Are you a Hooligan?

[Frisco]

Nicely done, Gabe!

There is a bit of hooligan in all of us.

An especially good and poingnant line:

"When I blast past some hapless minivan driver at 90 mph on my chopped-up, barely muffled Multistrada, she has no idea that I’m a small 45-year-old man who trembles with fear when I have to return something at Trader Joe’s without a receipt."

CJ

 

[Karbon]

 

[corndog67]

Yep. Ride like an idiot. Lots of speed, wheelies, blasting past peoplewho are going too slow or seem to have NO fucking reflexes. Rapping on windows of people texting. Just generally an anti social rider.

I don't ride in groups because it draws too much attention when a bunch of people ride like that.

 

[sanjuro]

Well, the real hooligans are not exactly poet laureates, although they know how to operate a GoPro.

You won't hear many legible tracts about breaking the law, but I see plenty of evidence of real hooliganism on the youtubes.

A lot of riders are rule breakers, particularly the speed limit. But there is a different doing 11mph over the limit vs rolling at triple digits.

What the deal is that many non-riders believe that any public act of rule-flaunting should be condemned and punished, ignoring the real problems of our society.

 

[Loki1000R]

You people have no idea what the word hooligan means

 

[danate]

You people have no idea what the word hooligan means

Maybe you don't know what it means, punk!

 

[hophead]

Oh man I love the old photo of the flying saucer Gabe, we played there as kids, Our Lady of Lourdes, the Catholic Church just down the street, used to be a school, 1st-8th grades, where I attended from'66-'75 and that structure was always being played on. In fact the school's "large" playground, once full of basketball hoops, just across the street, is still there, now just a parking lot. Years later we played football in the park also.
Guess I'm a wannabe hooligan, ride an FZ-1 and a 955 Daytona, but too old to act on every impulse the way I did in years past. I never had kids but it does seem unlike in years past, when that park would be full of us kids, some friends and stangers playing tackle football, or shirts and skins basketball at Mosswood park on MacArthur, I mean you just don't see that kind of thing anymore. Ofcourse we also used to ride without helmets so maybe some change is for the better?

 

[Lucky13xx]

Not even close. I'm the nicest guy I know.

 

[sprorchid]

I don't think I'm really a hooligan...just an asshole.

+1 for me, some times. I did, as a kid frequent astro park and I miss the flying saucer. My parents didn't live too far from there, definitely the closest park to the house.

 

[Gabe]

Thanks for the kind words gents (and ladies!)! And for reading my drivel.

Sorry if it bends the rules of the TOS, Bud...but that's what hooligans do...

 

[SFSV650]

Well, the real hooligans are not exactly poet laureates, although they know how to operate a GoPro.

I find those folks pretty confusing. They obviously have some level of bike control - almost certainly better than I do. I can't begin to fathom standing on my tank during a wheelie on the freeway, and I'd have to expect that doing so puts me in a poor position to negotiate the environmental hazards I encounter constantly, let alone other road users.

How does one become so proficient in some aspects of motorcycle handling yet painfully oblivious or inept in others?

 

[Hooli]

Label me proud rowd and hooli

<------ There can only be one.

 

[Valgar]

I have never ridden through a golf course in SF, I have never caught air on a pedestrian overpass, I have never got stuck on a log climbing a hill in a park in crocker amazon, I have never had cops screaming at me that they are "going to take my fucking bike because you were doing wheelies for the last 5 blocks", never ridden down a one-way against traffic, Never.

Nope, I'm like a fucking mormon motorcyclist. anything above 4k on the tach is an affront to god and the universe.

And no, that isn't ancient turkey still stuck under the bike, that is just some street crud.

Ok, technically I am a "hooligan" because I was loud at Dickens Faire today.

 

[larry kahn]

Mostly only when I ride my Dufuckincati with cocktail shaker pipes and flattrack bars and up 5 teeth on back, it's hard to not hooliganize.

It's seemingly getting even more gratifying to do so the older I get.

 

[redtail]

You people have no idea what the word hooligan means

hoo·li·gan
ˈho͞oləɡən/
noun
a violent young troublemaker, typically one of a gang.
synonyms: troublemaker, delinquent, juvenile delinquent, mischief-maker, vandal, sumo rider



yeah I added the last part.

 

[Loki1000R]

Maybe you don't know what it means, punk!

hoo·li·gan
ˈho͞oləɡən/
noun
a violent young troublemaker, typically one of a gang.
synonyms: troublemaker, delinquent, juvenile delinquent, mischief-maker, vandal



yeah I added the last part.

the man is already starting to get a clue! what happens when he actually gets one???

 

[ratpick]

I once changed lanes without signaling,society fears me.