safety margin and give them a wave.

As to the one claiming to buzz the bicyclists, I hope that you're joking. Because if you're not and you do that shiot around me, I'd chase you down and kick your ass for being a jerk.

I don't get right next to 'em. I'm a good distance away. you don't have to get close at WOT. How to you plan on catching me on a pedal bike?

 

[Back _Marker]

Yeah well they both don't have to ride in the street either.

?? what do you mean ??

-a|ex

 

[DLIT]

Bicycles can ride on the sidewalk at times (whenever there is one). i know places like the GAP don't have sidewalks, but I see fools riding in the middle of the street at times when there are perfectly good sidewalks.