Most. Fun. Ever.

iMoses · Post by **iMoses** » Thu May 20, 2010 4:06 pm

Tree Hugger...

That was a nice thing you did... too cool

bunny · Post by **bunny** » Thu May 20, 2010 4:31 pm

One of the guys in my scooter club suggested I change the Buddy badge to Bunny...kind of goes with the whole look!

Reesh · Post by **Reesh** » Mon May 24, 2010 3:29 pm

So the one road that I would really like to take all the way to work each morning (around 5:00 am to 5:30) is also riddled with vicious sensors.

This morning and not the first time, a car pulls up behind me but decides to be overly cautious and gives me a good 20-30 foot berth. I am already rolling my eyes, but politely give them the signal to roll forward onto the sensors. When they wave me off saying "whatever, I'm not getting any closer to you" I try with my hands to explain the sensors. How is it possible that so many people are unaware of sensors at intersections? My god. It took them at least one light cycle to inch forward just 3 feet or so (but it was enough to put her on the sensor).

I've done it before and others have understood, but old people especially are clueless. It's really frustrating!

Should I write letters to the cities that take care of the roads and share my experience with their sensors?

It's really annoying.

BootScootin'FireFighter · Mon May 24, 2010 10:13 pm

Reesh wrote:So the one road that I would really like to take all the way to work each morning (around 5:00 am to 5:30) is also riddled with vicious sensors.

This morning and not the first time, a car pulls up behind me but decides to be overly cautious and gives me a good 20-30 foot berth. I am already rolling my eyes, but politely give them the signal to roll forward onto the sensors. When they wave me off saying "whatever, I'm not getting any closer to you" I try with my hands to explain the sensors. How is it possible that so many people are unaware of sensors at intersections? My god. It took them at least one light cycle to inch forward just 3 feet or so (but it was enough to put her on the sensor).

I've done it before and others have understood, but old people especially are clueless. It's really frustrating!

Should I write letters to the cities that take care of the roads and share my experience with their sensors?

It's really annoying.

Sometime's it can be really frustrating to try to activate the sensors, especially when the car in front of you trips it, makes a right on red, then the green never activates because the sensor is no longer activated, so the cross traffic gets stopped for no reason. If it's safe enough and I know the sensor is hard to trip, I'll get off and hit the pedestrian button. I'll also sometimes make a right and quick U-turn when it's clear, and even just flat out run the light if it's all clear and I'm tired of waiting. But I don't condone or recommend that behavior to anyone else.

Reesh · Post by **Reesh** » Tue May 25, 2010 1:00 am

You know, sensors in general don't bug me, but it's the people who get in line for the light and don't have the sense to pull up close enough behind me to trip it. THAT frustrates me more than anything.

TVB · Post by **TVB** » Tue May 25, 2010 3:18 am

Reesh wrote:I've done it before and others have understood, but old people especially are clueless. It's really frustrating!

To some older drivers, the idea of a sensor that tells the traffic light when to change, is like science fiction. For better or worse, you really shouldn't be surprised when/if they don't understand about them.

And to be honest, before I started riding a scooter, I really wasn't very conscious of them myself. When I was in a cage I usually didn't notice the telltale cuts in the pavement, and I didn't notice the sensors failing because... they didn't fail for me. To a cager, a traffic-light sensor that fails to let them go is as "fictional" as the sensor itself is to a senior who learned to drive before automatic transmission was invented.

Reesh · Post by **Reesh** » Tue May 25, 2010 5:35 am

omg stop using this new fangled "LOGIC" and this "REASON".

i just can't take it.

Post by **ericalm** » Tue May 25, 2010 5:55 am

Reesh wrote:omg stop using this new fangled "LOGIC" and this "REASON".

i just can't take it.

What does the little Spider-Man on your shoulder tell you to do?
I ask mine for useful advice but he just keeps babbling about great power, yadda yadda responsibility sob sob Gwen Stacy yadda yadda. He's totally getting traded for Batman as soon as I get around to it.

Keys · Post by **Keys** » Tue May 25, 2010 8:22 am

Reesh wrote:omg stop using this new fangled "LOGIC" and this "REASON".

...newfangled? I thought "LOGIC" and "REASON" were things that the most recent generations just tossed away because they were too inconvenient...

--Keys

Reesh · Post by **Reesh** » Tue May 25, 2010 12:53 pm

There's been a sore lack of logic and reason throughout history. I think there's more these days, but they're elusive mofos.

The spidey on my shoulder usually tells me the opposite of what the batman on my car dashboard suggests. Batman is typically a bit more "on".

TVB · Post by **TVB** » Tue May 25, 2010 2:14 pm

Batman's a psycho, and Spider-Man's just a kid with great power.

The Flash, however, is a police detective in his civilian life, and always gives me trustworthy advice.

Except that one time he told me I could ride on water if I just went fast enough. I guess 40mph wasn't "enough".

Kaos · Post by **Kaos** » Tue May 25, 2010 2:16 pm

TVB wrote:Batman's a psycho, and Spider-Man's just a kid with great power.

The Flash, however, is a police detective in his civilian life, and always gives me trustworthy advice.

Except that one time he told me I could ride on water if I just went fast enough.

No, that one is true. Trust me, it works....

KABarash · Post by **KABarash** » Tue May 25, 2010 2:55 pm

Kaos · Post by **Kaos** » Tue May 25, 2010 2:56 pm

KABarash wrote:

Man, that Cliff Cornwall got shafted on his superhero name. Its gonna be hard to stack up next to "The Whip" And "Johnny Thunder".

