Convo with a van man

[Alpinestarhero]

So i was in traffic this morning, and looking at a porsche. nice car, biiig brakes :grin: then i turned my ehad the other way, and a driver of a blue van leans over and says "rich bi*ch!" because it was being driven by a woman. He laughed and i laughed and we agreeed it was a nice car. I demonstrated though how it dosnt sound as good as my bike (vrooom vrooom) then he said i'm robably better off since i can filter and she's stuck there.

I then told him how much i paid for my bike (£1500) and he couldnt beleive it was so cheap. I was quite suprised at his reaction...has anyone else ever had this kind of reaction when telling someone who dosnt know much about bikes things like that?

Nice chap he was, good to have a talk while waiting at traffic lights.

[Dave20046]

No most people I talk to have no interest in bikes. "what you paid £1000 to get yourself killed?" :rolleyes:

[DanAbnormal]

Sort of, when I was having a traffic light gp with a Ferrar F430 I reminded the owner that my bike only cost me £3400 and it still beat his car to 60. Made me feel great. :rolleyes:

[hovis]

my mother told me not to talk to strangers;)


i remember when i turned up at mogs house, his wife said my yellow curvy looked a lot better than his silver pointy=D>

[Mr Speirs]

I had filtered to the front of at set of traffic lights and found myself at the side of an Artic Lorry. The driver wound down his window and shouted 'I'll give you a head start' :) Made me chuckle.

[jimmy__riddle]

i always get people ask if i wanna sell them my hilux, which is quite funny considering its a 1991 and hand painted. people even leave me notes under the windscreen!

[jimmy__riddle]

oops

[Alpinestarhero]

Sort of, when I was having a traffic light gp with a Ferrar F430 I reminded the owner that my bike only cost me £3400 and it still beat his car to 60. Made me feel great. :rolleyes:

lol! Awesome. I was filtering down the A40 once and there were two of those ferraris side by side, drivers obviously bored because they started having a sound-off competition, engines off the limiters and everything. So i crawled in between came to a stop and looked at them both and promptly did the same thing with my engine. We were all freinds, lots of laughing and smiling. Then I just carried on and left them annoying the other people stuck in traffic.

MrS, thats funny...did you win ;):D

Hovis, my mum said she didnt like yellow bikes. The day i brought a yellow bike. booooo

[Dappa D]

sounds like a nice bloke, and a rarety for a van man to not be trying to kill you...in London too....is this an early april fool??!! lol

noones been surprised when ive said i bought my bike for a grand :-)

[Alpinestarhero]

Lol i dont think so! I guess it was something we had in common, both lowly paid people traveling around in vehicles designed for purpose rather than anything like what that porsche was designed for

[Jabba]

i remember when i turned up at mogs house, his wife said my yellow curvy looked a lot better than his silver pointy=D>

Yeah, but they're a bit odd in Caerphilly ;)

[Holdup]

I had a chat with a van drivers passanger whn i was on my first 50cc price etc then he said wanna race? thought it was quite funny first time any thing like that had ever happened to me

[Magnum]

No, no one understands why i chose a bike over a car.

'why did you choose a bike? you get cold and wet in the rain and you cant hold a decent enough conversation with someone'

[Swin]

I've noticed that a fair few of the bigger lorry drivers also own a bike and are quite happy to chat about them at the lights. Only trouble was back in 1990 I had one of the first Pan Europeans to commute to work on and stopped at a set of lights, talking to a lorry driver about it compared to his FJ1200 when we suddenly realised that all the cars behind were tooting for us to pull away!

[metalangel]

Yeah, but they're a bit odd in Caerphilly ;)

:smt120 <- me

I had a big van-tipper thing beside me revving his engine wanting me to do the same a while ago, it's odd. You do get a bit bored driving around in those things all day, I remember a guy in an Escort figured he didn't want to follow me down a slip road and would overtake... not realising that my mighty Sprinter could match and then exceed his acceleration despite being five times as big!

[davepreston]

i was at a petrol station and a white van man came over and started asking me about my bike (he was thinking about getting one for his son) i told him how good i thought it was ,then he showed me the bike he was transporting home a joey dunlop tt bike, i offered him a swap but he graciously declined

[tigersaw]

i always get people ask if i wanna sell them my hilux, which is quite funny considering its a 1991 and hand painted. people even leave me notes under the windscreen!

I wanna buy your hilux. Well, A hilux anyway. Maybe we could have a hilux chat sometime?

[jimmy__riddle]

I wanna buy your hilux. Well, A hilux anyway. Maybe we could have a hilux chat sometime?

pm me if you have any questions etc

[tigersaw]

pm me if you have any questions etc

Cool, thanks. Be prepared for silly how big is it questions and the like.