Old wanabe

"~kurt" <actinouranium.RemoveThis@earthlink.net> wrote

> It is so easy to be idealistic when you live in nice white rich segregated
> NOVA. You so rarely have to deal with unpleasant race issues. Krusty is
> just pointing out the reality of things that no one feels comfortable
> saying in the general public because they will be labeled as a racist.

Duh. That's largely because the people who point them out are invariably
racists.
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"You might want to look at the Honda 750 Nighthawk, the Suzuki SV650
and the Kawasaki Ninja 650, but steer away from the Honda CBR600,
Kawasaki ZX-6, Yamaha R6 and Suzuki GSXR models."

Sorry Domino, I get you now and thanks for the heads up. I have been looking
at the ones you mentioned above.

"Old Wanabe" I ment I wanabe on a motorcycle again.......thanks.

--
Bill Kiene

Kiene's Fly Shop
Sacramento, CA, USA

Web site: www.kiene.com


"Domino" <rechazo.todo.DeleteThis@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Aug 5, 9:00?am, "Bill Kiene" <billki....DeleteThis@kiene.com> wrote:
>> Wow Domino, You are pretty far out there.
>
> No, Bill, I am NOT "far out". I am a senior citizen rider, I am older
> than you, I live in the valley, and I have been riding with seniors
> for 30 years, so I know what we want and what we don't want from the
> riding experience.
>
> I can't do anything about the nut case named Peter Roehling. He has
> been heaping his negativity on this group as long as I have been
> reading it, he never has anything helpful or positive to say, he just
> does his sea gull routine on all the threads, and he never goes away,
> even when he's ignored.
>
> When I tell you to visit a sportbike night and a cruiser night, I'm
> serious.
>
> That's how you see what the two communities are like. The older riders
> will ride Harleys or metric cruisers and they won't want to have much
> to do with the younger riders on sportbikes.
>
> If you show up on a standard motorcycle with high handlebars and an
> upright seating position, the Harley/metric cruiser riders will
> respect you more than they would if you show up on a plastic-wrapped
> crotch rocket.
>
> We older riders want to ride with our friends and make a ritual of it
> with our meeting places and schedules and we ride out for lunch with
> the
> expectation that we all will come home alive and enjoy many more
> pleasant rides and lunches with our friends.
>
> On the other hand, the younger sportbike crowd goes out with the
> intent to see how fast they can take curves on public roads and they
> look for deserted streets where they can do their stunts without
> getting caught.
>
> If the Harley/metric cruiser crowd goes to a biker funeral, it's
> because somebody that they have known for decades has just died.
>
> The sportriders often find themselves going to hospitals to visit
> strangers that they hardly knew and they go to the funerals of
> strangers and they think that they are somehow part of something
> larger than themselves by doing all those crazy things.
>
>> I just want to get a medium size road bike and cruise the back
>> roads with a friend.
>
> I know that's what you want, but you titled your thread "Old wanabe".
>
> A "wannabe" is a rider who isn't part of an outlaw motorcycle club,
> but he's trying to get into the gang by hanging around them. If the
> brothers in the MC think he's OK, they tolerate his presence and let
> him follow them around on their rides. If he handles himself well in
> difficult situations, they let him become a "prospect", and let him
> earn his club patch.
>
> I doubt if you want to get into an MC, as you said before, you want to
> ride with a friend. The problem that faces a new rider is that he buys
> a motorcycle and then his friend suddenly stops riding or something
> happens and the new rider is stuck with a motorcycle and nobody to
> ride with.
>
> So, I'm telling you how to connect with riders you might like. You go
> to the
> places where they have their sportbike nights or their cruise nights.
>
> The cruisers meet in the middle of the week and that's how you get
> acquainted with friendly seniors so you can go on weekend rides with
> them.
>
>> I'm looking at the ones with the higher handlebars for comfort.
>
> You might want to look at the Honda 750 Nighthawk, the Suzuki SV650
> and the Kawasaki Ninja 650, but steer away from the Honda CBR600,
> Kawasaki ZX-6, Yamaha R6 and Suzuki GSXR models.
>
> You really don't want anything that has a lot of plastic on it, you
> might tip over and get into an expensive repair bill for all that
> plastic.
>
> Also, check out some of the Japanese cruiser models, in case you
> decide that the Olde Phart cruiser scene looks better than the Young
> Punk
> sportbike scene.
>
> http://motorcycleinfo.calsci.com/MotorcycleIntro.html#Buying
>
>> I'm 62 years old, not 21?????????????
>
> I'm older than you are, and I started out on a 1949 Whizzer. My first
> real motorcycle was a 1960 Honda 250cc Dream which was a Japanese home
> market model, not an import.
>
> I owned a 1961 Yamaha YDS-1, which was the first sporty Yamaha 2-
> stroke twin available. I roadraced a Yamaha 250cc that was built out
> of YDS-3 parts and Yamaha production racer parts.
>
> I have raced dirtbikes in the desert and I raced motocross when that
> first got started. I road raced a Suzuki GS-1100 and I roadraced a
> Suzuki GSXR750.
>
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On Aug 5, 5:28?pm, "BryanUT" <nestl....DeleteThis@comcast.net> wrote:

