My motorcycling good deed for the day

[Black Ice]

What!  You wheelied??!!  You low-down, irresponsible, death-defying, son of Satan!!  Now all responsible cage dwellers will hate us all.


There.  Does that qualify as a wheelie nazi post?

Yeah, but he changed an old lady's tire and moved a turtle out of the road later, so he's actually ahead one.

[bassjones]

I gave the "start small" speech to a young man (19ish) who was telling me he was going to buy a ZX14 this summer - for his first "manual transmission" motorcycle... yes, really... So, basically he's been riding a 50cc scooter around town and now thinks he's ready for the fastest motorcycle on the planet...

He gave me every excuse in the book - "I'm 6'6, I need a big bike", "I like power", etc...  I explained that my much saner first "manual transmission" motorcycle will beat any production car on the road in a 1/4 mile race, hit 120 MPH even with my fat ass riding it, and has more power than any sane person needs.  What it won't do is loop when you hit a small oil patch, launch you from 30 - 120 in 2 seconds when you accidentally hit the power band in 3rd gear, and it won't cost you $500 a month to insure at 19.

I also gave him the ATGATT speech.  I was very nice about all of it, but he probably didn't hear a word I said...

[steve.m]

I tried to scare the $hit out of a below avg. intelligence friend of mine when he said he wanted a busa for his first bike since riding a 125cc dirtbike.  Gave him all the logic in the world why it was a dumb idea and why to ride attgatt.  What'd he do?  well, stepped down from the busa and onto a R1.  He rides it with a brain bucket, shorts and t-shirt on a regular basis claiming "it's too hot to ride with a jacket".  Darwin might eventually be right with him.

[bassjones]

I tried to scare the $hit out of a below avg. intelligence friend of mine when he said he wanted a busa for his first bike since riding a 125cc dirtbike.  Gave him all the logic in the world why it was a dumb idea and why to ride attgatt.  What'd he do?  well, stepped down from the busa and onto a R1.  He rides it with a brain bucket, shorts and t-shirt on a regular basis claiming "it's too hot to ride with a jacket".  Darwin might eventually be right with him.

why do we bother?  I know why.  Because I listened and went smaller than what I was intending on for my first bike in a decade plus - I was debating between an FZ-1 and Bandit 1250 until some nice folks on another site talked me out of it.  Now I'm trying to be the nice guy and talk other people out of doing stupid things.

[chimera]

  Now I'm trying to be the nice guy and talk other people out of doing stupid things.

[1moreroad]

Funny, I pulled this mad little bastard off the road today on the way to work. This guy tried to eat me, I was going to take him on the bike to the pond just down the road, but after he went for me I decided the ditch was the safest place for him and me..

Last weekend, I pulled two turtles off the road.  The first was this timid box turtle with a shell over 12" long.  The second was a nasty little snapping turtle.  Good thing I'm ATGATT!

I tried to get him off the road, but he kept trying to take swipes and bites at me.  I nudged him a little bit, but gave up and left.

[keepergale]

Last weekend on my ride to Phoenix from San Diego I stopped and changed a tire for a middle aged mexican woman. Is it still a good deed because the reason I stopped was her two hot teenage daughters. They kept my mind occupied all the way to Yuma.

[atadaskew]

I took a dump in your field.  My work here is done.

My maid's daughter made the turtle soup that you ate.

[Bravo12]

Meanwhile, over on the turtle forums, we see a different view of this story:

Yertle: So, there I was, just crossing the street minding my own business when some yahoo rolls up and holds me up for some pictures.  And to top things off, he put me back on the side of the road where I started - it took me 2 hours to get back to where I was!

[JoeRider]

Humanitaianism, good deads, its all very touching.

Hope you didnt buy the turtle with a credit card.  We will find out!

[boomerang]

I bought the 6 pack that got the male turtle (Bob) drunk enough to knock up the female turtle (whatshername) that eventually led to that egg.
 Little known fact, but male turtles find the females fugly, so beer goggles are the only way that species can reproduce.

Hell with enough beer we all come out of our shell

[KenH]

This evening a car in front of me hit a Jack Russel and kept on going. I carefully lifted the dog into my van and called the vet, met him at the office. $400 later I left without the dog. Turns out the 3rd shift kennel person recognized the dog. A few minutes ago the owners knocked on my door and returned the $400. The dog's owners just moved in to a new house with a big fenced back yard for the dog, and the dog found a way through the fence.

