The coolest thing happened today...

[rays650cafe]

My shift at the plant starts at 4:30 a.m. (sucks I know) I usually stop by the store to pick up an energy drink and a couple of doughnuts for a little breakfast. I pull into my usual parking spot and this guy pulls up in an older ford ranger, asks me if my bikes from the eighties. Then he lets me know he has a Yami 750 tripple, and he's using my bike as inspiration for his build. I hope he does a better job than I did! Anyway I thanked him for the compliment, and proceeded to point him in the direction of this forum. I just thought it was cool that I along with inspiration and help from this community, could inspire. It's a price point CB650. I'm sure this has happend to loads of you guys. Any other stories, from those times when people tell you that different is cool? Maybe a proper motorcycle does'nt have to have apehangars to be cool. Apehangars by the way, to me are the two wheeled equivilent of the Mullet. Just sayin.

[buckeyebike]

Any other stories, from those times when people tell you that different is cool?

Bike Night last night with 750+ bikes: 75% Hogs, 24% Crotch Rockets, 1% other and of that 1% I had the only Triumph . . . lots of pointing and compliments for being unique within that crowd

[Tim]

My shift at the plant starts at 4:30 a.m. (sucks I know) I usually stop by the store to pick up an energy drink and a couple of doughnuts for a little breakfast. I pull into my usual parking spot and this guy pulls up in an older ford ranger, asks me if my bikes from the eighties. Then he lets me know he has a Yami 750 tripple, and he's using my bike as inspiration for his build. I hope he does a better job than I did! Anyway I thanked him for the compliment, and proceeded to point him in the direction of this forum. I just thought it was cool that I along with inspiration and help from this community, could inspire. It's a price point CB650. I'm sure this has happend to loads of you guys. Any other stories, from those times when people tell you that different is cool? Maybe a proper motorcycle does'nt have to have apehangars to be cool. Apehangars by the way, to me are the two wheeled equivilent of the Mullet. Just sayin.

Great stuff!

[buckeyebike]

Did you make that seat?  Fits the bike well.  It is cool when you are acknowledged for being different    Well done.

[AgentX]

I'm in India, and my bike is a Royal Enfield...common here, but this is the land of cookie-cutter everything.  Most people's bikes are either stock or fit into a selection of archetypical bikes.  Many are 350cc wannabe Harleys.  Some luckily are pretty sweet, streamlined classic bikes.

But mine's set up as a street-tracker kind of thing, WAY out of the norm, and I am constantly asked while on the move "HOW MUCH PAY YOU FOR THAT?!!," usually by the dude in the shiny shirt riding pillon behind the other dude in the shiny shirt.  It's actually kind of annoying.  "What iz dis?  How much cost it?" is usually the first question you receive about anything unique, and it's shocking how in this land of individually-made, non-standard stuff, no one has the imagination to do anything outside copy something else.

In general, though, people feel it's their obligation to sit on, touch, push/pull/otherwise finger-fuck anything that catches their interest, even if it's someone else's bike.  If you ask them what the fuck they are doing, they get offended because they were merely giving your bike the admiration it deserves (by pulling on bar-end mirrors, for example.)  Hell, I was messing with a throttle cable which had been routed badly at a traffic halt, and a dude on the bike next to me reached over and started trying to turn the cable stop on my carb!

[legendary_rider]

That's the kind of thing I'd have to be aware of when in another country. I'd kick somebody's a$$ for screwing with my bike and then end up in the wrong cause it's common place cultural difference. I wouldn't be able to stand that either dude. Maybe that's the reason everyone wants to have the same boring crap. lol.

[rrjlind]

Did you make that seat?  Fits the bike well.  It is cool when you are acknowledged for being different    Well done.

I like your seat too! Quiet different from anything else IMO. And being different and looking good while doing it isn't so easy. Nice job sir. And good story

[legendary_rider]

Yeah if that happened to me it would give me a "warm fuzzy". lol. Thanks for sharing.

[Call Of Doodie]

Great story - always nice to get a little love from the public, eh?
I think every single time I've taken my CB out I've been stopped by somebody for either compliments, or questions, or "I had one o' those" stories, or just another rider who wants to shoot the shit. Couldn't be a better conversation starter! 

[jdub]

It is always nice when a random compliments your project. I was out the other night and some vintage car club showed up and one of the guys complimented my CB550.

[Clutch48]

Its wild you say that I have an older gentleman that lives down the street from me and him and his friends are all about vintage cars he has several 1960's model fords. Me and him have got to hanging out alot lately and he has really got into talking about the bikes. Crazy how things bring folks together. There is almost a forty year difference in our age yet me and him have become good buddies. He has got to where he wants to talk bikes with me more than cars and is always complimenting the bikes

It is always nice when a random compliments your project. I was out the other night and some vintage car club showed up and one of the guys complimented my CB550.

[legendary_rider]

Sounds like a good new candidate for DTT. Help him find a bike to do up!

[Clutch48]

Sounds like a good new candidate for DTT. Help him find a bike to do up!

I got two CB750's Sitting at house I told him he was more than welcome to one of them. Trying to convince him tho!

[legendary_rider]

Nice! Hopefully he takes you up on it.