tall tales

[colin1]

I went to the train station to catch a train, and got chatting to someone who is also into bikes.

Now maybe this guy was telling the truth, or maybe he was setting out to impress at any costs.

I'm guessing the latter but maybe I'm a suspicious bastard..

He works as a bike mechanic on track bikes and race bikes. If a racer is injured, he will take the bike out in the race and compete as an amateur so the sponsors still have a bike go out with their logos on. He gets better lap times than the owners of race spec bikes who use them for track days (this could be true if they dont do many trackdays). Because he makes loads of money, he also has a mitsubishi evo that has 600bhp. He then showed me pics of what looked like crash thread pics. Nice car looking shiny followed by pics of it in a ditch upside down.

He was interesting to listen to, and I was pleasant and polite, but the whole time I was gently trying to steer the conversation towards trying to catch him out.

I think the most likely howler, was that he has a car, but no car license, and when the police have stopped him, he just shows them the bike license and they never check the back. Except on one occasion, when he had to bribe the copper with £1000 that he always carries on him just in case he wants to buy something. His argument being that points on a DVLA license could affect his race license.

Lewis Hamilton never had a problem with his race license after doing doughnuts or whatever, so I'm thinking this is testable lie.

So can anyone tell me for sure, that if someone has a race license, it wouldnt be affected by points on a dvla license ?

Apparently, he needs the race license for testing and setting up bikes for trackdays. I'm going to forget he mentioned doing work for british superbikes, as he could just be exaggerating that bit, and he may actually do race prep for track bikes. He mentioned going out to Spain to do race prep for bikes for track days and being well paid. I know this sort of thing exists from wave's thread a while back about going out to Spain to do trackdays as a way of being sure of good weather. So at the very least, this guy knows a bit about what he's talking about.

He did tell me the name of the company he claims to run, but I forget it. Something "audit" I think, which sounded a bit unusual based in Leicester.

I dont know enough about race prep stuff to catch him out other than this thing on race license being affected by road points, which seems unlikely to me.

Anyone else been told any tall tales that seemed like lies that turned out to be true, or tall tales that sounded like lies because they were actually lies, but sounded plausible at the time ?

Anyone here want to mention when they found themself turning from exaggeration to made up bullshit to try to make a story sound impressive ?

EDIT : on reflection I think maybe he gave himself away at the start.

His opening line was, is that your DT ? I had arrived on a tt250R, which is a 4 stroke with a hole in the exhaust so couldnt really be mistaken for a 2 stroke.

so he must be faker, surely
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[Hetzer]

Why do you care? Are you thinking about dating him?
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[colin1]

no, just wondering if I could know whether it was all lies, or vaguely possible.

I think I've probably answered it though with remembering what he said at the start, thinking a 4 stroke bike was a 2 stroke bike. Bit unlikely for a mechanic.

I think the tall tales thing is still an interesting area though. This guy was spinning more and more stuff over about half an hour.

I think it's an interesting thing when people do that.
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[Moonie]

I've done BSB work, it's not that hard to get into.

Still reckon he's full of shit though.
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[mad4it028]

i wouldnt care if hes lieing or not if hes happy to live in his fantasy world fair play to him wasnt warped was it?
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[TheDonUK]

I had similar at the ace before the brighton burnup.

Waiting around with a few mates for two more after the main ride had left, bloke comes up to us after overhearing me say what a tasty 750 some guy going past had.

His opener was something along the lines of "Nah they are rubbish, get yourself a GSXR-1000", so immediately my bullshitdar went off.

Along the lines of what you were saying colin, one of my first replies to him after he finished his monologue was "Wheres your bike? not riding today?", replied with something about being paid 400 quid to be there on roadmaintence crew or something. Then regaled us about his the other week when his Gix-1000 which he wheelied over a bridge, passed a waiting bike cop, and when pulled blagged it and only got away with a ticking off about notchy head bearings....

Also stories of pissing over packs of R1's in france etc and more which i dont remember.

Now he could have been 100% truthfull. But the question remains why are you telling random strangers about it?, oh yeah he currently owns 10 bikes....

I just dont understand the need to either lie like that or push your fucking life story when you werent asked to.

Weirdos...
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[colin1]

I've just remembered another one like that.

A year ago, I did a trackday at Anglesey and there was a guy limping about the cafe with a broken foot. It turns out he was an Irish street racer (the irish equivalent of the TT).

Or maybe he was just a guy with a broken foot. Who knows.

I quite like these stories whether they or true or not makes it part of the fun, like a puzzle to figure it out.
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[neatbik]

Sounds like bullshit to me Col.

As said, spannering (or more likely gofering) for BSB isnt that hard to get into, but i very much doubt it will make you rich.

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My ACU licence is in no way connected to my road licence, I know people that ride on the track that do not have a road licence at all. You have in effect been masturbated over Colin, the guy used you to massage his fantasy ego over.
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[chris-red]

I had the same thing, the guy claimed he had worked for Rossi, was in 2 minds are to weather I believed him, was he fairly tall with light coloured hair? The MO sounds very familar? Did he talk about putting number plates on Race bikes and riding them on the road?
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