The wife and I went to the book store, one of those national chain book stores that are often on the huge sprawling new plazas and this one was as well.

I walk out of the store and look out to the parking lot ahead of me and I see this chubby young woman taking pictures and it seems to be in the direction of my GU...
thats fine I guess.. but then I notice she is taking pictures of someone sitting on my GU! oh no! the first thing I think of is my carbs.... But in general I am infuriated.

As I approach the one who was taking the pictures is now suspicious that the angry looking man in the leather jacket walking towards them might be the owner while the other one is flapping her yap about it still... young woman maybe 20.. Its hard to tell these days.

I could not believe it. I thought there was some universal INSTINCT in people not to touch and definitely not to get on motorcycles?? I guess I was wrong.

Now that I know I was wrong I will be hopping into and onto every classic car or motorcycle I see and posing for pics.

So, how many of you has this happened to?

I hope you ripped them up and down. I am always amazed at the audacity of people who do not ride, own motorcycles that think that they are jungle gyms or public property for their snot nosed, poor mannered puppies to crawl all over. Or they start touching the bike, I always come up and ask if it would be okay if I crawled all over their car. They usually act offended and shocked, then act all indignant. People are Crap.

Welcome to the club! Coming out of the store I find a lady letting her kids climb all over my bike. I walk up to her and I asked, "Where is your car so I can sit in it." She looked at me like I was the bad guy and being an A$$hole... It's kinda like when you go to an antique car show and the owners have signs that say, "Look but don't touch". Those signs are made for a reason. People can be very inconsiderate. It's tough to have faith in the human race....

It's a common thing at bike rallies here... everybody jumps on everybody else's bike to check it out, but it's done with a relative amount of respect (by other bikers who I generally know and trust) and I don't have a problem there.
On the other hand, if a stranger touches my bike in a parking lot or other public area they will be treated as if they were trying to steal it. I've seen plenty of cases of people being beaten senseless for that crap, I'd say you acted with plenty of restraint.

It has happened to me too...

I always ask them if they are ready to buy it!!!

Isenhelm, if you chewed their butt off you did the right thing. Manners must be learned. I do not touch other folks bike, cars or guns without express permission.

In 1990 I stopped at a fast food joint after an action packed 8hr afternoon shift at the PD. I came out to see a drunken 17 yr old sitting on my new and pristine Electra Glide. 3 options ran thru my head--

Head Shot? Satisfying, yes, but frowned upon in these enlightened times. Also, too much paperwork.

Badge him and do the cop thing? Naaa, I got enough of that at work.

So, there I was, all 6'2" and 270 lbs dressed in fashionable black leather. (Yes, I got the H-D thing out of my system)

I simply walked over, grabbed him by the front of the shirt and plucked his sorry little arse offa my bike, strongly suggesting he never do that again. As he was in the air, it slowly dawned on him that the big ugly fella was upset with him. His friends dragged him away and apologised. I heard them say "He was gonna kill you!"

I wasn't, but they didn't have to know.

Anyone messing with your bike in any way should have an impromptu lesson in manners.

Alan Bond
2004 Tourist
1997 GoldWing
2008 KLR650
Harley free from 1995

So far, we haven't CAUGHT anyone...but I do tend to be on the paranoid side. Our first Ural (the '94) had scratches on the tank from kids climbing on it - it had formerly been the dealer's demo.

I tend not to wander too far from the bike when there are high concentrations of kids - Dairy Queen is about the worst for tons of kids, all with a sugar rush.

I have invited kids to sit on the bike if the parents seem interested.

I'm surprised you had a problem at a bookstore - readers tend to be a little more enlightened. Locally, we have the most UDF at bookstores.

Definitely a bad situation.
I keep mine so dirty, most people fear it.

