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don't get a motorcycle pope
get one of them
"last of the v8 interceptors"
i don't ever wanna hear about your brains in a bucket
unless its frequency/decibal-y related

black mass.... the goodness.

I've never wanted a bike because I knew I'd kill myself on it. I can't fucking walk straight without tripping on nothing. I doubt I can manage on a motorized 2 wheel vehicle.

Iommic Pope wrote:This has really killed my GAS for a bike.
Which may be the most sensible thing I've thought all week.
I'm not very coordinated.

i was in a pretty bad motorcycle wreck some years ago. shit, i guess it was nearly twenty years ago now. really changed my perspective on that whole thing. i still hate the whole implied idea where people are like "well, motorcycles are dangerous" when someone gets hurt or killed in an accident that's not their fault. it's a total blame the victim way of looking at it. and it's bullshit. i really think motorcycle awareness should be a much bigger part of driver education. i don't recall ever encountering any of that in my driver's ed classes as a teenager or in any of the many times i've had to take driver's license tests in my adult life when i've moved to new states or whatever. it sounds like his accident was similar in ways to mine, except that i'm so lucky to still be here. i didn't have another person on my bike to consider and i had time to lay the bike down before i hit the car, which very well probably saved my life. i got a concussion (i don't have any recollection of the wreck at all other than the two or three nightmares i've had about it since, and i actually have no recollection of the entire day. i was on my way home from something that was a significant event in my life at the time that i've never been able to remember) and i broke my pelvis in three places. now that i'm getting older there are times when i have significant pain in my pelvis and my hip on my right side as a result. and i'm not even that old but i imagine it's really going to suck in the coming decades. i don't blame myself and i don't blame motorcycles, but it definitely made me way less interested in having one again. i do have tons of friends who really get a lot from riding, but i don't think it's something i'll really take up in a big way again. i've ridden motorcycles since then, and had fun doing it, but i'm not drawn to them so much any more. every now and then i do have daydreams about having one again, but really only for riding on smaller pretty country roads or whatever. i fucking hate riding on the interstate now and would be happy to never do that again, even though my accident was on a regular city street. but it might be fun to have a dual sport or a dirt bike to take up trails or dirt roads to get to cool spots to camp.

i don't even know what this rant is about other than to say be safe to the dudes that have bikes. and think hard about it if you're going to get one. and motorcycle wrecks generally bring up a lot of emotions for me after having been in mine. particularly since this sounds so similar. someone doesn't see you and runs a stop sign right in front of you. i think this and someone turning left in front of you are the two most common ways people end up in serious wrecks.

anyway, cheers to athon. i'm raising a glass of my homemade mead to him right now. i think he'd be into that. i didn't know him, other than the couple of days that our paths crossed which i mentioned earlier, but i get the impression that he'd be into that.

I'll be digging out Mosh Potatoes, a cookbook of metal musicians' recipes for Athon's Black Tusk Shrimp recipe for anyone who is interested. Feels right to listen to some BT, raise a beer, and make one of his favorite recipes this week.

pelliott wrote:I'll be digging out Mosh Potatoes, a cookbook of metal musicians' recipes for Athon's Black Tusk Shrimp recipe for anyone who is interested. Feels right to listen to some BT, raise a beer, and make one of his favorite recipes this week.

post that shit, dude! we should all make it, those of us who eat shrimp at least.

My uncle rode motorcycles when I was a kid and had several bad accidents. I've always been attracted to them but highly scared of them. Two weeks a go my singer was hit on the freeway and nearly killed while coming off the bay bridge back into Oakland. He sheared his T7 vertebrae and broke his pelvis. The neurosurgeon said it was the worst break of a spine he'd ever seen and his pelvis was so badly broken he completely separated it from his sacrum. He had two collapsed lungs and 10 broken ribs and a broken scapula. A few hours after the accident they thought he may have had a ruptured aorta but thankfully didn't. With all of that said, he's alive and can even wiggle his toes. They've fused 7 vertebra together and repaired his pelvis. He just got out of ICU today and has made insanely good progress but there's a long way to go. It sucks that they're so dangerous even when you've done nothing wrong...nothing sounds cooler to me than riding a nice bike up and down highway 1.

I love watching motorbikes but i would never get on one...i don't think they are dangerous and the riders aren't necessarily careless...the biggest issue i see with bikes is that the stakes are so much higher. People go through life having multiple car collisions of different degrees and a lot of the times nothing happens to them...but the chance of serious injury and death is so much higher on a motorbike. My uncle, his son, and 2 friends all rode bikes all had life changing accidents...all alive, but with major damage to some part of their body.

