Bikers are good for the country because...

[HanaBelle]

On transfer from Evil Forces are Gathering thread...Bikers are good for the country because...(AKA the New Zen of Political Influence and Motorbike Riding)

We use less fossil fuels thereby depleting less ozone and should be given global warming credits on the annual rego charge

We take up way less road space and if everyone was made to ride bikes Auckland's traffic issues would be solved in an instant, by doubling the number of lanes in the same available space [Im sure theres something wrong with this concept but cant think what it is right this second, something like "if everyone rides them, we wont be special"]

We learn skills that make us instantly better social citizens - like an improved sense of local body responsibility (know the roads and pay attention to the road surface), and community mindedness

We possess a general stunningly superior awareness of other human beings in the social "road", have enhanced risk and cautionary assessment skills that can be used for social problem solving, and are inbued with the patented Kiwibiker Responsibility Taking Norm...

We contribute to raising the country's knowledge economy innovation skills when we extrapolate the motorbike skill of knowing when to NOT sit in a line of baaing sheep traffic...

We are happier and use less anti depressants. We can make our own fun and live out loud, creating intergenerational examples to offset the nihilism of the X generation and capitalist modernity...{aww fuck they re elected Bush}...

I know, I know, some of you just RIDE cos you LIKE IT. Blah. Deeeeep. :brick:

[Pwalo]

On transfer from Evil Forces are Gathering thread...Bikers are good for the country because...(AKA the New Zen of Political Influence and Motorbike Riding)

We use less fossil fuels thereby depleting less ozone and should be given global warming credits on the annual rego charge

We take up way less road space and if everyone was made to ride bikes Auckland's traffic issues would be solved in an instant, by doubling the number of lanes in the same available space [Im sure theres something wrong with this concept but cant think what it is right this second, something like "if everyone rides them, we wont be special"]

We learn skills that make us instantly better social citizens - like an improved sense of local body responsibility (know the roads and pay attention to the road surface), and community mindedness

We possess a general stunningly superior awareness of other human beings in the social "road", have enhanced risk and cautionary assessment skills that can be used for social problem solving, and are inbued with the patented Kiwibiker Responsibility Taking Norm...

We contribute to raising the country's knowledge economy innovation skills when we extrapolate the motorbike skill of knowing when to NOT sit in a line of baaing sheep traffic...

We are happier and use less anti depressants. We can make our own fun and live out loud, creating intergenerational examples to offset the nihilism of the X generation and capitalist modernity...{aww fuck they re elected Bush}...

I know, I know, some of you just RIDE cos you LIKE IT. Blah. Deeeeep. :brick:

NO!! We're just a hell of a lot cooler than anyone else. Sorry HannaBelle you can't rationalise it we're just better.

[HanaBelle]

NO!! We're just a hell of a lot cooler than anyone else. Sorry HannaBelle you can't rationalise it we're just better.

I CANT rationalise it?????? :argh: :whocares: :beer: :calm:

If I cant rationalise it I cant cope. I once fell in love with an American chick (yes well :confused2 she was a political lobbyist and incredibly complex intellectually and great with a whip, I couldnt help myself) solely because she said there was no such thing as overanalysing.

I live the Unexamined Life is Not Worth Living quote!!! I hate people who dont think, they vote for Bush and Brash! :argh: I am very grumpy that you even said that, Pwalo, life is so shallow I just cant operate in a world where Playstation II is the most meaningful choice in the day...*whimper* I dont care if y'all dont understand me.. :stupid:

Im leaving for a while because Ive become incontrovertibly saddened at the inability to engage with the concept that biking can actually be meaningful as a developmental process....its not ALL grease monkey, yanno!!!!

grrrr :argh: :argh: :argh: Oh well, fuck it.

HBitch

[rodgerd]

We possess a general stunningly superior awareness of other human beings in the social "road", have enhanced risk and cautionary assessment skills that can be used for social problem solving, and are inbued with the patented Kiwibiker Responsibility Taking Norm...

Sadly anyone with the stats on the nuber of bikers who kill and injure themselves in single-bike "riding like a twat" crashes will probably argue agin.

And taking responsibility? Are you reading the same site as me? You know, the one where breaking speeding laws is never one's own fault, but rather because the (police/society/LTSA/politicians/social workers...) are all at fault?

[SPORK]

Heheh, sure love you LittleMenHoldingUpSigns don't ya? :P

[HanaBelle]

Heheh, sure love you LittleMenHoldingUpSigns don't ya? :P


Im having a terrible day. Please excuse me for hormonal outburst and thank you for saying *anything*...

[HanaBelle]

I once fell in love with an American chick (yes well :confused2 she was a political lobbyist and incredibly complex intellectually and great with a whip, I couldnt help myself) solely because she said there was no such thing as overanalysing.

Platonic kind of love! [very small voice]

[SPORK]

Terrible day? Join the club!

Only $100 for the MyDayIsSuckingAss Club! Free stickers! Free badges! WhaT MORE COUld you want!?!?!?!?!!??!?!?!?!? LOLOOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

Sorry... That was my less educated side breaking out :shit:

[HanaBelle]

Terrible day? Join the club!

Only $100 for the MyDayIsSuckingAss Club! Free stickers! Free badges! WhaT MORE COUld you want!?!?!?!?!!??!?!?!?!? LOLOOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

Sorry... That was my less educated side breaking out :shit:

No tshirt??

:-)

[SPORK]

For an extra $50 why not?

[Coyote]

Sorry... That was my less educated side breaking out :shit:
Educated??

[SPORK]

Educated??