> Here we have one of Krusty's pendantic rantings.... I guess he needs any
> excuse not to call his hate "racism".

Why are you so intellectually lazy and superficial, Bryan?
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"~kurt" <actinouranium DeleteThis @earthlink.net> wrote

> What, exactly, did he say that was racist?

You mean you don't know?
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On Aug 5, 8:01?pm, "tomor...@erols.com" <tomor....DeleteThis@erols.com> wrote:

> Exposing racism and hatred is NOT making excuses for the actions of
> minorities. I'm sick and tired of Americans who classify other
> Americans on the basis of the color of their skin. FUCK that.

And what kind of prize do you get for alienating American-Americans by
calling them "racists" and "bigots" for identifying problem minority
groups and pointing out their lack of respect for law and order?

Nowadays the cops wouldn't even describe O.J. Simpson as "Black" if he
was seen running down the street with a bloody butcher knife in his
hand.

The cops would have to say how tall he was and what color his hair and
eyes were, but wouldn't be able to mention his race or skin color
beyond saying he was "dark complected".

I sincerely hope you find yourself in a situation where you are the
victim of a criminal and you try to tell him that you support his
struggle for civil rights and that you have a lot of friends of his
ethnic group, just before he cuts your balls off.

I sincerely hope that you lose your job to a Hindu or Pakistani
engineer who will happily work for half of your salary and that you
never get another job as long as you live because of your race.

That will be what you deserve for being a traitor to American-
Americans.
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<tomorrow DeleteThis @erols.com> wrote in message
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> On Aug 5, 9:41 pm, ~kurt <actinouran... DeleteThis @earthlink.net> wrote:
>> tomor... DeleteThis @erols.com <tomor... DeleteThis @erols.com> wrote:
>> > On Aug 5, 3:01 pm, ~kurt <actinouran... DeleteThis @earthlink.net> wrote:
>> >> It is so easy to be idealistic when you live in nice white rich
>> >> segregated
>> >> NOVA. You so rarely have to deal with unpleasant race issues.
>>

Here's the face of the Great White race:

http://policelink.com/news/articles/2507-utah-corrections-officer-slai...y-aryan

Oh wait. All whites aren't like that.

Tim is 100% correct on this issue. It is not the race, it is the
individual.

And here is my observation, having lived all over the United States, people
on the East Coast are the rudest most offensive people in the entire
country, regardless of race. Oh wait, that's not fair I still know a few
decent people on the East Coast.
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"Domino" <rechazo.todo.DeleteThis@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Aug 4, 11:56?am, "proehling" <peter_roehl....DeleteThis@eee.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> In reality, *your* needs and desires should be the things dictating
>> your
>> choice of bikes, and the bike doesn't make the man; the man makes the
>> bike.
>
> Sorry you had to wade through the typical negativity from our resident
> radical liberal, Bill.
>
> But the simple fact of life is that a lot of older riders in
> California are moving to cruisers or Harleys because they don't want
> to to hang around with the Mexicans and Blacks who have recently
> turned sport riding into street racing and stunting.


