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Always run at high speed. Running at high speed makes others think that you’re a racer and a darn good rider. This is best done when you’re in town where there are lots of vehicles and pedestrians. Anyway, you’re such a good driver you can quickly avoid all the vehicles and pedestrians in case they suddenly cross.

Get rid of your side mirrors. Why would you need side mirrors when you can just turn your head left and right for a shoulder check all the time? Aerodynamically, side mirrors add drag to your speed performance. Remember that whenever you do a shoulder check, you loose visual at the road ahead of you for a while. But who cares about safety, as long as your bike looks cool right?

Use your horn, not brakes. If another vehicle or a person is about to cross your path, blow your horn like hell, and don’t slow down. This is an opportunity for you to let other people hear your newly installed horn. Beep Beep!!!! If you use the brakes, you’re a whimp!

Replace your exhaust with a loud and noisy one. If you have a loud noisy exhaust, you won’t have to use your horn. People would be so annoyed, they will surely notice you when you’re coming. Having this in mind, you can always run through intersections without slowing down.

NOTE: Having other people notice you would make you feel better… especially if you have S.A.D. (Severe Attention Deficiency)

Replace tail light with a different bright colored one. Having the old red tail light is lame. All vehicles have red tail lights, so why not be different? Why not replace them with a light blue one with intense color for example? Or why not a bright yellow color similar to your headlight? This would surely confuse other drivers whether you’re moving along or moving towards them.

Remove headlight. Heaving your headlight especially at night is a terrible idea. Those vehicles running towards you would easily notice you if you have your lights on. Remove the headlight and run like a stealth rider. Vehicles passing towards you wouldn’t see you right away therefore having 80% chance of collision.

Get between vehicles while moving. Getting between is one way to show how good you are at driving. Don’t think that those vehicles might squeeze you, you got that noisy exhaust pipe right? They’d surely hit the brakes before they might squash you. That’s because they are whimps, and you’re not!

Don’t wear a helmet. Helmets could ruin your hair style, especially if you have a styling gel on. Besides, chicks won’t see who’s driving that modified ultra-annoying motorcycle of yours.

I got this Suzuki Shogun 110 R. It’s a rare model because it was only available for a few months when a new model was released. I think my bike was the last model which doesn’t have a “u-box”. But anyway I had my bike since the year 2002. It’s still in perfect condition up to this date.

Ever since I bought my bike, I always had trouble with the tire slipping on the rim. At first I didn’t know that this would cause the tire interior tube to rupture or rip open on the valve stem. Now I know because it did happen to me a few times. I learned that I should always check my tire pressure. Having low tire pressure causes the tire to slip. Whenever I get a new inner tube replaced, I would throw away the nut to the valve stem because a LOT of people told me that having the nut in place would easily rip the tube whenever I lose pressure. So instead of the tire being able to slip freely, it would rip my inner tube…well THAT’S what they have told me so I simply listened to their advices.

Although a lot of people had told me about NOT putting the nut on, my father-in-law once told me that I should put the nut on, because that’s what those are for, to prevent the tire from slipping the rim. Now why would I listen to him? I’ll just stick to what MOST people say. I just need to REGULARLY check my tire pressure, check the angle of the valve stem, deflate, adjust, and re-inflate tire to adjust the valve if necessary to prevent the inner tube from ripping… that’s all…

Now that’s inconvenient don’t you think? Yes it is so that’s why I tried my father-in-law’s advice lately. What if I put the nut on? So i did! I placed the nut on and locked it tightly. The nuts have always been there on my valve for a few months now and my tired didn’t slip a bit from the rim and it doesn’t rupture my inner tube either. Even if I forget to check the tire pressure and have lower pressure than normal, my tire still doesn’t slip.

Summary and Conclusions

• Always provide enough tire pressure. Improper pressure would easily cause the tire to slip on the rim.
• Put the nuts tightly in the stem valve. This prevents the tire from slipping the rim even if you have lower tire pressure.

Possibility of tube rupturing on different conditions

My conclusions are only based on my experiences and I have tested and proven them with my own driving limitations only. Therefore this may not be true to other riders with different driving conditions. The following are my personal driving conditions:

• I only travel for only about 6-10 kilometers everyday going from home to work and back. I haven’t tested my conclusions on long distance travels.
• I usually ride alone on my bike. I don’t know the case if I have a passenger everyday.
• I don’t drive very fast, only about 50-60 kph max speed.
• My bike is only an underbone type. Other bikes with different specifications and performance may have different effect.