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G wrote: | ThatDippyTwat wrote: |
Now, I do know a couple of blokes that are just like most of us, but ride Harley's, hence the "Most part" caveat. But they built them themselves. No Glitzy bolt-on's and tat from a catalogue, they actually cut/welded/moved what they could, and farmed out the specialist stuff (Powder coating, paint etc). One is pretty old (Panhead? I know fuck all about them). They ride them. Yeah, they're cleaned, but not anally so. One bloke puts about 10K a year on his, and it's a hardtail, so fair play to him. |
That sounds even further away from my motorcycling paradigm -they've chosen expensive and not very good-handling motorcycles and spent a lot of time intentionally making them worse for the sake of looks. Then doggedly puts loads of miles on it, when a GPZ500s would probably be all-over a much nicer experience. |
Is that much different from a power ranger who buys the latest Jap race rep and wobbles round corners on an uncomfortable highly strung bike he can't ride well ? He's done it to be seen as much as to get pleasure from riding it. ____________________ Triumph Trophy Launch Edition |
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Bhud World Chat Champion
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I have no issues with bike snobs, as long as they're being snobs. Snobs are usually living their life on credit, and they've got to hold it all together in their heads somehow. Take someone who has all the hallmarks of snobbery: a new rider; has bought a super racebike of some sort, is young, is in a riding club of weekend warriors, takes a LOT of pictures, etc. Wouldn't you rather they exhibited snobbery towards your tweaked-to-suit GPZ500 or ratty 125 than actually engaged with you from a mistaken belief in their own superiority (i.e. as is typical for the sort, they believe you're the noob, and the only reason you're running an older bike is because you're poor)? I mean, imagine you own your house, etc. and you're going for a bimble on your "poor man" bike. An insurance broker in his 20s, in new race leathers with an 1100-something he uses to do his 40-mile journeys to the cafe on PCP, young child and mortgage to pay, comes up to you and starts up a conversation. It starts with his assuming you're a truck driver and ends with him asking what kind of licence you've got... Ugly. Better if he just didn't nod and fucked off from the outset. |
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G The Voice of Reason
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I think it’s great when we take the piss out of each other’s bikes, the problem comes when someone is genuinely unpleasant about someone else’s bike.
But as has been said throughout this thread, bollox to them
Oh and by the way, Power Rangers are faggots ____________________ I am the sum total of my own existence, what went before makes me who I am now! |
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Ste Not Work Safe
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Calling someone a Power Ranger is a compliment but calling some Chromoesexual is just showing how intolerant and prejudice you are!!
BCF is a safe space where such bigotry isn't welcome. |
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I proudly catagorise bikes and bikers in a Yammie Noob style, however the important thing is to remember that there's always exceptions to the rule and thus I wouldn't immediately write someone off as 'not a proper biker' or 'having a rubbish bike' just because of a surface judgement.
As for snobbery that's happend to me, it was kind of annoying when some garages would look down on my "unreliable Chinese" Sym Wolf; not just because it's sterotyping but also because it's just plain incorrect. Sym isn't Chinese and the Wolf was actually pretty reliable. ____________________ Riding: 2009 Kawasaki ER6f
Previous: Sym Wolf SB125Ni, 2008 Kawasaki ER6f
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notbike Formerly known as notabikeranymore
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One thing I quickly wanna get out the way, I reckon the only thing that separates bikers is how they ride, not what they ride. Including scooters. How much of a fanny would you look if you talked shit about scooter riders and then a honking fast scooter rider went round the outside of you in the lanes when you were gunning it?
I guess everyone has their own clique of riders they associate themselves with and call "real bikers".
For me it's people who "send it" in country lanes & are down for a few trackdays, cause that's what I like to do and that's my pace.
Anyone quicker than me I see as dangerous and anyone slower than me I see as boring but that's because of my own limits.
There are probably infinity riders faster than me who wouldn't want to ride with me because I'm slow compared to them, and infinity riders who would call me an organ donor based on how I ride, and both of those groups I could easily call "snobbish".
Side note, I half fell off the right side of my s1k tonight getting my knee down off a roundabout exit because my foot slipped, anyone want to ride with me?
Idk if my mentality is built for longevity but this is what I find fun and anything less is kind of boring, anything more is kind of dangerous, and anyone who doesn't include me or join me must be a snob. |
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Ste Not Work Safe
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Posted: 00:09 - 07 Jan 2019 Post subject: |
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You failed at a bit of roundabout kneedown but think real bikers are those who are down for trackdays?
Sir, it's time for you to retire from this biking thing before you embarrass yourself by ending up in the kitty litter . |
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Posted: 00:27 - 07 Jan 2019 Post subject: Re: Bike snobbery |
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pepperami wrote: | Hmmm? Some people disappoint me and they’re bikers?
I was talking to some people I know about bikes.
They all have large modern bikes: ie a large MV, a GSXR 750, ZX9r, A TDM 850 and I can’t remember the other two.
They spoke about power commanders, re-mapping, carbon wheels and so on.
They were okay with the fact I have a ZX6R.
However as soon as I mentioned, British, Chinese, older/vintage, or smaller cc bikes , they turned their noses up.
We all have different views of what floats our boat, but their derisory attitude towards anything not large cc exotica was appalling.
I had the same thing when I did LE-JOG, when some twat on a large Adventure bike looked down his nose at my mighty little Hyosung GT250R and made snotty comments about Chinese shit bikes being in the same place as ‘proper adventure bikes’
Does the fact that you ride an old Ariel or a R3 rather than a 750cc+ bike mean that you’re not a ‘proper biker’ ?
Personally I think that if you enjoy being on two wheels, then good for you and you are a biker of some form or other.
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Naive and ignorant, as simple as that.
You should have corrected the guy going on the rant about the gt250r and Chinese bikes by simply stating.....”but it’s Korean” ____________________ "Scooters are for men who want to ride motorcycles but prefer to feel the wind on their vaginas" |
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notbike Formerly known as notabikeranymore
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Similarly to Johnny the Fox, I have a Harley ... but also a Jap bike as well. It never ceases to surprise me the amount of people can't cope with the idea of having both.
It's even more mystifying to many of them that I bought [a succession of] Jap bikes over the year, eventually bought the Sportster, AND THEN I went out and bought another damn Jap bike
(although it was more about (a) the thrill of riding it back from Milan and (b) proving half of BCF wrong - which caused me to buy that particular bike ) ____________________ Not nearly as interesting in real life. |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 5 years, 99 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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