| | | Travels and Adventures Use this forum to tell us about your motorized bicycle travels around the neighborhood or around the world | Best compliment ever- Discussion at Motorized Bicycle Engine Kit Forum in the Travels and Adventures forum. Just went to the gas station to get some smokes. A lady was outside looking at the bike. She said- ...  | | 
05-11-2009, 05:14 PM
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| | Best compliment ever- Just went to the gas station to get some smokes. A lady was outside looking at the bike. She said- What year is that bike?
She thought it was an old scooter- I told her it was a 2009.... Schwinn. Then I explained it was motorized bicycle. Like most people I encounter when riding, she thought it was really cool.  | 
05-11-2009, 08:47 PM
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| | Re: Best compliment ever- Must have been just that kind of day. I was riding today when two women in a huge diesel pickup came along side and flagged me over. When I stopped and they got out to come back they were both smiling. They wanted to know all about the bike; you know the usual questions: "How much did it cost?...How fast can it go? Where did you get it? and on and on. I carry business cards with this forum's web address and gave them each a card. They asked if I'd build them bikes. I said yes and gave them my phone number. They told me they both have Harleys and they thought my Jagaur was the neatest thing they'd ever seen. We all went away smiling. Maybe we'll see them here some day.
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05-23-2009, 06:01 AM
| | Motorized Bicycle Member | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Springfield, Missouri
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| | Re: Best compliment ever- I was biking to work tonight when a red car passed by and a girl, passenger side, whistles at me (as in me on this oddly cool bike... not ME!). they pulled in front of me allowing for plenty of room- no crowding, and had to come to a stop at a lighted intersection just a bit up ahead. As I approached she leans out the window and asks how I'm doing tonight. Didn't have a chance for questions about the bike though, light changed and they were off. | 
05-23-2009, 09:08 AM
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| | Re: Best compliment ever- 2 months ago 8 of us motorbikers were riding out to the beach in the bicycle lane when a girl on a harley pulled along side of us, she was staring so hard at us that when the porsch convertable stopped in front of her, thats right BAM! she hit it and flew over the porsch.  | 
05-26-2009, 06:57 AM
| | Motorized Bicycle Member | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Springfield, Missouri
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| | Re: Best compliment ever- On the way home from work that next morning I pulled into the turn lane of a main road through town (not heavily trafficked at the time) and a guy in a blue sports sedan stares a the bike while slowly passing me on my right with his eye brows furrowed and mouth open. Good thing no car stopped in front of him or he'd have never even seen it either. | 
05-26-2009, 07:53 AM
|  | Motorized Bicycle Elite Member | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Urbandale Ia
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| | Re: Best compliment ever- Since the weather has warmed up we have been loading the bikes on the carrier and going to a couple different State Parks in the area. I can't believe how many people ask questions about the bikes. Seems 99% of the time the first question is "How fast will it go?" The second is where did you get it? Everyone always says they have got to have one, but you know I have only ever heard back from one person about actually buying one.
I always refer them to this website so maybe they are building their own.
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06-11-2009, 01:01 AM
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| | Re: Best compliment ever- today i was riding down the street from my house (about a mile away, and this girl in a Chevy implala pulls up next to me and asks me the usual questions, and asks me to build one for her, so i gave her my numero. i think i'll charge 150 to put it on her bike, including parts 
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06-11-2009, 10:58 AM
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| | Re: Best compliment ever- I had a couple (about 60 yrs old) follow me home and said "We've been chasing you. Where did you get that?" I gave them all the usual answers. Told them to go to Motorbicycling.com" The guy was very interested. He ended it with "Man, that is cool and you're really enjoying it too." I agreed 100% | 
06-11-2009, 03:24 PM
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| | Re: Best compliment ever- Went to the gas station with my usual on gallon gas tank hanging off my BMX bars in two plastic store bags. [premix already in it it just fill it up]. When a lady came up said here brother had one and immediately recognized the SBP j shaft on my china. Said her brother did not have that add on yet. Asked me how I liked it. The guys at the station get a kick out of seeing me show up for one gallon of gas every three weaks. Went to a local vegetable and meat market where I had the bike leaning on a post outside the door and I could keep an eye on it. While inside there were too older retired old men looking at it one had there face about two inches from the china looking for numbers or a brand name. [That was before the J shaft was installed] He really wanted to know what I got that engine off of. Told him it was a china sent em here. People are curious about these things!
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06-15-2009, 03:12 AM
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| | Re: Best compliment ever- they are the best. iv had people stop me and ask how much.
Im waiting for some rich guy to offer me a million dollors and so i can retire at 17!!. (my life plan)
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