Your bike and your adventure in working out the details of how you handle such folks. Me, I have owned Model A Fords and all sorts of antique cars all of my life. I never got a sign to tell folks to not touch or fear for their lives if they did. I could care all the less in most circumstances. Car horns were meant to be honked. Running boards were meant to be stood on. Kids were meant to be inquisitive, so I was quite a bit different than most of the other old farts who attened the swap meets and car shows with me. My kiddo grew up in letting others hop in the Model A, Falcon or old VW and push the brakes, honk the horn and stand on the running boards. She loved doing that and we enjoyed many years of letting it happen. I sold off the Model A for the Troyka and nothing in my attitude really changed. So what if the bike gets a character mark here or there? It wasn't bought to be an investment in the first place. If I had wanted that, then I'd have never selected a Ural.

Now, having said that, my bike isn't there for just anyone to hop on and try to destroy. I wouldn't want some kid with a supersized snow cone dripping it all over the seat and such, but I haven't seen many folks do that though. I doubt that them taking pictures and looking silly in the tug isn't the end of the world, but, again, it is your bike and your personal taste in what you would allow. I'd probably let them know that it was my rig, but by the time they figured that out, I'd probably be snapping photos of them as well. It hasn't happened to me yet, but I'd probably get over it pretty quick if it did. That is, if they didn't really hurt anything.

In reality, you just happened to find them there out of sheer luck. Just imagine how often it may happen when you aren't watching your rig.

I just have a different take on it, but to each his own. Like say, it is your bike and your choice as to what way you react. Texas had the concealed handgun law here, so I am a shade more careful in showing my anger these days. Since I don't carry, I would be at the disadvantage and no one would care all the less after the event was over for me to win the victory in saying that the other fellow was in the wrong. I'd still be just as dead. :-)

The general public used to fear bikers and give us and our bikes a wide berth. Moms would avert their eyes and hurry their children away....... Walter mitty types would tremble in fear.........

Problem is as a subculture we've just become to darn lovable.




Fortunately I don't own anything that approaches show bike quality so when these little incidents happen , while not happy I do take it with a grain of salt. Maybe the little kid that mom plopped on my bike just might be having that watershed moment that creates a life time love of motorcycles.

When my bike was parked in front of our shop there were a couple of young very good looking girls posing all around my bike, well one was posing and the other was taking pictures. They didn't get on it until I encouraged them to......and said hey, you would look good in my helmet and goggles too... Maybe a different situation.

I would be pissed if someone , no matter how young and cute jumped on my bike, but some people seem to lack boundries. A related story. Years ago while I was building boats I kept my canoe pulled up next to the yard. On day I wnt out to lunch and my canoe was missing and I saw some dude out in the bay paddling around with his hands. (I kept the paddles in the shop) When I yelled to him to bring my canoe back to shore he gave me some guff about not hurting it . Hard to beleve what some people think is acceptable.

I'm kinda with Huey on this one. It really wouldn't bother me much to see someone sitting on it having their picture taken or the like. But, I've banged on about every part of it with a BFH plus my bike is 50 years old and paint looks even older, so there's not much damage they can do. At least nothing I couldn't fix in a jiffy.

I can, however, understand with the rising prices of a Ural, the desire to take care of one. Especially the paint and seats on a primo Retro or Troyka. I reckon someone could probably kick a carb off a new one, but you could probably stand on my K-68's.

I've only recently ever had anyone ask me to sit on it for a photo and it was some kid's mom. They were both overly polite and it didn't bother me in the least. And it wouldn't bother me too much to find someone on it unexpectedly as long as they were kinda apolgetic, you know like, "Oh sorry, I didn't see you around but I wanted to get a feel for the funky looking seat, handlebars, etc." I might get an attitude if they got one with me or some parent was letting their kid use it for a jungle gym instead of putting a quarter in the horsey by the store door.

So far I have found most all folks to be very polite and they always ask before doing anything. Sidecars seem to bring out the good in folks.

But I did have an experience in the early 90's. Me and a friend were riding our Guzzis and stopped for lunch at a Burger King.
We sat down with our food a few minutes later just in time to see some idiot woman laughing and praising her kids for putting their hands all over the bikes. I went speechless and shocked as they were about to grab the hot chrome pipes. My buddy Warren ran out and screamed bloody murder at her for endangering her kids like that.

