Is it more or less dangerous than riding a sea serpent?
September 7, 2015
2:55 am
I finally got my bike running after being out of commission for like a year so here is a tribute to what it feels like every time I’m in the groove and on top of the world feel tempted to go full throttle and gun it down the road.
First yes.
This was my reaction first time on my motorcycle learners license.
Also, those baby learner bikes lack the mass to be stable at higher speeds. When you start aquaplaning on a dry road it’s time to ease back.
Really? Because, chainsaw…pookiebear. I can say without reserve or doubt. Aquaplaining a 33hp 150kg+ motorbike is more fun than a barrel of monkeys. Then again, I learned on a T500. :) First rule of riding “when it doubt gas it”. Now me, I twist it until I see god then back off 50rpm.
Sounds like a great way to give yourself an excuse for a new helmet and riding leathers.
And a new everything that goes inside the helmet and leathers too.
Well, how many times have you heard about people having accidents due to sea serpent riding?
It’s like with planes. Just because it almost never happens doesn’t mean it won’t fuck you up.
OMG. we should all stop walking!! Just because fatal falls almost never happens while walking doesn’t mean it won’t fuck you up.
( : ) )
I broke my arm just from tripping and falling into some grass as a kid. You can in fact fuck yourself up just from walking, yes.
Were you chewing gum or something?
I broke my collarbone by falling off a couch. Nothing is safe.
NOTHING IS SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAFE!!!
Just being alive is a health hazard…
Well living does have a 100% death rate.
I love you.
There’s no good reason to take life *too* seriously…No one gets out of it alive.
When I was little, I broke my arm by ramming my bike into a fire hydrant, and my foot by stepping off of my bed…. I have also sprained my ankle stepping off of curbs… so…
I broke my arm playing Win, Lose, or Draw.
(That is my favourite injury story.)
But did you at least Win?
a draw, both broke their arms
Also, fatal falls are fairly common if you’re elderly. :(
It’s why a lot of Navy personnel would rather be assigned to a submarine than to fly a plane. You’ll find far more wrecked planes at the bottom of the ocean than you will find wrecked subs up in the air.
Ahh, but you forget the old Wicks-Little class DD methode for hunting subs that does leave them floating in the sky.
The accident in this case would be running into the sea serpent.
Jared seems a lot more wise than we give him credit for.
Then again, why did he get one of these when he’s got Mr. Fish?
Has Mr. Fish even been fed since the Animal Crossing thing?
He probably just feeds himself. Nobody will miss that small yappy poodle anyway, right?
Or that entire kennel of small yappy poodles, the rabbit hutch next door, a couple horses, pigs, cows, sheep, whales…
30 mph (more/ less 50 km/h) is considered normal cruising speed in my country. Myself rarely goes higher than 40 km/h (15- 16 mph), and only goes higher when the street is ”absolutely” empty or the guys in the car on my back start jerking my around.
When I lived in Texas I’d regularly do the ton (100mph) down those straight, flat roads on my bike. But even at those speeds, it took FOREVER to get ANYWHERE.
Well, that’s Texas for you. Miles & miles of nothing but miles & miles.
30 mph is still plenty fast enough to kill yourself.
I’m sure to Lobo a top speed of 110 is pretty lame since he probably operates his intergalactic space bike as speeds close to light speed.
An actual “baby bike” (say, 125 cc street legal bike like the Honda Grom) would have a top speed around 60 mph.
My 250cc Yamaha has a speedometer that goes up to like 150 or 200 or something despite the fact that the bike itself probably can’t get much over 65, I kinda get the feeling it’s just a standard piece that goes in big and little bikes alike.
They often put speedometers that go higher than the vehicle can attain as a sales gimmick. If you see two bikes that are the exact same model, but one has a speedometer that goes to 200 and one that goes to 100, most people will go for the higher number, even if they know they’ll never use it at either speed.
Oops, sorry. Can I ask for my last response posted here?
parked is plenty fast enough. After almost 40 years of riding without a serious get orf. I’m a little tired of the “you’ll get killed” MORONS. Now days I just flip the little bugger faced bloviators a finger and carry one. Cars are more dangerous imho, you can’t see out of the dang things.
