What's wrong with weekend warriors?

[Crazy Assed Goose]

(Alliteration accidental, and again)

People go on as if they are some horrible bane on bikes, but most people fit into the category ie only ride the bike on sunny weekends and like to ride quickly.

How is it better to ride a bike quickly all week or what? I just don't like the phrase that implies people who only come out on the weekend are worse then people on them all week, explain?

There are enough knobs who ride all week, and decent riders who ride only at the weekend to make them not just odd examples but cases to show that 'weekend warriors' is just a phrase used by dickheads.

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[Darth]

Sounds like someone is a bit of a weekend warrior but has a chip on their shoulder about it
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[tvchimp]

I believe the difference is that those who ride quickly all week know in and out (to an extent) what their bike will do, and will notice if they are going to an accident due to losing control of their bike.

Those who only ride at weekends, are usually those who just buy a 1000cc superbike to show off with their mates and don't realise when their skill has ran out which causes accidents. Weekend warrior's are normally out to prove that their bike is better than everyone elses, when infact it isn't. I know of a few people that would out ride a weekend warrior on a 1000cc gsxr when they would be riding a 400cc cbr/vfr. It's skill. Weekend warrior's don't have any.


If you do something day-in-day-out, you're 1000x less likely to have an accident doing it, than if you do the same thing a few times a month.
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[Villers]

Most likely that some people feel that commuting all weathers makes them the superior be all and end all of bikes. There is a common misconception that they cant ride and only do it to pose on their bikes. Bear in mind the weekend only brigade often gave much nicer bikes that havent seen salty winters. We were out with a weekend warrior two weeks ago who only rides a few times a month but being a competing TT racer he ran rings round the lot of us on an RSV4!

Enjoy your riding whatever, dont let the small minded elitists allow their self employed elitism get to you. Just wait for the 'I took my bike to work in the snow' this year and see how few that do it have a nice bike, except G that is!!
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[colin1]

Not all bikers are created equal, some are more equal than others.

Some like to look down on scooter riders, or harley riders, or whatever.

Generalisations about other types of rider may be true in most cases but not all.

The exception to that generalisation, is that Harley riders really are all dickheads more interested in posing than having a decent bike.
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[bEN_]

The only weekend warriors that piss me off are the people who love to nail it in a straight line then hold you up on a decent corner wobbling around it, there was a guy on a desmosedici who did this to me the other week. nob.
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[neil.]

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[iooi]

Its not about riding quickly thats the problem.

Its about how many actually get home after their trips

More bike accidents will be at weekends on the common biking routes, which tend to be used by these riders more than your usual commuter riders.
One reason why the police blitz on a weekend when there are higher number's of faster riders about.
Sadly too many of these only ride on a weekend and have not gained the nouse to realise where and when the police will be targeting.
Many may be very good riders, but they forget just what their bikes can and can't do after a while riding in their cosseted armchairs.
Clearly shown by the number that fall foul of drystone walls or on narrow roads something coming the other way

You see a lot of these when in the car over summer. Mainly in packs, overtaking on double white lines and round bends when its clear you can't see.
Very rarely see this during the week, or in the non dry weekends.
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[Hetzer]

I've ridden bikes through every kind of weather going, including blizzards (UK spec back in the 70s and 80s) and even a typhoon (in Japan).

However, when I bought my last two bikes (both Blades, a 98 RRW and a 07 RR) I didn't buy them for the masochistic pleasure of riding them in shite weather. They were toys, for dry sunny days so I could go nice and fast around corners without becoming a statistic. Sure, some BABs spend loads of money on a sharp tool, never intending to to anything more than clean their fingernails with it. So what? Their pleasure = somebody elses pain? I think not. Some people may think it's a waste of a good bike. A slow-lane BAB may think it's a waste of one when it goes under a truck trying to take a 100mph corner at 120.
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[multijoy]

Wish I could only worry at the weekend. I'm a bit of an all-week worrier
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[Crazy Assed Goose]

Ok I spelled warrior wrong.

I am not a weekend rider, I am 18 and ride an NC30 and don't have a car on the road at the moment or for the next 4 years while at uni.

I do go out on weekends though, and ride only in nice weather if I can help it. I won't go out for a 3 hours ride for fun in torrential rain.

A lot of people I know though do only ride at weekends usually because they have a company vehicle that they use or need, van or something, and only have the bike for fun.

[bEN_]

Usually the only riders who big them selves up for 'riding all year' and tend to laugh at the fair weather riders are only doing so because

A.) they don't have a car license
B.) they dont have a car
C.) they cant drive.
D.) all of the above + they want to act 'ard'


for me it's not a choice, i had to sell my car when i lost my job, i fucking hate getting the bike out 5:30am every morning whatever the weather then having the worlds dullest ride on the M1 to work so if i had the choice it would be the car every day besides the few really nice mornings we get.
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[MarJay]

[the grim reaper]

Oh God, not again!

Take a look around, everyone is different, we ride bikes for different reasons and to make a sweeping generalisation is complete horseshit. I've known weekend only riders who were very quick and totally in control and I have known year round commuters who were suicidal maniacs.

Just for the record, I ride all year round because I can't afford a bike and a car, so I choose bike. I have licenses for both and would have both if it was a possibility, I don't think I am 'ard' for doing so, it's purely my choice.

Instead of judging others for their choices, why don't you worry more about yourself? Looking down on others because of their bike choice, be it Harley, Honda or Hyosung makes you a prick of the highest order, IMO. That is far more of a daming indictment than your arrogant attitude.

Live and let live, one more biker on the road is one less car, so rejoice in that and stop judging others because they aren't exactly the same as you.

Cheers

Grim
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[Hetzer]

[Crazy Assed Goose]

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[colin1]

[Marmalade]

I'd rather some of them did get in a car instead of on a bike, get loads of em round here in the summer and sit in the traffic in the gaps blocking the way for anyone who will actually filter, pisses me off and just want to shout get the fuck out of the way
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[L4Isoside]

I dont have a huge "problem" with "weekend warriors" except they usually bring the police activity with them, so (like today) i choose not to go out as much when they are. I think of them as the type of people who only go out at the easiest/ busiest times, e.g. Sunday afternoons when the weather is good, compared to say Wednesday afternoon when nobody/little police are about.

I suppose they not only go out then because of the nice weather, but I also assume due to work / commitments a Sunday afternoon is the easiest time.