At least it had the right effect. She felt horrible not thinking about the hot pipes. He gave her another lecture about not touching other's property and she looked ready to cry. Her idiot children just ran off to another part of the parking lot to cause other trouble.

It was almost a case of Darwinism in action!

In this day of poor parenting and ambulance chasing, I worry more about the kids than the bike.

I really fear that someday I'm going to come out of a store and find a kid on the ground beside the bike where he has become a little TOO athletic in his climbing and falls off and hurts himself seriously.

Maybe I've worked too many bike shows and seen how the kids behave there. Granted, they are invited to sit on the bikes and we keep an eye on them. But what might happen if they weren't invited and watched closely?

Am I paranoid? Could be....I certainly hope so in this case.

It is really all about manners. Unfortunately we are out numbered by rudeness. It' part of the dumbing down of society. I try to teach my kids as best I can to be good citizens, be polite, and show respect. But also to not take any guff from anyone. Like just the other night, some very polite nice young ladies asked to sit on my bike. So how could I deny them? It pays to be polite.....

A Hooter's in Sanford, FL? Well ######, I don't recall there one being there back when I lived in Lake Mary (about 7-8 years ago).

You're right, it's about manners. I have no problem letting someone sit on my bike, provided I'm asked, or I offer. So far it's never been an issue.

Tud

My wife and I were at a Perkins having diner one time when I looked out the window and saw a young kid climbing on my Electraglide and the Parents were right there. So I ran out to tell them to get her off, and the got mad at me. So I asked them how they would feel if that 700+ bike fell over on their sweet little monster. That shut them up but they still weren't to happy. I little while later I looked out and some more of their tribe were playing catch with a football and bouncing it off of cars in the parking lot, parents still just standing around paying no attention to what their little monsters were doing. Then they wonder why their kids are getting killed in the hood.

May be digressing a tad, but the lack of respect and poor manners, is the result of poor parenting. Betty and I are in complete agreement that the very worst thing you can do to your kids is not teach and enforce, manners and respect for others, it will quietly close doors for them all for their entire lives, and the grandchildren too.....Sad....Ken

Agreed. Mine are 7 and 5 and I make very sure that they don't touch something that isn't theirs without asking. At that age it sometimes seems futile, but I'm hoping it's something that sticks with them as they get older.

This sad little thread has once again confirmed the wisdom of a decision I made many years ago. At that time, I became a loyal, life long customer of Youngs Drug Company, the manufacturer of TROJANS! I decided that creating a bunch of leg biters isn't for me; in order to raise them, I'D have to grow up MYSELF first... and for a man whose hero is Peter Pan, that's a tall order!

The only logical conclusion was that Party Hats were the ONLY way to fly.

Nowadays... after reading the posts here, and watching the little monsters throw screaming tantrums in the supermarket I feel my position has been totally vindicated. I only wish that about 50% of the REST of my generation had come to a similar conclusion and made the same decision that I did...


GAVNO

Reminds me of when I came out of the store once and found some teenagers huddled around my HD while their friend sat on it and made his best vroom,vroom sounds. Nobody saw me coming until they heard me yell in my best DI voice, "What the hell do you think you are doing?"

Honest, the kid on the bike went right over the windshield without touching it while all his friends ran. The best part was him trying to get into his car, until he realized he was trying to get into the wrong one. I was rolling around in the parking lot after that!

Years ago I had a Honda SilverWing Interstate (think GoldWing with a 500cc engine, same fairing, controls, etc). I had an alarm system that sent a signal to a pager when the alarm was activated.

While Christmas shopping one year at the mall, I walked around the store with my hands full. My pager went off. I dropped everything on the nearest table and quickly walked outside. Of course I was on the opposite end of the mall from where I parked my bike.

