Silly things people say to you . . .

As a woman rider, I get some really odd comments. The first two are fairly common, the second two are just plain silly.

As I get off my bike and take off my helmet, a man asks "Is that your bike?"
Another man watched me ride into a gas station, fill my tank, move to a parking space, get off my bike and tells me "That bike is too big for you."

The silly comments:
"I didn't know that Honda made an automatic that big."
"You are too old to be riding a bike that big."

I hear enough stupid crap. Can't imagine all the stuff you being a lady rider have to endure. Take care

Smokey

Shebear,

Try to tell them it's a car tire and see what idiot's say about you and to you then.........

People's ignorance never suprises me anymore. The will see you drive up and then tell you that you can't turn a car tire and they just watched you turn in off the street.

I get the "Is that your bike" comment from time to time. I always answer it the same way.

"Nope, but the other guy left the keys in it"

Stupid people are abundant that's for sure.

George

Greg and I were getting ready to leave a mini-mart one day, as we put our helmets on, some guy asked why we weren't waiting for the other guy. Both bikes had gear strapped to the passenger seats. I guess he thought I was going to sit on top of the gear!

shebear wrote:Greg and I were getting ready to leave a mini-mart one day, as we put our helmets on, some guy asked why we weren't waiting for the other guy. Both bikes had gear strapped to the passenger seats. I guess he thought I was going to sit on top of the gear!

Cause we all know a woman can't handle a bike by herself !!!!!!!


I have tried and tried to get my wife to ride. She is happy to sit on the back. That kind of sucks as I would really like to make some longer trips on the bike but with 2 kids and a wife all wanting to go it makes it impossible to do. Stuck in the cage

Merry Christmas all

Smokey

Smokey it took my wife 25 years to decide to try rideing her own bike. Now she is not sure how much longer she will be able to ride her own. She has a buldgeing disc in her lower back, but on the bright side of all of it she has said that when she quits rideing her own we will sell her bike and buy a Victory Vision, then I will have another toy.

I am wanting mine to start riding so I can give her my vtx 1300 and go get me a wing. I have wing fever pretty bad.
Oh well I will just have to wait until my boy gets old enough to ride his own then he can take the X.
I know without a doubt that my next ride will be a GL1800 unless they come out a bigger better model by then

I'm always amazed that women with husbands that ride, don't want to learn how to ride on their own. I wanted to ride and it took a long time to convince my husband that I was serious. And he really wanted me to ride my own. It never has made any sense to me.

I am always an "outsider" on MC forums and am welcome on those forums as long as I don't say anything that someone might disagree with. If I do state an opinion, I am usually attacked. My choices become to kiss someone's arse, be kicked off the forum or both. Yet, most of them wish that their wives would learn to ride. I've given up trying to figure it out. Just be warned, I do have opinions and will state them from time to time.

Shebear you give those oppinions any time you feel the need or want to. Myself I like to see Lady Riders. I left it up to my wife if and when she wanted to ride her own. Even now she might ride hers or climb on the back of mine, I don't care as long as she is with me.

Good thing we donb't have to kiss ass everytime we give an opinion or make a smartass comment on here. My lips would be really tired.

Shebear please share your opinions. I actually have gotten to where I look for your posts here and elsewhere.
Not I am not stalking............yet

Merry Christmas

Smokey

I really appreciate your support.

As for riding, I think I've only been a passenger about 4-5 times since I started riding. One was after 12 hours of riding in the rain and we went to a restaurant. A couple of times were to drop one of the bikes off for some warranty work. And then there was the time that after getting rear ended, Greg took me from the ER on his bike to get my damaged bike which I rode home. Learning to ride and all the riding I've done since then have replaced something that I lost when I had to go on disability. I just love it.

As for stalking, I have been cyberstalked before. The jerk took over admin functions of my computer, got into my financial stuff, etc. He was stupid in one respect, every piece of email that he intercepted, read and sent on to me, he changed to all caps. Pretty easy to know what he was doing. I set my computer to download anything new to my desktop. He actually sent me a copy of his Dr. Watson along with exactly what he did to my computer. I knew his name, address and phone number and turned him in with a copy of all the stuff he sent to me. I don't know if anything ever happened to him, but it got him out of my life.

