How does your XS make you feel...?

Alexs650e

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I went for a little ride yesterday before the sun sets.

On my way back locally I'm behind a BMW M4 being driven by an older person than me. By the looks of the person I could assume, not really knowing, that the person was not into motorsports. Didn't get that vibe of a person that really knows what was being driven.

I felt bad for the car. A 400+hp beast that would probably won't ever be driven to its fully potential. I also realised how easy it is to buy a really fast car and drive it safely without ever using it's power. How apart was my bike from that car. The fully electronic, fully automatic and the raw old school engineering.

I love my bike so much...
Every time I start her the rumble makes me feel so alive...
Every time I stick first gear and I hear the metal rattle I feel a tingling sensation...
Every time I cruise at 3k RPM I feel one with her...
Every time it just pulls with fifth gear from 40 to 70 with no hickup amazes me...
True old school no bollocks engineering... It's an amazing feeling...
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Glad you enjoy it, Alexs650e.
Yep, kinda the way it was back when.
Like a time machine, mine takes me back to the early 70's.

Gotta watch out for those 50-60 yr old fuddy-duddys, tho'.

Some of them can afford that stuff.
Clicking off bucket list items.
And, some of them have history and backgrounds.

I've bumped into many a frumpy gus, later to find that they were very important, or famous, ultra-rich.

Then again, some were just another frumpy gus...
 
I went for a little ride yesterday before the sun sets. On my way back locally I'm behind a BMW M4.
Mean machine no doubt. But as I was looking through the back window I saw blond frizzy hair...
I'm like nice, a woman driving an M4... That till I saw that it was a 50-60 year old... With tons of make up and red lipstick...
An old bimbo...
First I felt bad for the car, and bad about where motoring has come to...
A near 400+hp beast in the hands of an old bimbo...
Simultaneously I felt my testicles growing and felt manlier than ever...
I don't know if it was the unmistakable engine that vibrates the shit out of you or that I felt good knowing a woman, or a person in general like that wouldn't be able to start my bike...
There's nothing wrong with a woman driving an M4.
But an old woman of that style is depressing. People clueless about motoring and engineering having machines like that and surely unable to use them for what they are.
Also shows you how safe modern cars and bikes are with their electronics and their automatic gearboxes...
I love my bike so much...
Every time I start her the rumble makes me feel so alive...
Every time I stick first gear and I hear the metal rattle I feel a tingling sensation...
Every time I cruise at 3k RPM I feel one with her...
Every time it just pulls with fifth gear from 40 to 70 with no hickup amazes me...
True old school no bollocks engineering... It's an amazing feeling...
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Sheesh! Im in Brooklyn too and we have near identical bikes. See the pic below.

So you love your bike? I have a more philosophical question for you: Who are you when youre NOT on your bike? A few months back I was riding and this Dude in a Ducati with his GF on the back, screamed past me, and was on a macho trip at the stoplight. But what makes that man a "man?" His possessions? I feel that if one allows a material possession to add dimension to who a man (or woman) is, thats dangerous. Ive seen guys turn into low testosterone wimps when their bikes arent running and they cant ride. Its great to enjoy a bike, but I remember that at any moment, one wreck or theft can take my bike from me.

While I do derive lots joy from riding my bikes (I have three) I dont let it define me. I dont love ANY of my bikes. I sure like the hell out of them though. I try hard not to idolize any material thing, just enjoy it. If anything, I love BEING on my bike, not so much the bike itself. I love the intangible freedom it gives me.

Also, that "old bimbo" is someone's mom, sister, daughter. What if that old bimbo had cancer and felt ugly and put on more than usual lipstick because her chemo is coming up and shes going to lose her hair. Maybe she wants to feel pretty one last time. Imagine if somehow, she was able to read your post?! You dont know her but youve judged her.

My oldest is old enough to read and write. Whenever I post ANYTHING on the net, I think "how would I feel if my son saw what I just wrote?" In this case, I think he would be proud.

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Nah, I'm not judging her for the way she looks or dress or what not, I'm talking in general of how people that have no clue whatsoever about cars and bikes have machines like that. Pretty sure that guy you mentioned have no idea what he really rides and what desmodromic valves are. Also more to how newer machines are flooded with electronic's and not that it's not good but how your xs and any oldschook car and bike that you can still put your hands on make you feel cause if it's purity
 
Nah, I'm not judging her for the way she looks or dress or what not, I'm talking in general of how people that have no clue whatsoever about cars and bikes have machines like that. Pretty sure that guy you mentioned have no idea what he really rides and what desmodromic valves are. Also more to how newer machines are flooded with electronic's and not that it's not good but how your xs and any oldschook car and bike that you can still put your hands on make you feel cause if it's purity

I inboxed you.

