Would reading a book like Proficient Motorcycling do me any good before I can actually ride?

herewego111 · 7 days

Yes.

Read it now then read it a second time, very slowly, once you have your bike. Try reading one article a week and then going out and actually incorporating what you read into your riding. It will make a massive difference. IMO it's too much info to take in after one reading. Going through the book properly will take a year.

Remember that "Proficient Motorcycling" was not written as a book.. it's a series of columns written over a long period and collected into one volume. Each piece can stand on it's own nicely.

namegoeshere · 7 days

It's from 2009 so not exactly breaking news, but I found it interesting and had not come across it before.

namegoeshere · 7 days

I've had the strangest night.. took a ride down the Delaware to pick up a 6 pack. Saw a bike I had never seen before as I walked into the store and it turned out to be a Moto Guzzi I was not familiar with. I talked with the owner for an hour or so.. motorcycle talk just gets away from you sometimes.

Then I walked back to my KTM and a guy walks up to me in jeans and a bathrobe, no shirt. He says "I clipped this article out of the newspaper and I knew I wanted to share it with someone. You're the guy." and walks off. It was about Potter, whom I've never heard of before.. but I think I'd have liked.

Drank the beers. It was a beautiful night.. 65 and clear, nice breeze off the river. It's a weird weird world.

I think this guy may have been the first person to put a car engine into a motorcycle. Beautiful crazy bastard.

tangman · 7 days

You are either a complete moron or a troll. I'm guessing troll.

wryguy89 · 7 days

I've never actually done it myself.. but my neighbour did and we often parked in the same spot so I'd see his routine a few times a week. He would walk outside in his suit + riding boots with his shoes in hand. Open the top case and take out the Roadcrafter. The shoes went in. Then off with the jacket and neatly folded on top of them in the same top case. Then on with the roadcrafter and off to work. I assume he did it in reverse when he arrived. The top box was a Givi .. I forget what size but it was fairly roomy.

jayelwin · 8 days

Well it wouldn't be fair. The Valk would have 200 thousand miles on it in 10 years and the Harley would still be showroom mint .. having never left the garage ; )

jayelwin · 8 days

If I was in the market for a new cruiser it would be a Valk.

Take dat witcher Harley!

ansabhailte · 8 days

No no no.

Your options are lies about the one thing and different lies about the other. The reality is both guys will do exactly the same things once they get into office.

You have a choice, but it's an impotent one designed solely to make you think you have a voice.

It no longer matters who wins American elections, if it ever did. All of the candidates are carefully selected to be good options for the men who pick our leaders for us. Then they let two or three of them fight it out to see who comes out on top.

Expressman · 9 days

Well.. next time consider posting an article about Spain instead. That would probably be received better!

ansabhailte · 9 days

That's not one of the options. You've been given two options, that's freedom. You get to make the choice.

Now which flavor of bullshit do you prefer? The black guy gives a nice speech and likes gays. The white guy is probably the way to go if you have gray hair and wouldn't like to see your daughter dating a brown person.

Pick citizen, this is freedom at work.

Expressman · 9 days

Nothing personal man.. it's just that what you have posted has no content. That there is such a thing as an "Advice Animals" sub is news to me.. I have no interest in that sort of thing. There are probably quite a few guys here who agree with me on that.

There are plenty more who do not. Good for them, there is a whole subreddit for that sort of thing, apparently. Keep it there. The S/N is shitty enough as is.

ansabhailte · 9 days

What is truly amazing is that the average American has never heard the phrase "U6 unemployment" and does not know that the BLS maintains several different figures.

Try explaining to them that they have changed which one they report on several times to make the numbers look prettier and enjoy the cognitive dissonance. Monkeys, what amazing little creatures.

Expressman · 9 days

I have a theory that there is a maximum population a sub can have before the majority of the posts turn into mindless memes and bullshit. I believe that number to be approximately 20 thousand.

