I'm buying a motorcycle

ICJ · Post by **ICJ** » Mon Apr 01, 2013 12:03 pm

Here is a thread where I list motorcycles that I might want to buy!

http://www.harley-davidson.com/en_US/Mo ... n-883.html

I like the looks of this a lot:

An Iron 883 from Harley Davidson.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Mon Apr 01, 2013 1:25 pm

Are we doing a pool on how soon after you get your license you die?

CO · Post by CO » Mon Apr 01, 2013 3:22 pm

Pinback brings up a good point jonsey. If you ever want a bike then you'll have to get it before you get married. Once you're married I guarantee that pinback's point is going to be on the top of her mind and she'll never ever let you get one.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Mon Apr 01, 2013 3:37 pm

I mean, I've been killed twice already just riding in a CAR with the man.

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Mon Apr 01, 2013 4:43 pm

Huh, I have one of those in my garage as I type. It's the boy's bike. (He just spent his tax refund on aftermarket blackout pipes from Vance & Hines, don't tell his girlfriend!)

If I may make a suggestion? Get something with a bigger frame. Being about the same height and build as me you will find the 883 a tad cramped. The two times I rode my boy's I felt that my knees were up around my chin. Also, you can get a really nice starter bike for a lot less than what the H-D will cost you.

Next item: take a safety course, it's well worth it. If you go to Youtube and look at any of the 'fail' compilations you will see a lot of motorcycle accidents by people doing stupid things. These people do not respect the sport and give the rest of us a bad name.

THE
FIRST IMPRESSION SHOULD NOT
BE IN THE ASPHALT
AARDVARK

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Mon Apr 01, 2013 6:34 pm

pinback wrote:Are we doing a pool on how soon after you get your license you die?

Hmm. Everyone I have discussed this with has stated that it will probably kill me. But look. It will probably kill me. But it MIGHT not.

It MIGHT not.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Mon Apr 01, 2013 6:39 pm

CO wrote:Pinback brings up a good point jonsey. If you ever want a bike then you'll have to get it before you get married. Once you're married I guarantee that pinback's point is going to be on the top of her mind and she'll never ever let you get one.

I ain't getting married any time soon, bro.

By that I mean, the motorcycle will probably kill me before that ever happens.

(But it MIGHT not.)

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Mon Apr 01, 2013 6:41 pm

AArdvark wrote: If I may make a suggestion? Get something with a bigger frame. Being about the same height and build as me you will find the 883 a tad cramped. The two times I rode my boy's I felt that my knees were up around my chin. Also, you can get a really nice starter bike for a lot less than what the H-D will cost you.

Thanks. I noticed that it only has room for one person (unless I really have no idea) so it's out for me. But that's good to know that it would be like driving a Keurig K-cup.

Are there any bikes that you can think of that seat two people, are nicely styles like that and that you would recommend?

Next item: take a safety course, it's well worth it. If you go to Youtube and look at any of the 'fail' compilations you will see a lot of motorcycle accidents by people doing stupid things. These people do not respect the sport and give the rest of us a bad name.

Definitely, I am going to book myself one next weekend.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Mon Apr 01, 2013 7:09 pm

Well, let's go from the assumption that you are definitely going to die in a motorcycle accident, probably pretty quickly after obtaining one. That way if you don't, you know, happy surprise!

But starting from the above assumption, I will take... did anyone have three weeks? I'll take three weeks if nobody took that one yet.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Mon Apr 01, 2013 8:15 pm

Three weeks sounds good. I am not going to die immediately, because if people sat on motorcycles and they exploded, I feel that Obama would address it.

So just enough time to get used to the feeling the wind through my hair, the sun on my bare cheeks and my face to get a nice tan and then, ker-splat. I die.

(But I MIGHT not.)

Tdarcos · Post by **Tdarcos** » Mon Apr 01, 2013 8:20 pm

ICJ wrote:Here is a thread where I list motorcycles that I might want to buy!

An Iron 883 from Harley Davidson.

A real Triumph of American engineering!

When I was working for a tax service and real estate business in California, my boss' husband commuted to his job as a truck driver for Ralph's Grocery Company on a motorcycle. I have no idea what we was using except it probably wasn't a Harley. I've heard back when AMF owned HD in the late 1970s and early '80s, the quality was horrible.

The thing I did want to mention is he had an accident once, spinning out on his bike. He suffered only minor injuries but his leather pants and steel-toed shoes took irreparable damage, saving him from doing so.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Mon Apr 01, 2013 8:41 pm

You've been on two wheels for a while and haven't died. Fess up, what's your secret?

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Mon Apr 01, 2013 8:57 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:You've been on two wheels for a while and haven't died. Fess up, what's your secret?

AAAAAAAAAAA

Moving this to Best Of.

Wait, can't move this to Best Of.

BEST OF.

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Mon Apr 01, 2013 10:34 pm

I owned a Harley for a while. I got tired of working on it all the time and having it leak every fluid I poured into it. Eventually I sold it and bought a Honda that looked just like a Harley but didn't leak fluids and started every time I wanted it to start.

We've talked bikes here before and there are a million different kinds out there. Take a safety course, wear a helmet, buy a bike, get your motor runnin' and head out on the highway.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Tue Apr 02, 2013 9:40 pm

Flack wrote:I owned a Harley for a while. I got tired of working on it all the time and having it leak every fluid I poured into it. Eventually I sold it and bought a Honda that looked just like a Harley but didn't leak fluids and started every time I wanted it to start.

We've talked bikes here before and there are a million different kinds out there. Take a safety course, wear a helmet, buy a bike, get your motor runnin' and head out on the highway.

I ain't doing any of that shit. Look man, that's good advice and in another lifetime, maybe I would pay attention. But let me tell you how this is all going to go:

1) No safety course
2) No helmet
3) I buy the motorcycle and drive it home without ever having driven one before
4) I leave it in my garage for two weeks
5) I get my druthers and decide I am going to ride it after all, dag nabbit.
6) I go into traffic, forget how to brake, and get flattened by a semi towing a tractor trailer. They end up picking bits of me and my stupid brain that didn't listen to anyone off the street each Easter for the neighborhood "Scavenger Cunt."

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 3:11 am

Every one of these idiots is doing something stupid. Don't be one of those guys

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pinback · Post by **pinback** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 5:14 am

Don't be one of those guys

Be all of them.

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 6:56 am

Are people allowed to take out life insurances on their friends?

Do most insurance companies accept BITCOIN?

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 7:29 am

Vark, that's great.

OK, what's a good starter bike that fits two people and comes in black?

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 9:16 am

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:OK, what's a good starter bike that fits two people and comes in black?

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