Bikes & Dating

[DannoXYZ]

Originally Posted by tfkrocks

Let's do the 29th. The weekend is better for me.

We're making non-dating plans in a dating thread

Surrre... it's not a date.... You two are so cute!!!

[tfkrocks]

Originally Posted by JacRyann

Surrre... it's not a date.... You two are so cute!!!

Well I'm pretty sure her partner would find that disagreeable

[NevadaWolf]

It's a date, just not a date date.

Still an interesting development out of this thread.

[algs26]

Originally Posted by Yakaru

Yep, it'll be with Cali Superbike -- I think they had like 2 slots open on Friday.

Does CSS cover breaking (trail or not) in L3/4? Sonoma is a great track.

I better not see this play out on the next Cheaters.

[Ram Jet]

Originally Posted by JacRyann

Surrre... it's not a date.... You two are so cute!!!

"Sisters are doin' it for themselves".

Bill

[DannoXYZ]

Originally Posted by NevadaWolf

It's a date, just not a date date.

Still an interesting development out of this thread.

Yeah, so awesome!

[Yakaru]

Originally Posted by algs26

Does CSS cover breaking (trail or not) in L3/4? Sonoma is a great track.

I better not see this play out on the next Cheaters.

Braking is level... 2, now, I think? I hope we never cover breaking!

Level 4 is literally anything and everything. So if I wanna cover it, or need to, it gets covered.

And it won't be on Cheaters.
1. It's not, as said, a "date date"
2. I move slooooooooow in relationships, so even if it were nothing would happen
3. my partner and I have better communication than that, so even if we get past those you'd still not have a cheating scenario

[NevadaWolf]

Idle thought: I think society needs to be more open to platonic dates or friend dates or whatever. Be nice to overhear someone talking about awesome stuff and find a way of saying "you sound cool, I want to be your friend! Can we go hang out and see if that's possible?" Or something.

Too often asking someone out implies interest in a physical or romantic relationship.

[tfkrocks]

I just call it hanging out if it's not a romantic date haha. No encouragement of cheating from me; I am entirely uninterested if someone is in an existing relationship.

[DannoXYZ]

Good to have friends to hang with!

[CaliGrrl]

Originally Posted by NevadaWolf

Idle thought: I think society needs to be more open to platonic dates or friend dates or whatever. Be nice to overhear someone talking about awesome stuff and find a way of saying "you sound cool, I want to be your friend! Can we go hang out and see if that's possible?" Or something.

Too often asking someone out implies interest in a physical or romantic relationship.

Originally Posted by JacRyann

Good to have friends to hang with!

I agree! I like "let's be friends" or "let's hang out and see if we want to be friends."

[algs26]

Originally Posted by Yakaru

Braking is level... 2, now, I think? I hope we never cover breaking!

Level 4 is literally anything and everything. So if I wanna cover it, or need to, it gets covered.

And it won't be on Cheaters.
1. It's not, as said, a "date date"
2. I move slooooooooow in relationships, so even if it were nothing would happen
3. my partner and I have better communication than that, so even if we get past those you'd still not have a cheating scenario

I pulled out my L1/2 notes and there's nothing about braking. I guess it's been tweaked since then.

I thought it was well established that Cheaters is staged.

[Yakaru]

Originally Posted by algs26

I pulled out my L1/2 notes and there's nothing about braking. I guess it's been tweaked since then.

I thought it was well established that Cheaters is staged.

Yes, braking was put into L2 I think. The drill is called "Brake Release". The program has definitely changed over the years! I had an ex-CSS coach work with me at my last track day and there were lessons/vocab he didn't know which enlightened me on how the program has changed over the years.

I thought it replaced 2 step but then remembered 2 step is level 1 :P I'm not sure what they swapped around to be honest. >.<

[MrAtom]

My best friend is a woman and we get people thinking we're a couple alllllll the time, or people implying we should be. It's dumb.

I also agree on how more platonic stuff should be the norm. I've given a "I'm seeing someone/No thank you, but we can hang out and be friends if that's okay," to a lot of people, but I've gained zero meaningful relationships from it.

[Finesse]

Originally Posted by tfkrocks

Let's do the 29th. The weekend is better for me.

We're making non-dating plans in a dating thread

suuuuuure

[Yakaru]

Originally Posted by Finesse

suuuuuure

Hitting that point you go "maybe this should've moved to PMs even though it's literally just meeting and hanging out"

[Finesse]

Can't not give you **** for arranging a meeting in a bikes & dating thread! sorry

[Yakaru]

Originally Posted by tfkrocks

Let's do the 29th. The weekend is better for me.