And now I'm under pressure to make sure my posts are interesting! Aaak! j/k

Merry Christmas!

shebear wrote:I really appreciate your support.

As for riding, I think I've only been a passenger about 4-5 times since I started riding. One was after 12 hours of riding in the rain and we went to a restaurant. A couple of times were to drop one of the bikes off for some warranty work. And then there was the time that after getting rear ended, Greg took me from the ER on his bike to get my damaged bike which I rode home. Learning to ride and all the riding I've done since then have replaced something that I lost when I had to go on disability. I just love it.

As for stalking, I have been cyberstalked before. The jerk took over admin functions of my computer, got into my financial stuff, etc. He was stupid in one respect, every piece of email that he intercepted, read and sent on to me, he changed to all caps. Pretty easy to know what he was doing. I set my computer to download anything new to my desktop. He actually sent me a copy of his Dr. Watson along with exactly what he did to my computer. I knew his name, address and phone number and turned him in with a copy of all the stuff he sent to me. I don't know if anything ever happened to him, but it got him out of my life.

And now I'm under pressure to make sure my posts are interesting! Aaak! j/k

Merry Christmas!

No pressure to perform here Just say what comes to you . And I swear it wasn't me. Really it wasn't. I can prove it. I am computer illiterate enough to never be able to pull something like that off

Merry Christmas all

Smokey

Shebear,

Glad to have you here and I look forward to reading your posts. I think women who ride are courageous. I have seen women who ride bikes as large as mine and they are not very big women. There are a lot of men who are so afraid to ride that when I tell them I ride the usually say, "Man, you're crazy, you could can get seriously hurt doing that." I have two brothers who are afraid to ride and won't even ride two up, but my youngest sister owns her own bike and rides regularly. She lives in W. Va. so her riding time is limited. She is also a professor at a Christian College in Ky. I welcome and you and your opinions.
Merry Christmas to you and Hebear.

smokey2255 wrote:
No pressure to perform here Just say what comes to you . And I swear it wasn't me. Really it wasn't. I can prove it. I am computer illiterate enough to never be able to pull something like that off

Merry Christmas all

Smokey

That's a relief! I was beginning to think that I was going to have to find joke Viagra or something! Glad I don't need to. Just be warned. . . I have many, many pictures and love to use them in posts. (let me know if I ever need to go back and delete any of them so I don't use up too much bandwidth) For example:

Tanglefoot wrote:Shebear,

Glad to have you here and I look forward to reading your posts. I think women who ride are courageous. I have seen women who ride bikes as large as mine and they are not very big women. There are a lot of men who are so afraid to ride that when I tell them I ride the usually say, "Man, you're crazy, you could can get seriously hurt doing that." I have two brothers who are afraid to ride and won't even ride two up, but my youngest sister owns her own bike and rides regularly. She lives in W. Va. so her riding time is limited. She is also a professor at a Christian College in Ky. I welcome and you and your opinions.
Merry Christmas to you and Hebear.

Thanks Tanglefoot! Hebear and I both wish you a Merry Christmas. I had only been riding a few months when I was run off the road. I was riding as soon as I got the check for my totaled VTX, less than 3 weeks later. I just went in and bought what I could pay for outright with the check. It was a Honda 750 and I put 12,000 miles on it in about 6 months. I never could find 6th gear on it, , so I traded it in for the VTX I have now. No one expected me to ride again. I just can't see life without riding now. Sometimes I get annoyed at the stupid questions but most of the time I am a smart mouth about it and tell people I stole it or that this is my smaller bike. You should see the looks we get when my Sisters and I are out riding. We ride side by side and completely closed up. It is something to see. I have one of the smaller bikes in that group, lol!

I hope Santa is good to you and yours,
shebear

Shebear,
Just remember after you give them the smartass remark to add -- HERE'S YOUR SIGN.
It might make them think twice before they open their mouths again.

MERRY CHRISTMAS,
Muntz

SheBear...you're always welcome to express your opinion and no worries.


