My favorite is when they try to guess the engine size. I've heard everything from 450, thru 900, to 1600cc. Guys too.

It really hurt my brain when I was on the F3 with the giant "600" decals on her

 

haha ye ive overheard convos of people talking to another person who has a bike and they try to sound educated and stuff with bikes and they just fck up so bad haha

 

people have asked me what bike i ride when they see me walk into the store with a helmet.
i tell them CBR600F3
for some reason the next question they ask is what engine size it is
i say well its 600

 

I also get the "His sounds faster" since I have the stock pipe on Ororo.

 

I get "busa" thrown my way a lot. Guess they think my bike is fat. I've gotten tired of people asking me "how many ccs is that bike" like it's a question that validates your knowledge of motorcycles so now I come up with an arbitrary number. Last I checked, mine's a 50cc. Guess it's my fault for taking off the "1000R" stickers from the tail section.

 

do you think they might be judging you by how many cc's you have lol could be

 

My klr650 says "klr650" right on the side of it. Some dumb **** at a gas station asked me how big it was, then proceeded to tell me how I should have gotten a 1000. lol.
It's a thumper, dude, and you don't even have a bike so suck it.
People are just stupid.

 

As far as I can tell, their knowledge of engine size is pretty much the extent of their knowledge about motorcycles and it's a point of validation or their only real peak into this oh so secretive "world of riding"... again, simply a means of validation. Next time I ever get a "you shoulda gotten a liter" line I'll simply tell them some technobabble line like it's "triple cranked forged motor that runs twice as fast as your standard motor so technically it's faster than a liter. oh, and this can handle a 300 shot"

 

now i wanna know what bike you got haha

 

oh me and my buddy do that all the time with people just to see how much we can get away with. Ive been asked a few times if my f4i is a 750 and id just say yuuupppp at first but then wed start making up specs and stuff for it. We pulled into 711 once into his mostly stock exterior evo besides a cf hood and front lip and a guy was like whoaaa i cant even tell what that is anymore is that a honda? and we just said yeah and went on with that. Then we were getting his lexus sc300 inspected and his hood is just primer right now and some guy asked if it was "one of those high tech carbon hoods" and he was like oh yeah it weighs about 2 pounds the old one was like 60 and just got into a 5 minute convo about it. People that ask questions like that you can tell them pretty much anything and theyll believe it.