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Brighton, TN | Gents and ladies,
WTB parts to repair my WWWAAAAAHHHHHHH!!! used to be pristine bike. Sniffle, sniffle, boohoo, boooooooo hhhoooooo!!!! I can barely type this it is just too painful.
Rode the bike to work on Saturday, like I said I would. Then went home, so far so good. The sweet thang and I then went for a small ride Sunday afternoon. Got stopped by a guy honking and flashing his lights, to tell me he had a 51 panhead and a 85 softail. He also said love that bike. Hadn't ever seen one but love the look of it. Etc. Drove back home and park outside the garage, thinking I was gonna take a little trip and fill it up. Well, the kids need to go over to their buddies house to hang out. Shuttle kids over and leave bike out.
Riding partner calls to let me know she was just gonna meet me at church. I said okay and then she asked, "Do you want me to push it in the Garage?" I said No leave it, just pull the key and I will push it in when I get home. She says, well I think I can handle it. I say, "Okay!" Then she hangs up.
Then the coo-de-gra, next phone call stating I dropped it and I can't get it up. No rush of adrenaline thinking she has dropped it where it was parked. Nothing around no damage, Thank you Victory. No sweat, I'll be right there to pick it up. Then I hear, "It hit the wall and I think I damaged it!" Let the adrenaline kick in, cold sweat. OH, NOOOOOOOOO!!! I hear, "I was pushing it in the kickstand came up and over it went right into the brick wall, shoving the metal trim on the front over to the right side along with busting the mounting bracket underneath over the left speaker. Shoved the front section over to where the metal trim is contacting the windshield when lowered. OOOHHHH NOOOO!
Some of ya'll are still waiting on Pre-delivery and I bet I won't even be able to get my parts before summertime. WAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
BuckN*KD, here's your chance, I dished it out, am a little anxious about taking it though. Lots of lube and sweet talking, please.
I had just gotten my full face helmet in. Haven't even had a chance to try it out. Finished ordering my tall windshield off of Polaris's website, should be the 10th, it is already being shipped, but my dealer couldn't order me one. So, I don't even have a chance to try out my new toys.
So, if my dealer is unable to get parts, I may be asking for help trying to get my parts in, to ride once again.
I didn't blow up or even get mad, just a little sad. I was so enjoying riding. Maybe I pretend the ground is covered in snow. Not so bad then, but it is only 70 degrees outside. Imagination not working so well. |
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New Bohemia, VA |  pollolittle, my sympathies, hope you get 'er back up and running in short order. I cringed with everyword you wrote. |
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| wow that sucks but that's why we have insurance,!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! to bad BUCKEYE doesn't have SEC insurance on his team |
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Memphis | Sickening story Pollo. I'll bet money your wife feels a lot worse than you do. You have the right to remain silent. (But not the ability.) I have a nagging feeling in the back of my head that something like that will happen to my bike just to make up for how whacked out I got during the delivery phase. Life is a balance. Glad nobody got hurt (physically). If you want to borrow mine for a few days every now and then to get your "fix", give me a shout. Anytime. I'm serious. |
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LaPorte,Tx. | Don't you just hate those calls.........hey take the metal piece off and go for a ride, keep it under a 100 and it will probably be OK. And we've been talking about little creases in bags, good luck with the repairs. |
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Scottsdale AZ | Po - I just got gut wrenching sick! NOOOOOOOOOO! However, with that said, my complement to you for a cool head with the Bride. Major KUDOS!! I once had my 12 year old daughter get her bike out of the garage and put a major dent(not scratch) along the whole side of a brand new car I had for only two days. She was devastated, I felt worse for her and the way she felt, than to get upset.
BTW, what kind of helmet did you get? Maybe you could wear it around the house and make motorcycle sounds-- Bucky where are you? |
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29 Palms California | i weep with you.... if this wasn't such a pathetic episode, I would put the screws to you. It happens, you know, shit. Since divorce would probably cost way to much at this juncture, you now have "WELL, YOU DUMPED MY UNBREAKABLE BIKE SO BAD IT BROKE" on your side. Dude, you get what ever you want from her now! I would still rather have my bike in one piece, but hey, wouldn't we all. Just out of curiosity, are you blaming the wife for something you did? You know, I have this "friend" excuse?
Swiftx, if your team didn't play in the National Championship 2 years in a row (WE WILL WIN IT NEXT YEAR) you need to reevaluate your team, prior to trying to bring me down. Won't happen, I'm still proud of my BUCKEYES! p.s...after many beers and dejavue of last year passed, I woke up in my garage holding my VISION in one hand and empty beer in the other. |
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| Brian, My heart goes out to you. Sorry man.