As I walked up, I saw a grown man standing next to my bike, his son sitting on my seat and trying to turn the handlebars left and right. My fork lock was on, but that didn't stop the brat from trying. I began to walk closer and closer, my anger getting worse with each step.

When I was about 6 feet behind him, I yelled as loud as I could, "WTF ARE YOU DOING ?!?!?!" (I actually said all the curse words, but can't type them here...) The father jumped, turned around and gave me that "what ??" look. I continued yelling, "Do you see a F'n quarter slot next to my bike ? That ain't no F'n ride, that's MY bike !!"

His answer ?? "He isn't hurting it !"

HUH !?!?!?!

Then the kid started to cry. So he says, "Look, you made him cry !"

I said, "In about 2 seconds I'm gonna make him F'n BLEED if you don't get the little barstard off my bike !!"

He picked up his crying kid and walked to the parking lot. I followed. He turned and looked at me. I just said calmly, "I'm gonna jump on the hood of your car, that's cool with you, right ? After all, it's okay with you for your kid to climb on MY bike." Of course I stopped walking, I made my point.

He mumbles softly, "Someone has the Christmas spirit."

I just answered, "F-You you inconsiderate a$$hole !! Teach your little Fu(k-Trophy to respect other peoples property !!"

I go back and check my bike. The choke knob is pulled out, all the radio knobs are turned to max, the cruise control is locked on, the fairing pocket snaps are all undone on one side. I thought about getting his license number, but I was too mad to hop on the bike just yet, I had to mellow out.

The thing that really got me, is the guy thought he was in the right to do what he did !!!

Can you say "The ME Generation"? Modify that slightly... it's now "The ME and MY KID Generation".

An awful lot of folks seem to think that just because thier kid is involved it justifies them doing just about ANYTHING, to anybody they damned well please. They're under the mistaken impression that the rest of the world is as impressed by and enamoured of thier spawn as THEY are.

I was required to pass an examination before they gave me a license to operate my bike... but airheads like that clown are permitted to irresponsibly procreate at will without even getting a learner's permit.

Some day, when the cops pick up the kid for tipping over tombstones or planting cellphone cameras in the girl's locker room, that kid is gonna have to pay full price for his Daddy's indulgence and idiocy... and they'll both wonder why the world's picking on 'em.


GAVNO

The saga goes on, For a birthday present my daughter got Betty and I a gift Certtificate, to go out to dinner at a local resturant, usually go out to eat on Friday night, So went to this place on main street of Mosinee, walked in and stopped, sign said, wait to be seated, also was a sign that said if using a gift certificate, inform the waitress BEFORE ordering....well that is tacky, but only (# 1,) Bar maid yells accross the room full of friday nite booszers, go ahead and sit down (No.2#), so we did as ordered. one fat 18 year old waitress sluffleing about, I put my hands on the table cloth, which was a felxiable plastic of some sort, and it stuck to my hands, about that moment, fat girl sluffles up and says" I'll take your drink order", I requested that she clean the table cloth first so a menu won't stick to it, Fat-so tells me she shall get our drink order first, I said "no, I'd like the tablecloth cleaned, now", "no I will get your drink order first," all heads around us were watching this , especially one lady already feeding her 4 youngsters, had a pretty horrified look. To start with I didn't want a dammed drink......This rude slovenly thing is exactly what I was speaking of, The prize product of slob parenting, you can take a bet to the bank that she will, end up at 30 with three or more kids of various fathers, whining that she is a single mom, and the welfare check dosen't allow for beer money......I had enuff, we left and had chineese. But I have a plan, I am going to send this story to the editor of this little newpaper in town, detail it out nicely, with the fact that we don't eat on dirty tables at home, so why should we have to do it in a public place, send a copy of this off to the health department, and then offer up this 30.00 gift certificate to anyone hungry enuff, to risk their health for a few days....Someone is gonna be pissed, and it won't be me.......Ken

Wow! I knew it must have happened to someone else on the forum, but some of your stories are much worse.

