Villanised because your a biker?

[-Savage-]

Ok, not too sure how to get this from my head to the post, but il try.

Do any of you find yourself being villanised for being a biker?

Things such as Girlfriends not letting her parents know you have a bike, or not letting them know you take the girl on the back because the rents wouldnt agree.

being watched in shops as you squeek around (perhaps in case you put some stuff in your lid)

the whole petrol pump fiasco

people giving you a very wide birth and staring at you when you walk anywhere with your lid on,

people automatically thinkng your a power ranger doing 120mph wheelies down the street while kids, puppies, pensioners and the disabled dive out of the way for their lives.

having people say ohh i dont like bikes, they cut me up and speed everywhere

people saying youd never catch me on a bike, bloody dangerous things, anyone who rides one must be thick

people who ask me if il ride again after my crash, i say of course i will, people retort with "your not wise, you had a luck escape last time"

feeling like you cant use a car park space incase a car driver tries to move your bike (happened me)


etc
etc
etc ad nausium

sorry rant over
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[pwntifex]

Generally not. Pretty bikey round here.
Parents are intolerant of bikes though and tend to blank out whenever references are made to them or the fact that I ride.
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[PIEMON]

''Things such as Girlfriends not letting her parents know you have a bike, or not letting them know you take the girl on the back because the rents wouldnt agree.''


so true! i have to agree with everything you put.
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[Reppyboyo]

[bazza]

[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

[craigs23]

We're villans now?

Just normal biker life, never had any negative thoughts about it.

I'm glad I don't dress like a Power Ranger mind.

[Essex_Mike]

I can agree with some of that, my girlfriends parents tried avin a go at me incase i was taking her on the back of my bike and i aint even allowed to have pillions yet anyway coz of my L plates lol. (twats)

Putting shopping in your helmet? well ive always done that, its not stealing until its outa the shop.

My mates always say stupid remarks about having a bike, laughing about knocking bikers off of em as a joke. But they know now if they did do something to a biker which was unprovoked then they wouldn't have a car left
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[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

My ex's mum was terrible for saying that I was going to die on a bike, then again she also said i shouldn't use certain T-junctions because they were blind etc.

I was just like errrr yeah, ok.

Then went and used them with her daughter in the car out of pure spite, it's just unneccessary IMO.
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[jackw72]

you actually listen to peoples opinions on bikes and bikers?

tis a bit wierd actually the opinions i have heard are strange they dont have much of a social pattern to them.

different opinions within the same socioeconomic group (yeah i just made a word up) funny...
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[bazza]

[Pte1643]

[stinkwheel]

When I get comments, I usually say something along the lines of "Do you say the same thing to people who take their 13 year old daughters horse riding?"

When they answer in the negative I follow with. "Did you know you are 20 times more likely to have a serious accident while riding a horse?"
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[chris-red]

Near enough everyone that says they are dangerous never catch me on one etc. Have never been on one so they are missing out really.
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[Richard Green]

In short NO


But then again being 6ft 2 and being built like a brick shit house might help

[numpty]

I agree with the majority of the points there, however I dont see the ''her parents dont want her to go on the back'' point as victimisation. To me that just means that they care about her safety. Bikes are inherantly more dangerous than cars and nearly everybody knows that.
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[MarkJ]

I always put shopping in my lid if I'm carrying it. It never fails to make the shopping attendant laugh for some reason

I can't remember the last time someone moaned about the bike to me (bar the parents), but when they do they're getting the horse riding statistic

[Pte1643]

[TheShaggyDA]

[Essex_Mike]

[Mister James]

It's not even a matter of trust in my opinion. My friends and family trust me for the most part, but I still ended up spreading myself across the tarmac in a very unpleasant crash. Bikes are intrinsically more dangerous than cars as a form of transport - it's perfectly fair for people to take that into consideration.

On topic - I'm too busy worrying about being victimised for being a straight white male to waste time on whether people like me riding a bike!
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[matt_uk]

I often get stares when lining up to pay for petrol with my helmet still on.

Have even had a weird mention how nice my " hat " was when i was lining up.
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