My better half once trashed my truck I used to tow my dive boat with right before a 1,000+ mile dive trip. I know the phone call only too well =). Tim
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29 Palms California | i recieved a phone call when a box during moving fell on my e-glide. I got free back rubs for weeks. there is always a good side to having your wife damage the only joy you have left in life! |
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, FL United States | Brian, sorry to hear about you Vis. Hope it doesn't take FOREVER to get the replacement parts |
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So Cal | Makes the old butthole pucker just reading about it. Hard to take a shot at such a tragedy. Sympathies and tissues to ya. |
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Brighton, TN | RockJim, wasn't nothing left but to be cool. I thought she might have went and got me one of those heavy 40% beverages to calm my nerves, but I'm still empty handed. I bought one of the new Nolan 102 N-Com Modular Flat Lava Gray helmets. I like it, but chin seems to be very close to the front. If I try, I can touch the front of it, we shall see. Thought about it this evening of putting it on stickers and all, and grabbing a stool and revving up. Then she reminds me, I'm not being funny. I just told her I guess that's why I have insurance and a 500 dollar deductible.
BUCnakd, unfortunately, it wasn't a "friend I know". I have heard all about how Victory seem to think of everything, well I just discovered the one thing they didn't think of, WIVES! I hope that is true, I did pull that card the same evening, wink, wink. Now I just have to figure out how to keep it going for a few more weeks. My joy is just staring at me now.
Songfan, I'll keep you in mind, thanks for the offer. I thought we would have heard this story from your son who took it for the day to show it off. Glad yours is still huntin'. |
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29 Palms California | it could be worse.....nah it couldn't. LOL |
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LaPorte,Tx. | BUCKEYE - 2008-01-08 9:30 PM
it could be worse......
Only if you dropped it yourself........hardly ever you can forgive yourself. |
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29 Palms California | Poop, I just don't have it in me to "throttle" you. I still have 4 cases of tissue from the whole "shipping" issue. Sending them to Tn, time now. |
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Plainfield Illinois | BUCKEYE - 2008-01-08 7:22 PM i recieved a phone call when a box during moving fell on my e-glide. I got free back rubs for weeks. there is always a good side to having your wife damage the only joy you have left in life! Back in '85 I was installing some machines at GM Mansfield. I was there for over a year with my (now ex)wife when my twin sons were born (which makes them native born Buckeyes). I mention this because they talk just about that smooth too. Must be an Ohio thing. (It duzn't bother ME at all BTW) I did make a comment like that to my first wife long long ago in a place far ...... and she whupped my ass with a curtain rod when I was slumberin. I guess there's no chance at all that yer better half would take so rough. I gotta hand it to ya. Pollolittle, .... OUCH. Good luck with repairs. |
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29 Palms California | hey, a brothers gotta get back rubs some how. If i have to give "free" rubs, just because I love the woman, then wrecking my vision would constitute at least two weeks of oil spapping, ground pounding, picture rattling something something. Wink, wink. I curtain rod? you gotta be kidding... |
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Scottsdale AZ | BuckNaKd, I sent you an email last week about the Laughlin event |
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29 Palms California | i thought i responded....the key "i thought" may be the problem. I'm not crazy about events out there. To many of those "others" who think bikers need to be knuckle dragging thugs with some loyalty to a patch, go to those events. Laughlins about 2-3 hours for me. I haven't been in over 3 years. My oldest girl just had her second baby. Little grand daughter. Now I can spoil my grandson, she have the girl to "prissy" up. Her husbands "deployed" and she's coming to live with us in March. It's a dream for me! All the kids and grandkids under my roof. All that free slave labor! I won't even have to get to my own beer! With the family in one spot, Momma and I might get to "break out" on our own for a week-end. We haven't done that in over 14 years. Who knows? Trip to Laughlin? |
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So Cal | Last time I went to Laughlin (the event) we took old rte. 66 all the way out. took 8 hrs. had the best time. Once we got there we were looking forward to the ride home more than the event itself. Ive ridden to Laughlin since but never when theres a biker event. Always have more fun when theres less of a crowd. Less ametures to deal with. Tried a few HOG runs, same thing, too many IOB's (idiots on bikes) |
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So Cal | Put em to work bro, let em know early, there aint no free rides in this world. God bless your son-in-law. I worked with a guy that made it back from Viet Nam. His son wasnt so lucky in Iraq.
Its payback time! All the crap kids put you through when theyre young. Spoil them grandkids till theyre rotten. Then givem back.
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| I feel for you. I hope all works out.
