Making friends

Gas stations are Kodak Moments,yo. The look on the faces when they see how much a fill up on my bike is,and the all ears when I tell the one person that talked to me telling him I get 40 miles on that 80 cents worth of gas.
 
I rode my bike to the barber shop yesterday. I agree that most women don't seem interested in motored bikes, but all the ladies there went out to look at my Titan and I got to field all the usual questions while getting my hair cut. They all say "Man I just live a few miles from here and waste so much on gas, I need to get me one of those."
 
Everywhere I stop I get grilled... the hardware store, gas station (that's always a good spot), garage sales...

Q's are always the same... how fast, what MPG, what did you pay for the kit, how many cc's?
Somebody here once referred to this questioning as "The Interrogation". It's true.
 
Nice story there Scott,

I try not to grin, I just can't, simply impossible. I have to look the other way and pretend I did not see anyone and no matter where I look there is someone else staring.
 
Guilty here too. I HAVE to turn my head sometimes. I mean EVERYONE looks at you.
It's a little creepy sometimes.
But then there was this chicken at the street corner advertising Chick Filet and as I passed her I said "HI CHICKEN LADY!!!!" And she said "NICE BIKE!!"

I was thrilled.
 
I try not to grin, I just can't, simply impossible. I have to look the other way and pretend I did not see anyone and no matter where I look there is someone else staring.
Heh... yea, I'm guilty as well. We're pathetic.

Only time I look at the people staring at me is when it's children. I thought of Large one time when this little girl waved at me with her mouth wide open.. made me think of his hero comment in his sig. And another time, this other girl just stared at me, but her mom was standing right behind her smiling from ear to ear and waving like I really was a hero.

Sometimes motored biking can be quite touching. :cry:
 
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Oh man today I was coming back home from picking up my Host Home check and on the trail there was a classroom full of little kids on their kid bikes with some parents and teachers. There must have been 50 kids doing a close to the end of the school year bike ride.
Dawgs. I was like "HI! HI! HI!!!" and the kids were just all open mouth and making so many comments like "COOL!!" and "WOW!!" Some parents smiled back too but some gave me a mean look. I bet it was because they had to pedal,or their kids would be telling them "Daddy,how come you're not cool like that guy we saw today?"
Yup. I bet that was the reason.
I wished I would have shot that video. That was so priceless.
 
I've only ridden my back to work twice. (I work at a gas station BTW) And every time I pass someone walking, waiting for a bus, or riding a regular bike, they can't seem to shut their mouth. Everyone that sees my bike parked out front of the store always says it is awesome and I get the usual "interrogation"
 
Lots of looks and questions...

I think everyone is generally curious about an MB. My best story is that when I first got mine, I rode by a Harley and (just for kicks) revved my engine a little as I passed him. Well, low-and-behold, all of the sudden I see him ride up next to me (he pulled a U-ey) and say something to me like, "hey, you gotta minute to pull over?"

We pulled over to the side of the road and had a good chat about it. He had a Harley (obviously) but wanted an MB to ride around, too.

People are just generally interested in these things, and I kinda like it. At first I figured that I couldn't ride 5 miles w/o someone asking me about it... Like many of you, I am ADDICTED!

Thanks for the site and the encouragement from you all!

Jared
 
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