Motorcycles BS Thread 2.0

I had a small piece of gravel come off the tire of an adjacent truck riding to work once this spring and hit me square in the chest. Based on the sensation that gave me the rest of the ride, I can't imagine catching that in the face.

 

My buddy (who bought the ninja from me) and I have an agreement that we won't get groms because we would absolutely be stupid with them. The ninja is bad enough, we're planning on knobbies for mine.

 

Have you ever seen a person ride a Grom and not be an absolute hooligan on it? I don't think it's actually possible.

 

I took a partridge to my right shoulder at 55-60 my second or third year riding. Nearly knocked me off the bike, I thought it was a damn deer coming out of the side of the road at first. Even with an icon racing jacket and helmet I had a black and blue shoulder that looked like I got hit with a baseball bat the next day.

 

I witnessed someone taking a seagull off the helmet (no not Andrea Ionnone https://youtu.be/P38EYkb9ypU?si=ktRrr1KfAOVmBudv). No thanks. I've had a branch fall out of a tree and hit me, I hit a robin with the bike at 120~ and it didn't explode luckily. Worst, and wearing a full helmet or not wouldn't have mattered, was getting a hornet down the front of my race suit on the track. It stung me 6 times by the time I killed it.

 

Sounds like the 2 of you need some Groms

 

I feel like we need to be more inclusive and start recognizing Monkey's, Trail 125's, or Dax's (whenever we can get hands on them..) as acceptable hoonible options, too

 

I know 2 guys riding ninjettes and doing long distance rallies on them. One has over 100k miles on it and still going strong.

 

Had a bird hit me in the helmet while commuting on the DC beltway, it was kind of a glancing blow and I wasn't sure what it was till I looked in the mirror and saw a bunch of feathers. It didn't rock my world though, more of a "that was kinda weird" moment. Dogs and deer scare me far worse.

 

I saw a ‘21 monkey in my area for cheap. Only ~300 miles on it.

 

I think the difference is that yes, you can hoon those. The Grom tho, you must

 

Fair fair, very good point

 

same reason I've not purchased a Navi, because it would be used like it was cheap minibike and completely toss able. because I've jumped my Coleman bt200x plenty.

 

Brappp
https://youtu.be/-5_RKg0nYp0?si=H-sVm5QX5PNKvyY9

 

I mean we could… but we won’t Found out the other day that crosswalks don’t have the same amount of grip as pavement. Full lean blasting through a parking lot when I felt both tires sliding.

 

Friend of mine has his Grom on FB marketplace for sale. Sorry, had it for sale. Logged on to get the details to post here only to see it sold. $2350 for a 2017 with about 2k miles.

 

I just found a semi local 2018 for $3k. 900 miles. Hmmm

 

Was talking to friends about hitting that boulder and I actually found it! Lmao

I’ll start working on my other photos and upload them through this week! I didn’t get many sadly was to busy running about

 

Not bad, low ball him then buy it!