Yes, Daniel. You know I am superior in every possible respect (expect faghotry on a grande scael)


:Pokey:

[Coyote]

Yes, Daniel. You know I am superior in every possible respect ()


:Pokey:
First you say your superior Nick, then you go 'expect faghotry on a grande scael'. You are just a wanker man. Get a life.



I'm superior anyway:lol:

[SPORK]

You are just a wanker man. Get a life.

By the time you read this, you are already blocked. See you at school...

[Coyote]

By the time you read this, you are already blocked. See you at school...
I'm so mortified by you blocking me. Oh me, oh my. Oh woe is me.

[manuboy]

Sadly anyone with the stats on the nuber of bikers who kill and injure themselves in single-bike "riding like a twat" crashes will probably argue agin.

And taking responsibility? Are you reading the same site as me? You know, the one where breaking speeding laws is never one's own fault, but rather because the (police/society/LTSA/politicians/social workers...) are all at fault?

:blink:

ahh... yeah..... there is the odd number of posts about "why i shouldn't have got ticketed". But that is probably pretty small in comparison to the number of tickets we get, and just swallow knowing we deserved them. You only see the rants here thats all man.

[Hitcher]

And we have Friends in High Places (Don't forget that God is a biker)!!

[Storm]

Correct me if I am wrong, but isnt there a thread somewhere asking what bike He would ride?

[Blakamin]

Correct me if I am wrong, but isnt there a thread somewhere asking what bike He would ride?
not even gunna look...its a DUCATI!

[SPORK]

Hahah! Nice to know you are loyal! :yes:

[Hitcher]

Correct me if I am wrong, but isnt there a thread somewhere asking what bike He would ride?
Indeed there is. Needless to say it is subject to some conjecture...

[rodgerd]

:blink:

ahh... yeah..... there is the odd number of posts about "why i shouldn't have got ticketed". But that is probably pretty small in comparison to the number of tickets we get, and just swallow knowing we deserved them. You only see the rants here thats all man.

Yeah, that's true. Perhaps I can apply as a job for a journo, beating up stories.

[Jess]

HannaBelle - on the ozone depletion front, it doesnt matter anyway - read this: www.predictweather.com - see what he has to say about ozone depletion (and methanous cows...)

[Drunken Monkey]

HannaBelle - on the ozone depletion front, it doesnt matter anyway - read this: www.predictweather.com - see what he has to say about ozone depletion (and methanous cows...)

Indeed, there is polarization in the scientific camps on this subject. Who has the hidden agenda? Maybe both?
slightly off-topic, but...
There is a massive amount of conjecture and assumptions on the Ozone hole. It was only discovered by the British Antarctic Survey in the late seventies, proper research & analysys of data did not start until 1985. That's pretty insignificant in geological time.
Who is to say Ozone holes are not a normal process of the Earth's atmosphere, and the recent increase in size is also not normal and will naturally reduce in time with or without our assistance?
This also makes one question the validity of claims of human industry drastically effecting global warming. On the grand scale of geological time there is one singificant factor that put things into perspective:
The Earth's 'normal' global weather state is warmer than what we are experiecning now (an 'interglacial', or minor relapse of an ice-age). Over the full history of the Earth, there were no ice-caps for more than 85% of the time.

[magnum]

old performance bikes sticker:my bikes creates less polution,doesnt cause traffic jams,uses less fuel and still blows your car into the weeds......... :ride:

[HanaBelle]

old performance bikes sticker:my bikes creates less polution,doesnt cause traffic jams,uses less fuel and still blows your car into the weeds......... :ride:

Ahh thats the tshirt I was after! Thank you. :2thumbsup

Sinfully flogging the ailing horse of my original thread...

I really do believe there are tricks for enjoying life in general that can be learned from riding bikes. Living in the present is one such trickforlife. ...(all those monks cant be wrong.) The very *present* present, where your moves do count, where youre not a horde dweller and have to be aware to stay ahead of the pitfalls.

Bikes make it possible to experience stuff that is crap routine (like commuting) with something a little "extra". As a consequence, my crap routine is less, well, crap. So is my day enriched.

And someone else did not have to invent it for me to discover, or write the application, or script the telly programme. On a bike, Im no mass-entertainment patsy. [Ok ok someone had to build the bike but theyre not there when Im taking it up Mangamuka Gorge].

Bikes are intimate and individual and you need to ride them the way they like it or they break on you. Theyre demanding and insistent and they punish you for mistakes. Bikes teach you to rely on yourself in making decisions and that there are consequences for the ones you screw up. And bikes teach you that the pack doesnt pay much attention and that its possible to go around them if youre careful about it. These are skills for life, business, and relationship!

Anyway, my apologies to anyone who just does it to get from A to B or who doesnt like to be meaningful and consider how to make daily existence more interesting. Ive got this feeling putting off extracting as much from every moment you get, even while doing the 40 hour slave act, is like waiting for a sunny day to go for the ride youve been craving - a waste of the time in today.

[SPman]

Bikes make it possible to experience stuff that is crap routine (like commuting) with something a little "extra". As a consequence, my crap routine is less, well, crap. So is my day enriched.

Bikes are intimate and individual and you need to ride them the way they like it or they break on you. Theyre demanding and insistent and they punish you for mistakes. Bikes teach you to rely on yourself in making decisions and that there are consequences for the ones you screw up. And bikes teach you that the pack doesnt pay much attention and that its possible to go around them if youre careful about it. These are skills for life, business, and relationship!
. You're not talking about women, are you?
Ooops
:shutup:

[HanaBelle]

You're not talking about women, are you?
Ooops
:shutup:

Women are less predictable than bikes!

[Ghost Lemur]

Women are less predictable than bikes!

Amen to that, sister. :eek: