What's with the sprotsbike riders?

**Virago** · 10th September 2006, 12:47

Hi guys,

Help me out here. But I just don't understand you guys at all.

Who wants to ride something that sounds (and even looks) like a demented sewing machine?

Hunched over the fuel tank, with sore wrists from constantly leaning forward?

Cramp in the knees from the foetal riding position, and a sore neck from trying to see forward?

Why do you do it? Is it - dare I say it? - the image?

Is it the scrapes on your knee sliders, or the size of your chicken strips that matter the most?

Are the twin gods of HP and RPM really so important?

Does getting there as fast as possible really matter, or are you somehow lesser men for checking out the scenery on the way?

I thought motorcycling was all about the journey, but it appears that getting to the destination as fast as possible is the only acceptable option?

Above all, how can you be so arrogant as to have a different riding ethos than me?

I have no desire to offend, but after all I'm just a one-eyed crusier rider, with nothing but scorn for the posers on the sprot bikes.

I feel I should have some affinity with all fellow bikers, but it is hard to open my mind to differing views.

Help me out here - where am I going wrong?

(P/T)

**yungatart** · 10th September 2006, 12:55

Oh, Virago, you have it ALL wrong - it is to compensate for the lack of manly sized genitalia - the bigger the bike, the smaller the equipment....or so I am told. I have no personal experience to back that statement up....domestic bliss is looking decidedly dicey right now, I'd better go!

**MSTRS:Me** · 10th September 2006, 12:58

Originally Posted by yungatart

....manly sized genitalia - the bigger the bike....

Perhaps all that is reqd to ride one of these monsters is the possession of male equipment, fullstop?

oh...and ladies...having his ring on your finger does not imply possession of said equipment

**Goblin** · 10th September 2006, 13:06

Originally Posted by Virago

Help me out here - where am I going wrong?
(P/T)

You obviously have never tried riding a sprotsbike.

**Maha** · 10th September 2006, 13:07

Originally Posted by Virago

Who wants to ride something that sounds (and even looks) like a demented sewing machine?

Shouldn't include the the sound and aesthetics of your Virago in your rant...

**Shaun** · 10th September 2006, 13:08

You went wrong with every word you just said, best be running and ducking for cover mate

AS You said, or I thought you said, Each to there own, 2 wheels is 2 wheels and we all eat different food as well

**Ixion** · 10th September 2006, 13:09

You're all wrong.

'Tis a universal truth, beyond argument, that sprotsbikers are wankers, and crusiers are plonkers and offroaders are nutters. Only tourer riders are the true elite, the Heaven Born.

Except, of course, for two smokers, who are above all such rules.

Which of course, by logical deduction, means that a two stroke tourer is the ultimate of ultimates, the ne plus ultra.

Now, if they made a two stroke crusier -------------

**Matt Bleck** · 10th September 2006, 13:10

Originally Posted by Virago

Hi guys,

Help me out here. But I just don't understand you guys at all.

Who wants to ride something that sounds (and even looks) like a demented sewing machine?

Hunched over the fuel tank, with sore wrists from constantly leaning forward?

Cramp in the knees from the foetal riding position, and a sore neck from trying to see forward?

Why do you do it? Is it - dare I say it? - the image?

Is it the scrapes on your knee sliders, or the size of your chicken strips that matter the most?

Are the twin gods of HP and RPM really so important?

Does getting there as fast as possible really matter, or are you somehow lesser men for checking out the scenery on the way?

I thought motorcycling was all about the journey, but it appears that getting to the destination as fast as possible is the only acceptable option?

Above all, how can you be so arrogant as to have a different riding ethos than me?

I have no desire to offend, but after all I'm just a one-eyed crusier rider, with nothing but scorn for the posers on the sprot bikes.

I feel I should have some affinity with all fellow bikers, but it is hard to open my mind to differing views.

Help me out here - where am I going wrong?

(P/T)

Simple, where better than you are!!!!

**Virago** · 10th September 2006, 13:10

Originally Posted by Goblin

You obviously have never tried riding a sprotsbike.

No, but I saw one once, and I know everything about them...........

**Ixion** · 10th September 2006, 13:11

Um , folks, don't forget to check out the last line of the original post! No, the last line. further down. Further. Yes, that one.

**Shaun** · 10th September 2006, 13:13

Must be a bit lonely living down there I suppose, gets a bit bored, types b4 he thinks, cannot wate untill people like POOS and Co see this one, woo hoo

**Motoracer** · 10th September 2006, 13:14

Hi guys,
Howdy

Help me out here. But I just don't understand you guys at all.
I'll do what I can to clear things up.

Who wants to ride something that sounds (and even looks) like a demented sewing machine?
With my free flow Micron pipe that is putting out over 95db (oops did I just say that out loud?) and shooting out blue flames like a fire breathing dragon, I'd hardly compair it with a sewing machine.

Hunched over the fuel tank, with sore wrists from constantly leaning forward?
I keep on hearing that we are wankers. Partly because it's true. Hence, our wrists are stronger to cope with the hunched over riding position.

Cramp in the knees from the foetal riding position, and a sore neck from trying to see forward?
Maybe cause I'm pretty short. Not Padrosa or Caparossi short but I'm not tall, I don't really have this problem. Only time my knees experience any distress is if it hits any catseyes by mistake. Oweee...

Why do you do it? Is it - dare I say it? - the image?
Ofcourse it is! No one is cooler than us. We look so cool that we can't even take our own eyes from our selves. As we pass through shops in a town, we pretend to check out the nebourhood but inreality, we are mearly checking out our own reflection on the glass windows and doors. We check out our flash exhaust pipes, our neatly tucked in number plates and we check out our expensive helmets, racing suits, gloves and boots as if they were desginer garments. It's not cause we need the best equipment but it's cause it makes us look like racers. Cause that's what we pretend to be.

Is it the scrapes on your knee sliders, or the size of your chicken strips that matter the most?
Yes!!

Are the twin gods of HP and RPM really so important?
Ofcourse it is! What else could we possiblly talk about at the stops when having a latte?

Does getting there as fast as possible really matter, or are you somehow lesser men for checking out the scenery on the way?
What is this scenery you talk about? I am unfamilier with this term. All I know is the green stuff and the greyish/black stuff in a blur. The aim is to stay on the greyish/black stuff.

I thought motorcycling was all about the journey, but it appears that getting to the destination as fast as possible is the only acceptable option?
Now you are getting it! Send me a PM, when you are ready to convert from your form of two wheels to a real motorcycle. A sports bike!

Above all, how can you be so arrogant as to have a different riding ethos than me?
Now you lost me

I have no desire to offend, but after all I'm just a one-eyed crusier rider, with nothing but scorn for the posers on the sprot bikes.
Oh... OK then. Just when I thought there was still some hope for you yet... Oh well...

I feel I should have some affinity with all fellow bikers, but it is hard to open my mind to differing views.
If you had one, you'd understand.

Help me out here - where am I going wrong?
How did I do with the above? Did I help? I am glad if I did.