If you didn't laugh...

Garibaldi

...you'd shoot them dead, on the spot.

Had a guy on a moped pull up beside me yesterday, giving it the usual "say, that's a nice bike" conversation. All was grand until he started telling me about how he used to have a GSXR 750, but he had to get rid of it after leading the Gardai on a merry chase for a good few kilometres down the Naas Road. Once they'd stopped him (he'd outrun a van - not surprisingly - but I gather a couple of faster cars/bikes joined the chase), he laughingly told me that he had to admit that he had no licence, tax, or insurance, so he had to sell the bike. :eek: And he expected me to get the joke???

Bloody. Hell. :rolleyes:

subway

everyone who "was a biker a few years ago until the accident/bikes got too fast/cars got too dangerous/rocket bike fuel got too expensive" is a lying cock.
the absolute ****e these people talk is not worth even arguing with.

i once had a taxi driver tell me how he used to drive a superbusa-xr 9000 and gave up because he killed his entire family, one at a time, by crashing it at high speed on various roads around dublin.
at least 10 different taxi drivers gave up bikes because they spent varying weeks in hospital after racing the isle of man tt back in 80's.
one guy gave up because he was done for wheelying most of the way from galway to dublin...

at this stage i dont tell anyone that i drive a bike in cse they tell me wonderful story....

Garibaldi

The difference being this guy looked about 20. He also had a bit of that "the victim was known to the Gardai" look about him.

subway

heh, so you reckon he wasnt lying?
fair play to him - at least he didnt crash and put my premium up

Garibaldi

Ah, sure, anyone could be a liar. I didn't have a polygraph on me at the time, but I wouldn't put such a tale being true beyond him. Crazy kids these days, wha'!

subway

think the new goldwings have a lie-detector under the mircowave...
at least someones out earning us bikers some rep these days

KTRIC

My last bike was a magnet for tall stories and tire kicking. In the end it was one of the deciding factors when I traded it in.

I had aul lads coming up to me going "I drove one of those back in 19-dickity-2, great bike it was and only cost me 2 and 6 to fill it up etc...." Then I'd turn around and say "no you bleedin didn't" and they get all annoyed. And then I'd show them the 05 reg plate

Feckin annoyed the sheisse out of me :mad:

madrab

KTRIC wrote:

My last bike was a magnet for tall stories and tire kicking. In the end it was one of the deciding factors when I traded it in.

I had aul lads coming up to me going "I drove one of those back in 19-dickity-2, great bike it was and only cost me 2 and 6 to fill it up etc...." Then I'd turn around and say "no you bleedin didn't" and they get all annoyed. And then I'd show them the 05 reg plate

Feckin annoyed the sheisse out of me :mad:

yeah i remember that auldfella in the garrage in lucan, we saw him talking to you & we slowly slinked away

KTRIC

madrab wrote:

yeah i remember that auldfella in the garrage in lucan, we saw him talking to you & we slowly slinked away

So much for bikers sticking together :rolleyes:

The slightest whiff of a long winded anecdote is enough to make even the most hardened bikers run.

The Doktor

And ye can spot em a mile off… As they walk out of the garage shop eyein your bike. And ye think..”oh ****e.. get me lid on quick” as ye fumble with your chin strap, and they change direction towards ye “AHH BOLLOCKS!!”….… “nice bike” they say…”I had a Norton meself…then a few Triumphs, but I got out of bikes when all me mates were killed.. this was back in the seventies now…ever been to the TT??….”
Equally bad are the barstool bikers…ye know the ones?? Full of old war stories about their bike and are always “getting a GSXR 750 in a few weeks” Ever see em with a bike?? Not bloody likely!

Krusty_Clown

On the GS, it's always:
I been round the world twice on my Hondawakisuzilliacati, and I didn't need any of that over-engineered bmw rubbish. Let me tell you about the time I...........ZZZZZZZzzzzzzzz.....

But you gotta be nice, and smile, and nod in all the appropriate places, cos in 40 years time, that'll be you...:eek:

Dr4gul4

KTRIC wrote:

So much for bikers sticking together :rolleyes:

The slightest whiff of a long winded anecdote is enough to make even the most hardened bikers run.

if memory servers me correctly u 2 looks like quite the couple...

KTRIC

Dr4gul4 wrote:

if memory servers me correctly u 2 looks like quite the couple...

Ah go fup yourself

I no longer have the bullsh!t magnet that was the Kawasaki W650

Its sitting in the Bikeworld showroom as we speak , rusting away. In a better world i could still have it and drive it without fear of being accosted by smelly anoraked freaks with stories about bikes they never had.

Dr4gul4

KTRIC wrote:

Ah go fup yourself

I no longer have the bullsh!t magnet that was the Kawasaki W650

Its sitting in the Bikeworld showroom as we speak , rusting away. In a better world i could still have it and drive it without fear of being accosted by smelly anoraked freaks with stories about bikes they never had.

Wait for it















Oh the irony

madrab

ohhh that tastes sooo goood

i love a bit of humble pie

KTRIC

:rolleyes:


Yeah yeah, so you've seen the other thread then.