madmike2
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Were you leaving the door open so one of us could say, "You're all wet?"
[SIZE=8pt]Bad, bad, madmike, shame on you! Now go to your room.....and don't slam the door..."[/SIZE]
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FJR will do 137...
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[SIZE=8pt]Bad, bad, madmike, shame on you! Now go to your room.....and don't slam the door..."[/SIZE]
Toecutter
What would DoG do?
Alright, dammit, since my credibility is being brought into question here.
About ten years ago, former wife & I lived in a house on a two-lane stretch of CA180 out in the country about five miles east of Fresno. One night, just after returning from a Christmas party about 10:30, I heard tires screeching and a thud out front. I looked out the window to see headlights pointed at my house from just behind my freshly plowed mailbox.
Grabbed the trusty Wingmaster 870 with 18" barrel & pistol grip that I keep under the mattress and went to make sure justice was served. The guy got the car started and backed across the highway, where it stalled again. He was trying to start it when I arrived next to the car. He was looking just a bit more plowed than my mailbox, so the good samaritan in me was bound and determined to make sure he didn't get going again. Might be a family next on the plowing agenda, ya know? So, when my yelling at him to quit trying to start the car didn't get his attention, I racked one in. He still didn't get the message so I touched it off across his hood, angled so the muzzle had an unobscured path toward his ear. Dipshit was still trying to start the car, so I repeated the whole process again. I guess the second one got his attention, along with my very loud promise to put the next one into his radiator if he got the car started.
In the meantime, former wife was on the horn to the authorities, describing the situation, blow by blow. She couldn't see what was happening but told them about the gunshots. They tend to show up PDQ when shots are fired.
Back out in the street, drunk boy had given up the car-starting project and the keys. I even offered to give him a ride back home, which he accepted. So, I went into the house, traded in the long gun for a pistol & my car keys, then headed back out, got in the car & tucked the pistol away. About this time, I hear drunk boy yelling at my dog Rocky, rest his soul, "I'm gonna get you, I know where you live", as he was taking off on foot down the way he was trying to go in the car (probably to a bar). Since I had his keys and his car was off the road, I took the pistol back into the house and went back outside, unarmed. A couple minutes later, a couple of patrol cars stopped about 150 feet to the east of the property, so I walked on over toward them.
Suddenly, I was blinded by flashlights. I already had my hands out in plain view, so I just stopped and raised them. As the lights got closer, I hear a voice from behind them say "Hey man, how's it goin'?
It was the one sheriff's deputy I had befriended since they had been leaving their units at one of our fire stations on the west side of town. He was working an OT shift in a different area that night. It could have been a lot more tense if it was any other officer. He asked me for a quick rundown of the situation and where the gun was now. I told him it was in the house and that was all he needed to hear. They picked up the drunk guy a little ways back down the road, but they couldn't place him behind the wheel so they took him in for public drunkenness. Turns out, he was a local drunk who lived about a half mile down the road. He never came back to settle the score with Rocky or fix my mailbox, so I put a new one up myself.
Believable enough, eh?
odot
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Not at all...you should have shot him and buried him....in your back yard.
Afast03nNJ
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I think this will be it for anymore "playing around" this year. They always say "Three strikes and your out!", well I have used up two this summer. On the way to WFO I got pulled over by a Forest Service Cop and lucked out. :dance: He was a biker and ended up giving us advice on routes, lodging, etc. and no performance award. Now this "incident". I think I will play nice until the end of the riding season. :smilingsmiley:
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BrunDog
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Wow, John, that is a great story.
He's right, the ZX will smoke the FJR. Even if it couldn't, it might be a worthwhile investment in any "potential future radar traps" to let him prove to you that his bike will smoke yours!
-BD
He's right, the ZX will smoke the FJR. Even if it couldn't, it might be a worthwhile investment in any "potential future radar traps" to let him prove to you that his bike will smoke yours!
-BD
Scab
I got nothin' here...
I swear, if anyone out there is experiencing drought, just call FJRFencer. It rains EVERY time this guy saddles up.
zorkler
Ave U !!!!
well as they say it down or up here you were very assey . I myself after about 120 my balls shrink and i let go of the right hand . In my younger years i would have that 1300 screaming for me to let off the right hand or blow it up . great story i know you can get it up to say 153
FJRZON
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Great story about meeting up with an old time bud. :thumbsup:
Very funny…but the ZX-14 will absolutely clobber the FJR. It’s not even in the same league or a fair contest at all. LOL. I have a 14 and in camparison to the FJR…the old Feejer was a Yugo. When your friend hits 6K & above the party is all over for you. It is like being shot out of a canon. LOL. Oh what fun!
