How many real bikers out there?

[MGST]

I have three bikes and a car. I use the right tool for the job and don't have to beg my car owning mates for favours.

I have 3 cars and a bike. The bike sees the light of day 5 days a week rain hail or shine, 1 car goes to the supermarket each weekend, and the other 2 cars sit quietly in the garage waiting for some love and attention.

[s8306]

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[_Shrek_]

I don't give a fuck what so called" bikers "think.Over the years I've owned over 50 bikes and done a gazzillion miles on them.Also owned many cars and love driving as well.Hell if it's got a motor then I'm interested in it.Never did like to be labeled.I think trying to fit people in boxes is for idiots and politicians.

bling for you MIXONE
& to the pole 7 days a week all weathers & when i need to take wifes 4x4

[Ocean1]

Group 4.

Right tool for the job, (or as close to it as I can get my grubby hands on), and like it or not sometimes the right tool has other than two wheels.

[Nagash]

Hey cool.. I'm number one

That makes me a real biker then.

Without a bike anymore..

[H00dz]

4 and proud, p.s dare ya to tell me to my face I'm not a real biker.....Everytime you take it out on the road your a REAL BIKER dickhead!!!

[Ryan432]

I have both a bike and a car but noone can tell me I'm not a real commited biker when Ive Just spent the last two hours riding around Auckland picking stuff up in the pouring rain (the wind picked up a bit for a while also). therefore I choose option 5, A real biker who also owns a car for when he needs to carry around more than one sexy lady at a time! LOL

[Motu]

I have 10 motorcycles and half a dozen cars....I have a 3 car garage that can't fit a car because it's full of motorcycle stuff.I don't take my bike to the shop for someone to fix it.If that's not being a real biker I don't know what is.Certainly not someone who can't fix their only means of transport without help,or someone who has to get other people to shift things for them because they won't fit on a bike.A real biker is self reliant,totally immersed in it,not some wimp who doesn't get their hands dirty.

[Biggles2000]

Well according to this poll I’m also a biker wannabe. I haven’t been called this before, so you can go and kiss my shiny leather clad butt. You can actually call me what you like as long as it isn’t “late for dinner”.

I like all my vehicles, my knees and hands ache now with arthritis so I am not much of a cold weather rider, but saying that I have made to the last 19 Brass Monkeys. Take for instance Saturday last weekend, it was snowing here and I chose to fire up my old trusty v8 landrover and drove over Dyers pass into Christchurch for supplies. I could have taken the bike but chose not to, it was just too cold and far too dangerous. Does being prudent make me a biker wannabe?

I also have an interest in performance cars, and my sports bike now has 4 wheels, air conditioning and a CD player. Does this make me a biker wannabe, well I actually don’t care. It does however make me an old fart in a sports car.

While I was a student the only vehicle I has was a 250cc motorcycle, it was easy to park cheap to run. I put up with the inconvenience because it worked. Having said that I did not have a choice, the bike was all I had so I had to use it. Does necessity make me a real biker?

I now have a choice when and where I ride, I guess I am lucky in that regard. I ride because I want to, I ride because I can and I ride because it is good for the soul. Does this make me a biker wannabe? Possibly but actually I don’t care I’ve gone out riding…

[Ixion]

I have 10 motorcycles and half a dozen cars....I have a 3 car garage that can't fit a car because it's full of motorcycle stuff...

Fark. You got more bikes than me. I've been outbiked .How did that happen.

Still , on the good side that gives me an an angle to overcome Mrs Ixion's objections to another bike. "But that only makes nine, dear (even by your count). And Mr Motu has 10, so clearly nine is not excessive at all". Woot. Trademe, here I come.

Hm, not sure though if she'd be convinced. I think she thinks you are a bad influence. Especially since she found out about the frogs.

[Oscar]

Fark. You got more bikes than me. I've been outbiked .How did that happen.

Still , on the good side that gives me an an angle to overcome Mrs Ixion's objections to another bike. "But that only makes nine, dear (even by your count). And Mr Motu has 10, so clearly nine is not excessive at all". Woot. Trademe, here I come.

Hm, not sure though if she'd be convinced. I think she thinks you are a bad influence. Especially since she found out about the frogs.

Ask Motu how many of his actually run....

[Ixion]

Good point. Except he might ask the same

Hey, Mr Motu, have you got that Ducati running yet?

[SPman]

..... Especially since she found out about the frogs.

Do tell.........

Unloaded the Suzi GT250 this morning - the barn space is getting smaller......the car and van already live outside and it's starting to look bleak for the Allis Chalmers ...........

Ask Motu how many of his actually run....

irelevancies....irrelevancies..............it's the having!
A mate in Waitara has about 45 (at last count) '50's and '60s Hondas, and I'm sure 4 or 5 are actually restored and running................

Anyway - who revived this thread - I'm such a hard biker I can't be buggered looking........

[TygerTung]

I'm a racer, I use a car to tow my motorcycle trailers with all my bikes on to the track.

I also ONLY drive my car on the road if I have to, eg going to pick people up, or if I have a whole lot of stuff in the back etc.

I go shopping on my scooter usually, and I only ride a scooter, motorbike, or pushbike to work.

I guess that makes me a car driving wannabe.

[Motu]

Fark. You got more bikes than me. I've been outbiked .How did that happen.

Well,they aren't all mine,one is my wife's,one the son in laws,and bikes for my kids....I paid for them,but they belong to them (off road only).And as Oscar points out....they don't all go.But bikes that don't go are bikes that need work,and I'd be kinda lost if I had a shed full of bikes that only needed a polish....where's the fun in that? The bike under the sheet is a Guzzi,not a Ducati...it'll have to go as part of my next clean out.