I'd just like to say

[buellbabe]

yeah me too... some of my non-biker friends reckon engine oil runs in my veins... obsessed? who me? ( and I REALLY don't give a shit what ya ride so long as yr riding :-) )

[Crasherfromwayback]

YAhoo! I'm a genuine biker by Crashers definition.

And for the record, he probably knows more about "real" bikers than anyone else on this site. How many bikes do ya reckon you've sold in the past ten years outta one shop?

You certainly are my friend....
Gotta love the guy that asked my to define a true enthusiast then rarked me up for doing so!
I'd better not go into numbers here mate, that's self promomtion don't ya know!!!
Hope the weathers been better for ya, look forward to catching up with you guys at some stage soon.

[Crasherfromwayback]

.......i crash too,love the thrill and freedom of being a motorcyclist.cant tell you to play nice so i wont!!!!!!!!!!!!just dont pick on me and hope to see you back on the track soon .....and try not to hold up the racing next time please

Yeah I'll be back.
And I would've got off the track sooner if I could've!
To top it all off, the ambulance guys asked me..."do you know where you are?"

Aahhh..."hello...in the back of an ambulance?"

[oldrider]

Wow Crasherfromwayback, you sure are a stayer.
You came on in out of the cold, accidentally pooed the bed, weathered the storm and looks like you are now coming up smelling of roses.(well perhaps racing fuel)
Well done, I am impressed Cheers John.

[Ixion]

'Ere, Guv, godda truck load of metaphors 'ere, wot I've bin told t'deliver. 'pparently yer runnin' short. Where ya wan' 'em, then. Bloody smelly fings they are, be glad to get shut ov 'em.

[Paul in NZ]

Um? Whats this thread about? I read it all and I'm still not sure?

BTW - I'm NOT a real motorcycle enthusiast. I'm a complete and utter fake! I sold a genuinely collectable bike to fund Vickis engagement ring 28 years ago and sold other bikes to finance family stuff. I even tried to get interested in Classic cars (still am actually). I'd sell the lot if she asked me! (I'd try and talk her out of it of course)

I like going on holidays in the car and I've been know to deliberately shun other motorcyclists because I don't have much in common with them and my experiences are in the past, not the future.

I walk into most bike shops and stare blankly at most modern bikes and no blood races or breath quickens.. nada, zip. (I like buying tyres, batteries and stuff from WMC though - I bought 4 last year and 2 so far this year) and every time I get a bit of dough together I by increasingly desperate old wrecks for too much $ that could easily purchase a new Suzuki.

However, I will admit to being enthusiastic about real motorcycles and owning a very impressive pile of classic bike magzines. I'm so old I own genuine Stadium MkVII's that I bought new and used.

[Bonez]

You certainly are my friend....
Gotta love the guy that asked my to define a true enthusiast then rarked me up for doing so!

It's called trolling. Happens quite often.

Edit-It's an art form obnoxious old cunts learn at quite an early stage when exposed to internet forums.

[Albino]

But to me it's someone who has the passion for riding and owning bikes that comes before all else.
Mate, I've got the scares to prove it, and I bet I'll get more yet..

that's saved hard enough (easy when you've got no friends) to rush out and buy himself a 'lifestyle'.
He's a 'BIKER' now with his VN.
He knows all about what it is to be one.....right PINKY?
I'd say the only scars he has are scuff marks on his knob.

tell us all your life history of motorcycling....
If you ride a VN through choice and you've been riding all your life great.
If I'm right about you....fuck up.
Prove me wrong, I'll happily apologise here publicly.

I bet there are more than a few people who's passion for their families or friends comes before their bikes. Are these people not hard-core enough to be on this site? Or those who got into biking at an older age and are discovering the thrill and freedom of riding in a different manner to those who got into it young? Or those who don't think it's cool to fall off a bike - are they not bikers either?

All interesting considering your earlier quote "we're all family"

[White trash]

No. He was ASKED what HIS deffinition of a real biker was. Crasher gave it. If you don't like that deffinition, come up with your own.

Mine is this: Someone who can get 'round Manfeid on an 883 Harley in one minute, nineteen seconds. Or better, one minute sixteen on a 250cc production bike.

Can't do that? Not a real biker. Sorry.




(Stop looking for things to get bent outta shape over and go for a ride will ya?)

[sugilite:Me]

No. He was ASKED what HIS deffinition of a real biker was. Crasher gave it. If you don't like that deffinition, come up with your own.

Mine is this: Someone who can get 'round Manfeid on an 883 Harley in one minute, nineteen seconds. Or better, one minute sixteen on a 250cc production bike.

Can't do that? Not a real biker. Sorry.




(Stop looking for things to get bent outta shape over and go for a ride will ya?)

Does a 1:17 on my one and only 4 lap RGV250 ride at manfield on totally fucked tyres sneak me in?

[roogazza]

Um? Whats this thread about? I read it all and I'm still not sure?
However, I'm so old I own genuine Stadium MkVII's that I bought new and used.

Stadium MkVII's !!! ....................so you're quite young then ? G.

[Bonez]

Hang on a minute mate,you asked him to define genuine motorcycle enthusiast,to which he did rather well i,d say and now you slag him off for it.Whats the problem,didn,t you meet the criteria that he described or do you enjoy TRYING to stir shit.

No thread was in the wrong place.
Noobs and not so noobs do it all the time ah SM?

Thank you.

[cowpoos]

one minute sixteen on a 250cc production bike.

Can't do that? Not a real biker. Sorry.

can you? you'ld be in the front 3-4 bikes at national level f3 at that pace wouldn't ya?

[Aitch]

Fair call too.
I've had plenty of time on my hands due to a nasty injury I received at Wanganui on Boxing Day, only just returned to work last Monday.
Hasn't made me bitter and twisted like some of these clowns.
Whilst I fully realise it is the internet, it's the fact that some of these so called 'Kiwi Bikers' are so quick to judge and condem a fellow? biker for an honest and well meaning era of judgement and timing.

They are the ones that are yet to learn what it is to be a true biker.
Some, by the sound of it, will never grasp it.

For god's sake, let it go!

[scumdog]

tell us all your life history of motorcycling....
If you ride a VN through choice and you've been riding all your life great.
If I'm right about you....fuck up.
Prove me wrong, I'll happily apologise here publicly.

Sheeit! I thought a VN was some kind of Holden Dunnydore?

Real motorcyclist? I'm one and defy anybody to tell me different.
Hell, I wear a tassled leather jacket, a skull mask and ride a H-D, drink Grants 100 percent Scotch, how much more hard-core can you be?

A legend in me own mind, that's for sure!!