We're making non-dating plans in a dating thread

Sad news, the person I was going with ended up with some bad medical issues and we're having to cancel CSS

[tfkrocks]

Originally Posted by Yakaru

Sad news, the person I was going with ended up with some bad medical issues and we're having to cancel CSS

Oh no, I hope that person will be OK. I'll catch you another time.

[VaFish]

Originally Posted by CaliGrrl

You can go to watch, right? You don't have to race to be there.

I thought you were talking about going to watch the lesbians until I saw the word "Race".

As for Lesbian riders, I can think of 12 women riders I know, only 2 are lesbians (at least that I know of). The two that are lesbians are a married couple. Most of the women riders are wives of other people I ride with. Only a couple are single women.

Thinking of all the people I ride with I would say at least half of them their significant other won't even ride on the back of the bike. Of the ones that will ride on the back at least, I'd say a little less than half of them have their motorcycle license.

Female motorcycle riders are 14% of the rider population. When you remove the lesbians and married women from that number it really narrows the possibility of a single guy finding a woman that rides. If a guy is going to limit himself to only dating women that ride he will have a more difficult time finding a date. I think a single guy would have a better chance finding a woman that doesn't ride, but is not hostile to his riding and encouraging her to learn to ride.

[DEFY]

at motorcyclistonly DOT com .....

[Finesse]

let me raise this question... what is up with guys buying motorcycles for their girlfriend/wife? does that mean the girlfriend gives him the money and he buys the bike? or are people really out there spending 5 grand on a bike for their girlfriend? clue me in...

[jkv45]

Originally Posted by Finesse

let me raise this question... what is up with guys buying motorcycles for their girlfriend/wife? does that mean the girlfriend gives him the money and he buys the bike? or are people really out there spending 5 grand on a bike for their girlfriend? clue me in...

Our first Ninja 250 was a "girlfriend" bike. 2004 with 250 mi on it. Boyfriend bought it new for her.

Looks like she dropped it in the driveway and decided to end her riding career right then. It last ran about 2005.

We bought it in 2012 and sold it last year.

[Yakaru]

Originally Posted by Finesse

let me raise this question... what is up with guys buying motorcycles for their girlfriend/wife? does that mean the girlfriend gives him the money and he buys the bike? or are people really out there spending 5 grand on a bike for their girlfriend? clue me in...

So I'll just go over my purchase: my partner had been talking about wanting a scooter to get around, as she had no vehicle. I was pushing for something a bit bigger that would be highway legal (e.g. a 300). I decided to, for our anniversary, go ahead and buy it. So I bought it outright -- that white ninja is mine. The agreement was that the bike is mine, so if we break up, I keep it. But otherwise it's intended to be hers. If we break up, dedicated track bike time for Saturn. Otherwise, we have the option to go riding together. Though, as I think I've said already, she ended up feeling like the 300 was too tall for her and so she mostly uses my Z125 these days.

[VaFish]

Originally Posted by Finesse

let me raise this question... what is up with guys buying motorcycles for their girlfriend/wife? does that mean the girlfriend gives him the money and he buys the bike? or are people really out there spending 5 grand on a bike for their girlfriend? clue me in...

My wife would be real upset if I bought a motorcycle for my girlfriend.

And since my wife won't ride, She knows if I bought her a motorcycle it would just be another one for me.

[snot]

I bought mine, I helped my hubby get his bike.

[Misti]

Originally Posted by Yakaru

Maybe we could meet for dinner then? Always fun to meet another Ninjetter. Misti might also be there coaching, but she doesn't hit every school

I will not be at that school, heading to Laguna on Sunday though. I might feel like a 3rd wheel for that dinner "date non date" though so maybe it's best I'm not around

[Misti]

Originally Posted by Yakaru

Yes, braking was put into L2 I think. The drill is called "Brake Release". The program has definitely changed over the years! I had an ex-CSS coach work with me at my last track day and there were lessons/vocab he didn't know which enlightened me on how the program has changed over the years.

I thought it replaced 2 step but then remembered 2 step is level 1 :P I'm not sure what they swapped around to be honest. >.<

We combined the Reference Points and Change lines briefing/session and added 3 second brake release later on in level 2.

[motodancer]

Originally Posted by Finesse

let me raise this question... what is up with guys buying motorcycles for their girlfriend/wife? does that mean the girlfriend gives him the money and he buys the bike? or are people really out there spending 5 grand on a bike for their girlfriend? clue me in...

To answer the original question, my fiance got into riding years after we started dating and then he got me into it about a year & half ago (right before I joined this forum) .. (we've been together for 10 years)

To answer this quote, he bought me a brand new Vulcan S last Christmas. It was a total surprise, I didn't give him the money.
HOWEVERRRR... he won't let me ride it until I get more practice on our 250
So I've only been able to ride MY Vulcan as a passenger