Spring is coming, and you know what that means:

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ASSHOLES DRIVING DOWN MY STREET ON THEIR NOISY HARLEY MOTORCYCLES.

>:(

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Saturday, 1 March 2003 23:44 (twenty-three years ago)

I mean damn, at least you can bob your head along with the subwoofer Civics.

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Saturday, 1 March 2003 23:47 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought it meant spring cleaning.

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Saturday, 1 March 2003 23:50 (twenty-three years ago)

That too

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Saturday, 1 March 2003 23:51 (twenty-three years ago)

The five seconds between reading NOISY HAIRY MOTORCYCLES and understanding noisy Harley motorcycles have been the most enjoyable time of this young day so far.

― Wintermute (Wintermute), Sunday, 2 March 2003 00:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Pfft. Same thing.

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Sunday, 2 March 2003 00:15 (twenty-three years ago)

There's a biker bar about three blocks from my house and I live on a hill so guess what I get to listen to all summer. Brat-at-at-at-at-at! Buy a scooter that idles properly, puhleaze. Its weird though, the more this neighborhood gentrifies the more of these things I see.

― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Sunday, 2 March 2003 00:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Heh. The street I live on has all sorts of nice taverns and a sports bar and an Aveda hair salon and a Restoration Hardware and lots of other gentrified stuff (though rent isn't especially horrible). As it turns out the majority of these Harley types are either of the grey ponytail/$500 leathers variety or young upstart short-hair cleancut superjock Maxim fukrz. "Look at me! I'm a REBEL upending this quaint little street with my LOUD FUCKIN' PIPES, DUDE! Now if only there were a way to talk on my cell and hold open the throttle simultaneously."

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Sunday, 2 March 2003 00:52 (twenty-three years ago)

I've lived in two different places with biker problems. I grew up near a biker bar (well, yuppie-biker at least), but lived high up enough that it wasn't too much of a problem. But I spent a year living just above ground level next to a highway tunnel that was open air in the part immediately adjacent to my place (so that you could hear everything in the tunnels on either side). The tunnel was frequented by guys who liked to decibelize their Yamahas in there so that they could get not just the roar but also the echo of the roar. Between 1 and 5 A.M. Almost every night.

So I sympathize. However, I was hoping this thread was going to be about how everyone on ILx was going to find love, l-u-v.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 2 March 2003 15:23 (twenty-three years ago)

But there's no such thing (at least according to Agent Orange)

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Sunday, 2 March 2003 15:51 (twenty-three years ago)

"Look at me! I'm a REBEL upending this quaint little street with my LOUD FUCKIN' PIPES, DUDE! Now if only there were a way to talk on my cell and hold open the throttle simultaneously."

it's funny cuz it's true.

apring to me means the constant honking of canadian geese outside my window...and encountering lotsa goose poop on walks. they're back now, but it's snowing too...

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Sunday, 2 March 2003 16:51 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't want to hear anybody complaining about noisy Harleys until they've been to Milwaukee in the summer. This year is the Harley Davidson 100th Anniversary Celebration, which means tens of thousands of bikers from all over the world blocking off streets, crowding the bars, and riding past my house while I'm trying to sleep.

― kirsten (kirsten), Sunday, 2 March 2003 17:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Ew. You win.

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Sunday, 2 March 2003 17:14 (twenty-three years ago)

i used to live in milwaukee. it's just like that. between the noise and the brewery smells...oh, but i liked the brewery smells.

i can't imagine how bad it'll be for the 100th...my condolences.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Sunday, 2 March 2003 17:42 (twenty-three years ago)

The brewery smells are quite nice. The biker smells, however, are another story.

― kirsten (kirsten), Sunday, 2 March 2003 17:52 (twenty-three years ago)

apring to me means the constant honking of canadian geese outside my window

Yes, that's the definition of 'apring' in my dictionary too.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 2 March 2003 18:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Haha, you all sound like a bunch of old people!

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 2 March 2003 18:12 (twenty-three years ago)

120 decibel pipes outside your window can turn anyone into a cranky fucker, believe me. I wanna run after these schmucks with a leafblower.

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Sunday, 2 March 2003 18:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Haha, you all sound like a bunch of old people!

I'm a year older today, I reserve the right to be cranky if I choose. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 2 March 2003 19:07 (twenty-three years ago)

happy birthday ned

― gaz (gaz), Sunday, 2 March 2003 21:43 (twenty-three years ago)

I like the way the bikes sound. You crotchety oldsters!

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 2 March 2003 21:53 (twenty-three years ago)

never heard of this kind of thing happening in Oxford, tho Harley Davidson's offices are here! Right next to mine!

Things this thread should have been about, given the title:

The grass is riz. I wonder where the birdie is?

The sap is rising!

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 2 March 2003 21:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Cleanup in aisle three, markh's head has burst.

― Graham (graham), Sunday, 2 March 2003 23:39 (twenty-three years ago)

the birds is on the wing

― isadora (isadora), Monday, 3 March 2003 00:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Aw, hell. Dayton's BikeWeek starts tomorrow. And some blithering idiot scheduled a three-day seminar at one of the hotels, on the beach, in Daytona, for Tuesday through Thursday. Yeah, right. I'm not gonna face thsoe crowds and the noise and the traffic jams. Sheesh.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Monday, 3 March 2003 03:21 (twenty-three years ago)

The grass is riz. I wonder where the birdie is?

In DC the grass hasn't yet riz, but there are plenty of birdies. Two weeks ago during a snowfall I saw two blue jays (well, they both were blue) hopping around in a tree. If they were a courting couple I sure hope they weren't planning to lay eggs right away.

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 3 March 2003 03:27 (twenty-three years ago)

urban legend check: has Harley trademarked the brup-up-up sound of its engines?

― g.cannon (gcannon), Monday, 3 March 2003 03:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Where I am, its autumn thats coming, which means the same two inevtiable things each year:
- my birthday
- catching a shitty bad cold and totally losing my voice (which is happening at the moment)

Urghh *snotty*.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 3 March 2003 03:45 (twenty-three years ago)

You can't trademark a sound, I think.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 3 March 2003 04:19 (twenty-three years ago)

two blue jays

Blue on a/c of the cold?

Rumours of head bursting are very much exaggerated.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 3 March 2003 10:05 (twenty-three years ago)

On my block we have maybe one motorcycle, but mostly we just have those cute little bikes. What are they called? Vespids? I'm so uncool.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 3 March 2003 17:29 (twenty-three years ago)

it also means that the sap rises.
and you know what that means.

― piscesboy, Monday, 3 March 2003 19:01 (twenty-three years ago)

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