First ride of 2009 ....
 

4 of us, one got a ticket for passing on a double yellow(long straight though) and for expired license(one week), one of the others tore his clutch out and had to walk beside it up hill for about a mile(it was running but wouldnt pull him on it), another guy dropped his in wet grass when putting it back in his building, so i'd say overall, not a good first day

Pretty good chance the rest of your rides in '09 will be better!

hopefully

Which one were you?

Which one were you? Sounds like a rough day.

Ouch.

i was neither, but didnt want to say in fear of jinxing myself

NC has some of the LONGEST double-yellow areas I've seen on perfectly straight areas with good visibility. A good 50% of the time I think I should be coming up on a passing zone... nope.

And PA has some passing zones in areas that should NOT be passing zones.

IA is like that, too.

Jersey is Like that....I was riding a Broken Yellow UP A HILL...I was like Umm, Who passes on a Hill.

Crazy Bastards and there Paint.

Where paint? :scratch:

Sucks about the shitty ride, Yammer.

Like fasternyou said, hopefully all others this year will be less eventful.

It's been raining non-stop on and off since January (Infact since Christmas). Which I don't care about riding in the rain but I usually end up riding at night and I can't stand night time and rain riding. On top of that the temp has been in the mid 60s so it's been nice.

But later on this week we should have 50s and sunny so Fuck Yeah!!!

Yamerhaw, where were you all riding?

From what I can gather from his post:

too funny

The people that paint the lines on the road???

They dont magically appear you know :idk:

He posted that because you said THERE paint, not THEIR. Not because he thinks they magically appear. :lol:

Well Fuck Me...Grammar Can Blow Me.

You Can All Rot In Hell....Grammer Nazi's

;)

why are you a highway patrolman from here?

we were riding on highway 88 and 18 mountain, Ashe County(where i live)

so far, the only rides I've done have been on the snowmobile.

Definitely a marked contrast to the beginning of 2008, that's for sure.

My Balls would fall off If I tried to ride in this weather...I probably wont be riding till March Ish.

no, we are always looking for additional roads to conquer....

wimp! me, jackson, and tom went out two weeks ago :dthumb:

Oh yea.. count Ohio in that....

ah, where ya located?

Forest City-Rutherfordton area

Sportbike riders who know how to downshift? :whistle:

Cars/bikes that get stuck behind a slow truck? :idk: That's not uncommon on trucking routes.

I passed about 6 cars at once w/ a friend of mine while out riding up a long hill in NH.

Granted, some asshole cut out w/o looking to do the same thing we were doing & almost took my out my buddy.... but, ya know, other than that it wasn't an issue. :whistle:

If I'm going up a hill and cant see whats on the other side...I'm not passing anyone.

Maybe your definition of a Hill and Mine are different...I dont have long uphill mountain roads here in jersey, its more like little humps in the road.

I think in most states it's illegal to pass more than one vehicle at a time. If so and your buddy was hit, he may have been ticketed on top of it. :panic:

Sounds like ya'lls day did suck. 3 of us went out New Year's Day in NC and then 4 of us went out this past weekend...so far...so good. :dthumb:

Well except for the fact that the threads started showing on my rear tire so now I need to buy rubber. :panic:

Replacing them before the vertical threads start showing is the coward's way out. :lol:

That's what I was thinking too...I guess the older I get the less I want to push it. :lol:

The group i usually ride with had a mixed first ride of 09...

looks like some of the members are just breaking off on their own to avoid the drama caused by a few cry babies that refuse to learn how to go around corners faster than the yellow sign before it says...

Yup, I know... and if there were a cop there w/ radar, passing too many cars at once wouldn't have been the only ticket we got for that incident.

My buddy in HS got a ticket for passing like 4 cars at once....never mind the fact that it was also a double yellow. Whoops.