bigpaul

The news was right about the high rate of speed... The reports I heard said his speed was in excess of 100mph!

Thanks everyone for your input... Don't get me wrong, I'm not pushing him to ride at all... I only brought it up once when chatting with him on IM to see if he was interested in going... And when he said that, I was more shocked then anything.. I'm just a bit concerned about him not riding again from being spooked from this.... Whatever he decides to do tho, I'll support him!! We both work in the same career field (EMS/Fire Dept), and I'm just glad that he wasn't on that call or this would be 10x worse then what it is!

Last Saturday one of my friends lost his friend that was riding his CBR600RR. I didn't know the rider that was killed, but the rider was 21 who lost his life, and my friend just rode with him the day before.. He is really taking it hard! His friend went around a bend after stopping at a traffic light at a high rate of speed, and hit the guiderail. His leg was ripped off and his bike was in multiple pieces. At least he died instantly and didn't have any pain. Heres the news link: http://www.wpxi.com/news/19218701/detail.html I finally have a day off on Saturday, and asked if he wanted to go for a ride since hes always asking me to go ride. He said "I really don't have the desire to ride right now". This is totally not him, because every chance he gets to ride, he does... Granted some of the things he does when riding isn't the best thing to do while on the street (wheelies, stoppies, outragious rates of speed, ect). I told him that because it will be with me (I'm not into all of that crap that he does), that we will just cruise. Not to sound like a jackoff or anything like that, but I hope in a way to that this is a wake up call to him, and my other friends to take it a bit easy, and it can happen to anyone no matter the age. I'm just concerned that he will give up riding all together if he doesn't get on the bike again!! How would you go about getting him back on his bike?

Matt, Brian and Aaron are right, there are alot of “Big” guys that ride those things around the track… I should know, because I’m one of them “Big” guys!!! OMAR the Tent Maker had to make my leathers!!! Last Saturday was my first race on one of them, and after my “O MY GOD, WHAT THE HELL AM I DOING ON THIS THING”, and “I’M SCREWING EVERYTHING UP” feelings calmed down from the good encouragement and support that I got from everyone their that day… I totally had a blast on it!!! I still have alot to learn, and I’m by far an expert at this… It will come with time tho I’m sure. When we were packing things up at the end of the day, I was sad, because I wanted to do more!!! I drove 4hrs from the Pittsburgh area to do it, and it was by far the best day that I’ve had in a long time, and well worth the ride!! I’m hoping that I’m able to get off work on May 3rd to do it again.. Come on out and give it a try!!! You won’t regret it at all!!! Aaron and Brian, Thanks again for all your encouragement and support on Saturday!!!

The same holds true for the CBR600RR!!!!

omg i see smoke coming out of his ears! The brain was really working in that pic!!!

I've been awake for 72hrs one time, and that will never happen again!! I'm too old for that crap anymore!!

I was sitting in a nice chair with no windows around me, just chilling then all of a sudden the phone lines lit up like a Christmas tree!! So much for chillin.... Their was six of us working, and their were still five 911 calls pending at one given time!!!! This was the pace for about 15 minutes long.... So much for the three ring goal and dispatching within 90 seconds!!! It was a mess.... Alot of trees and wires down, and then to top it off a house fire... All at the same time.... Talk about going from nothing to total nuts in about a half a second.... I would say their was about 100 911 calls in about 15 minutes tonight with the storm.... And then all the utility notifications that we had to make..... :eek::eek:

Yeah I'm shaking so bad right now Aaron!!! :D:D So anyway, back on topic... I got to go out for about a half hour to an hour ride before going to work at the zoo of the 911 center when the storms hit... Heres a pic of my baby after spraying it off when I got home..

Get the R6!!!!! :worshipR6:

I'll give you old, you young PUNK!!!! Just wait for the payback!!!

I have a 1000 and its not bad at all... But I do have some complaints about it tho.. 1) Everyone is right, it is a bit heavy at first, but after a bit its not too bad 2) The internal visor is nice, but it wasn't dark enough for me. So I got the dark smoke visor as well 3) Well I found out the hard way that the visor likes to fog up in the rain.. I complained and they sent me a new one, and since then I haven't been caught out in the rain.. Now for my B-Day I got myself a Shoei RF-1000 that I seem to like alot more, so the EXO is my backup helmet or for a passenger...

GO PITTSBURGH!!!! "ITS TIME FOR BIRD BASH NUMBER TWO" The suckey part of this whole thing is the fact that I'm on a 24hr shift tomorrow, and as soon as the game starts our local personal care home will call us out for an ear ache or something stupid like that, and I'll miss over half of the game!!!! I'll be very suprised if I'll be able to watch the whole game without a call!!!

WOW, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! Thats a great comeback!!!!! Paul - 0 Brain - 1 (and more then likely alot more)

HAHAHAHAHA, someone got to keep you inline on here!! No not yet... I'm still waiting for my income tax check to come in so I can get it... Also, shouldn't you be sitting around the table in the station talking about those "BIG FIRES THAT YOU DON'T GET, AND PRETENDING ON HOW TO PUT THEM OUT"!!!