crashed my bike last night

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Originally Posted by Kinopio

If it makes you feel any better, I got a ticket from a cop for riding my bicycle on the sidwalk today. I never ride my bike on the sidewalk, but he caught me while i pulled onto the sidewalk of Harvard Square to grab the paper. I tried to tell him this, but cops cannot but reasoned with, mainly because they lack intelligence and can't realize I'm doing others a favor by riding a bike instead of an MV.

riding a bicycle on the sidewalk is illegal?

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Originally Posted by dick tip pucker

riding a bicycle on the sidewalk is illegal?

Once you're older than 12 or something like that, though I think it varies from place to place.

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Originally Posted by Revoltor

No. Motorcycles are cool.

Hovercycles, IMO.

But your generation hasn't made them, yet. :(

Glad you're ok torgo, I've been wanting to get a bike for a good long while and I've been paying attention to what to do and what not to do. Both of my parents ride (though neither have a bike right now). My dad stopped riding sport bikes about 10 years ago and only sticks with Harly's now because he values his life a little more then he used to :P My mom has been talking about getting another sports bike and when I get the money I'll probably start with a lower power model and work my way up. To make you feel better, here's some things my pop has done on a bike that most would consider stupid:

-Doing a wheelie for a mile stretch of a busy road in the middle of the day at around 80MPH
-Getting pulled over at 150mph while test-driving a bike he just worked on for a dealership he used to work for
-Running from the police (who never even had a slight chance of catching him apparently)
-Riding without protective gear (helmet only). He has a scar that runs from his right wrist all the way to the left part of his lower back from that one.
-Riding at night on back roads
-And probably the most stupid, riding completely smashed...all the time. About 20 some odd years ago he remembers about 2 or 3 different times he'd wake up in the morning all sore and beat up and go outside to find his bike totaled and never remembered wrecking it.

My mom wasn't anywhere near as exciting, she ran from the police once and didn't even know she was doing it until the guy riding with her said he started to go after them. Never did any crazy stuff like wheelies or anything but would still get her bike up to the 150-160 range. The last bike she had was a GSXR1100. That was a nice bike.

If my dad had been born about 10-15 years later he probably could've made a living out of riding bikes (he used to drag race and pull in some money from that though). The supercross thing really picked up when I was a little kid when he was already starting to wind down. As good as he was with a street bike, he was just as good with a dirt bike and could do all kinds of crazy things.