There was restraint alright, I was so angry I was biting my tongue. I thought if I let out a peep I would explode. I am sure it was written all over my face though, the way they scuttled off faster as I got closer (or they knew they were busted doing something they shouldnt). I was not so worried about scratches, I was worried about the carb getting stomped or who knows what... It is the principal that gets me most.. YOU JUST DON'T DO IT! you don't get on motorcycle just like you don't get into cars or houses, boats etc....
how in the world people just don't get it is amazing. I hope it doesnt happen again, and I really hope I don't get one of these people who says some form of "Aint hurting it" That is just fuel on the fire.

It was a book store in a large plaza full of other stores selling mindless consumer garbage so its no wonder. There is always a very high ratio of some types of assorted moron at the mall.

I am definitely parking in sight and peeking out at it more often. One more reason I like shopping on line.

The two places I have been the least worried so far have been the gun show and the gun range, armed society = polite society. It gets a lot of attention at gun shows though, must be the camo paint.

the best one that happened to me, was with my CBR. i was out at the local biker gathering spot at 1:00am having a burger, when 2 car loads of african-american lads pulled up, must have been 10 people in these two cars, one whom seemed either very drunk or high, he walks right over to my bike and sits on it. there was only me my freind and another guy, and they both look at me like what am i going to do? I calmly walked over and as politely as possible asked him to get off, he refuses, I then grab him by the arm, but not with much force or anything, i'm obviously fearing for my own saftey at this point. he then swings at me and says "get the f**k off me!" so right after this, one of his freinds approches, and yells at him to get off my bike, his buddy then gives me a weird handshake, and introduces him self as the leader of the gang in which they were all a part of. I remember we left so fast after that, none of us even buckled our helmets, lol

Why is it almost always the brats with stick fingers that get into the hack, or play with the grips and windscreen. Had a couple of them climbing all over my Gear Up outside a Culver's (ice cream and heart-attack burgers) in Northern Wisc. Drippy cone in one hand and drool over everything.

I don't have a DI voice, but have been told that my 'Range Officer' voice makes DI's homesick. Had the manager call the local cops for attempted theft of a vehicle before I went outside to let the parent know how displeased I was, in similar words to pigdog's. I think I used the phrase crotch-fruit, though. Parent tried to leave, but I let them know the cops were on the way and it might be not-so-good leaving the scene of an attempted theft. Parent got off with a warning and had to clean the goo off the rig, brats got a lesson in manners, and Mr Occifer and I got to talking- he had a hack rig in his younger days and asked to take the Gearup for a spin around the block. A little UDF, a butter burger, raspberry smoothie, and making a LEO happy. Almost worth the drooly brats in the first place

vic

I bought my Ural specifically to give my grandson and my dog rides, I really am not too worried about ice cream covered fingers.

Always keep the kid's helmet in the trunk, a few times have made some family's day by taking the curious kids for a quick spin around the parking lot of wherever I happen to be. Everyone leaves smiling, I think Urals have that effect on people, makes my day brighter.

Bugs splat, birds poop and Russian iron rusts, the bike handles it, I would never use foul language and threats around children, even if they (and thier parents) are rude.

Where I used to work ,from 6 to 11 years ago, I would sometime see the neighborhood children leaving my side car when I came back from a day in the field. I didn't think yelling at them would do much good because they were likly to do it anyway after school before I got back. I started keeping the tounne cover on the hack all the time. I think that solve the problem because these children probably would not have known how to put it back on. They were probably 7?

Me, I could care less as long as they are not beating it up with a section of pipe. Along a similar note, I was at an air show once when I saw a father set his young son on the wing of a T-6 for a photo...the guy who owned the plane screamed, cursed and ripped both up one side and down the other. The boy left in tears. I figured there would be one less pilot in the world now. The fella I flew in with (in his T-6) just shook his head, he could have cared less if a school yard of kids were climbing all over his. He said that one reason he came to shows was so people "could" climb in and sit in a piece of history...I guess it is just how you look at life.

