Notorious DSB
08-05-2007, 04:41 PM
Recapping our (1stAnt & Mine) experience at Spectrum yesterday. Adrian, the service manager, took care of us. No muss, no fuss. Got the paperwork in and got both bikes done within 45 minutes! We then took time to do the Aprilia Demo Days on a Mille R. Good times.
Here's a recap of the zany stories that unfolded during our 8 hours in the desert with Arnie and IceMark06.
1. Mr. Aggro Professional Demo Ride Grand Marshal can't hold my line in a staggered street formation because I am too cool and I ride with 1 hand and swerve back and forth and then decide to ride in the middle of the lane guy. He had the audacity to yell at TuonoJohn later to say he was reckless when John was keeping his place behind Mr. Aggro the whole time. We thought he was joking until later when he was still yelling when he got on a 2nd demo ride as the Grand Marshal of the event. I guess being 400 pounds and riding 1 handed makes you swerve a lot. You know, gravitational pull of big bodies, higher wind resistance, messed up CG and stuff like that.
2. Arnie's Neoprene seat to keep himself warm when he takes the 1098s scuba diving.
3. 1stAnt's hat modeling antics. I've never seen a guy model 7 baseball caps in front of a mirror and then tuck his ears inside the hat.
4. The Deserts of Irvine and the whole Industrial park setting with Panera Breads next to the Captain Creams' ice cream store. Is that like a Cold Stone Creamery or something?
5. Gluten, peanuts, vegans and wiccans at the various eateries.
6. The new Captain's employee trying to impress her boss by getting to work 1 hour early and dressing up very professionally only to have the boss show up in a tank top, shorts, trucker hat, and mullet. The boss spit out his chew before opening the door for her because he's a true gentleman.
7. Mark's definition of being 5 minutes from Spectrum means that he'll be there in 45 minutes because of the traffic he encountered along the way. Those desert roads do that.
8. Mr. Emo with the pots in his ear trying to protect his girl from Arnie and 1stAnt by holding her hand in front of us.
9. Jerod from Subway stopping by Panera in his newly rented Ferrari F430 Spyder with fresh Enterprise Rent-A-Car plates. The daily rate must be very high because he had to wear flip flops since he sold his nice Bruno Maglis to pay for that last $250 of the rental. Jerod then proceeds to pull out of the parking lot after typing on his IBM Thinkpad a few times to pretend that he's working and drives all of .2 miles across the street so he can go inside the Taco Bell to do the same thing so he can pull out and rev his engine down the street after 15 minutes.
10. Mr. Bling-Bling Lockhart Phillips dealer who offered us a good price on RIM TAPE because those of us with 1098s bikes need it on our forged rims. He was very impressive with his knowledge of bikes because he immediately knew that our 4 1098 bikes were the special 200hp model. He then floored us with his story about how he wheelied his 999 all the way down Beach Blvd. He complained that when it came down, he got a nasty headshake so his conclusion was that the 999 was not made for wheelies. Obviously he did not know that to properly wheely the 999, you have to set the steering head angle to 24 degrees and not the race 23.5 degrees. The joke's on him... kekekeke.
11. IceMark scoping out the action at Leisure World. Mark tucks in his tight Wrangler jeans into his Dainese street boots to get better traction when he does the Shuffle Boards and rocks the Bingo table at Leisure World.
12. If you can afford a Teknic jacket, 1stAnt definitely recommends it, LOL. He's got 2 more at home.
and last but not least... don't take yourself that seriously online.
Here's a recap of the zany stories that unfolded during our 8 hours in the desert with Arnie and IceMark06.
1. Mr. Aggro Professional Demo Ride Grand Marshal can't hold my line in a staggered street formation because I am too cool and I ride with 1 hand and swerve back and forth and then decide to ride in the middle of the lane guy. He had the audacity to yell at TuonoJohn later to say he was reckless when John was keeping his place behind Mr. Aggro the whole time. We thought he was joking until later when he was still yelling when he got on a 2nd demo ride as the Grand Marshal of the event. I guess being 400 pounds and riding 1 handed makes you swerve a lot. You know, gravitational pull of big bodies, higher wind resistance, messed up CG and stuff like that.
2. Arnie's Neoprene seat to keep himself warm when he takes the 1098s scuba diving.
3. 1stAnt's hat modeling antics. I've never seen a guy model 7 baseball caps in front of a mirror and then tuck his ears inside the hat.
4. The Deserts of Irvine and the whole Industrial park setting with Panera Breads next to the Captain Creams' ice cream store. Is that like a Cold Stone Creamery or something?
5. Gluten, peanuts, vegans and wiccans at the various eateries.
6. The new Captain's employee trying to impress her boss by getting to work 1 hour early and dressing up very professionally only to have the boss show up in a tank top, shorts, trucker hat, and mullet. The boss spit out his chew before opening the door for her because he's a true gentleman.
7. Mark's definition of being 5 minutes from Spectrum means that he'll be there in 45 minutes because of the traffic he encountered along the way. Those desert roads do that.
8. Mr. Emo with the pots in his ear trying to protect his girl from Arnie and 1stAnt by holding her hand in front of us.
9. Jerod from Subway stopping by Panera in his newly rented Ferrari F430 Spyder with fresh Enterprise Rent-A-Car plates. The daily rate must be very high because he had to wear flip flops since he sold his nice Bruno Maglis to pay for that last $250 of the rental. Jerod then proceeds to pull out of the parking lot after typing on his IBM Thinkpad a few times to pretend that he's working and drives all of .2 miles across the street so he can go inside the Taco Bell to do the same thing so he can pull out and rev his engine down the street after 15 minutes.
10. Mr. Bling-Bling Lockhart Phillips dealer who offered us a good price on RIM TAPE because those of us with 1098s bikes need it on our forged rims. He was very impressive with his knowledge of bikes because he immediately knew that our 4 1098 bikes were the special 200hp model. He then floored us with his story about how he wheelied his 999 all the way down Beach Blvd. He complained that when it came down, he got a nasty headshake so his conclusion was that the 999 was not made for wheelies. Obviously he did not know that to properly wheely the 999, you have to set the steering head angle to 24 degrees and not the race 23.5 degrees. The joke's on him... kekekeke.
11. IceMark scoping out the action at Leisure World. Mark tucks in his tight Wrangler jeans into his Dainese street boots to get better traction when he does the Shuffle Boards and rocks the Bingo table at Leisure World.
12. If you can afford a Teknic jacket, 1stAnt definitely recommends it, LOL. He's got 2 more at home.
and last but not least... don't take yourself that seriously online.