How often do you encounter other motored-bike riders?

[retromike3]

questions at the gas station

I have a two gallon red plastic gas can that I use when I run out of my privet mix. So I was getting down to my last half gallon and I bunged my two gallon red tank to my rear rack and headed to the gas station. I usually go to the local Fred Myers and there in the middle of the parking lot was the line four abreast for gas. Not even a motorcycle in sight. As I was waiting the fellow next to me rolled his window down and explained that he used to work in Panama and those kind of bikes were everywhere down there but I was the first one he saw up here. After a wile it was his turn and later I went up for my little squirt.

The attendant asked if I wanted the tank on my bike filled(I declined) then he asked if the red tank on my rack was hooked to the engine(I responded no I have to mix fuel and oil before I put it in the gas tank on the bike.) "like a mower?" your right I responded and then I got the milage question. I explained that I have a tuned exhaust pipe and I don't get as good as milage as some I told him I get about a hundred and twenty miles per gallon if I keep my foot out of it.

Of all of the people in my part of town I feel like I am totally by myself, I think I am the only MB in this part of the city. and even when I ride my bicycle everybody else seems to be wearing there MP3 player or talking on the phone to involved to note that I was even there. I have met other MB riders and after I explain that I have on too its usually like talking to somebody I have meet before (call it MB bonding)

Mike Frye the bike guy

 

[happycheapskate]

Are you in Oregon or Washington? In TX if you want an attendant to fill your car, you pay a (much!) higher rate for fuel at a Full Service pump, or do it yourself in the Self Serve line. (9/10 or more are self serve. Some don't even have clerks or registers anymore, no cokes, candybars, or even restrooms. Just a pump and a card reader, armed with surveillance cameras. )

 

[retromike3]

gas station I don't remember ?

I think here (Beaverton OR) they still have gas station attendants. thats something that came up for a vote but I don't remember how it came out.

Since I use such a small amount of gas and I go to only one place since I moved out here I am not a big authority.

meanwhile back to the thread.

mike frye

 

[sunsetboy]

Here in San Francisco, I've seen a few Mb'ers a year or so ago but have not seen anyone since though I did see someone on an A2B electric last week, moving way to slow for my liking. I ride a night time commute across the city and just have not seen anyone on such a bike. And my morning ride starts before the real commute so I only encounter a few cyclists pedaling to work in the opposite direction. Regarding drivers following us around...I usually get that from cab drivers and drunken idiots,lol.

 

[tskrem]

I encounter other MB riders pretty regularly.Some are idiots,but most are good....just trying to find a sensible/fun way to get around.

hey fector, im from adelaide too and ive only see 2 other people ride HT. one lives aroudn my house and rides everyday to work (i guess) the other i saw down melbourne st. on a black HT an skyhawk i guess??

do you use urs daily? were abouts do u ride around?

cheers

 

[gilbasa]

I just built one haven't see any yet but will soon cause i'm starting another build on a 50s
ross tanker just to have someone to ride with.

 

[happycheapskate]

I SAW ONE. I saw one!

I saw a guy coasting on the shoulder of the highway in Rockwall TX. He was on a generic looking comfort bike. Either he had a motor kit, or he had a bike bag under the top tube and one wild tailwind! We were talking about him on the CB, but I couldn't get any info about the motor, and he was going the other way. Still, it was cool!

 

[jesse52]

Hi All,

One of the reasons I got into MBs and such was that I saw a guy riding a HEAVILY modded bike (motorcycle rear wheel, leather put on various places, etc.) traveling at 70km/h (43mph for you americans ) down a very busy road in west Edmonton. He had what sounded like a weedeater motor on it, and to be honest it looked like a pretty small motor to be going that fast.

But anyway, it really inspired me to do something like that myself, although I wouldn't go that fast, or even travel on a busy road given the fact that I'm too young to even own a drivers licence, not to mention having enough money to legally convert my bike to be considered a "moped" (there's no in-between here in canada.. it's either an electric pedal assisted bike or a moped).

Jess