Malicious intent or attempted theft is an entirely different matter though....

If it had been my Ural, I probably wouldn't be so upset, although I still think you don't touch somebody's prop. without permission. A two wheel bike though is a different story, they can and will tip over.

The citizens seem to take it for granted that motorcycles are public property, to be used or abused any way THEY see fit.

After you chewed her out, you should have followed her to her locked car, and before she unlocked it, jumped on the hood, walk over the roof to the trunk then jump off. And you could tell her, "I'd have sat in it, to see if it's comfy....but it was locked, so I just wanted to look at it from above..."

It certainly gets their attention.

When i was a kid growing up you got a swift kick in the pants if you messed with someones ride. Now i guess people have no fear of being kicked in the butt, or the value of something or even working hard and saving to have something kool and trying to keep it nice, Respect is often hard to come by these days,

I know this is an old thread. But it is a good one.

It got me thinking to what my Mom taught me and my little brother when we were kids. She'd remind us to put our hands in our pockets when we "looked" at something so we wouldn't accidentally touch it. It's funny, but to this day (I'm 47 now) I still finding myself doing that. Respect for the property of others is important!

Head on down to WallyWorld and see how often you see such practical sense put into actual practice. Hang at the toy area for a moment or two and you will likely see as many, if not more, parents who have to play with the toys and open packages on the shelves wihout purchasing them. It is a different world we live in today, I suspect, but having any thougts at all to the other person's property is something that sure could use some parental teaching.

I say that after last night's experience of being two isles away from the toy section of Target's and not being able to hear much of anything, due to the constant bouncing of a basket ball from the two kids playing in the toy isle. The parents who were nearby did not tell them to stop or to put the ball back on the shelf before they broke anything. I then turned into an isle to look for an item and was almost run into by a teenager who was actually riding a bicycle down the isle. Not sure if that made me as angry as the kid who almost ran into me with those darn skate tennis shoes, but no parents were doing anything. Neither were the store clerks who seemed to disappear. Yes, it is indeed a different world we live in these days, I suspect. Common sense and common curtesy seems to have to be checked at the door.

if it makes any logical sense, then it won't get done, at least not by the parents i have been viewing of late.

Maybe it would be too dificult to get them to put their hands in their pockets these days, as the baggy pants they wear always seem to hang down to their ankles. :-)

Placed a sign that read $5.00 for picture of you and bike. that may keep the monkeys off it.

Put a Russian Iron Motorcycle Club sticker on it. That might scare them off. After I put one on my truck a few years ago I over heard my Hispanic nehibors across the street saying "Don't mess with him, He's in a motorcycle club." For real, they realy did. There are so many MC's out there most people don't know what Russian Iron is. I don't know most of the MC clubs that show up a the NY bike show and I've been doing that for 5 years.

I hadn't seen this thread before and, fortunately, I've not experienced any of this yet. Lots of leaning over it and pointing, but no touching.

A number of posts had me laughing and others had me nodding. I respect those of you who are not so bothered by it. Admittedly, I have abused my rig more than any roadside/car-park pointer, but its the principal of it being mine. I worked my arse off for it, I chose it, I try to keep it running, and it is not a piece of public art, nor a park bench and should not be treated as so, IMO. As pointed out I would not sit on someone's bonnet, or waltz into their living room and switch on their TV....
I am a pretty pacifistic type, but one thing that makes me see red is touching my bikes!! May sound like macho bull, but these are the things that I have always worked hard to buy and keep: requires some sacrifices when you are not earning so much. It does not help mattters that for most, bikes are probably more personal than their cars. A car is just a useful tool for me (I don't even own one). My bike is a more personal affair....

That said, a few times parents and kids have stopped to look at it, and I have felt happy to offer them to sit on my rig or my solo....

Its just down to respect for other's property and, by default, others themselves. Definitely in decline, I think....

