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Packs of motorcycles swarming St. Louis area highways
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| September 17, 2011
| JENNIFER MANN
Posted on 09/17/2011 2:35:58 PM PDT by Da Bilge Troll
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To: Da Bilge Troll
Just Amish flash mobs flyin’ their colors.
To: maine-iac7
My uncle hit a moose calf with his F-150 in Houlton about 20 years ago. Right through the windshield. He ended up at EMMC in Bangor for 10 days and had to retire (he drove a skidder.)
To: goat granny
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posted on
09/17/2011 4:16:54 PM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: LibWhacker
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posted on
09/17/2011 4:18:10 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(Alice Cooper hit me with a stick.)
To: Spktyr
Would that be like 1-800-1000-Bikes The number to call to find a Yamaha dealer?
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posted on
09/17/2011 4:18:54 PM PDT
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Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: freedumb2003
To: freedumb2003
freedumb2003: “The day a motorcycle “forces” me off the road is the day I turn in my physics-knowledge card.”
LOL. Thanks for the laugh on that one. Yeah, you’re right. Even a compact car has the advantage in a car versus motorcycle exchange.
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posted on
09/17/2011 4:27:24 PM PDT
by
CitizenUSA
(What's special about bad? Bad is easy. Anyone can do bad. I prefer good!)
To: buccaneer81; goat granny
I grew up in moose country. You swerve or you die.
Nah; just need a bigger vehicle. ;-)
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posted on
09/17/2011 4:27:29 PM PDT
by
ApplegateRanch
("Public service" does NOT mean servicing the people, like a bull among heifers.)
To: Salamander
To: Spktyr
2 strokes are banned from highway use and have been for decades.That may be the case for new bikes and CA, but I'm pretty sure in most cases, older 2 stroke street bikes are "grandfathered." I know that around here, there's one guy with a really sweet Yamaha RZ-350, a couple of Kawasaki H3s, and someone has what must be a grey market import (fraudulent papers for licensing) Suzuki RG-500 GP Replica Racer (parallel 4, I belive). And every now an then you can see a 2-strole DP bike too.
Mark
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posted on
09/17/2011 4:28:55 PM PDT
by
MarkL
(Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
To: Red_Devil 232
Don’t know, but it might make sense. :P
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posted on
09/17/2011 4:29:25 PM PDT
by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: trisham
THX for the link...a moose that dresses out to 1000 pounds is huge...the picture at the link of the the dead moose is impressive...don't want to take a walk and find one eyeballing you. The numbers that Maine has is surprising..
To: LibWhacker
Personally, I think they look pretty rad...;D
[why are the air cleaner and pipes on the wrong side in the top pic? some Amish thing?]..;D
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posted on
09/17/2011 4:34:13 PM PDT
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Salamander
(Alice Cooper hit me with a stick.)
To: goat granny
Maine is a huge state, with most of the population contained on the coast and border areas. That leaves an impressive area of wilderness or near wilderness. We have spent many vacations there tenting, staying at fish camps and fishing for smallmouth bass. I’d rather go there on vacation than anywhere else. It’s beautiful.
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posted on
09/17/2011 4:37:42 PM PDT
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trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: Da Bilge Troll
The new season of “Sons of Anarchy” just started and the wanna-bees are hitting the road.....
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posted on
09/17/2011 4:41:32 PM PDT
by
Bean Counter
(Obama got mostly Ds and Fs all through college and law school. Keep repeating it.....)
To: Da Bilge Troll
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posted on
09/17/2011 4:51:39 PM PDT
by
mountainlion
(I am voting for Sarah after getting screwed again by the DC Thugs.)
To: Colonel Kangaroo
Ah, when Triumphs ruled for wild ones.
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posted on
09/17/2011 4:52:52 PM PDT
by
Sea Parrot
(Democrats creation of the entitlement class will prove out to be their very own Frankenstein monster)
To: HiTech RedNeck
Well yeah, socking into a car with a goodly speed advantage over the car would likely knock it far off course. Even if you were a fairly light motorcycle.In this case, according to the article, the bike "T-boned" the car, killing the rider and auto driver and passenger instantly. The impact flipped the car, and moved it more than 10' out of the lane.
Mark
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posted on
09/17/2011 4:56:39 PM PDT
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MarkL
(Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
To: freedumb2003
Ditto on that. Never been impressed with stories of 500 pound motorcycles muscling 3,000 pound vehicles around.
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posted on
09/17/2011 4:56:39 PM PDT
by
Sea Parrot
(Democrats creation of the entitlement class will prove out to be their very own Frankenstein monster)
To: buccaneer81
“I grew up in moose country. You swerve or you die.”
I guess if you squint real hard the handlebars could look like antlers. :)
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posted on
09/17/2011 4:58:36 PM PDT
by
PLMerite
(Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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