Did you pull this amazing information out of your own ass? It
smells like it.


Reassembler
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On Aug 6, 5:33 am, "BryanUT" <nestl....DeleteThis@comcast.net> wrote:
> <tomor....DeleteThis@erols.com> wrote in message
>
> news:1186369271.135743.130230@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
>
> > On Aug 5, 9:41 pm, ~kurt <actinouran....DeleteThis@earthlink.net> wrote:
> >> tomor....DeleteThis@erols.com <tomor....DeleteThis@erols.com> wrote:
> >> > On Aug 5, 3:01 pm, ~kurt <actinouran....DeleteThis@earthlink.net> wrote:
> >> >> It is so easy to be idealistic when you live in nice white rich
> >> >> segregated
> >> >> NOVA. You so rarely have to deal with unpleasant race issues.
>
> Here's the face of the Great White race:
>
> http://policelink.com/news/articles/2507-utah-corrections-officer-sla...
>
> Oh wait. All whites aren't like that.
>
> Tim is 100% correct on this issue. It is not the race, it is the
> individual.
>
> And here is my observation, having lived all over the United States, people
> on the East Coast are the rudest most offensive people in the entire
> country, regardless of race. Oh wait, that's not fair I still know a few
> decent people on the East Coast.

A little humor is just what this sick thread needed Bryan, besides a
Tombstone. Anyway, I think ole' Krusty is often misunderstood and in
reality contributes more to this NG than 90% of the other regular
posters. Nuff said!
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On 8/5/07 9:04 AM, "Bill Kiene" wrote:

> Looking at the Honda 599, Susuki SV650S and the Yamaha R6. I'm not a racer
> and I am not a big person.
>
> I thought my '63 250 Yamaha street bike was pretty fast so I am sure that a
> 600 cc will not be entry level for me.

The Suzuki SV650 series is damn popular, and for good reason. For higher
bars, you might want the standard version instead of the "S" version. There
are also handlebar riser kits you can buy for just about any modern bike
that will allow you to adjust the handlebar location and angle to your
liking (e.g. Heli Bars).

R6 is a race bike basically. The YZF600R on the other hand, is its more
relaxed cousin. Also another very good general purpose sport bike, from
everything I hear.

Honda has their CBR600F4i, which is similar in style and shape to the
YZF600R. Pretty sporty, but not an all-out race bike made street legal.

Kawasaki makes some nice mid-size bikes, like the Ninja 500R and 650R. The
650R is a newer model in their lineup and hasn't been time tested like the
500 has, but so far people seem to like it in the reviews I've seen. At just
around $5k MSRP, the 500R is a great bang for the buck.

Sounds like you're looking in the right direction, Bill.

I think I missed it in your earlier post, though... how long has it been
since you were riding street bikes regularly?

--
Jamin
"Freedom costs a buck-oh-five"




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On Aug 6, 12:57?pm, "Reassembler" <reassemb....RemoveThis@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Did you pull this amazing information out of your own ass? It
> smells like it.

Why stick your nose in a thread concerning riding conditions in an
area you don't live in? Did you think I was attacking your boyfriend
Tim?
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On Aug 6, 1:07?pm, "Reassembler" <reassemb... DeleteThis @hotmail.com> wrote:

> The things he says aren't true for me, and I live on Maui, where
> whites are a decided minority, and racists and people who fear racists
> are equally ridiculed. It suits me just fine.

Yeah, well, Bill and I do not live on Maui, we live in a great big
valley that is swarming with illegal aliens. So you have no idea about
what I'm saying when I advise him to check out the cruiser scene.
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