Now, it’s time for me to leave and find some more of those deserted cornfields. LOL. :winksmiley02:
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sierrabus
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Ah, discretion. What a wonderful thing when it's reasonably applied in traffic enforcement.
FJRandy
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I got pulled over a few weeks back for doing 53 in a 35 zone.
Told the cop I was dislexic. He wrote me up anyway.
OK the true story.In early June I got nabbed just outside Carlisle PA on some backroad doing 70 in a 45. I saw the ONLY car for miles...an LEO who hit the lights immediately. I pulled right over and started concocting my story about how hot it is today, and I just wanted to get home quick, blah blah, blah. Thank God I saw him when I did and dropped the anchor! I WAS doing about 90.
He gave me a written warning because.....get this.....I was the ONLY one to stop in the last month! He said he clocked a sportbike coming through at 155 last week and didn't even bother to chase. This road is deserted with cornfields on both sides and no crossroads for, I'd say, about 5 miles. EXCEPT, of course, this old gas station where the cop hides. He told me the only reason he was there is because the locals have been complaining of motorcycles using that road as a dragstrip. Gee, wonder why? Brand new asphalt, arrow straight, what a concept! :lol:
Anywho, I'm framing the written warning. Only one I ever got in almost 30 years of street riding. It was always ticket or nothing.
PS........rt641, but don't tell 'em I sent ya.
Told the cop I was dislexic. He wrote me up anyway.
OK the true story.In early June I got nabbed just outside Carlisle PA on some backroad doing 70 in a 45. I saw the ONLY car for miles...an LEO who hit the lights immediately. I pulled right over and started concocting my story about how hot it is today, and I just wanted to get home quick, blah blah, blah. Thank God I saw him when I did and dropped the anchor! I WAS doing about 90.
He gave me a written warning because.....get this.....I was the ONLY one to stop in the last month! He said he clocked a sportbike coming through at 155 last week and didn't even bother to chase. This road is deserted with cornfields on both sides and no crossroads for, I'd say, about 5 miles. EXCEPT, of course, this old gas station where the cop hides. He told me the only reason he was there is because the locals have been complaining of motorcycles using that road as a dragstrip. Gee, wonder why? Brand new asphalt, arrow straight, what a concept! :lol:
Anywho, I'm framing the written warning. Only one I ever got in almost 30 years of street riding. It was always ticket or nothing.
PS........rt641, but don't tell 'em I sent ya.
daddysbike
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You is a lucky boy!
I also have no doubt the ZX would take the FJR in 3 gears but thats about all its good for, going reallll fast in a straight line.
Steve
I also have no doubt the ZX would take the FJR in 3 gears but thats about all its good for, going reallll fast in a straight line.
Steve
Calabash
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I have a ticket story... about 1971 I had a BSA 650 and at that time you could go 70 on the freeways. This was in Charleston SC where I was stationed in the Navy. I had met an old highschool friend and I was giving him a ride on the back of my bike. I was showing off some and was going about 80 or so on the freeway when coming around a curve I saw a cop with a lady pulled over and he was giving her a ticket. I fugured by the time he gave her the ticket I would be long gone and gave it the gas even more as we rounded the corner.
About two miles down the road my friend said "look behind you!" the state patrolman was about 3 foot from my rear bumper! As I pulled over he came up and said to me that the woman back there wanted to thank me because he stopped giving her a ticket to catch me. Turns out he was a biker as well and lectured me for 15 minutes about my speeding on a bike etc. He made an impression, I didn't get another ticket again for over 30 years till I got this dang FJR...but that's another story...
About two miles down the road my friend said "look behind you!" the state patrolman was about 3 foot from my rear bumper! As I pulled over he came up and said to me that the woman back there wanted to thank me because he stopped giving her a ticket to catch me. Turns out he was a biker as well and lectured me for 15 minutes about my speeding on a bike etc. He made an impression, I didn't get another ticket again for over 30 years till I got this dang FJR...but that's another story...
