The Grin Factor - Found Daily

[earthmover]

So, If riding a scooter is like riding a fat lass (good ride till your mates find out)

then
Riding a superbike is like riding a model (looks good but a little uncomfortable and requires constant high maintenace for the occasional time she's willing to put out if not in rehab or threatening you with a knife)


Riding a GS is like banging your favourite ex.


(Might not be completely top drawer, but always feels somehow just right, and she knows how to really make you happy.....)

Keyboard/coffee interface moment.
Tw*t
Mark

 

[whitegloss]

Yawn Yawn another mines better than your sports bike thread

Marcus have you thought about your deeper issues regarding insecurity and the feelings of self worth
· the feeling of not being ``good enough'' to meet the challenge of a situation you face in life,
· the sense of not fitting in, being ``out of synch'' with those in your peer group
· the sense of always climbing up a mountain, never being able to reach the top
· the Inner turmoil coming from a lack of direction or bewilderment as to where you are going, what your goals are, and what responses are appropriate for events in life

Maybe you have experienced some of the following
· raised in a chaotic, unpredictable, or volatile environment in which they were kept off balance, on guard, or on edge
· a poorly developed self-concept with low self-esteem, lacking belief in their personal goodness, skills, or abilities.
· never received enough positive reinforcement or feedback from others about their talents and abilities, leaving them unclear as to their skills.

Marcus or Scotty KM or Dave why not PM me if you would like help in coming to terms with your choice of motorcycle, you confidence will be fully respected

You seem like a bit of a TWAT with all this plastic psyco analystic bulshit your spouting to the lads personal joy of riding his GS-its not a crime to have a bit of fun on this bike and then have a bit of brag to the rest of us

 

[MATKAT]

Brilliantly Put !!

Here’s my grin factor


• filtering between very slow moving traffic – my mirrors go over the top of car mirrors. I’m high enough up to see pedestrians through the front window of a bus as I go round the outside. My steering lock surprised other road users (with how good it is) Other bikes, nutters excepted, cannot keep up. Lock-to-lock through the traffic and the bloke behind falls off his CBR trying to follow.

• Filtering in moving traffic is a joy. The big blue BMW, white crash helmet, yellow fluo jacket. The traffic just parts. I feel like Moses. My head is at Range Rover drivers height, I can see beyond the clown in front and plan my overtake easily. I have better forward visibility and all round awareness than on a sportsbike . Unless it’s postcode SE1. There the rules don’t apply.

• The badly surfaced City streets are a joy. I can solve speed bumps by going faster. I can overtake sportsbikes on speedbumps. The bollards have all been removed from the middle of some of the roads in SE1, but the resurfacing hasn’t been done yet. Doesn’t bother me. Straight down the middle, grin factor LARGE. Impossible / suicidal on sports bike. I can kick the back end of the bike out on the wet manhole cover at the end of the road. Makes me chuckle every time. When I get home, by neck, wrists and arse feel no pain.

• The brakes…..I love ‘em. Grin factor bigbigbig. Winging past a decelerating GSXR approaching a wet roundabout and then going past said GSXR in the outside lane / inside lane. Performance Bike? My arse. Get one of these mate, much funnier on a day to day basis. I can outbrake sportsbikes in the wet easy and probably in the dry too. Practice emergency stops from speed. Big grin, more amusing than full power acceleration.

• Little stoppies? Don’t let the ABS stop you. Sit forward, slow down and pinch the lever. Up she comes. (only on private road of course)

• Traffic lights…..Immediate turn left. At Vauxhaull junction in the morning, it’s only the GS (ok at the katoom)that can gun it away from standstill and turn through 90 degrees and get past all the other traffic before the bottleneck reappears. The bike just squats down and goes. The tourances give enough feedback to stop a spin. Meanwhile, the gixers are still flexing their leathers.

• Out of town. Smiles all the way. Journeys take on average nearly half as long as the car, even carrying the kitchen sink.

• Big A-roads. The GS was high up in bike awards for “best fun in corners”. I can see why. Knee down in first and second gear. With shortarse legs too. Enoooormous grin factor.
•
Power? Just think of how many orgasms Clarkson would have if he could get this performance and comfort at this price. 0-60 in what? So what if you can get from 120 to 160 in 0.5 seconds on you susawakonaki uberbike with asbopovic pipes. Go directly to jail.