Recently, I was picking up a six pack at my local beverage store when as I was heading out back to my rig was my X next door neighbor (he and his X recently divorced, she got the house) sitting on my rig. He thought he was being funny but I guess by the look on my face, I could see that he thought sitting on my rig was a bad idea. I didn't scold him about it because he really is a nice guy and he's got enough grief in his life. We talked a little bit and I went on my way. Sometimes stuff like this takes restraint and we have to choose our battles accordingly. I think the bottom line is what we learn in Kindergarden really does matter. Sometimes manners stick, sometimes it doesn't

At the last ISOK Ron Dee Voo a group of us were out for a ride. We stopped someplace and a guy came over saying "I just want to look at the bikes." I put my head down and grumbled "ok, no pictures." I had Big Larry cracking up. The guy said "I wasn't going to take any pictures." I did see 3 or 4 people with camera phones quickly put them away and skulk off.

A picture is worth a thousand words, i brought my rig to an air show in sept 08, i took pic of people taking pics of the rig

So how do I get to Prospect for this Russian Iron MC you speak of? My nickname shall be "StraightRazor" since I don't smoke, don't drink, do smoke MJ, no criminal record, no tats, short hair and I go to church.

Don't ratfornicate my ride or my colors, else I replace your new solid-state voltage regulator with Russian version.

We're already international, brahs!

Wow! Manners is one thing (my parents raised me to respect others and all that), but I think here in NJ, there are so many "Motorcycle Clubs" that wear colors, you would be crazy to sit on a bike of any type. It is simply suicidal and I believe most people know that.

Bikes are definately a personal thing, and sitting on one without permission is just looking for trouble. Heck, I know better than to even ask to sit on some bikes...that can get you killed too...

Hey JerseyBlues
I was in HHC, 3/102d AR, 50th AD NJARNG, "Jersey Blues"

Wow! How old are you??? Wasn't that a Revolutionary War Regiment???

Seriously though, I play the harmonica...blues mainly, hence the moniker...

Ha! What are ya, a wise guy or somethin'? No, Mortar Crewman, the only infantry in an Armor unit, from about 87-88 before I went on active duty to Berlin, Germany for my first tour of duty.

StraightRazor
Russian Iron MC
Colorado Cossacks Chapter...........lol

Your a member here ain't ya? That means your in. Klick on the Iron Gear button on the home page if you want to buy stickers. If you want "colors" contact Charlie 23 from Bulgaria pinned at the top of the Russian Motorcycle World page. If you don't own a Russian motorcycle yet and have stickers or colors, we consider you a poser but we won't kick your a$$ for it we like the exposure and the fan base.

Are you one of them "Straight Edgers" ? They give me the willies because I drink and smoke and don't go to church. You can ride with us anytime if you have a Russian rig.

I was only half kidding- the "Jersey Blues" are a Revolutionary War re-enactment group here in New Jersey.

No offense intended...I was in the USAF '77-'84.

And I wouldn't sit on your rig without asking! That's for sure.

There's a patch out there that I'm looking for a LARGE sticker version of, to put on the tank of The Gremlin. I figger it should solve a LOT of the problems... ESPECIALLY the clueless parents of kids that are old enough to read!

The patch says...


IF YOU DON'T ASK TO GET ON MY BIKE,
I WON'T ASK TO F*CK YOUR WOMAN.


It gets the point across to adults quite nicely, and for the Brainless Breeders out there... they're in mortal terror of thier 6 or 7 year old asking "Daddy, what does 'f*ck' mean?"

Sorry, Gang... but I'm finding that as I get older, my patience with utter stupidity wears thinner and thinner. Extreme measures are called for!


GAVNO


PS - I've reached the point where I keep the hack's tonneau on all the time if I'm riding alone. After somebody's kid had a seat in the hack and yanked on the windshield grab bar (ripping the windshield apron apart), the cover seems to be a definite deterrent.

I think I'll go with your Plan B, but use a spare coil wired up to produce a deterrent electrical charge for Plan A.