Transvestite bikers

[Virago]

Did anyone catch the doco on Prime tonight about "men in frocks"? Apparently a large number of transvestites are into bikes, mainly sport bikes and track racing. Apparently it has a lot to do with the tight fitting leather clothing....... .

For me, this answers a lot of questions about sport bike riders....

[gav]

Think they all live in Wellington, though....

[250learna]

Think they all live in Wellington, though....

surely not

[zadok]

Maybe their frocks will get caught in the spokes.

[Lou Girardin]

Good god, don't say Clarkson was right! I'm glad I ride a Bandit and wear textile, no doubts about my sexuality.

[Sniper]

Someone is cruising for a bruising. Lol

[jazbug5]

Actually, I saw that and thought it was really interesting and well done. More power to their elbows, I say..!
Actually, it occurs to me I could relate an interesting family story, here.

My adoptive great grandmother was a biochemist and a bit of a rebel for her times. She couldn't get employed in the U.K., so hopped on a boat to South Africa. On the way, she cut her hair, changed her name to 'Peter' and became a 'man'. She lived as a man for ten years, rising through the ranks of a pharmaceutical company in Capetown until one day she had an accident on her motorbike. (She was a very keen biker.) She woke up the next day on the women's ward, jobless.
Fortunately she had saved up enough to buy some land, so she buggered off to a remote spot to farm. She lived until she was at least 103; in fact, for all I know, she's still going!

[MacD]

Did anyone catch the doco on Prime tonight about "men in frocks"? Apparently a large number of transvestites are into bikes, mainly sport bikes and track racing. Apparently it has a lot to do with the tight fitting leather clothing....... .

For me, this answers a lot of questions about sport bike riders....

And the marketing of certain brands of leathers!

[Paul in NZ]

I've always found it an odd thing that a Transvestite is considered 'beyond the pale' and yet stuff like tattoo's, odd piercings and lesbians are OK...

If a bloke wants to pretend he is a woman or indeed go the whole way and become a woman... Good luck to ya and frankly I'm in awe of people that pull it off because it is a hell of a difficult thing to do! (as opposed to say getting ink or a piercing)

Yet some people seem to place these people up their with pedophiles etc..

I find it quite odd....

I believe that it is a very healthy thing to have a fanatsy life (no not necessarily sexual) or a dream and pursue it. Studies have shown people with obsessions are happy people.... (don't laught it's how I justify my Guzzi)

More power to these people! It's a more colourful place with them in it!

Cheers

[zadok]

[QUOTE=Paul in NZ]
If a bloke wants to pretend he is a woman or indeed go the whole way and become a woman... Good luck to ya and frankly I'm in awe of people that pull it off because it is a hell of a difficult thing to do! (as opposed to say getting ink or a piercing)[QUOTE]
By the way Paul(ine), how did the op go?

[Biff]

I didn't see the programme.

I've only ever personally known one transvestite that I know of, and I knew him for years before he finally admitted to being one, or should I say was forced to after I bumped into him and a friend of his all dressed up one night when I was out clubbing. Poor bugger was sooo embarrassed. probably not helped by the fact that I was pissed and said something like, "WTF, fancy dress party is it?"

Top guy, very much a hetro, but got a kick out of wearing ladies clothing.
I first met him on a bike ride.

Although I do work with a guy that has long, perfectly groomed hair, wears blouses and has his nails painted. So I guess he's a budding or full transvestite too.

Each to their own. No harm in it from where I'm standing

[Fryin Finn]

Actually, I saw that and thought it was really interesting and well done. More power to their elbows, I say..!
Actually, it occurs to me I could relate an interesting family story, here.

My adoptive great grandmother was a biochemist and a bit of a rebel for her times. She couldn't get employed in the U.K., so hopped on a boat to South Africa. On the way, she cut her hair, changed her name to 'Peter' and became a 'man'. She lived as a man for ten years, rising through the ranks of a pharmaceutical company in Capetown until one day she had an accident on her motorbike. (She was a very keen biker.) She woke up the next day on the women's ward, jobless.
Fortunately she had saved up enough to buy some land, so she buggered off to a remote spot to farm. She lived until she was at least 103; in fact, for all I know, she's still going!

Thats a great story - you should dig up some more info and package it off to Wilbur Smith for him to use in a new book.

[thehollowmen]

uh, excuse me, I'm off to hide everything leather that isn't bike related..

[Motu]

I used to know one,and I still happily fondle his tools every day....We vaguely knew each other in days of yore,then were living in the same small community and had bikes in common.A gumboot wearing,greatcoat clad longhaired hippy.....the hair became well groomed and the clothes cleaner,then a name change,and later the whole nip and tuck.He/she decided not to get their hands dirty as a mechanic anymore and I was allowd to pick through his tools for special items (lots of special bike stuff) at very good prices,and also had the pick of his bike stuff too.I had no problem with it and we laughed about it - I never changed my opion about her,she was as big an idiot as a woman as a man....

[Biff]

....and later the whole nip and tuck.

Shiiiiiit. I know this sounds condescending, but I can't help feeling sorry for guys/gals that go to such an extreme. What a total head fuck life must be to want to have your bits chopped off as you feel so strongly about wanting to be seen to be a woman. And vise versa. If that's possible. Not the dressing up bit, but having reconstructive surgery to form a penis.

There's somebody on here that's an expert on these things. She posted a link to a transvestite site recently and is an active member (so to speak), of some sorts.

Any advice please?