Spotted: Brad Pitt cruises LA streets
Movie megastar spied out on the road on his custom-built two-wheeler
HOLLYWOOD HEART THROB Brad Pitt has been spotted by a sharp-eyed snapper taking his custom-built motorcycle for a spin around LA.
The 45-year-old actor has just released a new film 'Inglourious Basterds' made in conjunction with Pitt's friend and movie director, Quentin Tarantino.
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What a big tugger! You can always tell a " real " motorcylist from a poseur by the manner in which they dress and protect themselves. An errant car tipping him off and a smack and slide down the road would mean that Brad boy wouldn't be bending his elbow to sup up a pint anytime soon. Still, at least he had gloves on ... Here in Oz, on Queensland's Gold Coast, we have just seen the shallow prats that inhabit the media breathlessly following Pink around on her Triumph. Several pics of the Pop princess were published - all of them without her wearing any gloves and an open face helmet that just might have properly fitted a conehead. I would like to see her trying to hold and croon into a microphone with road-sanded knuckles and no muscle or tendon tissue on her palms ... All this in a newspaper that is constantly whinging about motorcycle injury and death statistics. Their hypocrisy is sickening. Apparently Pink's husband is some sort of Motocross star - one would think he would know better than to set her loose like that. They just don't seem to get it, do they ?
Posted: 23/06/2009 at 05:37
Welcome to the forum Hey You.  Have a chat with my mate FJS about 'risk compensation'  , Brad might not be as poorly protected as you think... With all his cash you'd think he'd have a decent ride, though. That heap wouldn't get to share a garage with my bikes  . How much do you recon they ripped him off for that bobber/rat bike? Pink and Carey Hart got divorced last year dude- but I don't think she's the type to take a telling, even if she was still with him.
Posted: 23/06/2009 at 23:00
Hi, Flo Whaddaya know? Pink's bloke was here with her on the QLD Gold Coast. I don't know much about Pop culture any more - being very old, half-demented and disinterested these days - BUT - there were numerous pics of them together and he was always described in captions etc as her " free-style motocross star " husband, Carey Hart. Apparently, he brought his wee circus here to perform but didn't do so at the venue here as it rained and he deemed it unsafe - apparently already having broken 3 zillion bones previously ... So, you piqued my curiosity here because, as my friends and family will tell you, I am pedantic beyond belief and never wrong about anything. I found they did not " divorce " as you say - rather, they did " separate " last year but have re-united and are still and remain man and wife, OK? As for " risk compensation " - I don't know anything about that. My point was: if handsome Brad had any significant fall and his elbow(s) made contact - as either an impact or slide on the tarseal - he wouldn't be bending it ( them ) for a while as they were totally unprotected. I have personal experience here. Back in 940 BC I was a high school boy on the back of a mate's motorcycle going to play tennis. I Had an armful of racquets and a box of tennis balls down my shirt. No helmet, no gloves, shirt, shorts and trainers. Rider tips right into a side street down to the courts - silly, blind old tart in car coming out tries to ram us - rider straightens-up, brakes hard and and then tips in again. Pillion turfed off the back and gets caught in rear numberplate and dragged along road some way B4 disengaging. Result: bad, deeply scraped and septic knees and elbows for bloody weeks. Worse: 4 x L-shaped black/blue bruises and dents in chest from corners of the ball box. Again, weeks to repair and recover. Abruptly turned into a largely immobilised Ronnie The Robot. Fair enough? As to handsome Brad's bike - yeah, totally agree - remarked to my wife, it looks as if some woodwork apprentice made it from various abandoned, rusty bits found at the local Council Ribbish Tip. Gruesome. CU.
Posted: 24/06/2009 at 02:04
By my eyeball calculation of picture #1, the distance from top of front tire to the bottom of the lower triple clamp is less than the amount of travel left in the front forks. Bottom out that front end at your own risk, pretty boy.
Posted: 24/06/2009 at 02:08
Don't know the first thing about Pink so I Googled her and got this reincarnation of Jade Goody..