Not in the same league but up until a few weeks ago i was cycling to work on a daily basis through central london...but i stopped...in the last year i've probably had about 10 accidents with cars or pedestrians 99% of the time not my fault. But a few weeks ago i saw another rider have a bad fall...he avoided a pedestrian and fell off his bike and landed on the other side of the road...luckily for there was no oncoming traffic at the time...but the thought i couldn't get out of my head was, what if that was me...and what if there was a car coming on the other side. So i sold my bike and i have a boring long walk to work...

I guess my point is, the road is fucking dangerous place and the only way you are relatively safe is by being in a car

please tell me they caught the cocksucker that hit him.

ryan summit wrote:don't get a motorcycle pope
get one of them
"last of the v8 interceptors"
i don't ever wanna hear about your brains in a bucket
unless its frequency/decibal-y related

I was gonna post a Mad Max clip, but they're all in pretty bad taste considering the context.
Still the best Australian movie ever.

I got to ride pillion on a bike for the first time a couple of years ago (we never had bikes in our family) and I loved it. I agree that they're dangerous from the point of view that there is nowhere near enough driver awareness of bikes on the road. Sometimes its the riders fault, mostly though, its an ignorant driver.

Mr. S, that is heavy.
Louderthan, I hope your mate recovers well.

And Sam, if you move back to Oz and end up in Brissie, DO NOT CYCLE. Its a fucking madhouse out there.

So yeah, mostly, bikes scare me a little because:

ShaolinLambKiller wrote:I've never wanted a bike because I knew I'd kill myself on it. I can't fucking walk straight without tripping on nothing. I doubt I can manage on a motorized 2 wheel vehicle.

This is me too, man.
This is me, too.


That potato recipe sounds bad ass. Post it and I might make it when I take the family camping next week!

whiskey_face wrote:please tell me they caught the cocksucker that hit him.

I think it was an old man that pulled out in front of him from what one of the articles one of my friends in Savannah posted.

When I was born my dad rode motorcycles and raced go karts. We had a 10th mile dirt track in our back yard until I was about 15. I grew up riding dirt bikes and go karts. I could ride them before I could swim. I love dirt bikes but I have no desire to get on any road where other vehicles are driving. People don't pay attention at all. Hell even in the country you have to look out for wildlife. I had a guy on a cross country road trip last year break both femurs where he flew over the handlebars after a huge boar ran out in front of him and hit the bike. It came out of nowhere. We even had a call where these two teens were driving home late one Saturday night and they came around the curve in the road and hit a horse that had gotten out of the pasture and was standing in the road. They weren't hurt, but they did get covered with horseshit and blood when the horses ass came through the windshield.

conky wrote: but they did get covered with horseshit and blood when the horses ass came through the windshield.

and there you have it
imagine these two on a bike
they would be INSIDE the horse!!

misterstomach wrote:

pelliott wrote:I'll be digging out Mosh Potatoes, a cookbook of metal musicians' recipes for Athon's Black Tusk Shrimp recipe for anyone who is interested. Feels right to listen to some BT, raise a beer, and make one of his favorite recipes this week.

post that shit, dude! we should all make it, those of us who eat shrimp at least.

I love the story behind this recipe. Sounds like he was such a fun guy. It looks delicious, plus, cooking with bourbon so

Iommic Pope wrote:I was gonna post a Mad Max clip, but they're all in pretty bad taste considering the context.
Still the best Australian movie ever.

It's ironic that you mention Mad Max as one of the motorcycle stunt riders was killed while making that movie. The scene was left in the movie. It is when Max drives across a bridge playing chicken with a bunch of the bikers coming the other way. One of the riders comes off his bike and slides across the road. A motorcycle slides from behind him and the front wheel hits the guy in the back of the head breaking his neck.

I want to make that recipe.

Sadly I'm feeling awful enough to stay home from work today so I don't imagine I'll taste how delicious they are.

will attempt a recap of the Lazer/Wulf, Full of Hell, Weedeater show at some point today.

It was kinda hard for me to say no to getting a bike cause most my uncles and my dad ride. One of my uncles has like 4 and usually lets his nefews who have experience to ride em with him on trips and shit. I just knew I would get in a wreck. hell my dad got into one totaling the bike and I'm not sure the extent of damage to him cause I was very young. But one of my uncles got killed riding, wasn't his fault.. drunk driver actually came into his lane head on. He didn't even have a chance. And there's 3 close friends of my dad and uncle that all were killed in the similar... was killed by someone not paying attention. All that helped cement not wanting one.