Wolfeye wrote:Awesome! Being able to carry a couch on a bike (or a bike on a bike) is something I never thought was possible. Where does a passenger put their feet, though? It looks like more or less the only thing for them to do is to coil their legs up, since there are tail pipes down straight.
None of this is ideal to do. I'm just saying you don't need a heavy displacement large bike to carry a reasonable amount of stuff around. If you are really interested in carrying crap on a bike, though, the best thing to do would be to make or get a trailer, though.
http://www.bikesatwork.com/blog/diy-hou ... by-bicycle
These guys even move trailers full of stuff by bicycle.
I'm not suggesting any of these things are ideal to do, just you know, a good portion of the world has to make adaptations and do things this way sometimes. Realistically, I'd not buy a bike for cargo hauling, especially as you being a Westerner, you probably can make enough money to just buy some sort of car most places in the world. But it's not a terrible idea to keep a few tie downs under the seat just in case you gotta take something home. Most scooters under the seat have about 1 cubic foot of space you can put stuff, like groceries, and some another half cubic foot or so above the headlight, and then some have a little box in back that's another cubic foot or so. Obviously it's not a whole trunkload of groceries inside, but you could fit a couple reasonable sized bags of stuff no problem.
There is nothing wrong with being a motorcycle enthusiast. I can appreciate many a well-made bike myself, especially the custom made variety.
But the few who are obsessed with "Big Bikes" are often said to be overcompensating for small penis size by focusing on the "crotch rocket" aspect of the big bike as overcompensation for that which nature deprived them.
There is a plethora of material on this subject and there's an interesting Reddit on the matter also:
It depends, as with all people, I don't know them personally, etc, to make that judgment call.
One thing I notice among older dudes is often they have the "big" trend with all their stuff. It's kind of strange to me. Even speaking of cars, my favorite car I've ever driven was actually a Toyota MR2. Handled nice, was small, great car. In general I like smaller cars as well, and don't like bigger ones. I'd be totally happy driving a 90s Jetta or Civic with a manual transmission forever. I also tend to like sportier cars, and don't care about luxury that much (as long as I have air conditioing, lol) and like lower sitting cars, and handling and driving feel are most important for me. And it's just what I like. My father on the other hand, basically hates my taste in cars, says they all suck, small cars are for fags, and I should get a Lincoln Town Car with a V8. He has a giant F350 dualie with a Ford 460 V8 in it. Total opposite tastes in cars. Some I think aside from the alpha/macho whatever, is economics. They grew up in a booming time where the expectation was things would get better, and they could always have big stuff, and that was what should be aspired towards. Whereas my generation at least subconsciously knows the good times are over and it's better to lean more towards living fairly modestly.
I'm not quite sure of the psychology behind it or whatever, masculine overcompensation. Maybe, maybe not. I think in general US society is a strange paradox of this stuff. On one end, things are literally totally gay, and lots of people are literally homosexual, and there's feminism and all that stuff permeating society. Then on the other end, there's so so much masculine overcompensation here in all things in life, be it cars, clothing, whatever. Everyone's trying to be some tough guy, and everything feels really aggressive. Be it rap music, people with stickers saying they have a CCW permit and will shoot you on their giant Dodge diesel pick up, people glorifying outlaw biker gangs, steroided up cops who body slam kids for not putting their phones away in school, whatever. It's this weird paradox of a culture here. I think overall, it was what I liked most about Asia, in that I felt like I could just be a person, and there wasn't this expectation of macho or "alpha" posturing.
Anyway, to get back on the original thread subject. Talked to my new neighbor, he helped me a bit with getting a belt on my truck.
(knockoff one, actually...) 
