Kawasaki Concours Forum
Mish mash => Open Forum => Topic started by: Squishman on July 21, 2011, 08:32:52 PM
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Downtown St. Paul today a guy was talking on the phone next to his parked sport bike.
He had ZERO tread left on the front tire and the back was dang near bald too. But that front was as smooth as a baby's butt all the way up to the sidewalls. I just hope like heck he has no passengers. Or when he does wipe out, that he injures no one else on the road.
Ok, I hope he doesn't get injured. But he is an idiot.
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Was he cool like this guy
(http://passionweiss.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/vanilla_ice_cool_as_ice.jpg)
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I looked at a C-10 at Union Powersports in Blairsville GA a few weeks ago. The front tire had no tread and looked like suede almost to the rims. How he did that is beyond me and why he doesn't put a tire on to try to sell it, I don't know. I would have been afraid to even test ride that.
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uh, I went to a race once at Laguna Seca and there were all these guys with motorcycles with stickers on 'em. And damn near every one of 'em had tires with out a SINGLE bit of tread showin'. Damn fools!
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uh, I went to a race once at Laguna Seca and there were all these guys with motorcycles with stickers on 'em. And damn near every one of 'em had tires with out a SINGLE bit of tread showin'. Damn fools!
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sounds like my bike in my avatar
(http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j180/stevewfl/orangebike.jpg)
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Maybe they were getting ready to try and brake the land speed record and they shaved all the tread off. It worked for Burt Munro
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Just one?
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Dang, I wonder if drag racers should get rid of those bald rear tires, too....? -)
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sounds like my bike in my avatar
(http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j180/stevewfl/orangebike.jpg)
My point exactly. I obviously don't think WORN-OUT tires are a good idea, but I regularly see squidly types with race rubber on the street. They are usually wearing roadrash or scuffed up leather, unfortunately.
:nuts:
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The bike shop I patronized in Virginia sold race take-off's cheap all the time.
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nothing wrong with our old race take-off tires on the streets either, just the sides are worn off anyway. plenty of middle rubber for the squids on the streets.
(The DOT approved ones anyway, they put them tiny dash marks on them in the name of "tread" for DOT hehehehe) 8)
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We used to call em "cheater slicks".
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I thought this thread was talking about my idiot brother-in-law the cop.
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Our resident local idiot of lore story goes like this (I was there and saw this, btw):
Our group was on their way back from an awesome day of canyon chasing, slabbing up the freeway towards the City Of Salt. We are travelling at a pretty good clip, when this kid comes flying past us at about 85 MPH on a sport bike (Gixxer I think?). We guessed he was still in his late teens.
He has no shirt on, is wearing flip flops, is at least wearing sunglasses for eye protection, and is wearing baggy, shredded jeans with the knees completely torn open.
To make matters worse, you could see the steel belts flashing in the sun on his back tire, and also little bits of tread flapping as the tire was spinning.
While this kid is still zipping along in the fast lane, he notices that there is an LEO in an SUV that is in the far right lane, hits his brakes hard, zips across three lanes to drop behind the LEO, and takes the next exit. The LEO, for his part, did not notice the kid's shenanigans, as far as we could tell.
At this point , one of my fellow riders, with his left hand, points all of his fingers down in a splayed fashion, then proceeds to bob his hand up and down as he expands and contracts his fingers. This has henceforth been known as the official squid hand signal amongst our group.
We were all absolutely positive we'd read some statistic in the paper in the next week about some kid with bald tires and no gear having a bad day... dunno if the kid ever got sense or not!
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I was an ice cream with my wife last night, this young kid on a CBR comes riding in, parks in front of the shop, weariong jeans, sleeveless T shirt and tennis shoes, gets and ice cream goes outside and sits on the curb next to his bike and eats his ice cream, as we left the shop I walked by his bike and both tires were4 slick as a baby's butt. But he was cool looking.
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I was an ice cream with my wife last night,
Yeah, we all needed that mental picture. :rotflmao:
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Yeah, we all needed that mental picture. :rotflmao:
Uhh....never mind.