# 6 Things Nobody Tells You About Owning a Motorcycle
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/6-things-nobody-tells-you-about-owning-a-motorcycle/258579
**Category:** Shift518 Automotive
**Created:** [May 25, 2011, 8:09am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/6-things-nobody-tells-you-about-owning-a-motorcycle/258579 "2011-05-25T08:09:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@RocketPunch](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RocketPunch)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2011, 8:09am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/6-things-nobody-tells-you-about-owning-a-motorcycle/258579/1 "2011-05-25T08:09:42Z")
:crackup:crackup:crackup:crackup SO TURE!!
> **[6 Things Nobody Tells You About Owning a Motorcycle](http://www.cracked.com/article_19217_6-things-nobody-tells-you-about-owning-motorcycle.html)**
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> Owning a bike brings risks other than the threat of a ride ending with your organs splattered across the interstate.
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### Author:  [@Mike3](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Mike3)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2011, 8:14am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/6-things-nobody-tells-you-about-owning-a-motorcycle/258579/2 "2011-05-25T08:14:25Z")
:lol
yep, good stuff
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### Author:  [@usmc2801](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/usmc2801)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2011, 8:20am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/6-things-nobody-tells-you-about-owning-a-motorcycle/258579/3 "2011-05-25T08:20:54Z")
The stop light one drives my freakin nuts! Especially if I’m out late at night and there isn’t any other traffic to trip the light!
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### Author:  [@Vovchandr](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Vovchandr)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2011, 8:23am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/6-things-nobody-tells-you-about-owning-a-motorcycle/258579/4 "2011-05-25T08:23:06Z")
OMG
> They check their mirrors, they flick on their turn signals, and then they calmly and deliberately proceed to murder you.
:crackup
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### Author:  [@RTrac1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RTrac1)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2011, 8:28am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/6-things-nobody-tells-you-about-owning-a-motorcycle/258579/5 "2011-05-25T08:28:26Z")
wasps and redlights, dead on
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### Author:  [@RocketPunch](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RocketPunch)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2011, 8:31am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/6-things-nobody-tells-you-about-owning-a-motorcycle/258579/6 "2011-05-25T08:31:41Z")
:crackup:crackup:crackup
> If you do manage to see an oncoming bike with enough time to get an appropriate wave up, you better make sure it isn’t a scooter. Unwritten bike rules make it a crime punishable by exile or death to wave at a scooter. And damn if it isn’t hard to tell when you two are approaching each other at a combined 100 mph. If you do catch yourself mid-wave to a Vespa, however, it is acceptable to slowly turn it into an upraised middle finger. It’s like the handshake-psyche of the two-wheeled world, and the look of dejection on their face will redeem any momentary awkwardness.
> Like any club that has grown too large, it has become mired in vacuous debates and split into a thousand splinter factions. Older riders hate squids; cruisers hate sport riders; Harley riders hate everyone, including themselves. The social labyrinth is like navigating a high school prom, except you’re sprinting through it at about 75 mph, on one leg, while programming a remote control and probably being attacked by bees.
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### Author:  [@Oleg](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Oleg)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2011, 9:08pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/6-things-nobody-tells-you-about-owning-a-motorcycle/258579/7 "2011-05-25T21:08:47Z")
Good laugh. Never had to deal with spiders or wasps but the rest is pretty spot on.
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### Author:  [@offroadzj](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/offroadzj)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2011, 2:04am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/6-things-nobody-tells-you-about-owning-a-motorcycle/258579/8 "2011-05-26T02:04:37Z")
Damn filters at work… in for when I get home.