Are you a REAL biker?

**The Lone Rider** · 15th February 2009, 11:58

Originally Posted by Bonez

The thing is you don't need to ride with a club to do that.

That was more to the point of - if there are so many motorcyclist who can't even make time to ride (only ride when they have time), how can you expect to find people wanting to make a small commitment to a club.

There is a huge abundance of motorcyclist.

**gunrunner** · 15th February 2009, 12:03

Must admit im a rider that just happens to own the bike , but i do know of a cleaner as thats all he seems to do with it .

**Goblin** · 19th February 2010, 08:50

Living the Dream!

We dont care what anyone else believes.

**vifferman** · 19th February 2010, 09:08

Holy Thread Dredge, Batman!

In the intervening time since the thread was slumbering, I seem to have become a hypocrite, for now I ride my bike only for communtering, and then only when #2MutantTroglodyteSpawn doesn't need a ride to work. I almost never ever ride for leisure or on the weekends.

Eye Yam Undone...

**dipshit** · 19th February 2010, 09:22

Originally Posted by Goblin

Living the Dream!

We dont care what anyone else believes.

Americans...

**avgas** · 19th February 2010, 10:07

Originally Posted by dipshit

Americans...

Looks like some common sense is sinking in over there.
I am excited
http://www.local-motors.com/

**Mikkel** · 19th February 2010, 10:40

Originally Posted by Goblin

Living the Dream!

We dont care what anyone else believes.

Either that's an elaborate piss take or they don't get irony...

Made me think of this though:

**Ratti** · 20th February 2010, 10:44

i'm not a biker, I'm a person who chooses to ride.

Riding is only part of my identity, not my whole existence.
Don't attempt to limit me by hanging a label around my neck

**shrub** · 20th February 2010, 11:06

Originally Posted by Mikkel

Either that's an elaborate piss take or they don't get irony...

No, they don't get the irony. Somehow that clip is especially poignant given that Christchurch is filled with hundreds of hogs wallowing and weaving slowly down the road.

**Skyryder** · 20th February 2010, 16:59

Never could get into this ‘real’ thing. Ya either biker or not. This 'real biker' bit is nothing but elitist. A put down to those who have other interests. If biking’s ya thing and you have no other interests then so be it, but don’t give me this shit that when the salmon are running I’m any less of a biker than those who have no interest in the piscatorial pursuits.

Skyryder

**Ratti** · 20th February 2010, 17:13

piscatorial...o god I love it when a man talks dirty!

**dpex** · 20th February 2010, 20:52

Yeah. I agree. It's a visceral thing. Even when not suited up.

Just standing there, looking at your bike brings on an ancient understanding. It's an atavistic association with power.

The perceptive go down into the world of heirarchical reductionism. They get to feel, almost, the molecular structure of the bike and measure this against their control of it. It's a beast, but in the hands of a lover....oh no, not such beast. More a partner. Yet, like any other partner, they really know little about it's structure.

Every sense is engaged. I feel, I hear, I smell, I see, I taste. I am overcome. I do not understand the very essence of the molecular structure of my bike. I just know it works, within certain parameters

What I do know is; this wonder of man's invention is now in my hands. It is mine, no matter how small or large. It is a reality which was merely a phantasm in the mind of an author, just a hundred years ago.

Yet here, beneath me, NOW, betwixt my legs is 100 horses, ready to flee at my simple twist.

I have an awesome responsibility. I am in control of 100 horses which can accelerate 'us' from zero to 100Kph in a blink. Can, when conditions allow, take us to 240Kph. Awesome stuff. But we can. Bike and I, do these things on the track.

Every time I get on my bike I feel the reverence which is redolent in your post, Viffer.

And every time I come off the track I look down at Team zinmmerframe and I wonder about the engineering which enabled me to get up to such speeds as i do, and stay upright in the corners...as I mostly do.:--)) And so I have this visceral contact with not just my bike but the very clever buggers who built it.

Does all that make some sense to you Viff?

**sinfull** · 20th February 2010, 20:58

Originally Posted by Goblin

Living the Dream!

We dont care what anyone else believes.

>

Aint laughed so hard in eons !!!

Originally Posted by dpex

Yeah. I agree. It's a visceral thing. Even when not suited up.

Just standing there, looking at your bike brings on an ancient understanding. It's an atavistic association with power.

The perceptive go down into the world of heirarchical reductionism. They get to feel, almost, the molecular structure of the bike and measure this against their control of it. It's a beast, but in the hands of a lover....oh no, not such beast. More a partner. Yet, like any other partner, they really know little about it's structure.

Every sense is engaged. I feel, I hear, I smell, I see, I taste. I am overcome. I do not understand the very essence of the molecular structure of my bike. I just know it works, within certain parameters

What I do know is; this wonder of man's invention is now in my hands. It is mine, no matter how small or large. It is a reality which was merely a phantasm in the mind of an author, just a hundred years ago.

Yet here, beneath me, NOW, betwixt my legs is 100 horses, ready to flee at my simple twist.

I have an awesome responsibility. I am in control of 100 horses which can accelerate 'us' from zero to 100Kph in a blink. Can, when conditions allow, take us to 240Kph. Awesome stuff. But we can. Bike and I, do these things on the track.

Every time I get on my bike I feel the reverence which is redolent in your post, Viffer.

And every time I come off the track I look down at Team zinmmerframe and I wonder about the engineering which enabled me to get up to such speeds as i do, and stay upright in the corners...as I mostly do.:--)) And so I have this visceral contact with not just my bike but the very clever buggers who built it.

Does all that make some sense to you Viff?

Jeeeesus wept David, i almost came !