What's with the sprotsbike riders?

[Edbear]

(P/T)

Mmmm! I knew it...!

[McJim]

What is someone who owns a sports bike, a naked street bike, a cruiser and a scooter? Sexually confused? Hermaphridite? Is their penis big or small, or just right?

The purists among us will call you a hermaphrodite....they'll probably tell you to go f##k yourself which amounts to the same thing!

Is it just me or is this thread a parody of one posted by a sportsbiker earlier this month?

[Virago]

......What shits me is that certain type of rider who can only see their type or style of bike and feel obliged to deride the choices of others as if the circumstances of their choice relates to the size of the tacklebox......

My point exactly BD - although posting up a "mirror" thread as a piss-take against all the cruiser-bashing might have been a little too abstract for some. I shall resist then, the temptation to pontificate on the intelligence of sprotsbikers........

Never mind, all good fun and a small diversion on a cold wet Sunday.....

[idb]

That's only because its the second Sunday of the month and their bike just doesn't feel like starting today!

It's called character you heathen!

[slowpoke]

I can see where he's coming from. Very few sprotbikers have inspired respect from me on rides for their sheer corner speed. Sure, plenty have blasted past on the straights, but to leave me standing on a gravel strewn twisty back road with wet patches on corner apexes is truly awe-inspiring. Thanks for the show TL rider.
Then there were the nutters on the Hokianga ride, the guy on the Falco and, dare I say it, the looney on the 1st Gen bandit.
Too many sprotbikers just rely on straightline acceleration, which isn't really what bikes are about.
Still, whatever floats your boat I guess.

Interesting that you feel compelled to contribute to the thread and bag sportsbike riders.......but you don't choose to display your own choice of mount.............

[98tls]

Cant really see why anyone bags anyone to be honest...if you want to cruise fine..do it....but do it quietly....and get outta the fuckin way in the twisty bits eh....going through the Rakaia gorge today i almost collected some guy on a 750 Honda cruiser thing...no shit he must have been doing all of 30kms down the twistys to the bridge...he almost had a TLS up his arsehole....

[idb]

And you ALMOST got a red-rep for your comment on tassles, treading a dangerous track there R6_kid!!!

Yes....the thing I regret most about riding a sprotbike is that I can't wear tassels.









Awwww....waddamisaying!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anyone looks stupid in tassels!!!!!

[McJim]

Anyone looks stupid in tassels!!!!!

'cept native americans.....s'like kilts for them innit?

'swot they wear - they invented 'em......so wot i don't get is wot have cruisers got to do wiv people wot nearly got wiped out 100 years ago and why are the white men wot tried to wipe 'em out now trying to emulate them but insteat of four legged fings dey use bikes wot don't go round corners....?

jist askin.

[Big Dave]

Yes....the thing I regret most about riding a sprotbike is that I can't wear tassels.

Anyone looks stupid in tassels!!!!!

Last time I was in Arrowtown all the locals had 'em on their ugg boots?

[Hillbilly]

Over here in NSW, everyone's dumping thier sportsbikes for cruisers! Not because they want to, but it's become a necessity thanks to three wankers who got chased by the police down the Pacific Highway at speeds well over 250km/hr! They never got caught, but now everyone else with a sports bike is being targeted and harassed.

A mate of mine will now only ride his ZZR1100 on track days as it just attracts too much unwanted attention from the cops. They even give him shit about his NSR 150! He's considering a cruiser as it's nigh impossible to exceed the 110km/hr speed limit.

[slowpoke]

Haha, Virago, you gotta be kackin' yourself at some of these responses, especially the red rep....what a hoot!

Ya gotta laugh at the way we HAVE to categorise ourselves in what is such an individual pursuit. Funny the way the categories are merging now too: power cruisers, sports tourers, supermoto's, adventure bikes yada yada. Then you have races like Tourist Trophy's but tourers (tourists) pride themselves on taking the long way home at no great pace, so what's with that?
Riders rave about how comfortable their cruiser is....but you've gotta stop very 120km's to fill the bugger up.
Tourers are very rarely used as as intended and hardly ever ridden for more than half a day at a time in our intsy wintsy teeny weeny country.
Harley have got a proud sporting heritage, even if it is mostly confined to flat track racing these days (disregarding the XBRR in Formula Extreme).
The guys on their chook chasers seem to enjoy throwing on a set of sticky 17" hoops and strafing a windy backroad or race track.
Then we have people who go and ride around the world on an R1.

So where does that leave us?

I reckon it's more about a mindset. Somedays you feel like blasting along at mach 1....others you just wanna pootle around and explore that road you've always wondered about...sometimes you just wanna kick back and hangshit on your unsuspecting co-riders....

[98tls]

Haha, Virago, you gotta be kackin' yourself at some of these responses, especially the red rep....what a hoot!

Ya gotta laugh at the way we HAVE to categorise ourselves in what is such an individual pursuit.

Thats the thing though eh....i feel no need to catergorise myself at all...i just love bikes..full stop.i can do pretty much everything i want to do as the TL is so damn versatile and enduring,it seems i agree that a high number of bikers do see the need to fit in to a catergory which i find quite sad......i can forgive streetkids for there need to do the gang thing but adults.....as i say...sad.

[KLOWN]

very funny thread, I highly enjoyed reading it ! It's always funny watching some people get really wound up, its my favourite type of humour and has gotten me in alot of trouble with my better half. Green bling for you, for the thread and to counter act the red.

[Korea]

I have very little interest for the destination.

Hell, I'm not even too fussed about the journey.

What I am most concerned about is the next bend... brake point... blip, downchange, turn-in, accel-on... *Waaaaaaaaaah~!*

Maybe when I 'grow-up' I'll graduate to something more upright, but 'till then it's sportsbikes all the way.

[Big Dave]

My point exactly BD - although posting up a "mirror" thread as a piss-take against all the cruiser-bashing might have been a little too abstract for some. I shall resist then, the temptation to pontificate on the intelligence of sprotsbikers........

Never mind, all good fun and a small diversion on a cold wet Sunday.....

And lets not loose the spirit of PT either.

That said - I know I've upset people with Honda jokes in the past - and that's all they were - piss takes and gags - but most upset they were.
'Larnt' me that lesson.