If that was me the neighbors in 4 states could hear swearing in Spanish. I found when you swear in a "strange" tongue no one thinks you are swearing at them.
Make sure to post pics of the "stripped" Vision. Naked as a jay bird running through a watermelon patch..... |
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Plainfield Illinois | BUCKEYE - 2008-01-08 10:04 PM hey, a brothers gotta get back rubs some how. If i have to give "free" rubs, just because I love the woman, then wrecking my vision would constitute at least two weeks of oil spapping, ground pounding, picture rattling something something. Wink, wink. I curtain rod? you gotta be kidding... Not kidding. It was over a bike too. You might call it an Ugly Stick. Fortunately for me, scar tissue is void of nerve endings. Sorry, I forgot where you are from. I'll try to rephraze that in terms you may be more familiar with. "The onlyest time it hurtz is when I look in the meer." So that's my excuse. I know your excuse. You're a Buckeye. It's a birth defect. That's my story and I'm stickin to it. Later.... |
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29 Palms California | Since my wife knows better than to raise a hand in anger towards me, I guess I can't relate to your getting beat like a little girl by a woman. The birth defect I have is a rather large set of testicles, and an ample amount of testosterone. Since your an Illini, I'll break it down for you,,,"Every time yous looks in dat mirror, dat ugly mug you see, has a bunch of estrogen coming from scars tissue". I'm almost sure your crying by now, because you probably don't know what estrogene is. ..so I'll stick with that story. Later.... |
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29 Palms California | my grandson is going on two, it's time he learned how to swear, fart, and drink beer. He has the farting down,,,I have to work on teaching him swearing and beer drinking. The girl is only a couple of weeks old, so I have to wait to improve her social skills. |
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Brighton, TN | He said estrogene. I guess I too am not so bad off, I haven't been beat by the curtain rod or bat. That must have been one heck of a ride. You know what they say about the crazy chicks, their dang good at *****Ng.
BUCKn*kd, with grandchildren, has the world started coming to an end. I thought there was a law instituted just for him in SocAl. He must have gotten through the straps again.
How many chillin's does the Buckeye have? I have been fortunate so far and only have the first generation still living with me, no Grandkids. I really thought one of my kids, especially the 17 year old would have been the one to drop it. |
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Scottsdale AZ | The Laughlin event I'm talkin about is Feb 8-10 and its a Victory event, 99% Vic people. Past gatherings have had 25-50 attendees majority with the Mrs. There isn't any "knuckle draggers" and patch guys. I've been 2 or three times and its a good bunch, even with the socal group.
Bucknkddd, I will have a good time with or without you, just thought I would throw it out. If not I will be headed your direction for a week startin the 10th. BTW, I have 5 of the grandbabies all 5 yrs and younger, well mannered, no farting in Grandpa's house! |
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29 Palms California | thats a travashamocery! Teach the kids proper edicate! "pull my finger",,,cool skills like that. I work midnights in Feb, Might be able to swing it. I know you'll have fun with or without me, don't be an old fart and get bent around the axles or I'll bring my curtain rod with me and hit you with it when you pass out.
As for the straps, I have cananine teeth like a pit bull. Pollo, you coming out for the Laughlin ride? I'm already thinking of "reasons" to go. I have to be creative as Mrs Buckeye has heard just about every sales pitch I have. If I had a an 8 ball and shook it up, it would say "highly unlikely" that I will make it. I live by what that thing reveals. It's magical. |
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Plainfield Illinois | Now now. Let's not be so sensitive. I made one little crack about where you're from and ya go over the edge with assertions regarding masculinity issues just because a witch whacked me when I was asleep so long ago and I let it out here.
I suppose I'll end up in hell for being where I was when my sons took their first breath. It wasn't the first time I worked there and should have known better.
She was Italian and all that screaming passion had a dark side.
I'm into my 4th. month since my deposit is all. I'm bored. |
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Brighton, TN | Now that's funny, sensitive! What rebuild, I can't even get down to the repair shop? Can't find a ride back, have to wait until Friday to drop it off.
I don't know if ya'll know it or not but it is a blizzard outside. 10 no 12 feet of snow and I can barely find my dually cage. Good thing it has heated seats, no heated steering wheel. I think the weatherman is forecasting at least another two, maybe three, more months of heavy snow. With the whole global warming thing going on, I might be snowed in until the middle of the summer.
Bucknads, at first I was gonna say no to coming out to the Laughlin ride, then it occurred to me, I'M SNOWED IN. I was wondering how long before the punches started rolling, you oxygen thief of lower mammals, who drinks beer and farts. I want my bike fixed.
