Going to the Dark Side

[odot]

You are good friends with him, aren't ya? I don't know the guy, never met him....and I just know....he can do an admin job here.

 

[Fontanaman]

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This looks like one of our staff meetings at work!

 

[user 213]

Nah, never met the dude. But you got to be nucking futz to take an admin job here.

 

[Redfish Hunter]

1. The admins don't need any help from me. They sure as hell have not asked for it anyway!

2. The pay sucks for an admin here. Since the admins split 100% of the profits from member dues and advertising revenue... Oh wait, there are NO dues or advertising revenue. Nothing from nothing leaves, well, nothing.

3. I would abuse my power. I would do the meanest damned things. I would block certain members IP addresses for a couple of hours at a time just for random meanness. Then when I turned them back on and they started a thread complaining about it I would make all sorts of sarcastic comments blaming the whole thing on them. I would, of course, start all of this on a Thursday evening so it would create a Friday dogpile. I would at random insert a "Reminder to adhere to rule # such and such" into threads that were in violation of nothing. I could come up with more but I don't want to give SkooterG any ideas.

In summary Odot, I will become an admin about the time that SkooterG and Ignacio buy themselves a matched pair of Honda ST1300s.

 

[Fontanaman]

1. The admins don't need any help from me. They sure as hell have not asked for it anyway!
2. The pay sucks for an admin here. Since the admins split 100% of the profits from member dues and advertising revenue... Oh wait, there are NO dues or advertising revenue. Nothing from nothing leaves, well, nothing.

3. I would abuse my power. I would do the meanest damned things. I would block certain members IP addresses for a couple of hours at a time just for random meanness. Then when I turned them back on and they started a thread complaining about it I would make all sorts of sarcastic comments blaming the whole thing on them. I would, of course, start all of this on a Thursday evening so it would create a Friday dogpile. I would at random insert a "Reminder to adhere to rule # such and such" into threads that were in violation of nothing. I could come up with more but I don't want to give SkooterG any ideas.

In summary Odot, I will become an admin about the time that SkooterG and Ignacio buy themselves a matched pair of Honda ST1300s. Gold Wings just like the one Bust has.

Fixed it for you Redfish.

 

[user 213]

3. I would abuse my power. I would do the meanest damned things. I would block certain members IP addresses for a couple of hours at a time just for random meanness. Then when I turned them back on and they started a thread complaining about it I would make all sorts of sarcastic comments blaming the whole thing on them. I would, of course, start all of this on a Thursday evening so it would create a Friday dogpile. I would at random insert a "Reminder to adhere to rule # such and such" into threads that were in violation of nothing.

So, about like normal? Don't you think you could stretch a bit?

 

[odot]

Just saying.....when the time comes....it will be appropriate. Some of us will not be here when that happens.

 

[RadioHowie]

Just a quick reminder to all you (fellow) Dark Siders.....

If you ride Dark Side, you will NOT, as mentioned frequently, "die a flaming death!"

To keep it in CORRECT context, the acceptable phrase is, ONLY, "...a flaming plastic and aluminum death!"

Accuracy is paramount, my peeps.

 

[rbentnail]

I like how you guys slap each other on the back like good ol' boys when yer all in agreement. It's cute.




I am considering going DS....just need to find a place here in dfw that will do it. Means I have to ask around and stuff.

Yo Dot'ness, check out the HD shops. Mostly they don't care. The other option I found that worked most of the time was to walk the wheel into an Americas Tire or similar joint and say I needed a tire mounted for my side car/trike. They all seem to get the side car or trike would need a car tire, not a moto tire and can get their heads around that. Often they can not balance the tire though, so let them mount it and have the local moto place balance it. They will usually do the balance w/o much fuss.

@juniorfjr - My favorite response is to ask how many miles they have on their bike. Most of the time, I have more miles on the rear CT then they have on their bike. Pretty much ends the argument w/o you having to actually tell them they are a poseur.

@bgross - Yep, we see this every now and then. Sometimes we're nice, other times we dogpile. Amazing how many people want to discount actual, first hand, experience over what their neighbor's friend's, uncle Bob told their sister's BFF's boyfriend that rides a scooter.

My local Honda dealer will do a car tire for me. "Why the hell not?", he says. "We do Goldwings all the time!"

 

[garyahouse]

I'm feeling a little better informed today than I was Thursday when I wrote post #3182. Thanks for the feedback. I especially enjoyed what OCfjr and Bgross had to say. Bgross, I think you mentioned this before, but today it finally hit me. Our million plus miles of experience running these tires is but a drop in the bucket compared to what you posted up. And since you seem to be the only person on this forum posting THIS specific information, I have a question for you sir. We did a questionnaire on this forum somewhere around a year ago asking how many miles were logged by (less than 50 of us at the time) darksiders on this forum. My memory is a little foggy, but I'm thinking that it was around 700,000 miles combined at the time they pulled the questionnaire from the forum. That all took place SINCE this forum began: relatively recently. However, you bring something new to the table that we've not talked about much. Darksiding has a much wider range than what we've documented here. You said that on your Goldwing sub forum, there are thousands of darksiders. You spoke of 10's of millions of miles of using these tires.