Posted: 24/06/2009 at 06:51
Don't know the first thing about Pink so I Googled her
and got his reincarnation of Jade Goody..
 that's a frightening thought stick.
Posted: 24/06/2009 at 07:17
Sorry to duplicate my post earlier. Here's pics of Pink & hubby, Carey Hart on the Gold Coast in Queensland last week. And Pink up Mt Tamborine ( yes, I know - but that's the way the Aussies spell it ! ) on a Trumpy sans gloves. I promise never to write about any form of " celebrity bikers " ever again... CU.
Posted: 24/06/2009 at 10:07
I stand corrected and bow to your wisdom, sir. Looks like her latest album was a bit of a waste of (air) time, though? Think it was all about publicity? Or has singing her dirty laundry out in public helped her square her head away? Celebs.... Your tennis ditty brought tears to my eyes, mate. (Sympathetic ones, before some cnut says otherwise). How old were you? I'm guessing it didn't put you off riding, so what are you on these days? I guess some explanation might be in order. Risk compensation is a hobby horse of one of the regular posters, basically going for the 'weak swimmer never drowns' line of reasoning. A biker in a vest, lacking gloves or a full face lid, will probably take more care than one in full leathers and an RX7. I wasn't trying to flame you, the lil' devil was there to take any sting out of the one liner. The quip about hi vis and drls was more of the same... Thanks for the phot, I definately prefer Pinks ride to Brads s*itter .
Posted: 24/06/2009 at 22:35
Hello again to both " artschool " and my good correspondence buddy, " Flo " ... To the former: yes, here in Oz we have had " lights-on " hard-wired into motorcycles for some, ohhhh, 12-15 years now. It doesn't appear to have made much of an impact on myopic car, van & truck drivers that continue to " fail to see " motorcyclists though. You know the old story, artschool - as you jump up off the deck, projectile-oozing adrenaline - completely ignoring your broken leg and grab the offender by the throat and commence giving them a good spanking - they always say, " Sorry, mate - I didn't see you ". To which you ALWAYS must reply, as you punch them again, " That's because you didn't f*#%ing look !" ... Honestly, at times what chance have you got? A good friend of mine coming to meet us Sunday morning. Beautiful Qld day, sunny, warm, clear @ 08:30 hrs. 60 kph zone, witnesses tell Police he wasn't speeding etc etc.. Ex-A grade road racer, immaculate Triumph Sprint RS, all the gear - bright helmet and hi-viz fabric jacket etc. Some vacuous 24 year-old female late for Church ( how very Christian - can you believe it ? ) runs straight through a Give Way sign at speed and creams him. Don't believe he would have even seen her coming at him. Dead as a Dodo. For carelessly killing someone she got a A$1000 fine and 6 x months disqualification. Just 5 weeks later, kid on a Fireblade gets caught doing 170+ kph ( approx 106-110 mph ) on a section of Motorway that had a 100 kph rather than often 110 kph limit. He got exactly the same. Equal justice for us as a marginalised group ? Don't be naive and silly... Flo: Went to NZ from Wiltshire when 6. Grew up there always loved bikes hopelessly. Got license at 15. Bought two brand new Nortons - Dommie 99 and a then a 650 SS. Went production racing on the SS and also raced a highly modded Yam 250cc stroker with expansion chambers etc. Also later had several Hondas. Married, called-up, Viet Nam vintage Infantry WO2. Worked for Auckland, NZ Company that started WSBK in 1987 ( hardly anyone knows this history ) moved to Oz in 1992. Currently punt a lightly modded 1200cc Kawasaki and frighten old ladies up in the Ranges here with several other highly experienced ex-racer old boys like me that ride anything from 09 Gixxer Thous to Blackbirds and modded ' Busas. Fanatical about being kitted-out properly and not doing anything truly stupid - just gives as a bad name. Firm believer in " stealthily " getting a wriggle on where safe to do so. Speed doesn't kill - inappropriate speed dies. Lots ! Riding here is fabulous but the Laws are draconian, Courts unsympathetic & the State govt and Qld Police ALWAYS paint bikers in the worst possible light and even when some poor bugger gets zapped and later proven to