Riding partners

[ceo012384]

Originally Posted by pickle.of.doom

Definitely, full volume screamin inside the helmet. I can't sing Lollipop in there anymore, because I catch myself bouncing the front up evertyime Iget to "pop"

so its like "Lolly*vroom*pop lolli*vroom*pop oooh lolli lolli *vroom*pop"

hahahaha... what kind of fruitcake sings lollipop in their helmet?!?

I also often force myself to relax with long slow breaths when riding hard, which would probably sound creepy as fuck to other riders

Originally Posted by OneSickPsycho

I dunno, if you have a decent gap between riders it could come in handy for acknowledging hazards and/or changes to the ride plan... I can think of a few instances in which it would have been VERY handy, even assisting with safety... and a number of other instances in which it would have been just fun to communicate what's going on with more effeciency than hand signals.

Originally Posted by Trip

If you would of been on the ride to indy, you would of seen how nice it would of been to have something of that nature to use. It's not really needed for local rides, but long rides where you are spending all day on the bike, it could come in real handy.

Points taken.

I guess most of the rides I do with other people we'll rip a road we like a couple times, get some food, trek over to another road, rip it a bit, etc.... so it's not like we're ever riding for that long at once without a stop sign to check on people and such.

The safety or heads up thing makes some sense OSP... however I never ride in groups large enough that the rear person wouldn't be able to see the front group. Usually it's 4 or 5 of us at the most... when I come upon something I kick out a foot to give people a heads up if there's sand or whatever.

[Sixxxxer]

CEO its not a constant open line of communication...they dont hear every word you say

[ceo012384]

maybe i don't know how they work then

[dReWpY]

Originally Posted by FT BSTRD

We usually will break larger groups into smaller groups.

12 people into four groups of three each with a group leader.

During a ride, you'll kinda know who is the fast rider and who is the slow rider. Everyone else filters in between.

If we have "unknowns" in the group it's an automatic signal that this isn't going to be a speed run. The ride immediately drops about 25% in intensity just to keep everyone together, safe, and relaxed.


Rides become boring, tedius, and lame when you have to stand around waiting for the ambulance to arrive and then later for the wrecker.

Now you haven't ridden until you are working to catch Barker backing it into corners in the rain whiffing your own processed burrito platter.

so our first ride was at 25%?
we need another ride, that one was entertaining...

[Sixxxxer]

Originally Posted by ceo012384

maybe i don't know how they work then

Its like a walkie talkie...push a button talk dont push button...quiet.

[Trip]

Originally Posted by Sixxxxer

Its like a walkie talkie...push a button talk dont push button...quiet.

it has two modes, push to talk and voice activated. So it could do as CEO states and as you state.

[Sixxxxer]

Well in CEO's case I think he would need push to talk...Lol

[pickle.of.doom]

Originally Posted by ceo012384

hahahaha... what kind of fruitcake sings lollipop in their helmet?!?

Haha... it was on the last day of a 2000+ mile trip, the long freeway part home, I was singing anything to keep that fucin Night court theme song out of my head, which I had been singing in my helmet for the previous 1500

I also catch myself screaming the "I wanna be an airborne ranger, I want to fly the skies of danger" thing in my helmet too a lot, like the guy runnin down the halls in Breakfast Club.

[Trip]

Originally Posted by pickle.of.doom

Haha... it was on the last day of a 2000+ mile trip, the long freeway part home, I was singing anything to keep that fucin Night court theme song out of my head, which I had been singing in my helmet for the previous 1500

I also catch myself screaming the "I wanna be an airborne ranger, I want to fly the skies of danger" thing in my helmet too a lot, like the guy runnin down the halls in Breakfast Club.

I am the same way, I always have the dumbest songs stuck in my head during long rides. I forget what the song was on the indy trip, but it was really annoying me.

[Sixxxxer]

I was singing Baby got back on the MD Run I took last year.