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While riding through downtown on the way home from work tonight I saw a guy on a HD that was obviously to big for him just lose it and set it down on it's side from a dead stop at a red light. Of course I couldn't help myself and rode up beside him and asked him if he needed any help holding up the bike. He said no and that he had it but I still had to add in an "are you sure" while he gave it his all to lift it up off of the ground.  I guess I didn't feel bad for him and his ego looked like it was damaged more than the bike.
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Did he eventually right the darned thing? And what HD was he riding?
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I think it was a street glide or similar with the hard bags and front fairing. The guy was only about 5 foot 5 and 130 lbs soaking wet. And I did wait til he got it up and was back on it before I rode off though.
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I knew a guy that was just the opposite. My friend Lester was over 500lbs and bought a Sportster. Really nice guy but couldn't help laugh, when he got off the thing he had to pry it out from between his butt cheeks!  Not really but sure looked like he would have to. He also wore one of those chrome nazi novelty helmets, with his shaved head sure looked like it would make a popping sound when removed. After he brought the bike back to Schocks HD the 4th or 5th time to have the clutch replaced under warranty they told him they wouldn't do it anymore. Haven't seen him in a few years, last I heard he had fallen off his dump truck and hurt his back pretty badly.
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I think it was a street glide or similar with the hard bags and front fairing. The guy was only about 5 foot 5 and 130 lbs soaking wet. And I did wait til he got it up and was back on it before I rode off though.
I work with a guy that is maybe 5 foot 2 (at the most)120 -130 pounds. He bought a 1200 sportster last year ( his first bike) and this spring traded it in on a HD fat bob. Very much a small man issue. We are waiting to see him laying under it in the parking lot some morning as the bike is so wide that his feet can not both touch the ground at the same time.
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I WAS married to a guy with small man's disease, it's not a pretty sight.  I had to have my America modified some to fit my 5'4" frame, but it fits me very well. I easily flat foot it.
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While sittin' outside a Starbucks one warm SoCal afternoon and sippin' my coffee, a woman on a Road King and her husband/boyfriend also on one rode up and proceeded to attempt to backup and park their bikes in the space next to the one I had parked my BA.
The women was all of 5'3' and MAYBE 115lb soakin' wet.
Well, as you can imagine, she had a "little problem" tryin' to back that 700-plus pound motorcycle all by herself into that space, and so her husband/boyfriend backed up and parked his bike first, and then jumped off and grabbed her bike and parked it for her.
Now when these two 40-somethings, all dressed up in all(and I DO mean ALL) their official Harley-Davidson ridin' gear walked past me, I just COULDN'T resist offering up a little suggestion to 'em that went somethin' like this:
"Ya know, just an idea here, BUT I'm thinkin' maybe gettin' a little smaller and more maneuverable motorcycle like that there Triumph o' mine MIGHT be a good idea for the young lady!"
Ya know, some folks just don't take kindly to unsolicited advice, and I had a feelin' these two fell into that category by the stink eye I received from both of 'em as they walked past me and into that Starbucks!!!
(...and yep, this IS a true story!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Some people just can't take the truth!! Good job!! I've wanted to say that before to other women.
Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts. - Charles Dickens
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Idiots are idiots, farts are farts and posers are posers. Nothing will change them, but they're all good to laugh at 
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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I disagree. Not all farts are created equal.
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I knew a guy that was just the opposite. My friend Lester was over 500lbs and bought a Sportster. Really nice guy but couldn't help laugh, when he got off the thing he had to pry it out from between his butt cheeks! .
We had a guy at my last job like that. Pushing 300-350 and riding a 250 Rebel! For all the times I've joked about wanting to be bike seat for some hot girl, this was NOT one of those times!
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My brother had this same issue. Not being a tall feller. After promptly ignoring my advice, which he did ask for, I told him not to get the BMW. It was way too big for him. Well he bought it so it would match his car, had it fall over at 2 lights cause he could not get both feet down and the rode had a grade. Worst one was when it fell over in HOOTERS bike parking as he was tring to get off it. I told him that droping a bike in front of HOOTERS would NOT get him a date!
He finally lernt and got a 1200 low boy. He even had a hard time with the TBA He tried out. (stock of course, no lowering)
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None of these people have ever been to a KISS concert. They maybe could have gotten an idea for boots that would improve their ability to put both feet on the ground.
(I don't know how they would work with the shifter but.....)
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None of these people have ever been to a KISS concert. They maybe could have gotten an idea for boots that would improve their ability to put both feet on the ground.
(I don't know how they would work with the shifter but.....)
Yeah Chad, I'm guessin' those kinda boots might make it a little tough while tryin' to up-shift.
(...though I'm also guessin' the official Gene Simmons prosthetic tongue extension accessory would present no addition challenges to anyone's safe motoring!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Couldn't be worse than dropping your bike at every light.
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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None of these people have ever been to a KISS concert. They maybe could have gotten an idea for boots that would improve their ability to put both feet on the ground.
(I don't know how they would work with the shifter but.....)
Yeah Chad, I'm guessin' those kinda boots might make it a little tough while tryin' to up-shift.
(...though I'm also guessin' the official Gene Simmons prosthetic tongue extension accessory would present no addition challenges to anyone's safe motoring!)
Heel toe shifter and no worries! 
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I disagree. Not all farts are created equal.
Some turn out not to be farts at all. 
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Yeah, well, all I can tell guys here is that the "Rule-Of-Thumb" USED TO BE that if you couldn't push your motorcycle at least 10 miles up a 5% grade, then said motorcycle was too big and heavy for ya. (...of course, since Harley-Davidson motorcycles are NOW a LITTLE more reliable, that has been recently adjusted down to ONLY having to push one a single mile, and at only a 1% grade!!!) 
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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I guess I shouldn't be riding at all. I can't even walk 10 miles pushing only my lard up a 5% grade...
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I guess I shouldn't be riding at all. I can't even walk 10 miles pushing only my lard up a 5% grade...
Hmmmmmm...(flashback a couple years ago)...
Dwight- "So John. Are ya ready to go hit that El Camino Motorcycle Show?
John- "Sure. We're gonna take the car, right?!"
Dwight- "CAR?! Dude, it's ONLY a couple blocks away? No, we're gonna hoof it!"
John- "  "
(...and ya know John, the sad part o' that is...I've got FIFTEEN YEARS on ya, kid!!!!) 
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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Actually that was more about my lower back pain (which is because of the weight) not about endurance or anything else.
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Actually that was more about my lower back pain (which is because of the weight) not about endurance or anything else.
Well, I hope you know that one of the very first things a good Chiropractor(and no, I don't think that's always an oxymoron) will tell ya is that extra weight around one's mid-section doesn't help, and in fact contributes to, lower back issues.
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And now that I've re-read your response, it appears you do know that.
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Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Do a few sit ups every day, lower back pain, sans any kind of actual injury, is usually caused by weak stomach muscles which in turn cause the lower back to solely support the upper body weight. No, I'm not a chiropractor, just an ex-jock.
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We had a guy at my last job like that. Pushing 300-350 and riding a 250 Rebel! For all the times I've joked about wanting to be bike seat for some hot girl, this was NOT one of those times!
For those who didn't get enough of a visual.
 
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Whatever brand tires those are, I'd recommend them!
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We had a guy at my last job like that. Pushing 300-350 and riding a 250 Rebel! For all the times I've joked about wanting to be bike seat for some hot girl, this was NOT one of those times!
For those who didn't get enough of a visual.
That picture made me think of this.
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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That's what Lester looked like except bald with a chrome nazi helmet.
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