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ShnikeJSB

07-31-2009, 12:07 AM

I went back for some old-school jollies. (http://www.triumph675.net/forum/showthread.php?t=33677)

I'm on page 4. Thanks to our friend, FastOF! :laugh:

Brian675

07-31-2009, 01:55 AM

Hahahaha! I will have to go back and read the thread. I knew it was going to be a shit show from the start. :philjohnal:

Live2Draw

07-31-2009, 10:56 AM

i am so boring, i disarm everything :D

Brian675

07-31-2009, 11:07 AM

You know how I know you're old school?

Listen here Susie and
Alright, Janice?
:rofl:

triple grrr

07-31-2009, 11:25 AM

I just realized how much I miss that place. Been over a month since I've been on...

ShnikeJSB

07-31-2009, 02:09 PM

Some people just can't take it... :pout:

Oh well, he's lucky I just heckle and don't do all-out "Intrawebz flamezorz warz" like some do. I don't "argue" as much as I heckle and help. He couldn't see past the heckling. Oh well, what'cha gonna do? :raspberry:

Fsnoles1984

07-31-2009, 02:37 PM

You could pick on me without being such an ass. :rofl3:

AdamB

07-31-2009, 02:54 PM

i am so boring, i disarm everything :D

Yeah...seriously.....knock that crap off. You're destroying a perfectly good bashing thread. It has potential...now leave it alone :ban:

ShnikeJSB

07-31-2009, 08:57 PM

Yeah...seriously.....knock that crap off. You're destroying a perfectly good bashing thread. It has potential...now leave it alone :ban:

:rofl3: :clapclap:

Brian675

08-02-2009, 10:57 AM

ShnikeJSB

08-02-2009, 03:40 PM

So I guess one of the people involved in that thread crashed.

Not glad it happened but it doesn't surprise me the least.

http://www.triumph675.net/forum/showthread.php?t=33770

A squid is a squid, it just doesn't know better.

He isn't a squid if he had full gear on. Shit happens.

I went down on my SV650S four years ago when my front brake handle got stuck and wouldn't engage in a set of twisties for some reason, so I had much more speed than I wanted and had to lean over hard -- which was not quite enough as my rear wheel clipped the loose rocks/gravel on the very edge of the road, and washed out on me = lowside. I had all my gear on as well. Did that make me a squid?

Anyways, yeah -- maybe not "squid" so much as "inexperienced". :icon_wink:

Brian675

08-03-2009, 12:37 PM

You squid? Hahaha, no don't think that bro.

I just read how he crashed and remember him expressing interest in a stretched swing arm. And regardless, gear can't cover up any squidness.

Budo

08-03-2009, 01:44 PM

He isn't a squid if he had full gear on.

Yeah right... I know people that ride in full leathers but act like total squids. Lane splitting @ 90+ mph, wheelies in traffic and other squidlike activities...

Gear does not automatically exempt you from squid-dom.

Marko

08-03-2009, 03:17 PM

ShnikeJSB

08-03-2009, 03:27 PM

Yeah right... I know people that ride in full leathers but act like total squids. Lane splitting @ 90+ mph, wheelies in traffic and other squidlike activities...

Gear does not automatically exempt you from squid-dom.

Yes it does. A squid is a guy without gear doing all that shit. Someone WITH all the gear doing that stuff is just a dumbass, LOL! Mr. Sandals-with-no-shirt doing wheelies between cars at 90mph on a Hayabusa is a squid. Mr. All-gear-and-made-a-n00b-mistake is not, in my book. Now, if he had no gear, or even just a helmet on (or even worse -- the helmet on a helmet lock on the side), THEN I'd call him a squid. He had enough common sense to wear gear when he was going to be riding like he was (attacking twisties).

I chalked his accident down to inexperience. It didn't sound to me like he was doing anything hugely squidly, he just made a bad judgment call due to lack of experience. If he had been riding long enough, he'd know that the chance for traffic to be there at that time on that road would make him adjust how he rides it BEFORE seeing a car. Now that he's crashed there, he most likely has learned that and will do just that.

Am I wrong?

Anyways, what I think REALLY TRULY happened to him is: he was riding with his buddies who were better/more experienced riders than him, and he was in the back of the pack where most n00bs feel the most comfortable, trying to keep up instead of going at his own pace and catching up later (one of the biggest n00b mistakes out there that most of us have been guilty of when learning to ride). He started in on the turn too hot for his ability, swinging out too wide, sees the car coming in the other lane, freaks in his n00bness, overcompensates, probably hitting the front brake a bit which makes him go even wider, fixing on the car too much and not realizing his rear wheel is clipping the outside curb and it's gravel, thus washing out and low-siding.

