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SRiley · 11-12-2008

Lets here'em, I know you've had them.

Was stopped at a gas station headed home from work one night checking the tire pressure. A van pulls around the corner with two bikes on a trailer, a truck is right behind it with two more. They pull up to the pumps and a guy (late 50's or so) gets out of the van, comes over and we get to talking about bikes. Two younger guys get out of the truck, one heads into the store and the other starts his pump and walks over. Looks my XR over for a few seconds.. "Why don't you buy a real bike?"

Older guy looks at him a second...."Junior, the main difference between his bike and yours is he's riding and your not. Now shut up and go pump the damn gas."

Run out of gas one day about 300 yards from the pump. Pushing the bike down the road and a guy pulls up...."How's the gas mileage on that thing?"

Stopped in one day after a DS ride, had all my off road gear on standing there talking to a friend and this older lady walks in the other door. Walks past me then does a classic double take, swear I heard her neck pop. Runs back up to me looking extremely excited. Her - "Are you a race car driver?" This was back when that show The Pretender was on. Me being a smart ass - "I am today." She grabs both my wrist and got real serious looking "Are you really?" ....."No mam I'm just out riding bikes." I swear she looked like she was going to cry.

adrian · 11-12-2008

Lori has one where she screams "backpack! backpack! where's backpack?!?!", but I wasn't there for it.

I remember once we went out on a ride and it was beautiful out. We hit up the hill country and the roads were perfect. We usually did this route that went over a mountain, and then we went back. But on this day we actually continued into town and got gas and snacks. While we were at the pump the sky just let loose on us, and I mean huge. We were huddled up at the pumps because it was raining so hard we knew we couldn't make it to the store/station without getting drenched. The water flooded all the way up to the bike tires, and we were sitting on the little island that the pumps are bolted into, trying to keep our feet dry. Finally, the rain lightened a little and we discussed if we wanted to continue waiting it out or trying to head back. Using the switchback roads was out of the question but there was an interstate near by. I remember people were watching us to see what we were going to do, and we finally ditched the station and rode the interstate home in the rain. It was pouring down in buckets, and the rear tires kept spinning up under throttle and I mean every last part of our bodies was wet. I counted four accidents before we finally took shelter at a building again and waited for it to lighten up. I haven't been back to that gas station since.

One of my friends made the news back in the 80's when he left the pump nozzle in the side of his dad's station wagon and he drove off. The attendant hit the emergency cutoff button, but not before a huge fireball took the top of the pump area off. Luckily, no one was seriously injured.

Lori · 11-13-2008

Yes, that was Brandon. Several of us were out in San Antonio Hill country one morning hitting our favorite twisty's and as we came back into town for some lunch the first few guys in the group were a bit ahead coming off the turns and 3-4 of them came upon an older man driving a beat up pick up truck. They didn't even slow down as it's a back road with no one around they just moved to the left and passed him like he wasn't there. The back end of the group slowed behind him as we came into town and pulled over with the others at the restaurant, well this guy gets out of the truck just screaming BACKPACK! BACKPACK! WHERE'S BACKPACK!.....and we all see he's a local sherriff and he's yelling that because one of the first bikes to fly by him was Brandon who was wearing a backpack. Meanwhile Brandon's subtly trying to drop the backpack off him and kick it behind his bike as we all watch laughing. He runs all our tags, gives us a good lecture and moves on his way....

A story of my own was downtown in Austin I had a girl climb on the back of my bike and sorta feel me up. She mistakenly thought I was a guy with all my gear and she ran right over climbed on an reached around front and got quite a surprise as she attemped to grope my crotch. There was something missing....

I was like WTF....who....oh shit..hahahah

A friends 10 yr old son was looking at my bike in the garage and she asked him what he thought of my bike and he very matter of factly said 'Mommy, that's not her bike, she can't ride that it's too big and she's a girl'.

hmm, I'll think on the way home and see if I have any more good stories.

SRiley · 11-13-2008

Ok..You win.

Lori · 11-14-2008

Well mine aren't really all 'gas station' stories per se.....Just random funny stuff.

SRiley · 11-15-2008

Guess it really doesn't have to happen at a gas station but it seems like that's where I get the wierdest questions/comments.

Pulled up to the pump and this little boy was sitting in the car next to me. He looked at me for a few seconds then turned to his Mom....."Look Mommy, a Power Ranger."

Was taking a water brake one day and this young state trooper pulls up. Walks over to me...
ST - "Nice bike."
Me - "Thanks."
ST - "How fast does it go?"
Me - "The speed limit."
ST - "Good answer."

Smiled (didn't know they could do that) got back in car and left.

Maybe I just attract strange people.

Steamroller · 11-23-2008

I was filling my tank an the Sabre when a big guy in a Harley T-Shirt walked past me. (This was summer.)
He looked me in the eye and said "That's disgusting!"
I thought "Oh Boy, Here we go!"
He paused a minute and finding the right words, "I mean the price of gas, even on a bike!"
He laughed and I laughed.
He goes on to tell me how much gas his "Hog" uses.
I didn't mention that my Honda is just a little bit better on gas. LOL
I was just glad not to get into a fight! ("Did I mention he was a BIG guy! lol

Lori · 11-23-2008

- good one Steamroller...! We're getting quite a good collection of tales going here...

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