All of the S2Rs did, right?
I guess so. I'll have a yellow steel replacement tank for sale real soon. Really soon as I may have to cockroach the ignition coils off of the yellow bike to make Tori's bike work properly again.
Get this......
I was sitting in the garage this early evening when two bikes passed through Norfolk. The first one was a high strung I4 running at a high pace with a slower bike following. Now I was working on my second beer and enjoying a cigar. The I4 was super crisp and hooked up. There I was thinking to myself "OK, have fun, sounds good."
Then the I4 made a second return pass. OK, been there done that..... No second bike....
Third pass for the 4 and getting faster......... Oh boy.......
Forth pass and really hooked up..... now I appreciate a good tuned bike being well ridden but this was starting to push my buttons ...... the rider was on race pace and strafing the neighborhood ....... that was starting to reflect badly on me because everyone around here assumes I know all of these folks and I get the third degree about these riders ......
So I grabbed my cigar, hiked up to road and waited ....... if it's all done I'm good but......
Sure enough, after a short bit, here comes the fifth pass ...... I can hear the high revs climb and fall through the road but this is over the limit and I stood in the road to flag the rider.
Got them stopped, even reached over the fairing and shut the engine off, and had a lively discussion about fun & respect on the road and for the people who live around here and about the big picture for all of us who love to ride fast and protecting the road so that we can ride fast without incurring the wrath of the residents and the police.
A few passes can piss some people off but the neighbors can understand and will look the other way. Repeated runs is another thing. My point of view is that continued abuse will kill the fun for all of us who like to run Norfolk, 13 Turns and Tantalus among other roads. I won't go into all the details but it was lively and in the end we shook hands.
I don't think either one of us expected that exchange and both of us will likely remember it for a long time. Whether or not it will have any lasting effect is unknown. I was told I reminded them of their father because the father drank beer, rode bikes and smoked cigars and that what I was saying was exactly what their Dad would say.........
I told the rider that I loved the bike and the way it sounded but..........
It might not have been the most PC thing to do but it felt like the right thing to do. Is there even a question of who's the bigger dick? I dunno.... There's driveways, kids and dogs possibly involved. What's done is done.
