From: kcchu@remus.rutgers.edu (The Beach Bum)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Get your feet on the GD pegs.
Date: 23 Jul 92 19:24:50 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

:From hamm@weejordy.physics.mun.ca (Craig Hamm) Tue Jul 21 21:31:16 1992
:Path: igor.rutgers.edu!rutgers!utcsri!torn!csd.unb.ca!morgan.ucs.mun.ca!weejordy.physics.mun.ca!hamm
:From: hamm@weejordy.physics.mun.ca (Craig Hamm)
:
:	I have noticed so many riders leaving intersections, parking lots
:	etc. with their feet dangling down 1" above the road.  Where
:	does one learn this?  Is this stupid and unecessary(sp?), or is
:	it just me?  
	
I do this occasionally without thinking.  I do this is
in rush hour and I have to move up 1 car length.  It dosen't make too
much sense to put my feet up on the pegs just to go 15 feet.  I also
tend to do this as I start to slow for a traffic light (below 5 mph)
with a truck or a van in front of me.  For some reason they tend to
slow down gradually and jam on the brakes a few feet before ahead of
where you would expect them to. This gives me more reaction time
incase something happens and they decide to stop for something I
cannot see.   I usually leave enough distance, but
the people behind me leave more space behind me when my feet come off
the pegs. I can balance with the best of them, but with the every day
stop and go traffic, I started doing it subconciously and then I
notice what the reactions of the people behind me were and decided to 
not worry about it.  Just riding around I keep my feet on the pegs, I 
actually try to time my self and see how long I can keep the bike at
a stop without putting my feet down.  (provided it is an empty road)

:	It reminds me of a kid learning to ride a bicycle, afraid to
:	fall and get a boo-boo on the elbow etc.  Now, with all the flaming
	
Yah know it kinda does, but are they wobbleing with there feet down?
or do they just have their feet down?

(Squid survey deleted)

Most of the riders that I have encountered are missing one type of
protective gear or another (including myself) but I get the wierdest
looks when I pass someone in my leather jacket/gloves/ and jeans in
the middle of the summer down at the beach.  Considering I live at the
beach for more than half the year, I can honestly say that down the
beach 90% of the all riders are out for the "Image" HOG riders go up
and down the strip making as much noise as possible,with thier
T-shirts, salad bowls, and no gloves.  Superbike squids, follow the
normal image, and for some odd reason, the riders on standards are
either all covered up, or are testing the COPS ability to enforce the
helmet law.  Don't ask me why, but that's what I see.

:	Well, anyhow, people in BOTH groups do it.  If you can't balance the
:	machine at slow speed, either learn to do it right, or get the hell
:	of of it!  Keep your feet on those pegs!!  (er, except for stopping!)

Is there a word for a Squidly HOG?  For some reason Squid dosen't seem
to fit.

BTW I ride an EX500

	
:	Have a nice life,
:	Craig Hamm
 

Keith
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