The "that your bike" comments, the "but it's a car tire, it can't corner" usually after they've followed me.

But more often than that..."Nice Harley"

But more often than that..."Nice Harley"

When I get that I tell them thanks, and when they ask what model it is I tell them it's the new VTX model.

motorcyclereb wrote:

But more often than that..."Nice Harley"

When I get that I tell them thanks, and when they ask what model it is I tell them it's the new VTX model.

Man, that's funny! I'm gonna use that one.


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twin1300 wrote:

motorcyclereb wrote:

But more often than that..."Nice Harley"

When I get that I tell them thanks, and when they ask what model it is I tell them it's the new VTX model.

Man, that's funny! I'm gonna use that one.


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I used to get the "nice harley" comments when I had the 750 Shadow Aero. I never could figure that out.
Peoples acts as peoples is.

If it stops raining this week, I'll try to get my photographer husband to do some bike pics for me. I have changed it up a bit from stock.

shebear wrote:I'm always amazed that women with husbands that ride, don't want to learn how to ride on their own. I wanted to ride and it took a long time to convince my husband that I was serious. And he really wanted me to ride my own. It never has made any sense to me.

I am always an "outsider" on MC forums and am welcome on those forums as long as I don't say anything that someone might disagree with. If I do state an opinion, I am usually attacked. My choices become to kiss someone's arse, be kicked off the forum or both. Yet, most of them wish that their wives would learn to ride. I've given up trying to figure it out. Just be warned, I do have opinions and will state them from time to time.

Shebear is what Shebear is and I would not want you to change.
IMHO you can say what you want whenever you want.

Hi Jedishon!

Long time no see. I've been down with a bad cold and the last couple of days I've had to keep from bending my right arm very much. Why, you ask? I had some credit at a tattoo place from a deposit I made on a large tat I wanted to get. Since I can't get the large tattoo, I got a small one on the inside of my right elbow. To keep it from healing wrong and cracking, I've had to keep my arm straight. It is hard to type that way, lol!

shebear wrote:Hi Jedishon!

Long time no see. I've been down with a bad cold and the last couple of days I've had to keep from bending my right arm very much. Why, you ask? I had some credit at a tattoo place from a deposit I made on a large tat I wanted to get. Since I can't get the large tattoo, I got a small one on the inside of my right elbow. To keep it from healing wrong and cracking, I've had to keep my arm straight. It is hard to type that way, lol!

I was in Tampa for Christmas. One of our daughters had a son on the 15th. 3000 miles in a cage, but it was worth it. Man I miss the ocean.

So you never said what the tattoo was. I have a small dragon on the left upper arm, and was thinking of a tiger and a wolf breaking out of my skin on the right.

Glad to hear you are feeling better. Tell hebear he is supposed to be taking care of you.
You probably dont want that though, you seem a little independant to me.


Talk to you soon.
Jerry

Mere words cannot describe Hebear and how well he takes care of me. He has the patience of Job and is always there when I am sick. Unfortunately, I can't convince him to type for me. lol! The tat is healing, but I still have to keep my arm straight most of the time.

This is my 5th tattoo. I have a marriage tat that we designed on my left upper back, an armband of a shell on my right arm, a sea turtle on my left upper arm, and the tattoo of my father on my right upper back. The new tattoo is centered over the large vein on the inside of my right elbow and is a biohazard emblem. I know, it's a rather odd tattoo, place for a tattoo and it is a place that is slow to heal. Why a biohazard sign? I'm sick of being sick, lol! Because of way too many blood tests, a couple of chemo treatments, the veins in that area are worthless. I also have autoimmune Hepatitis B. So, I am a biohazard all by myself.

One of my Sisters is a EMT/Paramedic and thinks it is a hoot. She said that if she saw that, she would laugh and then double glove. That is exactly the response I was hoping for. Hebear laughs about my being mostly unconscious after my first accident and that I just kept repeating: I'm very allergic to latex, I have Hep B and rattling off a list of 12 meds that I take and dosage. I have no memory of that.

Hebear took some photos while I was getting the tattoo. You can see them at: www.betterphoto.com?yancerstudio