Not allowed to be a biker...

**Shadowjack** · 19th May 2011, 12:23

Originally Posted by Swoop

I think you are confusing fat people with gingers...

A comment like that could cause resentment amongst those of us who...
Oh. Wait... on reflection - oops, haven't got one of those, either.

**javawocky** · 19th May 2011, 12:27

Originally Posted by Fatt Max

...So, according to this (ahem, South African) person, I am not a biker. I'm still fat though.....

Who else is not an offcial biker then....???

My 599cc means I am not a biker

I tried so hard but I missed it by 150cc

This explains why all the 750 gixxer riders on group rides always look down at me cuase the are real bikers for having slightly bigger pistons.

Dumb South Africans (luckily I traded my green passport for a black one a few years back

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**slofox** · 19th May 2011, 12:35

Well I rode my 599cc "not a biker" machine to Raglan and back this morning. If the tosser who made the original comment had come with me, he might have changed his mind...

**slofox** · 19th May 2011, 12:36

Originally Posted by javawocky

I tried so hard but I missed it by 150cc

It's 151cc there java...

749 still wouldn't qualify I'm sure...

**javawocky** · 19th May 2011, 12:50

Originally Posted by slofox

It's 151cc there java...

749 still wouldn't qualify I'm sure...

How could I miss that! They must have teached you old buggers good mafs.

**slofox** · 19th May 2011, 12:58

Originally Posted by javawocky

How could I miss that! They must have teached you old buggers good mafs.

Actually I only learneded good mafs when I hadda teach it meself...and found I didn't know shit about it...

**Big Dave** · 19th May 2011, 12:58

Or they are nit-pickey old coots.

**avgas** · 19th May 2011, 12:59

Originally Posted by Fatt Max

Well, this guy jumps on me and goes to great lengths to explain that I cannot refer to myself as a biker until I have 'at least a 750cc machine, 250's dont count mate, you are at most a rider....'

That is gold coming from a wannabe harley owner.
I bet he had a harley patch on a leather jacket too. Cos all the cool kids have one.

Only thing worse than a poser and a try hard poser with an opinion.
Some of us here went down in CC's - me especially.
I had too, its the law don't you know - if your penis gets larger you have to get a smaller bike. FYI watch out of the chicks on vespas......

**slofox** · 19th May 2011, 12:59

Originally Posted by Big Dave

Or they are nit-pickey old coots.

...that too...

**gijoe1313** · 19th May 2011, 13:09

Oh the humanity of it all! Can't we all just get along, who will think of the children? (hopefully not those nit-picky old coots ... eeew!

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So this obviously leads to the next point ... a special wave for those who are bikers and one for those who are riders!

**Swoop** · 19th May 2011, 13:26

Originally Posted by Shadowjack

A comment like that could cause resentment amongst those of us who...
Oh. Wait... on reflection - oops, haven't got one of those, either.

It's true. They have gingervitis.

**Fatt Max** · 19th May 2011, 13:41

I am seriously considering organising a 'We Are Not Real Bikers' ride for sub 750cc bikes, ride through Wellington to where ever this geezer lives, make a shit load of noise outside his front door then get our 'not real' bikes and ride them fair up his butt crack....

**Maha** · 19th May 2011, 13:43

Originally Posted by Fatt Max

Well, this guy jumps on me and goes to great lengths

You told him that you passionately love Hondas eh?

**MarkH** · 19th May 2011, 13:48

Originally Posted by sportster

To me a biker is about when they ride not what they ride.

So your main form of transport is two wheels and you ride all year round including through winter on anything from 50cc scooter to a 2000cc+ bike your a biker.

You ride any bike only when the sun shines your a poser who can't call himself a biker.

Cool, I'm a biker then (by that definition at least).

It's funny, there have been people that try to give me shit for riding a big scooter, but for the money I paid I had a whole bunch of other options available. I coulda bought an older GSXR750 for half of what my scooter cost, but I chose what suited my needs best. If I gave a flying fuck what every other cunt thought I could have chosen a different bike, but I really didn't give a rat's arse.
For commuting around Auckland and doing the weekly shopping I love my scooter (62L lockable storage under the seat + 35L lockable storage in the top box) and it's pretty good for going down to Super Liquor to buy 3 dozen bottles of booze too.

Of course it'd be nice to have a couple of other options for other than city commuting and truthfully I only make my scooter do everything because I'm just to poor to own several bikes - but it does seem to cope OK with everything I give it and I have run up over 40,000kms of riding on it.

There's also the fact that if I HAD chosen to buy a GSXR750 I wouldn't be classified as a biker anyway, more likely I'd be called a pedestrian! (I already managed to lose my license twice when I just drove a car). In some ways I'm better off on a slower vehicle, I'm still alive and I have no demerit points.

So, am I a real biker or not? Do any of you really think I give a fuck?