We all do it

Wolfman
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Edited Date/Time 1/26/2012 12:10pm
No not that, what I mean is make motorcycle noises. Surely every one of us occasionally has to let out a little "braap" from time to time.

What I am wondering is this- Does anyone else feel their clutch fingers tense up and their left foot rise slightly when they "shift gears"?

Does anyone else ever- when navigating this invisible track- panic rev a jump or keep it pinned in the "air" to make sure you get maximum drive when you land to huck the next "Double"?

I know I'm not the only one that sometimes puts the outside elbow out and leans forward while rounding a corner- on foot.

Anyone ever pull a fake tear-off? (Besides me?)

Do a fake Whip? (or nac-nac) I always have to do the look back style of whip Or nac.

Anyone else that ate up with it?
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4/15/2009 10:27pm
and i thought the thread about the cobra-n-harold bromance gone wrong was the worst thread i'd ever seen on the internet....... wow...... i'm speachless after reading the first sentence of this thing......
Wolfman
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4/15/2009 10:30pm
You have an avatar from The Matrix and apparently ride a Gt80, whatever the F that is. What you say means nothing pecker wood. Move on.
olddude
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4/15/2009 10:33pm
grocery shopping gets a little hard to control the inside out lines as well as head forward elbow up.. I still do a braapp every now and again. Still envision riding next to the road/highway while driving (traveling thru tx sucks, 5th pinned with an occasional wheelie for miles upon miles).
Motodude
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4/15/2009 10:35pm Edited Date/Time 4/16/2016 11:24pm
yer wieeeerd


I have sometimes been busted by my kids for squaring off the stairs and jumping down the whole lot while holding imaginary handlebars and uttering a noise strangely similar to a CR500. Blush

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Motodude
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4/15/2009 10:37pm
olddude wrote:
grocery shopping gets a little hard to control the inside out lines as well as head forward elbow up.. I still do a braapp every now...
grocery shopping gets a little hard to control the inside out lines as well as head forward elbow up.. I still do a braapp every now and again. Still envision riding next to the road/highway while driving (traveling thru tx sucks, 5th pinned with an occasional wheelie for miles upon miles).
Yeah shopping trolleys handle like YZ450's. bah!
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4/15/2009 10:37pm
olddude wrote:
grocery shopping gets a little hard to control the inside out lines as well as head forward elbow up.. I still do a braapp every now...
grocery shopping gets a little hard to control the inside out lines as well as head forward elbow up.. I still do a braapp every now and again. Still envision riding next to the road/highway while driving (traveling thru tx sucks, 5th pinned with an occasional wheelie for miles upon miles).
every overpass is a huge table top....just lookin' for that little kicker to get you over the guard rails.
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4/15/2009 10:39pm
Yup... all of it and more.

Best part is throwing down a classic block pass on someone who doesn't know they're getting block passed. Same thing with a brake check. You've just got to throw out a little braaap when you pull out one of those maneuvers.
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4/15/2009 10:43pm
I block pass every person I can in the grocery store while my two year old and I brrrraaappp our brains out! Nothing like takin the old lady trying to get in front of you at the checkout isle into the gum stand!!

Getting out the front door with my kids has at least one block pass (or hip check into the boards... used to play hockey when i was a wee little one) as we race to see who is last to the truck!

yeah... i know.. a 6 year old in a 46 year old body!
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4/15/2009 10:46pm
TJ 755 wrote:
every overpass is a huge table top....just lookin' for that little kicker to get you over the guard rails.
Nice. I have thought about table topping the highway in front of me, but I know my son will take a different line and pass me.
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4/15/2009 11:55pm Edited Date/Time 4/15/2009 11:55pm
I braaaaap by people all the time, holding my throttle hand locked wide open, feathering my two clutch fingers. I even scrub and can't even scrub worth sh!t in real life. One time i braaaped by my female manager and a co-worker and they accused me of making fart sounds, lol, they just dont understand.
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4/16/2009 12:03am
Guilty, of it all. I am the fastest at Ralphs. Very impressive to the ladies.
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4/16/2009 12:19am
Whenever I visit family in Montana or Idaho, my mind is always doing 85 MPH down the cow trail that runs parallel to the highway. And I block pass my 7 year old every chance I get.
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4/16/2009 12:27am Edited Date/Time 4/16/2009 12:35am
To break the boredom of shopping I often slide the trolley full lock flat track style around past the freezer section onto the front straight to the check out counter. Of course theres a 6' high stack of supersoft wonder toilet tissue rolls that make for a great berm to save ths slide and extract maximum traction for the straight away.
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4/16/2009 1:50am Edited Date/Time 4/16/2016 11:24pm
Guilty.


