 | | 
06-08-2008, 10:29 PM
|  | Disgusted with America | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Cheese Country
Posts: 6,440
Rep Power: 24 | | | Sure Way To Save Gas...
... buy a motorcycle.
My Harley, even though it's a big twin, gets 45 mpg city, 50 mpg highway. It just cost me $16 to fill it at $4.11 a gallon. A record. But even these fancy hybrids don't get as good a mileage as my motorcycle. There would be less congestion too if more people road bikes.
__________________  |
Login to remove all ads
06-10-2008, 08:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008
Posts: 183
Rep Power: 4 | | | crashing or getting in an accident in a motorcycle vs. in a car? ...chances are too risky in a motorcycle, saving money isn't that important.
__________________
To teach is to touch a life forever
Wikia pronounced: Why-kia |
06-10-2008, 08:57 PM
|  | The Anti Mod | | Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 3,183
Rep Power: 81 | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Pale Rider  ... buy a motorcycle.
My Harley, even though it's a big twin, gets 45 mpg city, 50 mpg highway. It just cost me $16 to fill it at $4.11 a gallon. A record. But even these fancy hybrids don't get as good a mileage as my motorcycle. There would be less congestion too if more people road bikes. | Motorcycles are too noisy. I prefer my bicycle. |
06-10-2008, 08:58 PM
| | The Anti Mod | | Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 3,183
Rep Power: 81 | | Quote:
Originally Posted by MsWikia crashing or getting in an accident in a motorcycle vs. in a car? ...chances are too risky in a motorcycle, saving money isn't that important. | If you continue to burn gas you will burn in hell. God told me so. |
06-10-2008, 09:04 PM
|  | Administrator | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: The Republic of Texas
Posts: 21,758
Rep Power: 367 | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Pale Rider ... buy a motorcycle.
My Harley, even though it's a big twin, gets 45 mpg city, 50 mpg highway. It just cost me $16 to fill it at $4.11 a gallon. A record. But even these fancy hybrids don't get as good a mileage as my motorcycle. There would be less congestion too if more people road bikes. | I'm looking at one with serious intent. Harley-Davidson | Motorcycles | 2008 Motorcycles
__________________ You can't always be first .... but you CAN be NEXT  |
06-11-2008, 11:09 AM
| | Disgusted with America | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Cheese Country
Posts: 6,440
Rep Power: 24 | | Quote:
Originally Posted by MsWikia crashing or getting in an accident in a motorcycle vs. in a car? ...chances are too risky in a motorcycle, saving money isn't that important. | You can't live your life in fear. But since you have enough money to guy gas at any price, drive whatever you want.
__________________ |
06-11-2008, 11:10 AM
| | crack baby | | Join Date: Feb 2008
Posts: 11,320
Rep Power: 204 | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Pale Rider You can't live your life in fear. | Sure you can.
__________________ Do test tube babies have navels? |
06-11-2008, 11:18 AM
| | Disgusted with America | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Cheese Country
Posts: 6,440
Rep Power: 24 | | Quote:
Originally Posted by GunnyL | You sure you want a Softail Gunny? Softails have the 'B' engine. It's balanced and solid mounted. You can hardly feel it's running, along with them having large weights spinning around front and rear driven by a chain with hydraulic tensioners that eat up oil pressure, and the weights eat up horse power. They're also limited to 5,850 rpm as opposed to 'A' engine bikes, Dyna's and Touring, that can spin up to 6,200 rpm, or more. Take it from an old Harley Tech, look at either a Dyna or a Touring Gunny. You don't want a Softail.
__________________ |
06-11-2008, 11:18 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 8,733
Rep Power: 64 | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Anguille If you continue to burn gas you will burn in hell. God told me so. | That wasn't God, sweetie. That was the devil being mischievous.
__________________
Poor Spot! He was tired of being thought of as stupid. "I'm gonna join Mensa," he said to myself, "and then I'll be legally permitted to wear the society's insignia--a tattoo of a little map pin pushed into my flesh--and then everyone'll know that I'm not dumb at all!"
Spot Joins Mensa
by James "Kibo" Parry |
06-11-2008, 11:20 AM
| | Disgusted with America | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Cheese Country
Posts: 6,440
Rep Power: 24 | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Ravi Sure you can. | Why would anybody want to?