• Off Road. 2 days in Wales with Simon Pavey. Say no more, just do it and (if like me no prior) be just about astonished at what these machines can do. Grin factor for weeks.
• Shaft drive. 6,000 mile service intervals. Insurance schemes. My GS12 costs me less to keep than my old CB500. Wallet Grin.
• Looks. For Pete’s sake, beauty is skin deep. Plus there’s the old adage about rough lookin wimmin giving better sex. Same rule applies to bike.
• Looks ugly, but puts out like you wouldn’t believe and with remarkably little effort.



Finally, why, why, why, do sportsbike riders insist on overtaking the GS on the 100 yard long stretch of road that’s smooth enough for the manoeuvre? All that happens is that I’m held up for the rest of the way.


SPORTSBIKES - get out of the sodding way and buy yourself a cricketers box - you know the fastest growing injury for sportsbike riders
99% of the time, on 99% of roads the GS is a quicker, safer, much “grinnier” bit of kit.

Swap my GS? I'd rather shove wasps up my arse. (see below)

End.

Plus the general level of decentness on this forum is quite ..er...decent (c) Austinpowersism











edit on reading another post
(pps, I'll send my collection of wasps to tentoone. his arse needs them )

 

[dave hendy]

It sounds as if Sir may require a full system courtesy of Messrs Remus, Bos or Akrapovic.....

I have a Remus front pipe already but I don't think the can will give me the 43 bhp I am missing

It is only straight line speed I miss, the GS is faster in twisties no problem

 

[WindyChuffer]

Yawn Yawn another mines better than your sports bike thread

Marcus have you thought about your deeper issues regarding insecurity and the feelings of self worth
· the feeling of not being ``good enough'' to meet the challenge of a situation you face in life,
· the sense of not fitting in, being ``out of synch'' with those in your peer group
· the sense of always climbing up a mountain, never being able to reach the top
· the Inner turmoil coming from a lack of direction or bewilderment as to where you are going, what your goals are, and what responses are appropriate for events in life

Maybe you have experienced some of the following
· raised in a chaotic, unpredictable, or volatile environment in which they were kept off balance, on guard, or on edge
· a poorly developed self-concept with low self-esteem, lacking belief in their personal goodness, skills, or abilities.
· never received enough positive reinforcement or feedback from others about their talents and abilities, leaving them unclear as to their skills.

Marcus or Scotty KM or Dave why not PM me if you would like help in coming to terms with your choice of motorcycle, you confidence will be fully respected

Whele - you clearly have a very small willy a complex to go with it !

 

[JohnC]

Whele - you clearly have a very small willy a complex to go with it !

Small Whele?

 

[ScottyKM]

My Gixer never bored me,

try last weekends escapades on a gixer tho..

Leave work (bordon) at 1650. ride to stanstead with a big ole bag of stuff for the wife and kid, make the airport at 1845. (lots of filtering, in fact constant filtering)

discover too late for luggage, hand only, so leave bag in left luggage.

Fly back with another bag full of tax free fags and booze., strap both bags to bike and ride back to camp, relaxed in the knowledge that although it might be a touch windy, the GSA can handle it.

i did the stanstead run on the gixer once, took a small daysack, had backache for 2 days.

riding home from now on for every other weekend ( 485 miles each way) try that on a gixer!!

 

[Andino]

Hi marcus,
this is just great!!
May I copy this as is, and post it on a German forum?
Surely many would enjoy reading it!
Cheers,
Andino

 

[JohnC]

I'd say as long as the forum has a pulse, well they'll get it

 

[Decster]

Marcus



Bang on the button like my 02 1150GS everytime

Keep up the good work son

D.

 

[marcus]

Hi marcus,
this is just great!!
May I copy this as is, and post it on a German forum?
Surely many would enjoy reading it!
Cheers,
Andino

Of course you can!

It's an interesting comparison to my long ago post about exploding gearboxes....
http://www.ukgser.com/forums/showthread.php?t=62166&page=2&pp=16&highlight=gearbox

 

[JohnC]

Marcus and El Minky? Alter egos?

 

[Dahoum]

Marcus, what a fantastic and expressive way to describe the excellent feeling of riding a GS.

Post of the month, if not year, for me

You have put into words what I and many others on here know



Whele - what a strange person you must be