"E92M3" (E46M3)
01/23/2019 at 20:49 • Filed to: None
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"E92M3" (E46M3)
01/23/2019 at 20:49 • Filed to: None | 4
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He rides his Harley every... single... day. 19 degrees with 30-40 mph gusts, rides his H arley. Torrential downpours, rides his Harley. 100 degrees and 95% humidity, rides his Harley. It's loud, he comes home at 11pm every night, but I can't even hate him.
PowderHound
> E92M3
01/23/2019 at 21:01 |
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Obligatory,
E90M3
> E92M3
01/23/2019 at 21:01 |
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Surprised Roswell doesn’t have an ordnance against that.
Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
> E92M3
01/23/2019 at 21:08 |
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I get up pretty early during the week, so I would not share your prop-givingness.
McMike
> E92M3
01/23/2019 at 21:21 |
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19 degrees with 30-40 mph gusts
4/5
FLmanisback
> E92M3
01/23/2019 at 21:50 |
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There was a period of time in my life when my Sportster was my DD. My parents lived at the bottom of a hill and I was working nights over the summer. I would shut the bike off at the top of the hill and coast into the driveway at 5:15 am.
Later, after graduating college, same bike, I lived in the city (Philly) for a few years and had a loft with a freight elevator. I would ride into the loading area and shut the bike off, push it into the elevator and roll it into my loft. Rode all winter, I spent a lot of nights in my 20’s staring at the black bike from my couch as we both soaked up the heat. It was the nicest thing I had ever owned at the time. There was an element of dedication. Leather everything, always cold, pull into the office garage and change all my riding clothes to work clothes. Straight pipes, setting off car alarms, 2 gallon tank that yielded about 90 miles before reserve. Real bar hopper of a bike , visceral and nasty. Turn signals in a box somewhere, along with the passenger seat and the oddly placed speedometer. Didn’t need that in the city. I was no hardcore biker dude, but riding was part of what defined me. I never decided to take the subway for lousy weather or because I was dressed nice. I’m an engineer, and the sportster was the bare minimum of what was necessary to achieve the purpose. It had great appeal to me for that reason.
I still have visions of late night wrenching on bikes and 2 am test rides. But I met my wife (who was fine with dates on 2 wheels), had a family, sold the bikes when I needed safe transportation for a baby. Now I coach soccer and the high school surf team. Great fun, miss the bikes. No regrets, I could start riding again but when I moved to this part of Florida in the early 90s, there were more open, scenic roads and less people. It seems like the risk versus reward equation is different now *yells at clouds*
Manny05x
> E92M3
01/23/2019 at 21:54 |
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What do you find annoying? The bike or does he do other stuff? I would take bike noise over loud music any day.
Vicente Esteve
> E92M3
01/23/2019 at 22:33 |
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I just can’t understand how a Harley can sound anything other than obnoxious.
BaconSandwich is tasty.
> Vicente Esteve
01/23/2019 at 23:26 |
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Ever seen the LiveWire concept? It's actually not bad.
atfsgeoff
> E92M3
01/23/2019 at 23:54 |
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Having ridden in 19 degree weather a few times, it’s fun for the first ~5 minutes. Then it gets (c)old fast.
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Vicente Esteve
> BaconSandwich is tasty.
01/24/2019 at 08:40 |
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Sure have, didn't like it.
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E92M3
> Manny05x
01/24/2019 at 09:55 |
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It’s just the bike, he comes past my house in 1st gear near redline everytime always at 11:00pm. Now normally that wouldn’t bother me, as I’m usually still awake, but it wakes my 8 yr old up it's so loud. Sometimes he goes right back to sleep but other times it takes 30 mins to an hour for him to fall asleep again.
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E92M3
> E90M3
01/24/2019 at 10:04 |
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They do, but the noise has to go on for more than 10 consecutive minutes before they will enforce it according to another neighbor. If it’s a barking dog , they’ll come out, but not for motorcycles ( unless he’s doing laps around the neighborhood apparently ) .
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E92M3
> atfsgeoff
01/24/2019 at 10:09 |
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When I rode my cutoff was anything under 40 degrees. Below that it’s just not fun, it's miserable.
Nauraushaun
> E92M3
01/24/2019 at 16:26 |
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I hate him
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Manny05x
> E92M3
01/26/2019 at 11:10 |
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Lol 1st gear redline sounds like me. Yeah your tolerance for things changes once you have kids. You should set up a fake deer in front of his house lol.