I was a passenger in a car crash once, when I got to the ER the only ID I had was my motorcycle license (I don’t have a US driver’s license, just motorcycle) and the ER staff gave me some photocopied write up on “preventing future accidents” including “sell your motorcycle and buy a car”
Like “Cool. I was the passenger and also we were in a car, but cool.”
The only accident I was ever in on a bike was because someone was following too close behind me when I was already at top speed. I think he thought he was doing me a favor so that anyone who tried to pass would have to go fully into the other lane, but it just ended up making me pull into a parking lot that I didn’t realize was gravel until I was rolling though it at 40 miles per hour.
Admittedly, the main problem with cars is that people unintentionally create blind spots by not setting their mirrors right and underestimate how much room to give others when passing, especially for bikes.
This. My god, I drive parts delivery for a living and every time someone else uses my work car, I’ll get in and the sides of the car are filling half of the wing mirrors.
http://www.caranddriver.com/features/how-to-adjust-your-mirrors-to-avoid-blind-spots
” Those who have switched to the SAE’s approach swear by it, however, some drivers can’t adjust to not using the outside mirrors to see directly behind the car and miss being able to see their own car in the side mirrors. To them we say, “Have fun filling out those accident reports.” “
Kinda reminds me of my sister. She’s been in 2 vehicle accidents. After getting knocked off her scooter by a taxi she picked it up again and rode off with a few scratches and bruises. After the car crash where she was a passenger she spent 2 months in hospital, needed plastic surgery and spent several months in physio learning how to walk again. She sets off metal detectors.
After 40 years of safely working on construction sites unhelmeted, I’m tired of hearing “statistics show that’s a more dangerous practice”.
That said, morons shouldn’t flip out if something’s not “as safe”.
They don’t actually have anything insightful or news to tell smokers, they’re (almost always) just egosturbating. Not consciously, but still.
A former co-worker’s dad got hit on the head with a metal block while on a construction site and it went through his helmet and caused some major damage to him. He mostly recovered, though his hands were a bit shakier than before and he had occasional short term memory issues.
If he hadn’t worn that helmet he’d either be a vegetable or dead.
Isn’t generalizing those people as ‘morons’ egosturbating aswell?
Ha! Everyone’s a moron! I’ve read/experienced/heard things which makes everyone low and below my ways of thinking. I’m always factual. Call me Fact-Daddy.
Well, if something does happen to fall on your head from way up you’re more likely to die if you aren’t wearing a helmet. That’s just common sense. Not… egosturbating.
On the subject of smoking, I honestly think that the world would be a better place without tobacco. Seriously. It does absolutely nothing except give you cancer and other nasty side effects. It’s the most pointlessly harmful thing on the face of the planet.
Dude, they’re called “Donor-cycles” for a reason.
http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/22/motorcycle-helmets-and-donor-organs/?_r=0
PUNCHLINE: Speedo is in km/h
“Carve it into your soul! The speed limit for scooters is 30 kilometres per hour!”
honestly it’s still funny even in mph
“oh no i’m going 40 this is starting to feel dangeROUS”
Lets. Get. DangeROUS?
*looks for a purple cape*
when theres trouble you call dw
Better watch out you bad boys!
Got a scooter that caps at 50 km/h. That’s pretty lame for Germany. But also top speed for the city limits. Would have liked to go for a trike but those are expensive.
Those little 50cc scooters can do a lot more than 50km/h, they’re just governed to that to meet moped regulations (i.e. you don’t need a bike license as long as they’re speed limited).
Nearly every bike shop in Australia will mod it after market for you to give you 60-70km/h. I imagine a mechanic in Germany would do the same. Little scooters start to feel pretty unsafe above 70, although I took my old Yamaha CV50 jog to about 95km/h on a closed circuit once or twice.
Man, modding that thing was a bitch, though. Had to import a custom CDI from a domestic shop in Japan.
My motorcycle is much easier to work on :P
My Virago weighs like 300 lbs and whenever I get it going faster than 50mph I feel like if I so much as hit a pebble it’s gonna go flying and bounce down the street.
