Macmac
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Noxx, meet 'Liberty' She's dear ol' granny to your bike.. Just thought i would be cute. 
Pucker moment at the house tonight.
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Koos Custodiet
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I *have* to steal that for a new sigline
Macmac
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Before I get your thread locked being OT I get the same things asked.. All sorts of folks tail me when I ride that bike. I have another bike..
This paint was done in Spring 02 after 9-11, no need to say why.
There is one sticker... i don't do stickers but I do this one.
It says "A Gun Society is a Polite Society" and it is near my tags, so anyone thinking about wandering around in my saddle bags is pre warned. I hope that makes this gun related.
I am no bad ass either, but I don't leave home with out a main carry and a back up piece ever.. trying to be more gun related.
This paint was done in Spring 02 after 9-11, no need to say why.
There is one sticker... i don't do stickers but I do this one.
It says "A Gun Society is a Polite Society" and it is near my tags, so anyone thinking about wandering around in my saddle bags is pre warned. I hope that makes this gun related.
I am no bad ass either, but I don't leave home with out a main carry and a back up piece ever.. trying to be more gun related.
DAVIDSDIVAD
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Used to happen to me a lot in my '82 K10.
"THAT'S AN AWESUM TRUCK OLOLOLLLOLOLOLOLOL"
"THAT'S AN AWESUM TRUCK OLOLOLLLOLOLOLOLOL"
BHP FAN
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''I am no bad ass either, but I don't leave home with out a main carry and a back up piece ever.. trying to be more gun related...''
I 'm thinkin' I'd hate to meet someone you did condider a ''bad ass''!
I 'm thinkin' I'd hate to meet someone you did condider a ''bad ass''!
notorious
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Mature gun owners and carriers are like martial arts experts... very humble and non-confrontational. You should not be able to recognize the most deadly men of either type... and sometimes 1 man can be both of the above!
Macmac
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Well at this site there seems to be a tendancy for many threads i post a reply in to become locked shortly there after, seemingly for not being 'also' gun related. I am not certain if it is my doing or not. So I attempt to relate any topic I reply to to being gun related somehow.
To me it is harder because I am not just a wanton killer, but I have had times when just having a weapon has saved my bacon, my familes bacons, and maybe our stuff.
Due to the locking of threads so quickly, where I haven't related to a gun, cause me some concern. I consider the web like a tavern, where many topics can be discussed, and sometimes defence isn't with a gun at all.
In on SHTF thread a comment was made on defending a garden. The main idea was from people, but a garden needs to be defended from a heck of a lot more than people. Insects will cause more damage than people and other garden varmints don't wait for a garden to be human ripe either.
BAM the thread was locked, just like that!
I live where it is very rural, and it can be very cold. This leads to times when a main carry weapon concealed is very hard to get at. Having a back up means there is another weapon where it may be a lesser weapon, but is somewhat more accessible.
Over 2 decades there have been far more than my fair share of kooks and bad guys who ended up being invited to any place but my place at the intent to brandish a gun.
This has been caused by asking the LEO community for assistance and getting none, or at times when getting any assitance can't be done in a timely mannor, and to inclide the double murders of family living the city life just 3 blocks from the local cop shop.
Much if this has hardened and refined my views on defence.
I have no wish to be a bad ass, but on the other hand I can back up only so far in certain cases.
A long time ago when I was in a different marriage with a infant child, after asking for assistance to get none, and be told "To Serve and Protect" ment the police were not my peronal body guards a weapon in fact was discharged twice, to the dismay to the bad guy. I simpley had no place to retreat.
I lived off a the back of a dead end road, and the only way to retreat was to advance by passing the bad guy with my wife of the time and my child.
Something at the time i fully considered impossible.
These days I simply don't do anything un-armed ever.. Not even take a shower. I still live very remote, and working about on the land where I dwell I am armed with one weapon at all times, and when I leave the property two.
No one appears to sence I am armed so far as i can tell, and I sort of prefer it that way. While it may be fully illegal to check my post box armed i do so anyway. If shots are fired it most certainly isn't because I started it. The bank is no different, nor is anyplace else I commonly travel too, which at odd times even includes Oh My God Wallmart!
The secret is never allowing any piece to show, or print.
Just look out for old farmer types as probably they are ALL armed to the teeth! LOL....
Please note I am not telling anyone how to carry, or to break any laws.. I just do what works for me, and no more.
I live in New Hampster, have the license you guys call ccw pemit, and I am sick and tired of living behind the Soviet Republics of Mass and NY, landlocked.
To me it is harder because I am not just a wanton killer, but I have had times when just having a weapon has saved my bacon, my familes bacons, and maybe our stuff.
Due to the locking of threads so quickly, where I haven't related to a gun, cause me some concern. I consider the web like a tavern, where many topics can be discussed, and sometimes defence isn't with a gun at all.
In on SHTF thread a comment was made on defending a garden. The main idea was from people, but a garden needs to be defended from a heck of a lot more than people. Insects will cause more damage than people and other garden varmints don't wait for a garden to be human ripe either.
BAM the thread was locked, just like that!