Sheesh. I thought I didn't like animals.  

[steve.m]

What fence exists that would prevent the escape of a jack russel.  Those little dogs dig and jump worse than armadillos.

[KenH]

What fence exists that would prevent the escape of a jack russel.  Those little dogs dig and jump worse than armadillos.

My sister had one. 36 inches of weldwire fencing rolled flat on the ground with the grass allowed to grow up through it kept the little dog-of-Satan penned.

[vulcanbill]

What fence exists that would prevent the escape of a jack russel.  Those little dogs dig and jump worse than armadillos.

Please post a video of an armadillo jumping like a JRT.  

[Liquidsilver]

My sister had one. 36 inches of weldwire fencing rolled flat on the ground with the grass allowed to grow up through it kept the little dog-of-Satan penned.

 
LMAO!!!      

[steve.m]

Please post a video of an armadillo jumping like a JRT.  

Youtube didn't have any, but many TX pickup truck grilles coated in their shells and guts will attest to the fact that they do, in fact, jump pretty damn high!

[chimera]

Riding my way home from a moto-camp overnighter yesterday.  Was stopped at some mom n pop store eating a hogie.  In pulls a pickup w/a dirtbike in the back.    It was flopping all over the place because the tie down straps were not cinched up.

The driver opens his door and swings his legs out.  Grabs a strap by the bedrail of his truck and hauls out his wheelchair.  Proceeds to fold out and hop in his chair.  Well, he fiddles with the cinch strap for a bit but trying to fix the situation from a sitting position.....well next time your near a pickup try sitting in a chair and doing anything with it.

I walked over and he asked if I could help.  I did.  I asked if it was his bike.  He said yep, he just got it.  He's going home to rig up hand controls.  I gave him a big hell yeah and have a great day.

You apparently can't take the rider out of some folks.....

[Black Ice]

Riding my way home from a moto-camp overnighter yesterday.  Was stopped at some mom n pop store eating a hogie.  In pulls a pickup w/a dirtbike in the back.    It was flopping all over the place because the tie down straps were not cinched up.

The driver opens his door and swings his legs out.  Grabs a strap by the bedrail of his truck and hauls out his wheelchair.  Proceeds to fold out and hop in his chair.  Well, he fiddles with the cinch strap for a bit but trying to fix the situation from a sitting position.....well next time your near a pickup try sitting in a chair and doing anything with it.

I walked over and he asked if I could help.  I did.  I asked if it was his bike.  He said yep, he just got it.  He's going home to rig up hand controls.  I gave him a big hell yeah and have a great day.

You apparently can't take the rider out of some folks.....

Biker inspirational story of the millennium!!  

[Benesesso]

$400 later I left without the dog.  Sheesh. I thought I didn't like animals.  

Years ago I had a nice male desert tortise.  Someone gave me a female tort, and they got along very well.  One year the female died during hibernation.  Managed to get her remains out of the hole, and took the male to a vet for a checked before the next hiber.

Vet told me the tort had VD (no, like D. Barry says, I am not making this up), so he gave him a shot of some kind of antibiotic.  Told me to bring him back in a week for another shot.  Tort managed to bulldoze a cinder block I had put over his hole and went underground--this was in Nov. in Arizona.

Hole went down pretty deep, and I couldn't see him.  Vet said he'd probably die during hiber. w/o the other shot.  Tried digging down, but gave up when I was ~4' deep and the hole turned horizontal.

Vet said to push a piece of rubber hose thru the hole, and listen at the end of it.  Said tort would hiss at it when it reached him.  Fed in ~10' of hose and didn't hear/feel anything.  Now what?

Rented a big freakin' backhoe ($200 please, no discount for tort rescues) and had my good-diggin' buddy start the digging operation.  Kept checking with the rubber hose, and after ~20' I heard him hissing.  Last bucket swipe was ~1" in front of his nose.  Used backhoe to fill in hole, and tort stayed inside house that winter.

Best news was that my bud used the backhoe at his house, so we split the cost.

 Oh, we both ride but he has a Hardley.  One time I convinced him to sell his Sportster, hoping he'd buy a decent ride.  He turned around and bought a full size hog, but it usually just sits in his carport.