SandCamelJim, I'm impressed if you have five grandkids all well mannered. However, I don't know how you do it. I have yet to meet a kid less than 50 years old who doesn't start giggling because somebody made his cheeks flap together. My 3 year old starts a grinning and giggling and starts looking for that California Barking Spider. |
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29 Palms California | Whew! We escaped the snow! It went around us. I think CamelJim sent it to the east coast. Willie, thats how we roll. Pollopoop, MuckMuckJim and I beat each other up all the time. Blizzard? Is that cold? LOL...I lived thru a few of those coming off of Lake Erie, and Lake Michigan. No FUN! The blizzard of 1978, my dads car got stuck 3 doors down from our house. I had long johns double layers, snowmobile suit, snow mittens,beanie cap and scarf on. I was hot as heck until I shoved my way out the front door to try and help push a 1974 Buick Opel just 5 feet to a curb area. I was instantly in pain from the cold. and the car wouldn't budge. We worked at it for 30 minutes and then ran for the house. A few days later when the snow plows could work, they covered the car in at least 15 ft of snow. I think it was 3 weeks before we could even see the car. I feel your pain...snow? Whats that? |
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Savannah, GA -Year round riding!! Yay! | I would've died if I did that to my husband's bike!! (I guess part of the reason I learned to ride...) Even knowing how to ride, I still get nervous moving my husband's bike. I backed his Gold Wing out of the garage last weekend to polish it for him, and was having "daymares" the whole time that I'd do something like that.... I'm sorry to hear about this pollo. I guess part of the downfall of us having brand new bikes is the whole part delay.
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So Cal | You polish your old mans bike??? Gotta show my wife this one!!!!!! |
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29 Palms California | HA! GAgirlTrixie....he knows we feel his pain, but he deserves some ribbing. You managed to pull your husbands bike out of the garage, and wax it for him? Your husband is one lucky man. Where were you when I was picking a wife. (sorry honey if you read this, but she WAX's her husbands bike!) Dadgummit! |
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Brighton, TN | Define polish and exactly what? Along with the rest, my owners manual did not come with that page in it. Either I got a defective unit, or my model just did not come with the polishing attachment, waxing, washing, changing oil, maintenance pages. BuckN8kd, cJnOhO, we must have ordered from the same online catalog, part #RUBNOT version 1. I wonder if there is a newer version with better built in features. As much as SHE likes to ride you would think she would like to ride a purty bike.
Can you believe it all 17.5 feet of snow all disappeared, blizzard stopped all in the same day and the sunshine came out too. I'm riding, not fixed. Dealer doesn't have a loaner vehicle! That would have been nice.
He said parts are in stock and should be able to have them by the time I come back from Pittsburgh, Pa. Anybody up that way. Looking for a good place to eat and drink. I'll actually be in Monroeville, Pa but I'll have a car. Hopefully, the trip will ease the mind and look forward to better riding days.
Had to call Progressive it was over the deductible. We will see how good the dealer and the insurance company are.
Gents, check this out. I went in to the dealer and asked him when I could bring the bike in, but I told him I would be leaving Monday for travel and would like to keep it through the weekend to go for a little ride with the MSSSSS. He said to let him know when I wanted to bring it in either Sunday or Monday, both days of which they are closed, and he would meet me there. That's awesome, I get to still ride and bring it back on a closed day. I didn't even ask him about meeting me after hours, he anteed it up. Thanks, I say. |
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20 miles west of Chicago. | Hey podner, look at it this way; you're the first Vision owner in history to have damage on one other than the OEM saddlebag and exhaust pipe dents that some came with. |
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29 Palms California | Good one Mudge! Glad the snow went away. Per your order,,,sun shine and warm weather coming your way in three days! I'll guess you'll be looking at mid 70's by wednesday. Never under estimate the power of positive thinking! |
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So Cal | Im the one that screwed up. My wife was perfect till I married her. Wont make that mistake again. |
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20 miles west of Chicago. | No matter how positively I think about it, I'll be lucky if gets above freezing on Wednesday. I hope it does because then the snow will turn into rain, and I don't have to shovel rain, and that's about the extent of the bright side of that. |
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29 Palms California | I promiss it's coming your way! Get out your burmuda shorts and sun tan lotion. |
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So Cal | Went back to Pittsburgh 2 years ago for a wedding. All my old hangouts were gone. South Side used to be the place. |
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20 miles west of Chicago. | I don't know how things work out there at 29 Stumps, but if I walked out of the house anytime soon in Bermuda shorts and sun tan lotion, the only thing coming my way would be a couple of guys in white coats to hustle me off to the Laughing Institute, by way of the local ER where they would stop to get my extensive case of severe frostbite treated. I just hope they will be kind enough to pick up the parts that snap off and bring them along. |
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29 Palms California | mudge, you mis understood, I said EAST COAST, not North Coast. Lake Michigan keeps you nice and chilly, however Tennessee should be looking great in a day or two. I was in Chicago in 2003. I was on 30 days leave after being in Iraq. Had a friend who lived in a skyscraper on Whacker Ave. It was late Aug. so his boss put his yacht in the water and we did a tour of the bay area and partied. Windy! Especially downtown. All those buildings where like big wind tunnels. Put a frosty snow into the equation, and I'll bet you hurt when you go out side! |
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Brighton, TN | Alright, I don't remember anything about swearing, farting, or drinking beer when I started this thread.
