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Re: Black Sport bike chased by cops in Mississauga today Don't just suspect a friend, report one. If you have a problem with him, and especially since it is not a violent incident, be neighbourly. Also, just be a man about it. Knock on his door, tell him you are from the neighbourhood, and...

Amazing. All I could see was the cerulean blue...

It would not be technically difficult or expensive to build a pager and code activated "security device" to leave on the bike that you can "activate" if the bike disappears. I understand bear spray is very unpleasant in confined spaces...

Classy.

It's not my reaction. It's the reactions of everyone around me that are caused by cruisers. The amount of traffic enforcement has gone through the roof in the last decade, so to say they've always been like this is absurd. Parked cruisers and speed traps are dangerously disruptive to the flow of...

In terms of the most dangerous vehicle, if you were on the road with every vehicle that people have listed here as the biggest threat to motorcyclists, and added a cop car to the mix, the most disruptive force on the road would be the cruiser. They don't have to cause most accidents to be the...

If the speed of traffic is 100 in an 80 zone, then the danger is from people abruptly reacting to the hazard posed by police hiding around corners. Traffic gets along fine without them. Their roadside revenue collection mandate is the problem.

Police cars a probably the most dangerous to motorcyclists because it's distracting to be on the lookout for them all the time. Speed of traffic is always higher than the limit, and when you are going around corners or over crests you have to watch for sudden stopping as people see the radar...

Meh. Retro vs. classic. You wear jeans don't you? And yet nobody accuses you of dressing up in period costume. British engineering has always been spectacularly poor. It was charming, but we live in the future now, and along with having indoor toilets and a lot less polio, we ride bikes that...

You could get it fixed, or just get a Quebec plate instead.

The simplest technology would be a license plate reader system for the door opener that had tenant plates registered to it, with a camera on the inside of the garage that alerted security to any unregistered plates. Sure, the van people would just not use plates, but the indoor camera would...

I make a point of taking phone-camera pictures of any van or truck idling on my street and stand by the garage entrance while the door closes if I see vans. I can pull the plate number from it using image processing software.

Re: ATTN:Red and White Gixxer 600 on Balmuto Thruxton definitely push starts, which implies the Bonneville and probably the Scrambler as well. Presumably it was to maintain the feel of the old bikes, which I understand could only reliably be started by pushing them. More seriously, I think...

Earphones restrict the flow of of the Force.

Rode the 400 up past hwy 9 at in the morning on saturday. Never rode in fog like that. 8 lengths visibility, break lights at about 15. Figured, what the hell, the highway just goes north and straight so there's nothing to see even if I could anyway. English weather on a brit bike, kind of what...

Re: ATTN:Red and White Gixxer 600 on Balmuto New triumphs push start. Discovering that battery was sealed, however, was annoying. ~$150 for a new battery instead of a couple of ounces of electrolyte. There may be a separate connector on the battery for the electronics as well, which you can...

As a guy, I was going to ask this same question of the girls here here since I was wondering about that for passengers. What about a silk scarf? This book comes with the scarves when you buy them, and about two or three of the folds pictured here might work. I'm sure there is a blog post or...

65km. King, highway 50, 9 and 27 were all great. Some of the side roads were wet from the melting.

I use a lock w/o an alarm because the whole point of security isn't to protect the bike, it's to cause the thieves to move on to the next one. False alarms just make your neighbours hope your bike gets stolen so that they don't have to hear the thing go off all the time.

The original point was if you aren't on a SS, knowing the W/P was a good tell for whether to take on a stock Maserati, Austin Martin, R8, or all those Bentleys you see downtown. No point in using the throttle against anything worth less than ~$150G's anyway. This thread has gone on about...