TOAK, The Thread of All Knowledge Part X
01-19-2018, 09:14 AM
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01-19-2018, 09:35 AM
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01-19-2018, 09:39 AM
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My phone is showing 34 Larry, I'll take it.
01-19-2018, 09:40 AM
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01-19-2018, 10:07 AM
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The company I work for used to have a group that did allot of oil rig control projects. So we had people from India and Africa come here and stay for a while. India cause they are the ones that want to work there.
You could tell when one of them wood come into town and get a car by the way they drove. They wood go 15mph or maybe 20 on all roads, then get to an intersection and do 90mph across it. Then start back to 15mph. I asked a guy one time why is that. They all do it.
He says, in nigeria, the streets are covered with crap from broken down cars (run out of gas and leave it) to, no ****, dead bodies. (Nobody has any money and, if you touch or say you know who lying there dead, its your responsibility to pay to have then buried). So you have to weave thru the streets making sure you don't hit anything. At intersections, it's a free for all. So you have to get thru as fast as possible so nobody hits you. Then as soon as you into another street, you have to dodge obstacles again.
You could tell when one of them wood come into town and get a car by the way they drove. They wood go 15mph or maybe 20 on all roads, then get to an intersection and do 90mph across it. Then start back to 15mph. I asked a guy one time why is that. They all do it.
He says, in nigeria, the streets are covered with crap from broken down cars (run out of gas and leave it) to, no ****, dead bodies. (Nobody has any money and, if you touch or say you know who lying there dead, its your responsibility to pay to have then buried). So you have to weave thru the streets making sure you don't hit anything. At intersections, it's a free for all. So you have to get thru as fast as possible so nobody hits you. Then as soon as you into another street, you have to dodge obstacles again.
01-19-2018, 10:47 AM
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Been 4 or 5 years since I rode in Milwaukee, but I didn't think it was near as bad as Minneapolis. I don't like driving in any city.
01-19-2018, 11:00 AM
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So much for a lunchtime kub adventure. Wind picked up the last few minutes. No bueno when you have to work at keeping the bike upright
01-19-2018, 11:10 AM
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01-19-2018, 11:22 AM
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I was there a couple years back when me and my friend rode over to the lake and took the ferry across headed to the HD museum. My friend was born and raised in the little town I live in now. Member of a local MC. ( Big Bad Biker) We are riding around downtown looking for a motel and we stopped at a light. He looked over at me and said "We gotta get the F out of here. We were 15 miles or so out of town before he felt safe enough to stop for the night. LOL
I do a lot of business there too. In the city it's about the same as Milwaukee. It's the highway that I don't like. It's curvy and everyone is going 80 MPH. If you don't know well ahead of time what lane to be in you're screwed.
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