Update, All the parts came in rather quickly, like within a week. It is currently reassembled. While it was in the shop, the tour pak came in and they went ahead and put it on. Great, now the wifely unit has a back rest. However, apparently when you order the tour pak it also comes with a new lock set for the ignition and side bags. Once again, however mine didn't come with the locks. Now backordered. Then when they put the tour pack on, the plastic speaker cover and the trim piece above the speaker are pretty roughed and broken, so that is now on order. So still sitting at the shop. |
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Scottsdale AZ | Whew, glad you are OK, hope you are in the saddle soon |
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Tacoma, WA | My tourpak came without locks, too. So again, I am waiting for them! The pak is on my bike, and I installed all the stuff I had for it...(CB/intercom, switches, CB antenna, rack...) Now I am waiting for chrome!-----Metalguy |
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29 Palms California | Poot, the site is no fun without you. |
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Brighton, TN | Showweee. Nobody to banter with, I understand. Haven't seen another pic from you lately. Bucknakd, did you notice you now have been upgraded to IRON BUTT NakD. Man, there must be a prize for achieving such a title. Would you believe, I had to go to PITTSBURGH, PA. Training class and I didn't even take a computer. What a relief. I drank copious amounts of barley and oats. The occasional corn mash and ate like a starving Pygmy, Insert the line from Git-R-Done. I am back till SuperBowl Sunday and then have to fly to Salt Lake City Utah. Anybody up that way. |
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29 Palms California | COOOOOLLLLDDD!!! Sounds like the bike is almost back in good order...Wish I could get a couple of frequent flyer miles in. Latest drawing is done. I did the open mouth, teeth biting the tire look. I will put it on tomorrow. I will be working on your idea next. |
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29 Palms California | my butt does feel a bike "grizzeled", but I don't think its from the site....I guess I should change my skivvies more than once a week? |
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Brighton, TN | Brrrrr hacka Brrrrrr!!!! Gonna be cold. Not so good for riding the Beast, Hoss, Big Jim (not DesertPancake), still trying to figure out the appropriate name for my bike. Not to hip on ViVi. You know I just had a thought, What sex is my bike? Male or Female? This would help me figure out what to call it! I am thinking it is a woman. Not the soft mushy gooey one! You know the one that you don't take home to momma. Svelte, sleek lines that draw you in, an inner attitude that takes control of you. Looks all hot and sexy, but can get down and dirty when you need her to. The body and soul of a amateur female body builder, not to big just right and muscled up.
I am starting to think I have been without my bike for too long. Furthermore, I would like to say I am riding a hot female bike, instead of riding a hot man bike. Maybe I am just backed up. Need my bike dangit. |
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Southeast Iowa | pollolittle - Not sure what you need right now is your bike...............sounds like this subject "I NEED TISSUES" has come full circle. |
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29 Palms California | AHHHAAAAA!!!! Now that's funny, I don't care who you are! Big Vic, you hit him in the head with a "Homie don't play that" sock!
Poot, simm-ah-down-naaaaa. Your discription of your bike reminds of a pole dancer in Australia...her stage name was NOCHANGEPLEASE.
Let's see, a black street...ehmmmm how about Weezy? Just saying...Charmin?...Kleenex? |
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Southeast Iowa | pollolittle - I hope you have a sense of humor, I just couldn't resist! At least I now know BUCKEYE can take a joke. If your still looking for a name for your bike I think you should consider "Luv Machine" it just seems to fit.................. |
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29 Palms California | Big VIc, Pootalittle wrote the book on zingers! He's got a "my wife dropped my bike" sense of humor. She just happened to drop it into a garage, and broke his unbreakable bike. It's like the 6 million dollar bike now. Rebuilt it, bigger and better...i'm not sure about the wife. |
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