I live where it is very rural, and it can be very cold. This leads to times when a main carry weapon concealed is very hard to get at. Having a back up means there is another weapon where it may be a lesser weapon, but is somewhat more accessible.
Over 2 decades there have been far more than my fair share of kooks and bad guys who ended up being invited to any place but my place at the intent to brandish a gun.
This has been caused by asking the LEO community for assistance and getting none, or at times when getting any assitance can't be done in a timely mannor, and to inclide the double murders of family living the city life just 3 blocks from the local cop shop.
Much if this has hardened and refined my views on defence.
I have no wish to be a bad ass, but on the other hand I can back up only so far in certain cases.
A long time ago when I was in a different marriage with a infant child, after asking for assistance to get none, and be told "To Serve and Protect" ment the police were not my peronal body guards a weapon in fact was discharged twice, to the dismay to the bad guy. I simpley had no place to retreat.
I lived off a the back of a dead end road, and the only way to retreat was to advance by passing the bad guy with my wife of the time and my child.
Something at the time i fully considered impossible.
These days I simply don't do anything un-armed ever.. Not even take a shower. I still live very remote, and working about on the land where I dwell I am armed with one weapon at all times, and when I leave the property two.
No one appears to sence I am armed so far as i can tell, and I sort of prefer it that way. While it may be fully illegal to check my post box armed i do so anyway. If shots are fired it most certainly isn't because I started it. The bank is no different, nor is anyplace else I commonly travel too, which at odd times even includes Oh My God Wallmart!
The secret is never allowing any piece to show, or print.
Just look out for old farmer types as probably they are ALL armed to the teeth! LOL....
Please note I am not telling anyone how to carry, or to break any laws.. I just do what works for me, and no more.
I live in New Hampster, have the license you guys call ccw pemit, and I am sick and tired of living behind the Soviet Republics of Mass and NY, landlocked.
notorious
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I hear you, brother. A firearm has saved my bacon quite a few times, on and off the job. Most recently last week from a case of road rage when the guy just stopped in front of me and jumped out of his car and ran toward me screaming and had to be put back into his car and ordered to drive away at the point of my gun.
notorious
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Squids are what we call new riders who are in way over their head with the modern superbikes sold in dealerships for as low as $99/month financing.
Imagine a short wheelbase rocket with more than 100 horsepower at the wheel while weighing in at about 600 pounds total, including rider and you have an idea about how much thrust the things have due to the incredible power to weight ratio that no normal car can match.
By the way, the 100 horsepower at the wheel is for a 600cc motorcycle. A literbike (1000cc) can push 170hp at the wheel with about the same weight so now you have even less weight to horsepower. These things hit 0-60 in 3 seconds average and top out at 160mph for 600s and 185-190mph for 1000s.
Couple that with riders who have no experience whatsoever, and you got the recipe for disaster.
So, to answer your question, they are called squids for 2 reasons:
1. The inexperienced rider has no problem going really fast in a straight line on those rockets but can't turn. So they dart forward, stop, reorient, dart off in another direction. Sorta like a squid swimming.
2. When they get in over their heads in a corner, they slam on the brakes because they carry too much speed for their riding skill to make the turn, so they leave squiggly lines all over the ground with the tires being locked up, or them crashing after locking up the wheels. The squiggly lines resemble squid legs.
To bring this back to the topic at hand, the OP lives next to a famous canyon frequented by a lot of squids who bought their bikes at the huge stealership about 2 milles away. They walk in, get financed at 39% APR (yes, 39, not 3.9) and pay their bikes for a few months because it gets totalled or repo'ed.
Then they follow the OP to his house and make up some stupid question because they plan on robbing him so they can make some money to pay for their drugs.
Then the OP stops them with his actions. That sound about right?
Imagine a short wheelbase rocket with more than 100 horsepower at the wheel while weighing in at about 600 pounds total, including rider and you have an idea about how much thrust the things have due to the incredible power to weight ratio that no normal car can match.
By the way, the 100 horsepower at the wheel is for a 600cc motorcycle. A literbike (1000cc) can push 170hp at the wheel with about the same weight so now you have even less weight to horsepower. These things hit 0-60 in 3 seconds average and top out at 160mph for 600s and 185-190mph for 1000s.
Couple that with riders who have no experience whatsoever, and you got the recipe for disaster.
So, to answer your question, they are called squids for 2 reasons:
1. The inexperienced rider has no problem going really fast in a straight line on those rockets but can't turn. So they dart forward, stop, reorient, dart off in another direction. Sorta like a squid swimming.
2. When they get in over their heads in a corner, they slam on the brakes because they carry too much speed for their riding skill to make the turn, so they leave squiggly lines all over the ground with the tires being locked up, or them crashing after locking up the wheels. The squiggly lines resemble squid legs.
To bring this back to the topic at hand, the OP lives next to a famous canyon frequented by a lot of squids who bought their bikes at the huge stealership about 2 milles away. They walk in, get financed at 39% APR (yes, 39, not 3.9) and pay their bikes for a few months because it gets totalled or repo'ed.
Then they follow the OP to his house and make up some stupid question because they plan on robbing him so they can make some money to pay for their drugs.
Then the OP stops them with his actions. That sound about right?
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