be blameless - it is a knee-jerk reaction for the Coppers to blame the biker and always say speed was a factor. We are sick of it all and the media doesn't help. It has all degenerated to up to 9 Police cars, several bikes and Laser speed guns in the bushes in the middle of nowhere - wherever bikes go in week-ends. There is now an " undeclared " War going on between motorcyclists and the Police here which is ridiculous and a product of Politicians and Bureaucrats wringing their Nanny State hands and blaming EVERYTHING on the demon speed - even when it demonstrably is not. Sad Thought you were one of my buddies pulling my chain as my initials are FJS. Incidentally, the guy that tipped me off the back went on to become a multi-multi millionaire and remains a really beaut bloke. CU
Posted: 25/06/2009 at 01:46
Two FJS's? Lodonmuns gonna love that  . Sorry to hear about your mate. What to say? Life's p*sh, sometimes. Speed's a hot potato over here too, but different forces have different approaches. We're not quite as victimised as Oz or Yank bikers yet. Luckily the b*stard gvt. keep passing new, s*ite, unnecessary laws to keep our new numbers at a minimum. Cnuts. I'm with you on the stealth front. Standard pipes, 'sensible' riding gear and an old mans bike kept my licence clean for years . Click this link, you'll lol.
Posted: 25/06/2009 at 23:43
Hey...umm...Hey You. Bananabender eh? I am down in NE NSW near Grafton, I will be up your way in August, me and a mate (my missus calls it our gay holiday) head up to www.turkeysnest.com for a few days and terrorise the Sunshine Coast hinterland. Good to see another complaining Aussie here. I called myself 'Trumpydaz' cos I am Darren and I have an 06 Trip. This lot rekkins I've named myself after a vagina or summat? Another Brad Pitt hater! Whats he done to you anyhow?
Posted: 04/07/2009 at 07:28
This lot rekkins I've named myself after a vagina or summat?
thats the first time i heard a vagina called that!!! must go and test it on the missus, if i get a slap it means its a good name.
"hows your trumpy this morning?"
Posted: 04/07/2009 at 09:16
Yes, odd. Check it out at 'Convict Newbie' thread. Or they are plain old chain yanking. I once explained to my missus that I could call her a faggot. She didnt believe me thinking it was only for homosexuals but oh no, I showed it could be a contemptous name for a woman or child. It's great fun reading the dictionary all day.
Posted: 04/07/2009 at 10:35
By my eyeball calculation of picture #1, the distance from top of front tire to the bottom of the lower triple clamp is less than the amount of travel left in the front forks. Bottom out that front end at your own risk, pretty boy.
But the rd's are probably billiard board smooth so wont matter, not like the shite we have.
Posted: 04/07/2009 at 12:42
You can always tell a " real " motorcylist from a poseur by the manner in which they dress and protect themselves. An errant car tipping him off and a smack and slide down the road would mean that Brad boy wouldn't be bending his elbow to sup up a pint anytime soon. Still, at least he had gloves on ... Do you really think that Brad would suffer such great injury if he fell of his motorcycle at 'round town' speeds? What happens to cyclists? What do you think about our European cousins police 'uniform'?
Posted: 05/07/2009 at 08:45
here in Oz we have had " lights-on " hard-wired into motorcycles for some, ohhhh, 12-15 years now. It doesn't appear to have made much of an impact on myopic car, van & truck drivers that continue to " fail to see " motorcyclists though. You know the old story, artschool - as you jump up off the deck, projectile-oozing adrenaline - completely ignoring your broken leg and grab the offender by the throat and commence giving them a good spanking - they always say, " Sorry, mate - I didn't see you ".
Doesn't surprise me at all. I'd love to see accident stats figures from before and after the introduction of compulsory DRL over there. In Austria (not a typo!) when they brought it in for all vehicles the numbers of pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists killed and injured rose so much, so fast they hurriedly repealed the law.
Posted: 05/07/2009 at 08:50
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