He must be that group's Aqua Man.

TVB · Post by **TVB** » Tue May 25, 2010 5:51 pm

Kaos wrote:Man, that Cliff Cornwall got shafted on his superhero name. Its gonna be hard to stack up next to "The Whip" And "Johnny Thunder".
He must be that group's Aqua Man.

Pretty much. He was an aviator, pretty much a stock "war hero" type in those days. Probably went on a lot of missions against the Ratzis, then faded into obscurity after V-E Day.

Post by **ericalm** » Tue May 25, 2010 7:14 pm

Jay Garrick, the Flash with the Mercury helmet, is a chemist and physicist. Barry Allen, later Flash, is a police forensic scientist. Wally West, even later Flash, is a smart ass punk. Bart Allen, yet another Flash, is currently dead—or not—I think. Flashes die and come back to life pretty often. Must be good to be a Flash.

Superheroes probably don't make the best personal life coaches/consultants.

On the other hand, Scooter…

jasondavis48108 · Post by **jasondavis48108** » Tue May 25, 2010 7:29 pm

ericalm wrote:Jay Garrick, the Flash with the Mercury helmet, is a chemist and physicist. Barry Allen, later Flash, is a police forensic scientist. Wally West, even later Flash, is a smart ass punk. Bart Allen, yet another Flash, is currently dead—or not—I think. Flashes die and come back to life pretty often. Must be good to be a Flash.

Superheroes probably don't make the best personal life coaches/consultants.

On the other hand, Scooter…

I'm not swinging with scooter, just not doing it.

pugbuddy · Post by **pugbuddy** » Tue May 25, 2010 8:27 pm

OMGosh! Someone named their son "Malibu"?!?

I'm thinking it's time for a Cliff Cornwell comeback in the comics! Heck, everyone else comes back, just amoral and somewhat evil although fighting on the side of "good".

I thought Flash was the cool dude who punked Ming the Merciless to the tunes of Queen....

Kaos · Post by **Kaos** » Tue May 25, 2010 8:30 pm

How about this?

jasondavis48108 · Post by **jasondavis48108** » Tue May 25, 2010 8:35 pm

That scooter should have a hobgoblin sidecar

bpatrick5 · Post by **bpatrick5** » Wed May 26, 2010 12:28 am

Kaos wrote:How about this?

<img src="http://www.pjchmiel.com/p/spiderman_vespa.jpg">

That is the shiznit.

TVB · Post by **TVB** » Wed May 26, 2010 1:02 am

pugbuddy wrote:I'm thinking it's time for a Cliff Cornwell comeback in the comics!

Odds are that DC didn't bother renewing the copyright, so he'd be free for someone to take a stab at it. Let me know if you need a colorist or letterer.

pugbuddy · Post by **pugbuddy** » Wed May 26, 2010 2:13 am

We need to get Krusty on it! Cliff Cornwell will live again (anyone seen Krusty? Krusty, where are you?)...!

bpatrick5 · Post by **bpatrick5** » Wed May 26, 2010 2:47 am

TVB wrote:Batman's a psycho, and Spider-Man's just a kid with great power.

The Flash, however, is a police detective in his civilian life, and always gives me trustworthy advice.

Except that one time he told me I could ride on water if I just went fast enough. I guess 40mph wasn't "enough".

LMAO!! Just realized there's a spiderman on Reesh's shoulder. Just thought Reesh was dis'ing the camera. LOL (Spiderman is my #2 superhero after Batman...what can I say? I was a pre-teen in the 70's!!!)

Kaos · Post by **Kaos** » Wed May 26, 2010 5:14 pm

bpatrick5 wrote:
TVB wrote:Batman's a psycho, and Spider-Man's just a kid with great power.

The Flash, however, is a police detective in his civilian life, and always gives me trustworthy advice.

Except that one time he told me I could ride on water if I just went fast enough. I guess 40mph wasn't "enough".
LMAO!! Just realized there's a spiderman on Reesh's shoulder. Just thought Reesh was dis'ing the camera. LOL (Spiderman is my #2 superhero after Batman...what can I say? I was a pre-teen in the 70's!!!)

Yeah, until this thread, I never noticed Spiderman either.

Reesh · Post by **Reesh** » Wed May 26, 2010 8:08 pm

Today I discovered how hilarious sneezing with a full face shield on is.

Also yesterday I probably saw at least 10 other scooters over 25 miles. Woot!

Kaos · Post by **Kaos** » Wed May 26, 2010 8:09 pm

Reesh wrote:Today I discovered how hilarious sneezing with a full face shield on is.

Also yesterday I probably saw at least 10 other scooters over 25 miles. Woot!

Ack! I've done that before, not fun!

TVB · Post by **TVB** » Wed May 26, 2010 8:34 pm

Kaos wrote:
Reesh wrote:Today I discovered how hilarious sneezing with a full face shield on is.

Also yesterday I probably saw at least 10 other scooters over 25 miles. Woot!
Ack! I've done that before, not fun!

What do you have against seeing other scooters?

Kaos · Post by **Kaos** » Wed May 26, 2010 8:43 pm

TVB wrote:
Kaos wrote:
Reesh wrote:Today I discovered how hilarious sneezing with a full face shield on is.

Also yesterday I probably saw at least 10 other scooters over 25 miles. Woot!
Ack! I've done that before, not fun!
What do you have against seeing other scooters?

I'm moving too fast, they're just colored blurs...

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