Full Version: No longer a Biker?
So, if i buy a big scooter ( like a 650 burgman for instance) do I invalidate my Biker status?
personally i think no.
i'll always make the effort to give guys on scooters the nod.
it's still two wheels after all
i'll always make the effort to give guys on scooters the nod.
it's still two wheels after all
No-but we wont speak to you if you do 
where will it all end?
where will it all end?
You'll still be a biker but it'll seem weird to know a biker on a scoot. Most of the scooterist (I'm talking about folk on modern big scoots) just seem to want them for speedy commuting. IMHO.
Okay, I know thats tarring everybody with the same brush but I would think they are the majority. Well, thats my opionion anyway. If you got the scoot, I'd maybe look at the big scoots in a different light.
Okay, I know thats tarring everybody with the same brush but I would think they are the majority. Well, thats my opionion anyway. If you got the scoot, I'd maybe look at the big scoots in a different light.
Zomb, I for one shall still speak with you 
but then I ride a Bandit 
... oh, and I'll race ya now
err... p'raps not
but then I ride a Bandit ... oh, and I'll race ya now
err... p'raps not
don't be fecking stupid its the design of bike you ride that's changed not you. Just because I sometimes use the car does that stop me being a biker? No, course it doesn't I'm just using a different form of transport that day which is more suited to the occassion. Oh and the V5 will say bicycle same as the rest of us!
Thats a bit strong mate! Fecking stupid? Me?
No i consider myself a biker whatever im riding I just wondered what other people thought.
No i consider myself a biker whatever im riding I just wondered what other people thought.
QUOTE(zombie @ April 24 2003,19:17)
Thats a bit strong mate! Fecking stupid? Me?
Zomb mate Im lost fer words, well not realy yer a man of all seasons.....
WET...definately WINDY..the SUN shines where we don't see it and yer always in stormy weather..O'H YES and
...............GINGER HARED AND PROUD OF IT............................
NEED I GO ON O'H wise one???
yes.
I dont even have a bike have not had one for 3 years but im still a biker
I ride a trike so am i not a biker then ??
had this conversation so often my head hurts from it.
being a biker is not what you ride it's more the way you live.
I ride a trike so am i not a biker then ??
had this conversation so often my head hurts from it.
being a biker is not what you ride it's more the way you live.
I am a biker at heart womble. As are you.
Its in the mind this biking lark. On the way back from the bentley meet tonite ( see my thread about total w@nkers) when i was really feeling effed off with the whole biking world i met two blokes who were at the side of the road scratching their heads. I stopped and asked them if they were ok. They were lost. They were at the avenue of remembrance ( for those who know colchester dont ask me why i was there on the way back from bentley as i always take meandering routes when i get the chance!) but i stopped anyway. they were trying to get to the oliver twist pub ( know it well) so i tried to give them directions then decided to just lead the way. They were well chuffed and offered me in for a pint or two but no luck as bea was expecting me.
these blokes were your hard core bikers in cutoffs and such with beards and everything scary but they were top blokes and really meade me feel part of the flock again.
To me THAT is biking. Being a mate to people you've never met or maybe never will meet again. Sharing a love of two wheels ( or three) and sticking at it regardless of what life chucks at you. Too many snobs and arrisholes are getting into bikes and spoiling everything if you ask me - but then does then make me a snob and an arrishole for saying it? Probably.
Basically if i nod at you or stop to help you or move my car over in traffic coz ive seen your lights in my mirror BECAUSE i was looking for them and a million other reasons then im a biker.
Its a lifestyle choice in the true sense of the words and not the poncy advert sense.
Its in the mind this biking lark. On the way back from the bentley meet tonite ( see my thread about total w@nkers) when i was really feeling effed off with the whole biking world i met two blokes who were at the side of the road scratching their heads. I stopped and asked them if they were ok. They were lost. They were at the avenue of remembrance ( for those who know colchester dont ask me why i was there on the way back from bentley as i always take meandering routes when i get the chance!) but i stopped anyway. they were trying to get to the oliver twist pub ( know it well) so i tried to give them directions then decided to just lead the way. They were well chuffed and offered me in for a pint or two but no luck as bea was expecting me.
these blokes were your hard core bikers in cutoffs and such with beards and everything scary but they were top blokes and really meade me feel part of the flock again.
To me THAT is biking. Being a mate to people you've never met or maybe never will meet again. Sharing a love of two wheels ( or three) and sticking at it regardless of what life chucks at you. Too many snobs and arrisholes are getting into bikes and spoiling everything if you ask me - but then does then make me a snob and an arrishole for saying it? Probably.
Basically if i nod at you or stop to help you or move my car over in traffic coz ive seen your lights in my mirror BECAUSE i was looking for them and a million other reasons then im a biker.
Its a lifestyle choice in the true sense of the words and not the poncy advert sense.
