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Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario. Believe in equality, Indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBTQ+, women's rights and do not support war of any kind.

  • People like me between the ages of about 40 - 55 are at a great period for riding motorcycles. There are a lot of people selling amazing old bikes that young people either don't or can't buy. We're at a good age for insurance (if we have years of experience). I love biking and I've accumulated 6 old motorcycles with 3 on the road and 3 as project bikes. I don't think this period will last tho ... as those old bikes will start to become too expensive to maintain and mechanics no longer want to service old bikes. And everyone will be switching to powerful electric bikes that will look like full sized motorcycles.

    What all this means in terms of your noisy neighbour is that there is a 50/50 chance that he won't be riding for very long.

    Sometimes these old guys just enjoy riding and continue riding for a long time.

    Or they give up on it because they end up scaring themselves with a near accident or their bike breaks down because they don't know all the ways of taking care of a bike (it's all dependent on the make, model, age, type and little details of the bike) ... they often end up with a mechanical problem and they either don't want to fix it, it's too expensive or they just don't know how and just give up on the bike and biking.

  • There's a big change happening in motorcycling these days. A lot of older people (50+) are buying motorcycles because they always wanted to ride but they couldn't afford it when they were younger. Mix in the fact that many old riders are now giving up their bikes and selling them ... but young riders are not buying them because a young new rider can't afford the insurance for the bike. Younger riders will go for new smaller engine bikes and many of them are now migrating towards electric bikes ... it's getting to the point where small engine bikes are as powerful, fast and economical as a good sized electric bike. Plus its easier for a young new rider to insure an electric bike than a gas powered one.

    The danger with all those old riders is that many of them didn't grow up riding a motorcycle .... they always wanted to but never had the chance. But now that they're older, have a bit money and have a bit of time, they want to ride but they're old now ... which means, they don't have the reflexes, they don't have the strength and they don't have the awareness of what it feels like to get hurt on a bike. Most riders like myself learned to ride as kids on dirt bikes and ATVs ... it's a great training ground because you ride fast and do all sorts of stupid things ... and most importantly, you fall and hurt yourself ... so you learn from a young age what it feels like to fall on a bike a low speed and that it hurts a lot ... you realize that if you go faster on a paved highway, you're really going to get hurt.

    Being an older rider you don't get that experience and those guys usually only have one accident .... and it either severely hurts them for life and they give up riding ... or it kills them.

  • Slowing down and avoid high traffic areas .... and don't ride during peak hours.

    Riding a motorcycle was fun up until about 20 years ago. There were a lot fewer vehicles and the driving was slower. Now you have many more vehicles, modern designed wide lane straightened highways and modern vehicles with more acceleration and speed to the point that everyone thinks it's normal to drive 20kph faster than the posted speed limit (I'm in Canada so we measure in kilometers)

  • I ride motorcycle and I always love that argument. I have stock pipes on my bike and I prefer them to be as quiet as possible so that I hear as much of the road as possible, as well as other vehicles.

    Yes loud motorcycles do make others aware of your presence ... especially if they are very loud pipes.

    What no one ever wants to admit is that you usually hear the loud pipes AFTER the bike/vehicle has passed you or is moving away. You seldom hear a loud motorcycle coming at you, especially if you are in a car with sound proofing or sound dampening. You definitely hear the big loud motorcycle pipes as the idiot is driving away from you.

    The other thing I love about morons that enjoy big loud motorcycle pipes is that they are the same idiots that want an open air sound system for their motorcycle. So they get the loud pipes and then get a really powerful sound system so that they can listen to their muffled music over the sound of loud pipes, the highway and the buffeting winds as they drive down the highway. Usually, these are the same idiots that lose their hearing by the time they're 50.

  • They try harder the more money you use .... just like the other system.

  • The difference between the Justice System and the Legal System

    One tries to provide social equality .... the other is a rich man's game

  • I'm having a hard time deciding if this is the original folk mix .... or the upbeat calypso version

  • I can hear the theme song .... nice job!

  • I think God would want to meet them just to see the look on their face when he told them they were going to hell.

  • My favorite part to that is to discover something for the first time, fall in love with it, think it's the most amazing thing ever ..... then realize that it's ten years old and everyone got excited about it a long time ago.

    But it also means I don't give a shit anymore and I just enjoy watching things that make me happy and interest me, instead of trying to chase after the latest fad.

  • When American Christians get to the afterlife and meet god ....

  • Republicans? .... they were to blame a decade or two ago.

    Ever since then, all of America is to blame.

  • Is that Mick Fleetwood in the last panel?

  • Friend of mine in southern Ontario labels his

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  • +1 for Christmas Vacation

    We watch it every year

  • OK Alex ... I'll take Jap Anus Relations then

  • Must be a strong drink .... because penis mightier

  • Yes it was ... but it was often preyed upon by the Philosoraptor