"KBers are dicks"

[Hitcher]

I've found this site has some very good information on it, but very clicky as the 1thousand+ posters seen to only interact with each other, which is all good if you've the time to spend on here. I've also seen a lack of tollerance towards new members at times which makes it a bit harder to "join in".

I think you mean clique rather than click. But what the hey. It's Sunday and what should be a day of rest for the BDOTGNZA...

In my experience people on here will judge you by the quality rather than the quantity of your posts. There are many sub-1000 posters with comparatively large amounts of rep, showing that they are pretty well regarded by their on-line peers.

[GR81]

SSShhhhhhhhhhhhsshhhhhhhhhhh. We don't talk about that.

those who we do not speak of

haha

[duckaddict]

This thread is now four pages long, and I enjoyed reading everyone of it so far (unusual), and I also share the same sentiments as almost every one posted so far (unusual again).

KB is good and I'm staying put no matter what others say, I'll be the judge.

[madboy]

There are many sub-1000 posters with comparatively large amounts of rep, showing that they are pretty well regarded by their on-line peers.

I beg to differ [slightly]. While I agree there are many infrequent posters on here who are tremendously well regarded and for good reason, I disagree that rep should ever be used as a judge of someone's "well-regardness". You get rep for making controversial statements, or being very opinionated. While in some people that may translate to a good thing, most of my rep has come from my more "controversial" posts, rather than from my sensible ones. Doesn't mean I'm that well regarded, rather that I'm controversial and opinionated!

[hunt]

I think you mean clique rather than click. But what the hey. It's Sunday and what should be a day of rest for the BDOTGNZA...

In my experience people on here will judge you by the quality rather than the quantity of your posts. There are many sub-1000 posters with comparatively large amounts of rep, showing that they are pretty well regarded by their on-line peers.

thats what the referral to dicks is about if people are on here to judge other people

[MSTRS:Me]

There are some here who call me things worse than 'dick'. So? I, and those I have met, don't think I am. KB is a great place to be. The number of members/active posters is now big enough to fairly accurately reflect society and all it's diversity. I always mention KB to bikers I meet around the traps. Most have not heard of it - perhaps they check us out, I hope so. Someone (Suglite?) said that new members tend to be ignored - I'd agree in the sense that newbies anywhere need to get involved to be noticed, so it's a two-way street. My advice to newbies is to post lots (how long did Placidfemme stay unknown), and get themselves on the organised rides/trackdays. There are members here who will ride for 2-3-4 or more hours to be involved in a ride in another part of the country. Do you think they'd do that without KB??
This place rocks, cocks.

[onearmedbandit]

I'm proud to be a member here, despite some of the shit slinging that goes on. I've met some decent people from this site, made some good friends.

Really I couldn't give a toss if some ignoramus believes that kb'ers are all dicks or crashers or whatever. To make a general statement like that displays to me their intelligence (or lack there of) anyway. Anyway, I'm onearmedbandit, defined by what I do, believe in, stand up for etc. Not 4000+ other people.

[Hitcher]

Doesn't mean I'm that well regarded, rather that I'm controversial and opinionated!

Love you. Love your work.

[Motig]

suglite your experience was similar to mine and I did think the site was populated by "dicks" but after intially thinking about never visiting the site again I carried on and must say I cant help looking at least once a day to see whats happening with everyone. I think the problem is that some of the posters to the site have basically "small dick syndrome" and use the forums to show it meanwhile spoiling it for the majority. Certainly a newbie wouldn't be expecting some of the comments which are sometimes on here when they ask a perfectly reasonable question and I could see that they could take them personally thereby helping stuff up the reputation of KB.
But heck overall its a good crew and lots of fun.

[Lord Derosso]

It may explain why we got some very flat responses from the other crowd waiting at the Rimatuku Caltex today. I was just trying to be friendly until Maximus warned me that there was THEM and then there was US. One of them told me blankly that '' the KiwiBikers left half an hour ago.. ", which of course was bullshit, but I was in no doubt it was an opened hint to piss off. Bit sad to think bikers have lost the traditional kinship of old or perhaps everyones a bloody dick afterall. I dont give a toss. How can I get worried about what some dork whos barely looked at me thinks. BET YOU he wouldn't say no to a helping hand if hes binned his bike and that is what the reality of bike riding is really about. been there for each other.

[Jase W]

If it werent for KB, i'd still be riding like the first (& only, so far) organised ride I attended. I have been on KB pretty much since I started riding back in late '04, but its only in the last couple of months that i've really gotten into it, and thats because i went on a ride and met some great people

Also because of that ride, I was offered I bit of coaching in riding technique from Uncle B (and others have also given me a few tips), which has increased my riding ability alot more and alot faster than if I had been trying to figure it out myself.

KB Rocks!

[Stealth]

The KB reputation is fuelled by those "taker" Administrators that let threads run, like "Bryce is ...." A statement from them recently said they wanted to clean the site up, so this is what they condone as good for the site. I only come here for amusement, wouldn't want to be associated.

[trumpy]

Life occaisionally delivers up some funny (literally) coincidences.....like this thread for instance. Went for a ride to Tauranga and back yesterday and on the return leg stopped for a rest nearby another group of riders. Walked over to be sociable and in doing so enquired if any were KB'ers. A little surprised to get the "bunch of dickheads" response. As I walked away I heard one of the riders make further remarks about "wankers" and some disparaging remarks re my Trumpy. Well now I may be old and a KB'er and the Trumpy is certainly not the fastest 600 in the world and to describe her as pretty would be stretching the bounds of credibility, but hey, it was not me who dropped his bike in the road works a couple of kays down the road being a prat and scratching his nice new Bandit. No bodily or serious bike damage but you did look a real wally! Sometimes life is sooo good.....

And to the two prats on scooters in Newmarket last Friday; it's a good thing I saw you, in the distance, run the previous set of lights and had a vague feeling you might try the same thing at the next set. Sure enough you did and despite being prepared for the possibility, I still had to brake hard to avoid you. The work vehicle I often take to Auckland is three tons of 4WD, high roof van with enough unsprung weight to anchor half our Naval fleet which means: (a) it doesn't have sports car handling and (b) it's firking heavy and doesn't stop quickly (despite the ABS) in fact for the purposes of impact, consider it an imoveable object. Good luck next time boys.
Rant over.
cheers

[Hitcher]

The KB reputation is fuelled by those "taker" Administrators that let threads run, like "Bryce is ...." A statement from them recently said they wanted to clean the site up, so this is what they condone as good for the site. I only come here for amusement, wouldn't want to be associated.

You'll have to better than this at expressing yourself. I, for one, have no idea what you just said or what crime, exactly, you think that "administrators" are guilty of?

[James Deuce]

The KB reputation is fuelled by those "taker" Administrators that let threads run, like "Bryce is ...." A statement from them recently said they wanted to clean the site up, so this is what they condone as good for the site. I only come here for amusement, wouldn't want to be associated.

It's not fuelled by anyone except the posters.

The moderators (not administrators) are more concerned about personal attacks and threats than mostly justifiable rants about an individual's inability to ever provide anything remotely like a "quality retail experience".

Would you prefer that this site turned into one of those sterile US sites that are over moderated and low on post count and interesting content?

I also think that the moderators would rather that we behaved like grown ups ourselves, without them having to read every single post and run it through an acceptability algorithm.

If you have a specific complaint you can use the "report this post function" at the top right of every post (it's the exclamation mark in the box at the top right) and talk to the people whom you hold responsible for the timbre of this site.