Kick butt little cruiser. I always had a soft spot for them. Would have been my first bike but fate intervened :/
heh, you ride a girls bike. ;) I much prefer nicking SWMBO’s EX250 for a nice bimble of 2,000+ at a go. It’s nice to get on the back roads and cruise along at 75mph, wind whipping through the helmet. Bugs bouncing off the visor…
I take exception with that for two reason.
First off, the author here is a woman. Technically any bike she owns would be a “girl’s bike”. Using that to insinuate weakness is not something I would do to her face, either. Squid looks like she could Kimura Lock anyone who gives her trouble.
Second, it’s a nice little bike. It might not have the kind of power the EX250 has, but you need to make sure the bike you’re riding is one you can handle. Too much bike makes you end up like the guy described in the craft store story below.
I’ll leave the macho need-for-speed grandstanding to people who don’t need to worry about getting kicked out of the country if they break their drawing arm.
Besides, I always see dudes on big powerful bikes trying to nose through traffic getting stuck at all the red lights like Cool dude that’s awesome your bike goes at like 200 miles an hour, we’re still all stuck at the same red light in the same residential neighbourhood.
I’ve always wanted to get a little black vespa and make it as METAL AS POSSIBLE. All covered in spikes, full biker leathers, one of those fake nazi helmets with a little pirate flag glued to the top.
If you do LINK PICTURES!
ze shpiked helmet, ja?
Actually WWI design, not Nazi, but whatever, I want to see this be real.
Now I wonder what Captain Falcon could possibly need photocopied.
Papers for importing an F-0 racer?
Yeah, I miss having a motorcycle.
Wait, that’s a baby motorcycle?! Well, considering it’s Mr Lobo saying it… to him, even a Harley would be a ‘baby’ motorcycle :P
It basically looks like mine which is the smallest you’re legally allowed to take on a highway and lightweight enough I know guys theoretically capable of picking it up and carrying it away by themselves, so yeah, it’s a pretty baby bike.
What kind of bike you got?
Should check out “Too Much Information” comic, when Luna got her motorbike, Rocky literally picked it up and carried it to the garage :D
I think, in THIS particular situation, it’s MORE dangerous than riding a sea serpent.
Because it’s Jared?
More the fact that “riding a sea serpent” sounds like a general bad idea unless the sea serpent is your utterly devoted and loving pet like Mr. Fish is for Jared.
You know, Ben from Full Throttle is a pretty manly guy, I wonder if he knows the Commander?
If Jared and his baby bike are gonna be a recurring thing, it could be a good chance to work the Polecats in.
I hope I’m not the only one thinking this, but perhaps the motorcycle came out of the funds for the Epic Jar, much like Jared’s XBox 360 from a while back?
Though it is amusing that, despite the thrill of a motorcycle, Jared’s definitely playing it safer. I think he learned from all of his past shenanigans – the 500 lb bag of gummy bears, the power sprayer, the…
Mhm. Despite being surrounded by machismo, and inwardly wanting to join in on the manly activities going on around him, he still opts to act responsibly after taking a moment to consider the consequences.
Very Commander-esque of him. I think the lessons are starting to sink in.
Mmm, delicious character development.
I’d say it was more dangerous, cause Mr. fish looks after Jared pretty well.
Captain Falcon actually passed Jared on the way in, but he was travelling too slowly to register as a vehicle.
Is the 235 how many Miles he’s driven on that Bike? Or is it something else?
Considering the color of the numbers, I would say he had gone 23.5 miles. However, this may be a moot point, if you posted this before color.
Good man our Jared.
Only gotta move one space on the board to be King.
Its a trip odometer, basically it is a secondary odometer that can be reset so you can figure out how much you traveled on a trip, how much distance to a tank of gas, etc. So the 235 can be just about anything, and it could be just minor detail added to make this comic have more, I believe the word is, verisimilitude . Like the actual odometer which apparently says 023245, so 23 245.
Though beyond the whole trip odometer thing, I could be wrong in my suppositions of Coelasquid’s reasons for drawing the comics as such. I am just some random reader after all.
I replied to the wrong post, rather silly of me.
When did Jared grow a ponytail? How long have Commander and Jones been away?! Also, I hope he’s wearing a good thick leather jacket on that thing, not just a flimsy sweatshirt.