Could you shed some more light on just what all this experience has revealed? Do the combined voices of all these darksiders reinforce what we've said here? Wait a minute... scratch that last question. I meant to say... do they reinforce the occasional intelligent information we've posted here?

Gary

darksider #44

 

[Redfish Hunter]

I know that this subject comes up on my ST1300 forums as well. Oddly enough, it just got revived over there again. I had posted that great pic of SkooterG leaned over and that thread has been dormant for months. Now suddenly, some all knowing, smarter than everyone else individual reposted it and pointed out all the things he was doing wrong. I was amazed that everything from his riding position, his mounting plate for the top box, all the way to his car tire was suddenly completely wrong. Poor SkooterG, I did not realize how incompetent he was! FWIW, I thought the entire pic was fantastic. I am not going to try to outride him.

Gary, you have given me an idea. I am going to start a thread on the ST1300 forum asking for a total mileage count from the Darksiders there. I will post those results here.

 

[qkslver]

I Poor SkooterG, I did not realize how incompetent he was!

Don`t know him very well do you--ROTFLMAO!!

 

[bgross]

I'm feeling a little better informed today than I was Thursday when I wrote post #3182. Thanks for the feedback. I especially enjoyed what OCfjr and Bgross had to say. Bgross, I think you mentioned this before, but today it finally hit me. Our million plus miles of experience running these tires is but a drop in the bucket compared to what you posted up. And since you seem to be the only person on this forum posting THIS specific information, I have a question for you sir. We did a questionnaire on this forum somewhere around a year ago asking how many miles were logged by (less than 50 of us at the time) darksiders on this forum. My memory is a little foggy, but I'm thinking that it was around 700,000 miles combined at the time they pulled the questionnaire from the forum. That all took place SINCE this forum began: relatively recently. However, you bring something new to the table that we've not talked about much. Darksiding has a much wider range than what we've documented here. You said that on your Goldwing sub forum, there are thousands of darksiders. You spoke of 10's of millions of miles of using these tires.Could you shed some more light on just what all this experience has revealed? Do the combined voices of all these darksiders reinforce what we've said here? Wait a minute... scratch that last question. I meant to say... do they reinforce the occasional intelligent information we've posted here?

Gary

darksider #44

Hahaha.It's pretty much the same: people with ZERO personal experience confidently telling us that... It Won't Work. Because some 'expert' said so. (Sometimes the 'expert' is only their imagination, but it's still infallible.)

We've not had a single 'flaming death' incident, and many riders on runflat tires telling how they 1) rode 100+ miles on the interstate before they realized that they had a hole in their tire, or 2) got a hole in their tire in the middle of nowhere and rode two hours to the nearest town (where there was no motorcycle dealer) and bought another car tire and finished their trip.

And plenty of stories about some Mr. Knowitall who pointed and laughed at the "stoopid old man tire" - and then couldn't keep up in the mountains.

Or the classic "If CTs are so good, why don't they use them in MotoGP??!!" It's always tempting to point put that NO street tires are used in GP, nor are there sport-touring bikes. But at some point you realize that the easiest way to end the conversation is to say "You're probably right. My parents were cousins."

 

[TripperMike]

"You're probably right. My parents were cousins."

I gotta remember that one. LOL May I be free to use it?

 

[Redfish Hunter]

"You're probably right. My parents were cousins."

I gotta remember that one. LOL May I be free to use it?

It is not the easiest way but, I suggest a different one. Why not ask the "know it all" if their Mommy and Daddy were brothers? I warn you that this can result in some unhappiness...

 

[SkooterG]

I Poor SkooterG, I did not realize how incompetent he was!

Don`t know him very well do you--ROTFLMAO!!

Some jackass is nice enough to give you a ride from the hospital to the airport after an epic fail in experimental FJR flying lessons and you forever after have to suffer his abuse. I think I would have rather walked. Yeah, that's the ticket!

"You're probably right. My parents were cousins."

I gotta remember that one. LOL May I be free to use it?

Excellent! But I would use brother and sister! I usually just say I am retarded. But I like this one better. Or perhaps I should just say I am Rick Martin. Then people would understand.......

Lots of times I tell people it's a prototype of an experimental motorcycle tire. Amazing how many people seem to buy it.

 

[bgross]

"You're probably right. My parents were cousins."

I gotta remember that one. LOL May I be free to use it?

Feel free. But, as you can imagine, the stunned expression on the faces of folks is... priceless. Or is that worthless?

"If the music in the soundtrack of your life is mostly banjos... you may be a know-it-all."

 

[user 8909]

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This looks like one of our staff meetings at work!

yeah, sometimes a simply poll will clear things up, well, maybe not.

 

[RadioHowie]

SInce this zombie hasn't been bumped in a while, as I was having a smoke out back at the office, I snagged an up-to-date pic....

I'll hit 29,000 miles on my Michelin Sport A/S Plus on my ride home tonight...installed Nov. 2009. I'm STILL a happy Darksider.

 

[dougc]

Coming soon to an FJR near me...damnit!