What makes biking fun?

[GearboxGeezer]

Today I have just come back from probly the most fun rides of my short riding life! weas out for 4+ hours and would of stayed out more if it wasnt for my muscles feeling like they had been jabbed with a knife...

I went from filtering threw all the doughnuts, which I find rather fun for some reason... To riding threw country roads.... To racing round these 2 round-a-bouts, You may know of these round-a-bouts, there under an A road and right next to stockley business park. One of them is a massive bugger and the others a small one.
Pretty safe to race to them as you can see all entrances to these round-a-bouts rather clearly. I was trying to get my knee down but could

Anyway, I was just wondering, What makes biking fun for you guys? Riding like a lunatic? Mantaining you bike? ect

[muddycoffee]

Hey Geezer,
nice to hear you've had a nice ride, but I don't recognise any of these places..
1) doughnuts 2) round-a-bouts 3) stockley business park

where do you live?

The things which I really like about motorcycling are,
1) Comaraderie between bikers
2) seeing a long road with no traffic stretching out in front for 4 miles meaning I can open it up to silly speed.
3) smooth wide bends which can be taken quite fast
4) the sound of a roaring engine under me while I feel plenty of acceleration on tap
5) leaving cars miles behind
7) having good riding gear to wear which adds to my confidence
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[GearboxGeezer]

If that was an attempt to take the piss out of my spelling, Im not impressed.



I live in Middlesex

[phantomtek]

Just the general feeling that you get from being on a bike, the freedom, the ability to go wherever you want off your own steam. The fact that no matter how good you get, you can always get better, and never be bored. The possibilities are endless.

And the fact that once you buy a bike, you don't just get a bike, you join a family

[EuropeanNC30R...]

Stockley's by Heathrow. TBH I find it quite tricky getting more than a brief touch down on there, and that drain cover does my nut in!

[GearboxGeezer]

If that was an attempt to take the piss out of my spelling, Im not impressed.



I live in Middlesex

[muddycoffee]

[GearboxGeezer]

I mean the doughnuts driving that cars...

[Rookie]

Since he was filtering through them, I think he was just referring to the suckers stuck in queues.

I like the adrenalin rush you get which can only presumably be found from flying a jet, or skydiving, or bungee jumping, or various other silly sports. Biking just happens to be the most accessible, and probably the cheapest, to maintain as a hobby.

That and filtering through doughnuts.

[muddycoffee]

[Vespa]

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[McGee]

The feeling of being free.
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Its pronounced Jixxer!

[Sparks!]

Wheelies.
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[McGee]

Stopies.
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Its pronounced Jixxer!

[Raffles_Gentleman Thug]

Putting the gixxer 6 in 2nd gear, whacking the throttle open, pulling and letting go of the clutch so the engine sounds like a screaming demon and fires me off toward the horizon at stupid mph.

The fact that only 1 in 20 people really knows what biking's about.

That spmetimes I go so fast that most people wouldn't believe me, and those that do would tell me im an idiot.

The fact that whenever I turn up somewhere on the bike people always look at me.

That I take my life into my own hands and am living purely by my own skill and knowledge.

The rush that I have yet to beat.

That I hang about with a bunch of skydivers who say that I am a crazy bastard and they couldn't do what I do.

Putting on my gloves, lid, leathers, boots and stuff, feeling like this next ride could be the best of my life.

Getting off at the end of a good ride, and seeing that the chicken strips are smaller than ever.

That I have a friend who's an advanced police persuit driver who thought bikes were slow and asked me to show him how fast we really go and got off shaking but smiling.
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[GearboxGeezer]

Maurice, Is that true? Just that someone told me thats like the best place, Didn't seem much grip there but it had only dried out a couple of hours before a downpoor of rain.

Lol, yea, I call them doughnuts, When I first heard people calling them cagers I was wondering wtf they was on about

"Stupid cager nearly knocked me off"
"I racing them cagers"

See what I mean? lol

[gimpy limp]

1. the cost compared to cars

2. the cost compared to cars

3. You can sit down on a chair to do the majority of the maintance on my bike (as opposed to leaning over a car engine bay or underneath it on the gravel)
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[muddycoffee]

[kawashima]

Cruising long straight with no trafic/no signal listening engine sound.

[Teaman]

we can be pennyless but still find enough cash for a tank full:)
riding bikes and being a biker are two different things,,,
bikes for me are just away of life,, i dont care what the weathers like,, i just wanna ride my bike,,,, see attatched pics ,, loved 99% of it today appart from slipping big time on some oil,petrol, diesel left behind from what looks like a crash on snake pass..
kept it together but ended up pulling over and havin acig,,,

god bikings great,,,,
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[Jasoon]

Biking's just a decent excuse for me to wear leather. Mmmm, leather...

[Rookie]

Teaman that is a quality pic, they/you look well and truly pissed off.

[Teaman]

so would you if you had a car up your arse all the way from glossop in the fog , i couldnt see shit,, visor was wet inside and out. the summit was the clearest bit, visibility comming up to that point (a couple of rather dodgy bends then a straight into a right hander where loads of people crash so they moved the signs to stop people hitting them)
i couldnt see the signs,,
my brain was working overtime concentrating on the road.
snakes scary on a perfect day,, try it in the fog, you will understand the look
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Someone stupid does not realise they r stupid.stupidity is indistinguishable from malice U just have to accept that some people are thick as p1gsh1t and work around them.

[Reevo8]

Wheelies.

Knee down.

And accelleration on a 600cc sportsbike.
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[Irezumi aka Reuben]

I think it's possibly what Teaman inadvertently hit on.

For me oddly it's the level of concentration that is required to keep yourself alive in a way. It is a bit like encompassing all the high's and lows of a primitive lifestyle in a modern world. Whilst your going along everythings fine, but one trip and it can all quickly end. Knowing that the environment directly affects me. The wind will affect me depending on it's strength and direction for example. As will all the elements in their own way.

Emphasising the primitive side of life in way.
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