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FJRZON
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Really???? Dude…try not to get your feathers ruffled lol…the 14 CAN do anything you want it…illustration below. And yes, it tourers too. It is a Hyper-Sport-Tourer. Cheers! Now back to our regular scheduled topic.
LOL.
SMC
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:stop: :swoon2: :good: Great story, I sure hope you know how lucky you really are. I wonder what a ticket like that would cost if any other LEO had tagged you?Had a wonderful little experience with one of our local sherriff's deputies this fine day. Thank God for little miracles. The county and deputy shall remain namesless...
Went for a little ride this afternoon to survey the storm damage in the southern part of our state. There are miles and miles of county roads that run straight through cornfield after cornfield around here. Sometimes, but not very often mind you, sometimes I will occassionally twist the right thingy a little longer than usual. I thought I was on one of those deserted county roads this afternoon. So I twisted the right grip for an extended period, right up until the needle on the right was indicating about a buck forty. Thats when the lights turned on in the field road up ahead to my right...not headlights, but red, white and blue ones. Uh oh! This is not going to be good. :fie:
I get the Feej hauled down to a stop about a 1000 feet past the deputy. I turn the bike off, step off the bike and he pulls up behind. He steps out of the car and is obviously a little perturbed. As I turn around and take off my helmet the deputy, who shall remain nameless, looks at me close and says, "Well, John, what are you up to today?"
I was just pulled over by a high school buddy that I ran with for years in high school. He of the Suzuki GS1100E ilk when I had my CB900. We often exceeded the posted as youths. We proceeded to shoot the breeze and catch up on old times for 20 minutes or so. He just took delivery on a new ZX14 Kawi. He claims it will take the FJR. He said that he still enjoys blasting down this very road, 5,200 feet of corn on both sides. Told me to be careful and we bid adeiu.
As I was getting my gear back on he stopped as asked me how fast I thought I was going. I told him, "One forty." In the same dry tone he had in high school he replied, "It was only 137. I'd be just thinking about 5th gear."
Oh, we are going for a ride next Saturday. He wants to check out the ZX against the FJR.
SMC
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:hyper: Had a ZX-11 years ago that I pressed into service as a "sport tourer", in fact went 5,000 miles in nine days on one little jaunt. I guess all of us have a different definition of sport tourer. Yours definitely has a big accent on the sport part.Really???? Dude…try not to get your feathers ruffled lol…the 14 CAN do anything you want it…illustration below. And yes, it tourers too. It is a Hyper-Sport-Tourer. Cheers! Now back to our regular scheduled topic.
Been there, have the t-shirt, as for me I like a little more neutral riding position so my neck, back and wrists aren't killing me, along with a shaft drive so I'm not putting the bike up on the center stand lubing the chain every 400 miles and slinging that chain lube all over everything, and I'm pleased as can be with the weather/wind protection on the FJR.
Sounds like your from the U.K., just trying riding your ZX-14 for 987 miles in a day....that translates into approximately a little over 1,600 km in a day and tell me how refreshed you feel when you get off of it.
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jeez, I was waiting for someone to tell him he would get spanked by the ZX
Good story, though if that happened to me it would be the kid that always hated me in school getting back at me for what I don't know
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Scared straight is a better description. I don't know if I ever want to go through that feeling again when the lights turned on. Absolutely sick, wanted to upchuck right there on the spot. I thought I was going to puke in my helmet. All of the really terrible things that could have happened. I would say it changed me. I now know my limit is now far under what the Feej can do. Been there, done that.
I am planning on a nice leisurely ride, catching up and swapping stories over a decent meal somewhere and a nice leisurely ride home. Never plan on being in that situation again! Not a fun thing to do.
The only good thing that came out of it was getting back in touch with someone from along time ago. And there are other ways to do that...
I am planning on a nice leisurely ride, catching up and swapping stories over a decent meal somewhere and a nice leisurely ride home. Never plan on being in that situation again! Not a fun thing to do.
The only good thing that came out of it was getting back in touch with someone from along time ago. And there are other ways to do that...
snikr
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WOW Nice Performance award<snip>As I was getting my gear back on he stopped as asked me how fast I thought I was going. I told him, "One forty." In the same dry tone he had in high school he replied, "It was only 137. I'd be just thinking about 5th gear."
Oh, we are going for a ride next Saturday. He wants to check out the ZX against the FJR.
Tom
tripletango
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No kidding about the britches! Unfortunately no sweat, the FJR will be toast after 40ish !
