I always have sympathy for these folks. When I was little, riding on the back of my dad's Yamaha, I burned my leg on the exhaust because he never explained that the chrome gets crazy hot.
Never assume people know.
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had a Honda 3 wheeler(same one that was in James bond) and absolutely burned the fuck out of my calf.
that was the last time mom let me ride it. still got a couple more rides out of it before she made dad sell it.
She did you a favour, those Honda trikes killed a lot of kids.
oh I know. they were fun as hell though, especially when you got it up on two wheels.
Similar here. I was like 10-11yo and another kid brought over a little 50cc bike. We weren't even doing anything "stupid" with it, and somehow I had a burn on my calf about the size of my palm that took a relatively long time to heal. The skin there was a different color for years afterward.
And, that was so long ago, and I've interacted with bike so little since then, I still couldn't tell you which bits get hot, just that some do so be careful.
My best friend in elementary school rode dirt bikes with his dad and bother. The first day we met he showed me a nasty scar he got from the exhaust pipe on his bike.
Burned my leg on my dad’s Honda. He picked me up from school and I happened to be wearing shorts.
I still have a piece of my eyebrow missing from when I had a little four wheeler at like 5 years old. I somehow managed to find myself under the thing while riding.
A while after I was washing it and shoved the garden hose in the exhaust, and that was the end of it
I mean, neither of them are wearing appropriate footwear for riding. If a melted shoe is the worst that happened, I'd say they got lucky.
Yeah looks like they're not familiar with the human crayon.
the human crayon
Holy shit. I've never heard that one before. Way to paint a picture 😲 (or crayon one, I guess)
Yesterday I saw a guy riding on the interstate doing 80+ mph shirtless while lane splitting. I was amazed.
JFC. Hopefully she didn't get burned lol.
Melting?
Cannonball damage actually.
The exhaust pipes are incredibly hot.
Keep your kinks to yourself
Yeah, the pillion passenger has their foot on the foot peg now, but it's previously been on the exhaust -- presumably until they felt the heat as it got a few millimeters from the sole of their foot after melting through the shoe.
If the pillion foot pegs weren't folded out when they started, and they've not been on the back of a motorcycle before, it might not have been obvious where to put their feet.
Oh okay, I see what happened. Thanks for pointing that out.
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Big footrest go psssst.
Oh she gonna be pissed at him…..
The muffler with melted plastic all over it will be the more expensive problem. Every time he goes for a ride it's gonna smell like cheap burnt shoe.
I'd think it'll burn off pretty quick.
Pretty damn close to burning her actual foot and being a much more expensive problem
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Ooh that smell, can't you smell that smell
passenger foot rest: am i a joke to you?
Was it explained to the passenger which bits are the correct footrest?
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That's exactly what a muffler would say.
Assuming it's there and intact
Clean it up a little around the edges and it’s actually pretty cool looking new footwear
The peak of that arch is probably paper thin now though. It'd be like wearing two half-shoes on one foot.
i use arch linux btw
an arch is a very strong shape, maybe it can support them for a while
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That's why they have those little footrests.
Lmao. Well now she knows
Whats that smell?
Parmesan. Same as the stuff from behind your ears. Unless you mean the shoe. Then burnt shoe.
Soon "ouch".
There's no way they wouldn't have noticed the burning. Right?
Ig the road monster was hungry
Might want a heat shield on there.
When your boyfriend is a fucking idiot, and you are too
Looks like a Honda Navi. The passengers legs are probably too long to comfortably rest on the pillion foot pegs.
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