__________________ |
06-11-2008, 11:21 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 8,733
Rep Power: 64 | | | THere are 4 middle-aged ladies at my other DHS office who ride scooters and motorcycles. THey are the least likely crew you ever saw for riding bikes. They all park in one parking space, they all have their little helmet. One rides a hot, tiny little blue thing. I don't know what it is but it is awfully cute.
They're like a little old lady motorcycle gang in state grade office attire (it ain't Vera Wang....we're not talking motorcycle mamas like Halle Berry and the chicks in CHarlie's Angels).
Bicycles are great so long as you aren't assuming you have the right of way downtown, or using people's bumpers as your personal balance bars. Get stupid and you'll get squished. I saw a biker squished between the middle wheels of a big rig once. There was nothing left except a really mangled bicycle.
__________________
Poor Spot! He was tired of being thought of as stupid. "I'm gonna join Mensa," he said to myself, "and then I'll be legally permitted to wear the society's insignia--a tattoo of a little map pin pushed into my flesh--and then everyone'll know that I'm not dumb at all!"
Spot Joins Mensa
by James "Kibo" Parry
Last edited by AllieBaba; 06-11-2008 at 11:24 AM.
|
06-11-2008, 11:27 AM
| | Disgusted with America | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Cheese Country
Posts: 6,440
Rep Power: 24 | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Anguille Motorcycles are too noisy. I prefer my bicycle. | I love the noise. If people can't see you in traffic, then they sure will hear you. Noise is like a proximity alarm for cage drivers that you're there. Quote:
Originally Posted by AllieBaba THere are 4 middle-aged ladies at my other DHS office who ride scooters and motorcycles. THey are the least likely crew you ever saw for riding bikes. They all park in one parking space, they all have their little helmet. One rides a hot, tiny little blue thing. I don't know what it is but it is awfully cute.
Bicycles are great so long as you aren't assuming you have the right of way downtown, or using people's bumpers as your personal balance bars. Get stupid and you'll get squished. I saw a biker squished between the middle wheels of a big rig once. There was nothing left except a really mangled bicycle. | My hats off to the bike riding ladies.
I've crashed bikes twice. Once long ago when I was young and ignorant and too fucked up to ride, and the second time just recently when a guy ran a red light and turned in front of me. Neither incident effected my decision to ride. I've been riding motorcycles since I was twelve, and I'll be 53 in July. That's a long time. You acquire a respectable amount of experience and can read traffic after that many years. Riding defensively can all but eliminate your chances of getting in an accident.
There's just no way I can resist riding that...
__________________
Last edited by Pale Rider; 06-12-2008 at 05:49 PM.
|
06-11-2008, 11:29 AM
| | crack baby | | Join Date: Feb 2008
Posts: 11,320
Rep Power: 204 | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Pale Rider Why would anybody want to? | No idea, I was just being a bitch. 
__________________ Do test tube babies have navels? |
06-11-2008, 08:57 PM
| | Administrator | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: The Republic of Texas
Posts: 21,758
Rep Power: 367 | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Pale Rider You sure you want a Softail Gunny? Softails have the 'B' engine. It's balanced and solid mounted. You can hardly feel it's running, along with them having large weights spinning around front and rear driven by a chain with hydraulic tensioners that eat up oil pressure, and the weights eat up horse power. They're also limited to 5,850 rpm as opposed to 'A' engine bikes, Dyna's and Touring, that can spin up to 6,200 rpm, or more. Take it from an old Harley Tech, look at either a Dyna or a Touring Gunny. You don't want a Softail. |
Sorry, wrong link. The bike I've been looking at is the Super Glide Custom. A buddy's got one.
No Touring for me. Not my style.
__________________ You can't always be first .... but you CAN be NEXT |
06-12-2008, 12:08 AM
| | Disgusted with America | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Cheese Country
Posts: 6,440
Rep Power: 24 | | Quote:
Originally Posted by GunnyL Sorry, wrong link. The bike I've been looking at is the Super Glide Custom. A buddy's got one.
No Touring for me. Not my style. | Great choice. Almost identical to mine above. Mine is the 35th Anniversary Dyna Super Glide.
Here's your Dyna Super Glide Custom... 
__________________ | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode | 
Posting Rules
| You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off | | | | |
|
