Cube truck vs R1150R

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Cube truck vs R1150R

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:twisted: :evil: :x Parking my beautiful ride, normally, side stand down in a parking lot turned out to be something that you should really never do. The person in the cube truck decided to back over my bike and keep going. Luckily someone else started honking his horn to make the guy stop, when I came out she was on her side. This man with his steel bumber tore my front bumber off (mud guard), ripped off my side marker. ACTUALLY BENT MY SIDE STAND....I SAID BENT, NOT BROKE (luckily it has a center stand). Of course he got the left cylinder head. So there goes 900.00. His insurance picked up the tab. Honestly I am thinking of making some big orange flags for my bike for idiots like this to look before backing up. Yes I am venting, however, I would just like to let everyone beware of tall trucks and not to park normally anymore. It is center stand for me until the parts get here.

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What a bugger!

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Should have beaten him to death with his own shoes.
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Maybe we need to carry some big traffic cones with us and place them around the bike when we park! :P

Of course, for some people, it wouldn't matter! :x
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Parking cones, big orange flags, AND yellow caution tape! Plus some toe-poppers.
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Post by R4R&R »

And in the northeast, you can hire a union worker to wave the flags and move the cones.
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Yeah, you could try red flares, bright yellow crime scene tape, blinking orange road hazard lights, even the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders in the nude with tye-dye pom-poms. The fact is that some drivers will remain blind and braindead no matter what you do.
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Gee, that's a bumber.
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Morons in big trucks

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CARTEEUSMC You have my sympathy;

On moving to California I had to have my '56 Ford F250 Pickup (Original ugly "Sea Mist Green") Weighed at a weigh station to get it registered. While sitting on the truck scale I got out to get the certificate from the weighmaster. Suddenly, the flatbed semi I had replaced on the scale starts backing up playing the the loudest country music his extra powerful amplifier could project. I ran back, several other people ran towards the bozo waiving and shouting (the '56 gets attention) The Driver never heard anyone 'till after my truck had two nasty creases in the front of the hood from angle iron protruding from his rig. He stepped down out of his rig to???Well, I'll never know what he intended to do. He took one look at me and got back into his cab. At least four people running towards this guy from different directions all yelling and waiving their arms and he just...

Moral of story...Some folks shouldn't be allowed to operate anything with more horsepower than their IQ.
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Re: Morons in big trucks

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I was riding on a small road running to the side of a main route in an Athenian suburb, in front of me was a woman driving a VW Golf very slowly... The was no room to overtake so I gave her about a cars length and followed...
Sudenly she stopped and started to reverse much faster than she moved forward ! She was trying to give another driver room to pull out from a parking spot so she could park !!
Since I had no place to go I started to use the horn, she stopped just centimeters away from the right side of the frotn wheel (I tilted the R to the side to give her more room).
She hung from her window and said "I didn't see you there", she made a stupid face and continued to park !!! :smt021 :smt021

Moral of Story: Some people should not be allowed to drive at all...
Xray28 wrote:CARTEEUSMC You have my sympathy;

On moving to California I had to have my '56 Ford F250 Pickup (Original ugly "Sea Mist Green") Weighed at a weigh station to get it registered. While sitting on the truck scale I got out to get the certificate from the weighmaster. Suddenly, the flatbed semi I had replaced on the scale starts backing up playing the the loudest country music his extra powerful amplifier could project. I ran back, several other people ran towards the bozo waiving and shouting (the '56 gets attention) The Driver never heard anyone 'till after my truck had two nasty creases in the front of the hood from angle iron protruding from his rig. He stepped down out of his rig to???Well, I'll never know what he intended to do. He took one look at me and got back into his cab. At least four people running towards this guy from different directions all yelling and waiving their arms and he just...

Moral of story...Some folks shouldn't be allowed to operate anything with more horsepower than their IQ.
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what's a cube truck? :?:
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You could always get a mechanical traffic cop like they use here in Tokyo. He could ride pillion and protect your bike when parked. :D
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Post by Bry »

scottybooj wrote:what's a cube truck? :?:
hmm a truck to the power of 3...

that'd be a Hummer! :)

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50cc

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Quote: "Some folks shouldn't be allowed to operate anything with more horsepower than their IQ."

50cc?
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Re: 50cc

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50cc would be 10-12 HP at best :smt033

MikeCam wrote:Quote: "Some folks shouldn't be allowed to operate anything with more horsepower than their IQ."

50cc?
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A cube truck is.....

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A truck with a cube, box, ice truck, a truck that can not see behind him. think U-Haul, USPS truck (bigger though).
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Post by Harry »

OOOHH MAN! That made me feel sick to my stomach just reading about it!!!

And to a veteran no less!

That's terrible!
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