Also, usually right after riding a real bike, on the drive home I have this urge to stick my leg out around turns. Ever see a diesel F-250 square off a city corner?
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4/16/2009 2:37am
Absolutely,

I drive past a golf course next to the freeway near my house, I have an imaginary track all planned out and piss my wife off by pointing out in great detail the tabletops, berms, sand sections etc ever time we drive by. I find myself doing the braaap noise and hand gestures when explaining it to her, she doesn't get it...........nor do my non moto friends.
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4/16/2009 4:43am
I'm always first through the doorway. Sometimes it gets a little rough. Occasionally after it's all over with I have to grab someone by the neck and threaten to "take them out" or "worse, possibly kill them". LOL My wife and kid's manager should be along any time now................
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4/16/2009 4:54am
Did a superman seat grab the other day with my shopping trolley, was not pretty.
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4/16/2009 5:28am
How about driving down the highway in your car , but in your mind your on your dirt bike riding the terrain off the highway at 70 MPH .
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Doing whips off the top of stairs when making turns down a hallway . Doing BBBRRRRRRRAAAAAAHHHHH in your mind .
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MXR wrote:
How about driving down the highway in your car , but in your mind your on your dirt bike riding the terrain off the highway at...
How about driving down the highway in your car , but in your mind your on your dirt bike riding the terrain off the highway at 70 MPH .
I think that ones been mentioned a few times here already....
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4/16/2009 5:36am
Rooster wrote:
Yup... all of it and more. Best part is throwing down a classic block pass on someone who doesn't know they're getting block passed. Same thing...
Yup... all of it and more.

Best part is throwing down a classic block pass on someone who doesn't know they're getting block passed. Same thing with a brake check. You've just got to throw out a little braaap when you pull out one of those maneuvers.
Ha Ha!

Me too.
My son and I take turns block passing each randomly in the house.
A good braaaap sound is required when making that kind of aggressive psuedo-race move.
4/16/2009 10:41am
Yep. Don't usually make too much noise, but am guilty on the shopping cart issue. I also find myself, while at work if I am pushing the stretcher, in the same elbows up position. Imagine riding through the ditches all the time. Sometimes while driving, I will lean in to my turns.
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4/16/2009 10:44am
MXR wrote:
How about driving down the highway in your car , but in your mind your on your dirt bike riding the terrain off the highway at...
How about driving down the highway in your car , but in your mind your on your dirt bike riding the terrain off the highway at 70 MPH .
Been doing that since 1972.
zookrider62!
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4/16/2009 10:44am
olddude wrote:
grocery shopping gets a little hard to control the inside out lines as well as head forward elbow up.. I still do a braapp every now...
grocery shopping gets a little hard to control the inside out lines as well as head forward elbow up.. I still do a braapp every now and again. Still envision riding next to the road/highway while driving (traveling thru tx sucks, 5th pinned with an occasional wheelie for miles upon miles).
TJ 755 wrote:
every overpass is a huge table top....just lookin' for that little kicker to get you over the guard rails.
haha same here
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4/16/2009 11:57am Edited Date/Time 4/16/2016 11:25pm
TJ 755 wrote:
every overpass is a huge table top....just lookin' for that little kicker to get you over the guard rails.
I thought I was the only weirdo... Septic mounds always look clearable to me!

My wife really loves when I block pass her going up the stairs at night too, followed by a BBBRRAAAPPPP.

Not sure if this puts me in contention for parent of the year; but my daughters first legible words were in response to "How does Daddy's motorcycle go" Her response was a tear jerking, "BBBBRRRRAAAPPPP"
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4/16/2009 12:00pm
Guilty of all of the above also.

How many think the light turning green at a stop light represents the drop of the gate? I dump the imaginary clutch on my stearing wheel every time!
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4/16/2009 12:13pm
True story, I'm working in the basement the other day. My 9 year old races and my 2 year old is the poster child for ritalin. Anyway, I'm in there pulling forks off a YZ125 for a seal change and outside I hear BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH. So I stick my head out the door just in time to see my 2 y/o and my 9 y/o, backed up to the retaining wall, head over the bars (on bicycles), elbows up, making bike sounds on the starting gate.

I yelled out GO! and both said Baaaahhhh, braaaaaah, braahhhhhh as they took off across the back yard. They've got it already. Everytime we pass a construction site my 9 y/o asks seriously, "is that a track dad?" As I'm already thinking, that' make a cool riding spot.
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4/16/2009 12:15pm
Wolfman wrote:
No not that, what I mean is make motorcycle noises. Surely every one of us occasionally has to let out a little "braap" from time to...
No not that, what I mean is make motorcycle noises. Surely every one of us occasionally has to let out a little "braap" from time to time.

What I am wondering is this- Does anyone else feel their clutch fingers tense up and their left foot rise slightly when they "shift gears"?

Does anyone else ever- when navigating this invisible track- panic rev a jump or keep it pinned in the "air" to make sure you get maximum drive when you land to huck the next "Double"?

I know I'm not the only one that sometimes puts the outside elbow out and leans forward while rounding a corner- on foot.

Anyone ever pull a fake tear-off? (Besides me?)

Do a fake Whip? (or nac-nac) I always have to do the look back style of whip Or nac.

Anyone else that ate up with it?
You are one of the reason why I paid to be on Motonews.
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4/16/2009 12:34pm
"Still envision riding next to the road/highway while driving "

I totally do that too.
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4/16/2009 12:43pm
I rail a mean berm in my truck.

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