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hondatech
Justin
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Going nutso through the twisties isn't racing. Racing happens on a track. The problem with this movie is that to regular people, it will be an action movie with one of two possible effects. Either people will see it as a movie, watch it, be netertained, and leave. Or, they'll see it, and NEED to go and buy a sportbike. The last thing we need is idiots, no matter the age, joining this sport for the wrong reasons. We start killing people off, and we'll attract attention. That, we don't need. I say regular people, because non-motorcyclists are different than us. I know when I watch the movie, all I'll be doing is laughinh at all the stupid cliches and mistakes they make. Like in the movie Fled when Billy Baldwin said the Ducati 916 had "Ducati Dragon racing tires". It gave me a piss shiver. Theres another sportbike movie coming out, called Torque or something. I hope this isn't the next bike thing. I want all the punks to stick with their stupid ass Accords and Neons and stay out of my showroom. I've already had people come in looking for the bikes from "The Fast and the Furious."
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Justin
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"Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer" -Twain
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sargeek1975
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Coke kid; I am sooo with you on those tires producing knobbies all of a sudden. I pointed that out to some from friends of mine while we were watching it on the ship (I'm in the Navy) and they had no clue what I was talking about.
And I also know what you mean Hondatech about the fast and the furious. There's this guy that I met where I hang out with all the other import tuners on friday and saturday nights. (I own two Civics) This kid bought a black 92-95 body style civic just so he can do it up exactly like the ones in the movie. He thinks the import tuning scene is exactly like the movie. I mean, he actually asked me where all the hot asian girls were!!
But now we all have to admit: didn't you go out and ride your skate board after watching Gleaming the Cube on HBO as a kid? Or go and try to bunny hop onto a picnic table after watching Rad? Or want karate lessons after watching the Karate Kid? We all do it. It's just that we're grown up now. About 70 percent of all the kids I see with tuned cars either had thier parents buy it for them or it is actually owned buy their parents! I think that parents might think twice before buying their 17 year old a crotch rocket. I think these movies about sport bikes could be good. Have mainstream movies about sportbikes ever been made before? I've never seen one.
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RYanYellowF4
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I think that parents might think twice before buying their 17 year old a crotch rocket.
haha....mine sure did. I paid for my baby myself...which has left me extremely broke for school......but hey, i've got no complaints. I own my dream bike (loved the f4 since i was like 16) and it's mine.....all mine! haha. I think when you buy something like a bike at my age you either learn really quick to respect the bike....or you're just a plain jackass and die.
I admit a lot of my buddies get damned spoiled. Some own modified integras, celica turbo awd, etc. But so what, they belong to their mommies. I'd rather drive a pos i bought for myself than something mommy bought me. It's a feeling of accomplishment (for guys my age i guess)
I dunno after having a bike like a cbr, no matter how well off i do in the future, i think i'll take a 15G bike over an 80G sports car anyday. I like bikes, that's all. Cars are so blaa compared to bikes. But i should say the only racers i have more respect for than superbikers for skill are probably rally car drivers. Skilled riders can perform magic on tracks, but try doing 180k with trees 3ft from you in a powerslide. Those guys have skill. Watching rally drivers still scares me...almost as much as the isle of man TT. NO wait, that's scarier.
ill stop rambling
oh wait.....i noticed the M:I 2 stuff as well. Silly. Not to mention the physics in the impact are terribly wrong. Ah well, some entertaining stuff. I've never seen Fled though.
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"SOme people search their entire lives for eternal happiness. Others realize it's just a matter of finding the right motorcycle" -Suzuki Ad
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hondatech
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But now we all have to admit: didn't you go out and ride your skate board after watching Gleaming the Cube on HBO as a kid? Or go and try to bunny hop onto a picnic table after watching Rad? Or want karate lessons after watching the Karate Kid? I think that parents might think twice before buying their 17 year old a crotch rocket. I think these movies about sport bikes could be good. Have mainstream movies about sportbikes ever been made before? I've never seen one.
The difference is that, with the possible exception of skatboarding, none of those other passtimes have even been looked down upon like motorcycling is. And even skateboarding could never be outlawed. You could always skate in an empty parking lot. Motorcycling is lots harder to hide. Plus, it's how I get to work everyday, and put food on my table. And, you'd be surprised just how many 17 year olds who've come in to my dealer with parents who bought or cosigned on loans for new sportbikes. And it isn't even an age thing. My problem isn't that it may attract more people to the sport. It's that it will attract the wrong people with the wrong attitude to the sport. I'm all for more people. What I'm not for is morons who only want to ride because some putz in a movie did a mile long wheelie and it looked cool. This person will ride for one season, just long enough to either, wreck and raise my insurance, or die and turn his whole family against motorcycling, or quit riding and spend the rest of his life telling everyone who will listen "Yeah, I used to ride, but I had to quit. I was too crazy, I would have killed myself." You guys have to ocme spend a day with me at work.
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Justin
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sargeek1975
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I just may. I live in VA Beach; not that far away.
Motorcycles will never go away. They just may get strickter (sp?) with the safety aspects of it. 50 years ago I don't think that there was any such thing as a helmet law. And the helmets they had back then pobably did more damage then not wearing one at all.
I'm in the Navy. And as such for me to legally ride a motorcycle I have to attend a motorcycle safety course. And every time I ride my bike I have to wear gloves, a coat or long sleeved shirt, pants, boots with non-slip soles and ankle support, full face helmet; and at night I have to wear a reflective vest.
I hate seeing these idiots in the dead of summer wearing flip flops, shorts, and MAYBE a t-shirt on a GSX-R 1000 doing a wheelie at 100 mph. It's freakin' ridiculous. And the worse ones are the ones with their girlfriends on the back as naked as they are. I don't get it.
If more idiots get bikes and wreck and/or crash because of a movie and it makes legislation change the way it looks at motorcycle safety I'm all for it. I think every state should have a helmet law and that you should have to attend a safety course before you're allowed a license. And wearing a good coat, boots, and gloves at the minimum should be as enforced as the seat belt laws in all states.
I'll get off of my soap box now.
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DrMcNasty
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Blah Blah Blah, did I ask for your opinion?
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Poor Ducks ... 
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RobC
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Sorry Sargeek, I thought the USA was advertised as 'the Land of the Free'? Don't get me wrong, I ALLWAYS wear helmet, leathers or armoured textiles, good gloves and boots on the bike, but I would never agree with forcing others to do the same. i would rather see education over legislation any day. Back in the days before compulsory helmets in the Uk, just about everyone I knew wore helmets anyway, because it made sense and was more comfortable. Nothing beats catching a wasp on your forhead at 80 mph to educate.
I don't want to see anyone get hurt on a bike, but I do value personal freedom, and the option to set your own risk levels.
End of lecture. 
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