Things no one told you about when you became a biker. Brake fluid stings when you get it in your eye. brakes can be a bstard to bleed carbon fibre shards can be sharp seat/tailpieces always get scratched by your boot. you will take skin off when you slip off that ungetoffable nut. you will run out of latex gloves just when you want to clean your chain when you go to wash your hands after you've worked on said chain you will find you have run out of swarfega Mysteriously your wife will run out of washing up liquid at the same time. and sometime in your biking career you will drop your bike when at a standstill embarrassing yourself.
And when you are working with a bike with clip-ons with bar ends, it doesn't half hurt when you stand up from under one of them...
That somebody will always argue about how countersterring really works, even when the facts of physics are in full view.
That standing up on the pegs as a pillion so you can wave to some bird you know just as your mate's executing a sharp left turn to park, is not a great idea.
always cutting your fingers trying to clean or fettle the blasterd things.... being left frustrated because you cant use all the power you have under you that you miss not riding due to terrible weather ...
When you first try to pull a wheelie you always try it when you are going too slow . When you first tried a power wheelie you shit yourself coz you were going too fast. :redface:
Your first few wheelies are pathetically only a few inches off the ground because you were scared to 'give it some' in case you loop it. Your next attempt throws you off the back whilst the bike carries on without you...
the fact that most biker chicks are looney :biggrin: or physcotic or is that just the ones i seem to have met lol
If you are a pillion on your ever first ride on a bike, and you wear your mate's brother's open face helmet, and you look over your mates shoulder to see what the speed is and it is 135mph, and you see your face in the mirror and it looks like someone in a G-force simulator because your mouth is wrapped around your ears because you are grinning so much. 1978, Yamaha XS 1100, dual track between Kidderminster and Worcester. I bought my first bike within 2 weeks!
.......there's 2 types of motorcyclist..........those that have fallen off...................and those that are going to
... that Hunter S Thompson was right when he said "You know it's love when you like someone as much as your motorcycle".