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:laugh:

Marko

08-03-2009, 09:00 PM

Yes it does. A squid is a guy without gear doing all that shit. Someone WITH all the gear doing that stuff is just a dumbass, LOL! Mr. Sandals-with-no-shirt doing wheelies between cars at 90mph on a Hayabusa is a squid. Mr. All-gear-and-made-a-n00b-mistake is not, in my book.

But you're missing the entire demographic of posers that wear branded leather and think they are in a MotoGP race that starts at the local Timmys. (Canadian Donut shop). They are sqids that are not underdressed but dangerous nonetheless.

Scooter Scott

08-03-2009, 09:26 PM

I bought Shane's swingarm. :yeehaw:

DoubleApexx

08-03-2009, 10:22 PM

I just realized how much I miss that place. Been over a month since I've been on...

I don't miss it.
I don't miss the assumptions that every rider on that board is a male.

And that idiot stating, "You were all squids once too" or whatever he wrote.

I was NEVER a squid. EVER.

And the 12:00 wheelie on the SV doesn't count because it was a complete accident and I'm suprised I didn't dump it.

Don't you guys turn into a bunch of idiots and assume that the only members of a bike forum are male.
I love you guys just the way you are.
Don't change.

ShnikeJSB

08-03-2009, 10:27 PM

But you're missing the entire demographic of posers that wear branded leather and think they are in a MotoGP race that starts at the local Timmys. (Canadian Donut shop). They are sqids that are not underdressed but dangerous nonetheless.

Hmmm... This is true. I guess we'd need to dig deeper as to WHAT gear he has. :nod:

:grin:

Reminds me of when my buddy and I rode around on Friday last week, and wound up at the mall where a lot of bikes are. I spotted some kid who was maybe 20-years-old with full 1-piece Triumph leathers talking with other guys, and was excited since I never see anyone with a Triumph around here. I asked him what he had, and he said a Daytona 675!

Me: "Sweet! What color?"

Kid: "Black."

Me: "Is it an SE or a new one?"

Kid: "It's a 2009"

Me: "Nice! They tweaked it for '09. I'd love to try one of them to see the difference."

Kid: (matter-of-factly and somewhat egotistically) "Yeah, it's brand new. The 2009's are a completely different bike. They changed everything." -- I almost laughed in his face... :rofl:

He asked what I had, and I said "I also have a 675. A Graphite."

Guy: "Oh, so you have a 2007?"

Me: "No, it's actually one of the early 2006's."

Guy: "Huh, I didn't know they made them in 2006..."

Me: ":notamused: OOOOOkaaaaaay... Nice meeting you......." (I turn and leave)

:pout:

THAT was a squid/poser... :nod:

triple grrr

08-04-2009, 02:54 AM

I don't miss it.
I don't miss the assumptions that every rider on that board is a male.

And that idiot stating, "You were all squids once too" or whatever he wrote.

I was NEVER a squid. EVER.

And the 12:00 wheelie on the SV doesn't count because it was a complete accident and I'm suprised I didn't dump it.

Don't you guys turn into a bunch of idiots and assume that the only members of a bike forum are male.
I love you guys just the way you are.
Don't change.

When I said I realized how much I miss that place, it was that I didn't miss it at all. And I won't change, not much anyway.

Budo

08-04-2009, 05:32 AM

Hmmm... This is true. I guess we'd need to dig deeper as to WHAT gear he has. :nod:

WHAT gear he wears also has no bearing on it...

Squid-ness is a mentality... the same way a redneck with a $2000 Armani suit will still be a redneck.

Posers in my book are about as good a squids. A lot of them may know a lot about riding via magazines and bike meets, but most of these posers have very low seat time as they only ride when there is a bike meet or when the weather is just perfect. Not saying that sunny day riders are all posers (don't want to start another debate :P), but all posers are generally sunny day riders.

Squids by my definition would be any motorcyclist who rides without regard to their own safety and the safety of others.

DoubleApexx

08-04-2009, 08:19 AM

When I said I realized how much I miss that place, it was that I didn't miss it at all. And I won't change, not much anyway.

:goodboy: , Paul.

Brian675

08-04-2009, 11:19 AM

Lane splitting @ 90+ mph, wheelies in traffic and other squidlike activities...
Gear does not automatically exempt you from squid-dom.
You know me? :grin:

I love you guys just the way you are.
Don't change.
We love you too. Are you going to change?

Guy: "Huh, I didn't know they made them in 2006..."

:nono: