CHL & Motorcycles

[Rocket_Cowboy]

If only the KLR came with turrent mounts.

It would make the deer problem out in West Texas a bit less of a problem for cyclists. :)

[flb_78]

By November 4 I will be the proud owner of a Triumph Rocket III.

Here's a vid on how your bike is built. It's amazing technology.

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=HKEuzxC4eGc[/youtube]

[tfrazier]

I saw that amazing piece of viral marketing awhile back and embedded it on my personal web site. Gotta wonder if Triumph roped in some old Monte Python writers to help out with it.

[Pistol storm 40]

Here are my babies!!! I have carried in a holster without any discomfort. I pretty much know the bars in this area who post no guns, so I stay away. However If I know I am going to one of them like Dukes or Strokers, I will put it in my side bag ahead of time.

[Skiprr]

If you can't find a convenient way to carry concealed on your bike, there's always this option:

[boomerang]

Or this.

[tfrazier]

If you can't find a convenient way to carry concealed on your bike, there's always this option:

(see photo in his post, two up from here)

That appears to be a V8 below the tank. Is that a Boss Hog custom, or a photoshop job?

[Rocket_Cowboy]

Top one looks to be a Boss Hoss. The side car rig looks like it could be an old Ural.

[Morgan]

Skippr... what you posted looks like EXACTLY how I summarized the situation. "judged to be impared OR .08." The "dangerous" part is that you can be "judged to be impared" at .01 but the LEO has more of an uphill battle to prove it.

I tend to stop at 1 with dinner, or 2 at a bike night when I'm there for a hours with food. My choice. I don't even feel the effect.

[Eddie2612]

thats funny..

[rcs]

Just some food for thought on this topic. Saw this story related by a poster on another forum:

I'd much rather have you learn from my mistake rather than your own, so please "listen up" and at least "consider".

Lose the shoulder holster, and don't ever look back at it. At least not while riding.

Rib cartilage and ribs are amongst the weakest bones in the body. And they surround some of its most Vital Organs.

Strongly suggest inside the pants waistband holster for two reasons. Most secure tool retention if, God Forbid, you go down. And the pelvis is the 2nd strongest bone in your body. Strictly in the comparative speaking sense, the pelvis surround little that can swiftly kil you if injured.

Believe me, you do NOT want an appreciablly-sized hunk of metal laying right against the weakest bones in your bod that "protect" four of most vital organs - lungs, heart and especially, the aorta. Even just nick tha aorta, you'll bleed out within a matter of minutes. Like, usually less than five minutes.

How do I know about about where to carry? Danced with Bambi once. While already leaned over to the right, midway through a broad sweeper curve, 55 MPH, Easter Sunday Morning 3:30 AM, alone, dark unlit country road, out in the middle of nowhere. Bambi came in from left to right - sprang outa nowhere - already airborne - she literally caught me right in the face. Knocked me onto the right grasssy shoulder in a heart-beat.

Didn't go down, initially. The Wing's wig-waggin' like the dog's tail. Wet dewy grass, couldn't brake much. Just trying to steer the Wing back up onto the highway. Almost made it, too. Got the front tire to within a foot or 2 of the pavement edge, was just starting to think I was gonna make it when the front tire plowed ito a little patch of really soft, deep, fine FL sugar-sand that I never even saw. Stopped the bike on a dime. As in, tail-over-head flip, ejected off, ground-slammed.

Big ol' .45 Glock 21 in the inside pocket of the purpose-designed concealment vest. You don't ever, ever wanna know what it feels like to have TEN ribs busted completely in half, busted rib-ends puncturing, deflating and buried inside your lungs. Collarbone busted completely in half, shoulderblade shattered into 4 pieces. After layin' there for quite a while I was "9 months pregnant" from internal bleeding from lacerated liver (rib-ends, again) and ruptured spleen.

55 MPH ain't really that fast. It's "only" 88.2 Feet per second. Left-side slam into the ground at 88.2 feet per second with a huge chunk of metal against your left ribs, the tool will concentrate the force and the blunt force impact WILL transfer cross-torso and snap even your right side ribs in half too. Believe it or not, the strongest bone in your bod is the scapula (shoulder-blade). ER Trauma Surgeon said I've been one for 23 yrs, and I ain't never seen a shouldrblade in 4 pieces before . . . and again, I was "only" doin' 55 MPH - and I ground-slammed on comparatively soft dirt & grass, not the pavement . . .

Some who CCW complain about IWB lack of comfort. That's because they only tried cheap rigs. I've CCW IWB for 33 years The belt makes all the difference in the world. Get a purpose-designed belt, and a quality holster from one of the master holstermakers like Milt Sparks or Gary Brommeland, or similar craftsman, with belt slots matched to belt width, and you could sleep with it. The tool "disappears" and ya wouldn't even know it's there, sight-wise or comfort-wise.

JMHO. YYMMV. Our ribs don't vary that much, though, from one person to the other. They all crack and break and splinter pretty much the same with the same degrees of blunt force trauna. I say it again - you don't ever wanna know. Hope ya never do, too.

Memmers, please excuse my repetitive broken-record skipping re this, but every time I see a bro on 2 wheels mentioning a shoulder hoslster, I just gotta say something. It's always better to learn from someones else's mistakes, instead of your own. Of that, you can be "dang" sure . . .

If you are interested in the whole conversation, here is the link, this was quoted at post #75

http://gl1800riders.com/forums/showthread.php?t=210864" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[tfrazier]

Wow. Thanks for that, Richard.

It made me a believer. Guess I'll be ordering myself a crossbreed supertuck now. I really like my Galco "donkey" shoulder rig, but after reading that story It just ain't worth it on the bike.

It's too bad there's not something you could mount concealed on the bike that would be easily transferable to concealed carry (without unconcealing during the transfer) upon dismount.

[boomerang]

It's too bad there's not something you could mount concealed on the bike that would be easily transferable to concealed carry (without unconcealing during the transfer) upon dismount.

What about something like a Wilderness Safepacker? Shouldn't be too tough to rig a tank mount or put one inside a large tank bag. I've also seen riders carry the whole tank bag (containing cell phone, GPS, iPod, etc.) into the restaurant or whatever.

[C-dub]

I do the tank bag method. It's not ideal, but at least I have it with me.

[iratollah]

I will not carry on my body when on the bike. I dress for a fall, not for a ride. I don't want to fall onto a pistol and you may be surprised at what body parts make contact with the ground during a fall. I've seen gloves and boots come off during crashes, are you sure your holster will retain the weapon? Will it be laying in the pavement and disappear?

I keep my pistol in the tankbag, it's actually more accessible there than under my jacket. Tailpack is another option. The pistol is only useful for when you're off the bike. My throttle hand remains the most effective way to immediately remove myself from a dangerous situation. Unless you're making an action flick, lose any notion of shooting left handed from a moving bike. (I've been shot at while riding, felt the shockwave from the shotgun blast come across my back and the back of my helmet. I didn't stick around to engage or otherwise respond to the guys doing the Easy Rider re-enactment, that would have been my worst choice.)

Off the bike, I can casually slip the pistol into my jacket pocket or into my (removed) helmet and use my gloves to cover it in the helmet. On a hot day especially you should bring your helmet indoors with you so it stays cool.

You have absolutely no business going into a bar while you're out riding and if the group with whom you're riding chooses to stop for some drinks, you need to find different riding buddies. I've been riding high performance bikes since 1975 and have seen how a single beer changes skills and attitude.

If you ride for long enough you must remember that there's three kinds of riders: those that have been down, those that are going down and those that have been down and are going down again.

Ride safe, ride smart, and when you put all of those ponies to work have a method to your madness.