Kawasaki Concours Forum
Mish mash => Open Forum => Topic started by: Deziner on February 20, 2015, 04:00:17 PM
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Not sure if y'all have seen these before......
1. Don't throw a leg over a motorcycle unless you are willing to die on it. It's not a question of "if" you are going down, it's a question of "when".
2. If you push the left bar, the bike goes right. If you push the right bar, the bike goes left. That is, unless you push either bar too
far, in which case the bike goes down.
3. Riding isn't dangerous. Crashing is dangerous.
4. The ONLY time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire.
5. When in doubt, slow down. No one has ever hit something too slow.
6. A 'good' ride is one from which you can walk away. A 'great' ride is one
after which you can use the bike again.
8. Learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make
all of them yourself.
9. You know you've left the side-stand down when all left turn are Bat-turns.
10. Never let an motorcycle take you somewhere your brain didn't get to three seconds earlier.
11. Try to stay out of fog, The taillights you are following may be a Winnebago parked in the middle of the road. Reliable sources also report that eighteen wheel trucks, large SUV's and deer have been known to hide out in fog.
12. Always try to keep the number of times you put your parking stand down equal to the number of times you put the parking stand up.
13. There are two simple rules for riding smoothly and fast in snow and on ice. Unfortunately no one knows what they are.
14. You start with a bag full of luck and an empty bag of experience. The trick is to fill the bag of experience before you empty the bag of luck.
15. If all you can see in your mirrors is sparks and all you can hear is screaming from your passenger, things may not be as they should be.
16. In the ongoing battle between objects made of metal, rubber and fiberglass going 50+ miles per hour and the ground going zero miles per hour, the ground has yet to lose. Same holds for cars,large trucks, and animals taller than you. Draws don't count.
17. Good judgment comes from experience. Unfortunately, the experience usually comes from bad judgment.
18. It's always a good idea to keep the headlight end going forward and the tires below you as much as possible.
19. Keep looking around. There's always something you've missed.
20. Remember, gravity and centrifugal force are not just a good ideas.They're laws and are not subject to repeal.
21. The two most useless things to a rider are the braking distance behind you and nine-tenths of a second ago.
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2. If you push the left bar, the bike goes right. If you push the right bar, the bike goes left.
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After pondering, it seems to me it's the opposite.
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After pondering, it seems to me it's the opposite.
Harleys don't countersteer, you drive them around corners. :rotflmao:
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After pondering, it seems to me it's the opposite.
Continue thinking about it. Which direction will the bike go if you PUSH on the left bar? :popcorn:
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Harleys don't countersteer, you drive them around corners. :rotflmao:
:battle: :rotflmao:
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Continue thinking about it. Which direction will the bike go if you PUSH on the left bar?
Ah well, here's a reference:
http://www.stevemunden.com/countersteering.html (http://www.stevemunden.com/countersteering.html)
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Press right; go right.
Press left; go left.
12. Always try to keep the number of times you put your parking stand down equal to the number of times you put the parking stand up.
So far, I'm short two "downs". :'(
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Well, it seems that I failed to insure that my brain was engaged before I put my keyboard in gear. :hail: I was wrong.
I hate when I do that because then, after seeing there error in by ways, I'm obliged to go back and apologize.
In my own defense, It is quite difficult to ooperate a keyboard with my head up my :censored: Another lesson in humility for me. And this early in the day :-[
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Well, it seems that I failed to insure that my brain was engaged before I put my keyboard in gear. :hail: I was wrong.
I hate when I do that because then, after seeing there error in by ways, I'm obliged to go back and apologize.
In my own defense, It is quite difficult to ooperate a keyboard with my head up my :censored: Another lesson in humility for me. And this early in the day :-[
Think right brane, go left. Think left brane go right.