NEW MEMBERS - Read this - I'm sorry, but c'mon people.

This should be a requirement to be read before being allowed to be a member. Kind of like a terms and conditions agreement that everyone reads when they install new software updates... ;)
 
We can all make mistakes, I made one many many years ago when I wasn't nearly as smart as I am now, I thought I'd got something wrong but it turned out I was mistaken. ;D
 
So I have a problem-

I absolutely despise when someone posts that they just bought an XYZZY motorcycle and their inspiration is to turn it into an awesome cafe/tracker/brat/Enduro of their dreams....then they post a picture of a "professional" bike with Firestones, velocity stacks, 1-inch of travel, open pipes and clip-ons down where a front fender goes. Oh, and a carbon fibre titanium graphite key knobber trinket.

They then mention they have never ridden/built/seen a motorcycle before.

So then the dance begins where it is tried to explain to them that such a bike is really static art, and even though you saw the Bostrom brothers ride it (because professional riders can ride anything), and it is really just a horrible motorcycle. They then quote some website(s) that called it the best thing out of Europe since beer.

The project never really goes anywhere and even though they are a student they some how have enough money to buy carbon disc brakes, a custom titanium exhaust and a carbon fiber headlight bucket/tank/seat with gold plated graphics that say "Sexual Guerrilla". The bike turns out to be horse shit and then they post on the IG a whole bunch of pictures In front of brick walls, inside parking garages and on a street in Brooklyn. About 6 months later they post of Facebook (yeah we check up on you) that it was stolen or they crash it in a parking lot leaving a Stone Temple Pilots cover band concert.

So the question is- either as a community we accept the stupidity as a chance for practical learning, and thus save the standard comments about suspension travel, no fenders, crappy tired and poor performance.... Or we push them out.
 
redwillissuperman said:
So the question is- either as a community we accept the stupidity as a chance for practical learning, and thus save the standard comments about suspension travel, no fenders, crappy tired and poor performance.... Or we push them out.
This isn't a question. ;) But seriously, fuck it. If someone wants to build a death trap, no skin off my back. Let them kill themselves. If they ask for advice and I have it, I give it. If they're just posting IG pics, then I move along.
 
redwillissuperman said:
So I have a problem-

I absolutely despise when someone posts that they just bought an XYZZY motorcycle and their inspiration is to turn it into an awesome cafe/tracker/brat/Enduro of their dreams....then they post a picture of a "professional" bike with Firestones, velocity stacks, 1-inch of travel, open pipes and clip-ons down where a front fender goes. Oh, and a carbon fibre titanium graphite key knobber trinket.

They then mention they have never ridden/built/seen a motorcycle before.

So then the dance begins where it is tried to explain to them that such a bike is really static art, and even though you saw the Bostrom brothers ride it (because professional riders can ride anything), and it is really just a horrible motorcycle. They then quote some website(s) that called it the best thing out of Europe since beer.

The project never really goes anywhere and even though they are a student they some how have enough money to buy carbon disc brakes, a custom titanium exhaust and a carbon fiber headlight bucket/tank/seat with gold plated graphics that say "Sexual Guerrilla". The bike turns out to be horse shit and then they post on the IG a whole bunch of pictures In front of brick walls, inside parking garages and on a street in Brooklyn. About 6 months later they post of Facebook (yeah we check up on you) that it was stolen or they crash it in a parking lot leaving a Stone Temple Pilots cover band concert.

So the question is- either as a community we accept the stupidity as a chance for practical learning, and thus save the standard comments about suspension travel, no fenders, crappy tired and poor performance.... Or we push them out.


Jwilde? You should see what they did to him over on sohc4.
 
deviant said:
#naturalselection
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This is the one that keeps come to mind.

Mine has fat tires- but for a purpose
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Yeah but neither of those if for shooting across town, picking up your girl, and riding for 2 hours around the city
The other balloon monstrosities are just that
 
I like both of the big wheel bikes. I've never ridden one though. I like the rocket conversions as well.
 
I'm building a big wheel bike. It's going to be a blast to ride, especially at full throttle down the sand roads all around me. Let me see you guys keep up.
 
deviant said:
I'm building a big wheel bike. It's going to be a blast to ride, especially at full throttle down the sand roads all around me. Let me see you guys keep up.

You doing a 250x with the rocket conversion?
 
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