Sunday, April 11, 2010

you cant ride a sport bike

on the dirt! You'd be a fool to even try! I need different tires, more cross tread. Awesome ride this afternoon, totally inspired by the video posted below.




11 comments:

aaron said...

You were pretending you were Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible II, weren't you?

tom said...

no, actually Keanu Reeves in the Matrix II.


duh.

Ben said...

Does the stealth paint on the gastank keep the DMV from knowing you're driving around without a title?

aaron said...

Why don't you just broadcast it over the internet... oh wait, you just did.

aaron said...

You're selling yourself short Tom, Keanu never rode a sportbike on the beach. If you want to get paintball guns and re-enact that MI2 scene, I'm game.

Dave-O said...

Yeah I just heard, the cops have nothing better to do but surf blogs for misc shit like this...

tom said...

is this line bugged? probably, due to the enormous popularity of our blog. the bike has current plates, good to 2012, and everyday it becomes a little less a yamaha and a little more black, nameless, motorcycle (thats how I rolled the 750 triple last year...). It's not right, but for now it'll have to do. I would feel better with a proper headlight tho.
and I've never seen mia II I guess, if there is a beach scene, I'm on that like stink on shit.

tom said...

MI2, not mia II :p

Ben said...
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Ben said...

It's OK, my post was painted flat black.

aaron said...

I was joking about broadcasting it on the internet, but... hey was there a black sedan parked outside Dave's last time? Yeah you guys laugh until they bust in on Dave's garage some day and have us all spread out on the floor trying to figure out where the meth lab is.
Yeah, I rented sons of anarchy season 1 recently. I'm sorry.

Tom, do you have a VCR? I think I have MI2 on VHS. Can't believe you never saw it. Sharer's put a speed triple in the lobby of star cinema when it was playing there, because it was such an ad for Triumph. There's a big chase between a Daytona and a Speed Triple, and it's got all the riciculously impossible John Woo stuff, like tires that suddenly are knobbies when they're on the beach. But, the stunt guys really are using the Triumphs on the sand, just with knobs. There's also a scene of stoppying with the back end of the bike doing a 180, one handed while firing a pistol. I hope to master that some day. Yeah, that was a lot to write about a movie with Tom Cruise, but hey, if you watched Biker Boyz, then you should probably see this.