The look is the best thing. I live in a tourist town so it's always packed with people. The best look is from the Harley riders that not only look but come over to talk about it. Many times I have come out of stores and will have a small crowd looking at taking pics of my MB. I wonder how many countries have pics of my MB. now LOL
Ahh! The LOOK. Just about every post in this thread rings true with me on some level or another.
(Like the guy who mentioned that he made flyers to prevent himself from being delayed for work by curious folk.)
I've had a few fun ones. I was hanging out at a fuel station my buddy mans, and a Harley rider came up and asked about my first bike. Nice old on a long trip. He was fascinated with it. We took pictures of my bike parked next to his Harley (I'm gonna have to dredge those up).
Then there was the entourage of small children I mentioned in another part of the forum, who followed me on their bikes through the local sports park when I was on the way to the same friend's house (No pictures of that unfortunately).
I rode parallel with a couple on a Tandem in the U-district of Seattle once. We were shouting a conversation over the noise of my second bike's engine.
TY Mr. Larkins
I had yet another friend's house party suddenly relocate itself to the side of the road when I rolled up on my bike. It was a party of us nerdy kids, so prettymuch everyone was thrilled when I rode up on what Soki described as an "Antique Motorcycle" wearing an army helmet, leather coat, and bugeye goggles.
And of course there is the thumbs up, waves, and clapping I get from random people when I roll through town. Of course the occasional motorist gets angry and just has to pass me again. Some drivers inexplicably give me the bird, but most are at least polite. The bulk of people don't seem to be able to make heads or tails of the bike. I get a LOT of "WTF?" looks.
I also tend to transport one bike or the other damn to Seattle with me a lot when I know I'm going to be roaming around the city proper. So I get a lot of LOOKS while rolling down the 5 with my bike strapped to the back of my car.
Just more proof that this is an awesome hobby.
Keep on riding!
~Dakota
I guess he was amazed to see my motorized bicycle ...............and then last night I was up at the gas station with my regular bike to get smokes and some dude came running out and was freaking over my Girvin front fork. The first thing he said was "is that a Girvin??What kind of fork is that?" Him and buddy wre driving about a 50 thousand dollar truck.
Im currently riding my MB to drivers ed at a highschool i dont go to, most people dont realize its a motorized bicycle till they get really close because of my tank and seat, they think its a vintage motorcycle. i always get hoots and hollers when i ride in, and im know around the school as "the guy with the sick motorbike" i love this thing so much, even when i get my license i'll still ride it places.
I flew past my house yesterday cause the traffic was too congested to make a turn across it, got 'bout another mile or so down the road before I could pull a U-turn. There was some contractor guy 1/2 way up a ladder who got so excited he almost fell as he gave me the
Dude - glad ya like my bike an all but seriously, hang on to that ladder lol
. the town were i live has a hundred year history of this type of bike ,we had a harley and indian dealerships in the early 1900's and being that we are on lake michigan and directly between milwaukee and chicago , we had one of the first gas stations in the state. there was also a private board track just outside of town cira. 1911 but was burned down after just a few races.
