Non bike people don't get it.

[hellokitty]

Now that's a wise woman.


I know of a lot of guys who's partners 'encouraged' them to give up biking. MrsB has had comments on me still riding over the years - her reply is usually something like "he had a bike long before he met me' Mind you she has also been know to tell me to 'bloody get out for a ride' apparently I'm a better person after one!

My husband races a speedway sidecar and I get hassled for it by non bikers - "He is too old, should give up, too dangerous blah blah".

He raced before he met me, I went into this relationship knowing this and I chose to be with him. Yes I worry, but no way in hell would I tell him to give it up.
I learnt a long time ago that you can't change someone, and I wouldn't want to be with someone that I could push around and make him give up a hobby that he loves.
It goes both ways - he had to ride behind me while I was learning on my GN250, and I am sure I was doing things that had him worried.

[Grubber]

I don't get people who sit on some strange apparatus in the gym and sweat for an hour and i don't get people who sit in front of the tele for hours and i d......oh what the fuck,,,they all should be out riding....I GET THAT!

[BoristheBiter]

I get the same sort of stick about hunting. Boys & Guns comments are quite common.

But I don't live my life to please other people, I live it to please my wife, kids, cats, bank, boss . . . . . . . Shit, I'm sure I'm on the list somewhere!

Yep get the same every roar but they all love the free venison.

I have found that the ones that respond this way are the ones that think that to be old and grown up is to remove all fun from the world. Just because their lives are boring so no one should have fun because they don't.

Me and the misses ride, shoot, ski, jump out of planes, anything that gets the heart racing. some people can't see the fun in this, but then I have never seen the fun in renovating a house or gardening either.

[ellipsis]

.....I had a craziness for fishing some years back...badly hooked I was...my wife mentioned once and only once, after me dragging some busted bones and a bent racing bike home, that she wished I did more fishing...less dangerous etc, etc....I thought about it...for two seconds... and got rid of my fishing gear.... a few years later she suddenly went out and got her licence and a bike....if I suggested we went fishing now, she would tell me to fuck off and get the bikes out , we are off for a ride...and stop being a soft prick...

[Delerium]

I know what you mean (even at my young age, must be the throbbing delerium)
I have a few friends and family "dissapointed" on my purchase of another bike. The old man understands, being a bike chap. It's like a red-head or foot fettish, people just don't get it.

Im not a throbbing anything!

[ckai]

I get told "I'm mad" every time I ride down to the in-laws. Which makes me chuckle a bit since the father-in-law races cars and can't stand not having something fast in his life.

I'm pretty lucky with the folks how they used to ride in their younger years. The wife even sold her bike to Dad because he's wanted one again ever since I got mine. Both mum and dad totally get what riding is all about.

Come to think of it, ever since the wife and I have been riding we've gotten more of our mates into riding that have never had bikes! Obviously we look so cool on our bikes and all our mates wanna be like us

It was kinda cool to see Dad chuffed when he saw I brought a Trumpy as well.

[Banditbandit]

Now that's a wise woman.


I know of a lot of guys who's partners 'encouraged' them to give up biking. MrsB has had comments on me still riding over the years - her reply is usually something like "he had a bike long before he met me' Mind you she has also been know to tell me to 'bloody get out for a ride' apparently I'm a better person after one!

Yeah ... I was living with a chick in Chch. The day she said "When we get married you'll have to sell the bike ..." Was the day she packed her bags and left ...

(She was great in bed but I had no intention of marrying such a bubble head .. let alone selling the bike ...)

[scissorhands]

In the breeze is where its at, and no chick, can beat that.

[Subike]

The day a chick can ride me at 100mph is the day I will give up my bike.
I had a few fast ones, but they all fail going into second gear.

[avgas]

I get the same sort of stick about hunting. Boys & Guns comments are quite common.

But I don't live my life to please other people, I live it to please my wife, kids, cats, bank, boss . . . . . . . Shit, I'm sure I'm on the list somewhere!

I took the mrs to the target club last night.
It was a bad idea as seeing her right next to me firing an scoped in Anshulz.....was quite attractive.
My score was shocking.

Likewise when I got to take photos of her on the bike, I had to refrain from doing her right there.

Some of my family ask "Don't you think riding is dangerous?"......I kindly inform them that I have been one reason they have power and water in some instances. And that me riding a motorbike is the least of their problems. I am far more dangerous with a computer or a screwdriver.

[Banditbandit]

The day a chick can ride me at 100mph is the day I will give up my bike.
I had a few fast ones, but they all fail going into second gear.

I love my bikes - and I spend as much time as I can on one ... but if you think that riding a bike is better than sex ... then you are doing something wrong ...

[AllanB]

You've been hanging around with the wrong people.

Maybe it's your attitude,bikes are so much a part of me they are almost my personality.

1.
Maybe - lots of non-riding friends we have made over the years through the kids. There have been comments like 'but you have kids now - don't you think it is dangerous?' - I'll respond with something like - 'your husband plays rugby - are you not worried about him breaking his neck?'

2.
Nah - good attitude - I think you nailed it re bikes being part of ones personality - they don't ride and can't comprehend it - like tonight - most Friday nights are spent in the shed doing 'bike stuff' - maybe cleaning it, or tweaking something or sitting there with a beer planning some whimsical modification. A dam fine way of winding down the working week.


Does not usually bother me, but MrsB had someone suggest this week that due to earthquake damage to our house I'll have to give up the bike and concentrate on the house! WTF, even she was not impressed. That comment was from someone who dropped $2k on a set of fancy push-bike wheels.

A funny side note is that I have also discovered that non-biking people perceive motorcycles to be extremely expensive to purchase - a friend with a $35k boat figured I'd shelled out a similar amount for my Hornet!

[Subike]

1.
A funny side note is that I have also discovered that non-biking people perceive motorcycles to be extremely expensive to purchase - a friend with a $35k boat figured I'd shelled out a similar amount for my Hornet!

you have a friend who has a boat!! with the cost of search and rescue, the high drowning rate.....thats dangerous and expensive ......cant understand people who feel the need to go fast on water... it just eludes me.....

[tigertim20]

theyll never get it. be gratefull that you do!

[onearmedbandit]

It's nothing special about bikes.

People who have never sky dived don't 'get' why you'd jump out of a perfectly good plane
People who don't appreciate motorsports don't 'get' why someone can spend 8hrs watching bikes or cars go around in circles.
Etc etc etc.

If you are passionate about something, anything, you will never be able to explain it to someone who doesn't share the same or similar passion.