Wise words indeed.
Bikes have become sexy to the masses. You only have to look at all the pop videos with bikes just now. Even David Beckham wanted one for gods sake. Maybe in some ways, that's not a bad thing because once you ride a bike, if its for you, you tend to stick with them. The folk with the brand new bikes and matching leathers may wake up one day and realise what its all about. There will still be plonkers out there. Like a of of the folk who tend to ride them jet bike things (The twp stroke wet bikes. If you go down to Largs, you'll see them all the time. They've got a huge river to play in but they end up acting like eejits 12 feet from shore. :Oo:)
Its a kind of showing off. After a while you'll get fed up and look for something else and there will be more cheap bikes for the rest of us. Some will stay on a maybe find an enjoyable life of biking.
If you are a plonker to start with, buying a bike won't improve matters.
All, IMHO. :laughcont:
Bikes have become sexy to the masses. You only have to look at all the pop videos with bikes just now. Even David Beckham wanted one for gods sake. Maybe in some ways, that's not a bad thing because once you ride a bike, if its for you, you tend to stick with them. The folk with the brand new bikes and matching leathers may wake up one day and realise what its all about. There will still be plonkers out there. Like a of of the folk who tend to ride them jet bike things (The twp stroke wet bikes. If you go down to Largs, you'll see them all the time. They've got a huge river to play in but they end up acting like eejits 12 feet from shore. :Oo:)
Its a kind of showing off. After a while you'll get fed up and look for something else and there will be more cheap bikes for the rest of us. Some will stay on a maybe find an enjoyable life of biking.
If you are a plonker to start with, buying a bike won't improve matters.
All, IMHO. :laughcont:
take a look on the forum any night to get the true gist of biking. Here we all are sat at our pc's just shooting the breeze
and basically enjoying the company of like minded people.
doesn't matter if you own a bike or not, it's the way you think that counts. personally i think if zomb or anyone else wants to ride a scoot then good on em, at least you're out there doing it.
IMHO
and basically enjoying the company of like minded people.
doesn't matter if you own a bike or not, it's the way you think that counts. personally i think if zomb or anyone else wants to ride a scoot then good on em, at least you're out there doing it.
IMHO
Tis true. There have been a few plonkers on my way to and from work recently.
There was one tonight who came up behind me on the A71 just as we were approaching a 30 zone with traffic lights at a junction. I could see that the lights were just changing to red and the cars in front were slowing down, he was fixed on my back wheel determined to get past no matter what. There was just time for me to nip past the first car before entering the 30 but he decides he's coming past too and not only that he's going past me also so we're now three abreast and he has no idea how far I'm going to move over for my overtake
. Oh how I laughed when he realised that there was now barely stopping distance left for him and there was a sudden grabbing of brakes in blind panic. He pootled along just in front of me from then on :laughcont:
There was one tonight who came up behind me on the A71 just as we were approaching a 30 zone with traffic lights at a junction. I could see that the lights were just changing to red and the cars in front were slowing down, he was fixed on my back wheel determined to get past no matter what. There was just time for me to nip past the first car before entering the 30 but he decides he's coming past too and not only that he's going past me also so we're now three abreast and he has no idea how far I'm going to move over for my overtake
. Oh how I laughed when he realised that there was now barely stopping distance left for him and there was a sudden grabbing of brakes in blind panic. He pootled along just in front of me from then on :laughcont:
Ian, you have an evil streak. :laughcont: :laughcont:
QUOTE(zombie @ May 07 2003,21:43)
these blokes were your hard core bikers in cutoffs and such with beards and everything scary
In that case i must be ok then lol
I am a 3rd generation biker I wear a cut off ( tho it is leather )
up until last week i had the beard
I have tattoo's
bald head
big grin
Oh & I wear a patch,
Dont let that put you off me though ask BD & DP just how friendly my club is.
When i were a squealer thats what bikers looked like. They used to gather at the barley mo pub in tyttenhanger ( real place ) and look really ruff and tuff. Funnny things was though that they were superb blokes.
i also saw a bloke in A&E once where we had been called ( security) to hold him down (broken arm and shoulder with blood pissing from his armpit) so the docs cut slice off his cut-off! He was fighting the feckers as they tried to remove his bike colours! Leaking GS's, summer, Grisly Bob from Kimpton and throwing up outside the Rats Castle in Fleetville - it's all coming back to me now!
Happy days!
i also saw a bloke in A&E once where we had been called ( security) to hold him down (broken arm and shoulder with blood pissing from his armpit) so the docs cut slice off his cut-off! He was fighting the feckers as they tried to remove his bike colours! Leaking GS's, summer, Grisly Bob from Kimpton and throwing up outside the Rats Castle in Fleetville - it's all coming back to me now!
Happy days!
well i can now say I am a biker & a triker lol got this for my birthday
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