What's the dumbest thing anyone has said about your bike/gear?

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Slightly different take on the price thing.

I was on my SF leaving the barber shop and a dude outside smoking walks up.

Dude: "nice bike, how much do you have into it?"

Me: *thinking for a sec* "somewhere around 21 or 22 I think"

Dude: "hundred?"
 
When I answer that question, I try size up the person's financial status before answering. If it's high, I am honest, if it's low, I try to avoid answering or give a low number. Some people don't even have half a base's price in 2 cars. :(
 
I was running low on fuel so stopped to ask a group of locals directions to the nearest fuel station. I parked, took off my helmet and crossed the road toward them - and was greeted by a puzzle faced uniformed police officer who exclaimed, "A biker stopping the police to talk to them, should this not be the other way around?".
 
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Jonathan Rea was at dobles in coulsdon, promoting the fireblade / honda and after a while he took questions and a nugget who was giving it billy big spuds to his mates about how he knew everything about bikes / racing etc asked jonny how he liked racing at cadwell in bsb ? Jonny just looked at him like wtf! and explained that he actually raced in WSB ?
 
I always say "I dont know, my wife bought it for me as a gift" that usually ends that question




Trauma said:
When I answer that question, I try size up the person's financial status before answering. If it's high, I am honest, if it's low, I try to avoid answering or give a low number. Some people don't even have half a base's price in 2 cars. :(
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The two most frequent questions that leave me shaking my head.

1) "A Ducati? Who makes that?" And sometimes when I answered "ummm....Ducati?" they'd still persist with "Yeah, okay. But I mean who makes a Ducati?" Sometimes it makes you want to gargle antifreeze....

2) Invariably when stopping somewhere with people around on my 748, I'd have someone point out that one of my headlights was not working. Whereupon I would patiently explain that one is a high beam and one is a low beam and they're not supposed to be on at the same time. After a while, I got tired of explaining this at every gas stop (and I appreciate that they were genuinely trying to be helpful) and I'd simply say "Thanks for letting me know, I'll have that checked out" as I motored away...
 
To build on your post, I had someone ask me once, "Ducati? Those are made by Harley Davidson, right"?
 
while gassing up, a hot girl walks up and asks for a ride. Thats makes for a great ride any day, but I have to let her down easy so I point to the undertail and tell her that I would but my wife would kill me, besides I don't have the passenger foot pegs installed. "Pleeeease!" she says... So I tell her there is nowhere for her to sit (pointing to the single seat cowl) she says "Common! Pleeeease, I love your bike!"
 
icucar said:
while gassing up, a hot girl walks up and asks for a ride. Thats makes for a great ride any day, but I have to let her down easy so I point to the undertail and tell her that I would but my wife would kill me, besides I don't have the passenger foot pegs installed. "Pleeeease!" she says... So I tell her there is nowhere for her to sit (pointing to the single seat cowl) she says "Common! Pleeeease, I love your bike!"
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Um, there is a remedy for this. I've given a chick a ride spur of the moment by sharing the seat >.>.

I usually try to avoid people talking to me, but most of the time people ask why my jacket has a hump.
 
TransNone13 said:
Um, there is a remedy for this. I've given a chick a ride spur of the moment by sharing the seat >.>.

I usually try to avoid people talking to me, but most of the time people ask why my jacket has a hump.
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That hump really bugs me when I look behind, and it made my Ducati backpack really snug.
 
In Thailand:
• Your clutch is really noisy, is there something wrong with it? (I don't bother explaining anymore and just say thanks for telling me).
• Is your bike supposed to be that loud? (a dipshit who owned a Harly asked this, WTF.!?)
• why spend so much money on that bike when you can buy a nice 125 moped. (Die)
• you could have made a downpayment on a house, instead of getting that bike. I look at her and then behind me and say: do you not see my house behind me? (this was the old biddy across the soi (street) from us).

On a personal note, my personal pet peeve, is when dipshits in real life or on a forum talks about DRIVING a motorcycle. What part don't they ....... understand that you RIDE a bike?

Have a great day fellow owners of a motorcycle marque, that most will never understand :D
 
TransNone13 said:
Um, there is a remedy for this. I've given a chick a ride spur of the moment by sharing the seat >.>.
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:rolleyes:
 
Thanks for the laugh fellow Ducati riders, I have heard some of these questions myself. Who made it, DUH wtf does it say dumb ... or how much. Y can't they just admire and say nice bike, damn dude haven't seen one of those. Which I live in a smalll city in Texas and I do get those questions. Sometimes I answer and some I don't when they say nice Ninja. Yeah, this ninja will beat ur ninja anyday ........ Sometimes you just can't believe people and their questions but we are nice at times and answer. You would think they would look and admire and then ask questions instead of assuming it's not made by who it says it's made by or why do u want to add more stuff to it. Like one person said, they just don't understand us Ducati riders. We are who we are because we can be and deserve the nicer things in life an we get them. So, for all you Ducati Riders, keep giving them hell for all their ....... questions.
 

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