Originally Posted by BluesStringer

I've been a perennial hang-around with a small local club for goin' on three years now. I never noticed if all of 'em have GBWs, but most of 'em do, and yes, they're all the same and they are all braided out of the club colors, which happen to be blue, black and white. I asked the Prez one day if the colors mean anything and he said yeah they do, but he wasn't gonna tell me unless I decided to probate. That's cool sez I, but I was jus' wonderin' if you realized that your colors are the same as the blue line flag patch that the local cops all wear on their chests. I notice weird things like that. Prez jus' laughed and said he was gonna steal one and fly it as his own colors on the next run.

I don't guess hang-arounds are usually permanent fixtures with clubs. I don't really know, but there was a kind of "fate" thing that brought us together. I thought seriously about probating with them but decided it wasn't for me. In the interim, that fate thing served to make us good friends, so I still hang around. I would never put a GBW on my bike, whether or not I probated or eventually patched in. That ain't for me either. But I literally couldn't give a **** less if anyone else does sport one on their bike, or if it's on the left side or the right side, or if it's thought by them to be a weapon or a decoration, or if it smacks them or their bike in the wind, or any of that stuff. I believe that government should make actual freedom legal, which it ain't in this country by a long-shot. But I expect of my friends that they accept and extend freedom to everyone whether everyone is doin' what they'd do or not.

Blues

Originally Posted by MiniWolf

I have seen videos online of people getting their windows busted out. Not sure by what but something.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1I6Vm1m4Bxc

Originally Posted by ABQ-Jammer

For all of you who poo on the idea of the whip, I use mine more as a "I'm here so don't pull into me, in front of me, or into my lane" whip, and it has done THAT job well, MANY times!! I've watched cars ahead of me starting to move over into my lane as I'm coming up to pass them, and then "whip" back over into their lane (pun intended), allowing me to go by them peacefully and without incident. It's the movement of the whip, back and forth, up and down, that gets cager's attention, as anything moving in your peripheral vision does for you, too (it's a survival of the fittest thing), and THAT is the reason I have one on MY bike, so cars won't run me over or pull out into or in front of me. It really doesn't get caught in moving parts on the bike, as some suspect, because the speed of the wind pulls it almost straight back, though I have had it beat against my arm/shoulder with a strong side wind. When you slow down, it just drops to hang straight down.

Originally Posted by FxdwgGuy

Originally Posted by Shanebo

Is it Probating, or Prospecting?

Originally Posted by HAOLE

Less than a week on the Boards and 5 posts and you think you got Mi3ninos figured out?

LOL

Haole

Originally Posted by BluesStringer

I'm not so sure that y'all picked up on which "title" he was referring to. Pretty sure he was trying to draw attention to what he titled his own post, circled in red below.



I don't see this ending well for the newb.

Originally Posted by BluesStringer

The club I referenced calls it probating. Way to pick up on the primary subject(s) of my post. 👍

Originally Posted by Zerk

Is that just how the prounounce it down there?