Also the guy was not fit (not an insult, but an observation) and his girlfriend/wife was superhot and similed when we stopped and I think he had a complex. He looked at my bike (pic below) and said "thats a nice bike. I was thinking of getting something like that for my lady," clearly meaning it as an insult, that I was on a "girl" bike. And you know what I said? "Yeah man that Ducati is amazing. Youre lucky to have it! Its a great bike and waaay faster than mine."

Boom

I dont play childish games and my possessions dont define me, so his attempt to insult me just made him look like an insecure dick to me.

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Wow... Sounds like a duck to me... Small dick to be precise... Hahaa. No my bike is not a penis extension.
 
I went for a little ride yesterday before the sun sets. On my way back locally I'm behind a BMW M4.
Mean machine no doubt. But as I was looking through the back window I saw blond frizzy hair...
I'm like nice, a woman driving an M4... That till I saw that it was a 50-60 year old... With tons of make up and red lipstick...
An old bimbo...
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Hi Alex,
when your teenage acne clears up enough that you can safely start shaving you'll start to realize that 50-60 year old women ain't old at all.
And some of them can drive better than you ever will.
Try googling Stirling Moss' bio. Look for a photo of him as a young man standing next to a pre-war MG sports car with it's hood completely
covered in car race trophies. They ain't his trophies. They're his mother's.
 
Alexs650e;
Maybe you're just jealous that a blond middle aged lady, has the ability to own a car , that can kick your butt on any street in New York.
She probably worked hard and earned the status, that the car gives her. She's living life large, and you're driving a 39 year old bike.
She could be a doctor, a dentist, or even an lawyer...................................definitely not a bimbo.

The 3.0 l M TwinPower Turbo straight six-cylinder engine combines the best of both worlds: high rev characteristics with up to 7,600 rpm and superior power with a maximum of 406 lb-ft. The 425 hp M engine accelerates from 0 to 100 km/h in just 4.1 seconds (with M DCT with Drivelogic). Bi-Turbo direct fuel injection and typical M fine-tuning ensure that the engine responds directly to the slightest nudge of the accelerator with enthusiastic boost and excellent torque.
 
Hi Alex,
when your teenage acne clears up enough that you can safely start shaving you'll start to realize that 50-60 year old women ain't old at all.
And some of them can drive better than you ever will.
Try googling Stirling Moss' bio. Look for a photo of him as a young man standing next to a pre-war MG sports car with it's hood completely
covered in car race trophies. They ain't his trophies. They're his mother's.
Again, I'm not judging the fact that she's a woman or that she looked like a bimbo. Of course and I don't know her as people don't know me to actually tell me to wait till my acne goes away. I'm trying to make a point of how old school gives you a different feeling than anything new school.
 
Alexs650e;
Maybe you're just jealous that a blond middle aged lady, has the ability to own a car , that can kick your butt on any street in New York.
She probably worked hard and earned the status, that the car gives her. She's living life large, and you're driving a 39 year old bike.
She could be a doctor, a dentist, or even an lawyer...................................definitely not a bimbo.

The 3.0 l M TwinPower Turbo straight six-cylinder engine combines the best of both worlds: high rev characteristics with up to 7,600 rpm and superior power with a maximum of 406 lb-ft. The 425 hp M engine accelerates from 0 to 100 km/h in just 4.1 seconds (with M DCT with Drivelogic). Bi-Turbo direct fuel injection and typical M fine-tuning ensure that the engine responds directly to the slightest nudge of the accelerator with enthusiastic boost and excellent torque.
Yet again, my point was how different is the feeling of pure old school mechanics to new era engineering and electronics
 
Again, I'm not judging the fact that she's a woman or that she looked like a bimbo. Of course and I don't know her as people don't know me to actually tell me to wait till my acne goes away. I'm trying to make a point of how old school gives you a different feeling than anything new school.
Hi Alex,
your post didn't read like that to me, it read like someone enviously winging on about a mature woman driving a nice car.
Hence the gratuitous insult. I've no idea about the state of your complexion. Hopefully it'll clear up soon.
At my age an XS650 IS new school. It's got electric start & rear suspension & everything. Old school is a 1930s Velocette.
 
Hi Alex,
your post didn't read like that to me, it read like someone enviously winging on about a mature woman driving a nice car.
Hence the gratuitous insult. I've no idea about the state of your complexion. Hopefully it'll clear up soon.
At my age an XS650 IS new school. It's got electric start & rear suspension & everything. Old school is a 1930s Velocette.
To me, anything you can fix with your hands and electric at most tools is old school. When you need a laptop then that's it. There are still machines built that way today.
 
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