I was actually looking through the comments to ask this… When did Jared grow that? was it after the alternate timeline dealio where he had to take charge and did a relatively decent..ish job at it?
It’s long, he just puts it in a ponytail sometimes. keep it from fluffing out in the helmet here, I guess.
Just saw the full-color version. I wish the biker enemies would wear that helmet.
I can attest that long hair and helmets need special attention.
Seeing as Mr Fish seems to know how to fly on his own, Jared isn’t driving him. Which makes the cycle MUCH MORE dangerous…
Double post, but I just got the joke. This is Lobo and Captain Falcon; guys who are both used to going much, MUCH faster then is street legal…
When did Jared get a bike?
I can heartily agree with that, Jared. Taking those bad boys at high speeds is almost as exhilarating as it is terrifying. You even get clipped on a bike and you’ll probably end up eating pavement at 20 MPH at least, no matter how slow you drive it. Bikers don’t wear leather just for the looks, it also helps protect their precious skin in case they make an impromptu ground slide.
Everyone else can keep their super-fun-but-holy-shit-what-if-you-wreck-oh-god oversized bicycles. If I have to go driving anywhere I’ll keep myself surrounded by 2 tons of steel, thank you.
I’m suddenly reminded of Happy Days. The network didn’t like Fonz wearing a leather jacket, because it was associated with rebellious bad boy types. So they said he was only allowed to wear it in scenes where he rode his motorcycle, because then it was legitimate safety gear.
Which is why Fonz so often entered a scene riding his bike.
So, you drive an original Model-T then? Modern cars haven’t been made with real steel since the 60’s :P
Steel, aluminum, whatever. If it’s between the ground/other cars and my skull (particularly when my skull is moving at 65MPH), it’s my best friend for the moment.
Well, modern cars built with lighter, flimsier materials since they actually absorbs more damage than rigid steel. By crunchs themselves.
It also safer for the other side of the impact (read: the one you hit).
Every time I see the Real Lobo, I cry.
Well, there’s no chance of the bike learning a new skill and thus forgetting ‘don’t eat the
babytrainer’.Surprised no one mentioned the Pikachu helmet.
Might have something to do with the colours having appeared only recently…
It’s pretty amazing :D
I just love that helmet in full color!
Huh, I keep saying that bikes are “too cool” (aka scary) for me but I’d like to get a scooter someday. But I guess I could just get a baby bike and keep it low until I’m more comfortable.
Personal story: My wife worked in a craft store. One day, a man in a leather jacket hobbled in with casts on both legs. “Can I park my motorcycle in your parking lot? I’m trying to sell it.”
Sounds more like he was either reckless or had too much bike. Either way, he made the right decision to sell it.
a coworker calls that “Running out of talent”.
fuck,a year without the bike???
mine is broken only two weeks, and im totally freaked out waiting to ride it again ¡¡¡
It’s been nearly 10 years since I had a bike. Trust me, it only gets worse.
He looks more appropriately dorky in color with that pikachu helmet…
More dangerous than riding a sea serpent. Mr. Fish can at least Laser Fish anything that could potentially collide with you. And no one dares to come close to a giant Laser Gayardos!
And I just thinking if Lobo had appeared on this comic before. When I open the comics, he is the first thing.
He’s got a need for speed!…but at a reasonable safety level
Nice touch to have a biker and a professional driver conversing about it. I’m always tickled whenever Lobo makes a cameo.
The life cycle of the average yuppie motorcyclist was described to me like so: ‘
1. Young man gets an underpowered bike because that’s all he can afford. Has fun on it.
2. Young man sells the bike because he’s starting a family and it’s irresponsible to risk his neck that way, plus he has to make room in the garage for the minivan.
3. In the fullness of time, kids leave the nest, guy has more time and money on his hands, remembers the salad days of his youth, decides that he’s going to revive his old hobby, only he can now afford the bike he used to dream of, which of course has several times the displacement of his old bike.
4. Guy rides the bike with the muscle memory left over from operating a much less powerful machine, but with slower reflexes due to age.
5. I think you can guess what happens next.
(And, yes, I’m well aware that there are woman bikers, but the process above seems to be overwhelmingly a dude thing.)
LOBOOOOOO!! Oh yeah, this is awesome!! XDDDDDDDDDD
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