Thank you for being part of the problem.

ansabhailte · 9 days

The puppet on the left said the puppet on the right did it. Is that the black puppet or the white one?

Who cares. Same hand up both their asses. Same agenda, different lies.

Which flavor of bullshit do you prefer?

Fuzzyweeze · 9 days

How refreshing.. the opinion of yet another guy who doesn't own guns or know what the fuck he is talking about.

If you never train with your carry ammo you are a moron. You need to know you can put rounds on target with the bullet you will use in a fight before you get into that fight.

For most of us that means using cheaper FMJ at the range and firing a mag or two of our (much more expensive) carry ammo to practice with.. but maybe.. just maybe.. if you bought 450 million rounds at a time the bulk purchase would offset the difference in cost enough that you could train your guys with the round they would be firing in a fight all the time.

Ezekiel3721 · 9 days

It gets tiring - and is basically just a waste of time - to go through the whole song and dance every time a new guy shows up.

Ezekiel3721 · 9 days

This is like a Dr saying "I have good news, it can't get any worse. He's dead."

bushel · 10 days

He's also been riding for a long time. I recall a bit in one of his shows or interviews about being bike only in NYC when he was starting out in comedy. His discussion had the complaints, joy and hatred of a genuine motorcyclist.

Let's face it.. what's fun on a sunny Saturday is a pain in the ass when you're trying to bring home a case of beer in December. He's one of the few celebrities I know of who actually rides and didn't just purchase some flashy accessories for the garage. Kevin Costner too.

rountrey · 10 days

Hollow point ammo pretty much ensures that whoever is shot by it will die.

That's absolute nonsense. Hollow points are more effective against soft targets (by soft I mean *not wearing body armor, bullet proof vests, inside a hardened vehicle, etc) but they are used by law enforcement for reasons that go beyond stopping power. The fact that the HP bullet expands when it strikes something makes it far less likely to over-penetrate. This means that when a cop is forced to shoot someone in an urban environment the bullet is more likely to stop inside the bad guy instead of travelling through him, through the wall behind him and into your living room.

In a war we are required to used NATO regulated ammo (9x19, 5.56x45, 7.62x51 for small arms), why would they buy hollow point ammo unless they were going to use it inside the US.

No.. in a war no one is required to use NATO ammo. NATO countries standardised their calibers because it makes supply easier.

Signatories of the Hague Conventions do not use "expanding" bullets because it's considered a war crime and they signed a declaration saying "We think war crimes are bad and we ain't gonna do 'em no more."

So they use non-expanding ammo.. which is bullshit because Humans are some scary mofo's. Now we use fragmenting bullets that explode inside the cavity or like the Russians go with bullets designed to tumble upon impact.

Either strategy effectively skirts the rule without blatantly breaking it.

why would they buy hollow point ammo unless they were going to use it inside the US.

I'm not sure what this means or who "they" are. Possibly zee Germans?

I have HP ammo loaded into both of my carry guns right now. Why? Because if I have to defend my life against a lethal threat I want to drop that threat ASAP. I also don't want the bullet to over penetrate and put an innocent bystander in harms way.

These are the same reasons that the Police - and every other thinking person with legal access to HP ammo on the face of planet earth ever - carries them as well.

amazingbandersnatch · 10 days

Mash the potatoes, cook the peas. Drink the beer before it sours and save the barley to make more beer. This Rumford guy didn't know how to cook .

gastonbury · 10 days

So.. to prepare for "hyperinflation" you are going to have a 6 month supply of milk?

Buy a cow. If you don't have enough space for a cow buy a goat.

molo1134 · 10 days

There is a similar company located about 15 miles from me. The owner is 22.

Sometimes children are just given more money than they know what to do with.

jawnofthedead · 11 days

So the rhizome is about 6" long, the white buds coming out of the end are 2". Do I plant the whole root, essentially 8 inches under ground with the white buds pointing up? I guess the 1" measurement is throwing me off.

Yes.

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