Snobs on Triumphs.

[FJRider]

Ooooooooh who's got the cranky trousers on now then???

Whatever do you mean ...

[tri boy]

AND ... you at no stage ... go over to THEIR table to introduce yourself ....

They were minding their own business ... having a great day ... to be ignored by another (dirt)biker ...

If you had ... and they continued to ignore you .... I would agree with your comments. But YOU didn't ... your loss ... not theirs .... get over yourself ...

Said gday with a smile to two of them, who turned their backs to me with out a word of reply.
Get over your self.

[NighthawkNZ:Me]

Bikers in the "old" days were always pleased to see other bikers, even just to say g'day!
I must admit I have noticed big changes in the attitude of a lot of today's bikers though!

Agreed... even in the time I been riding... (25 years ish) seen big atitude change... I can see what is doing it all (but not going to say and causes a shit fight)

back in the day;

• 99% of the time passing bikers would wave, (1% didn't because either in mid corner, did see etc).
• Other biker would pull over to assist or to see if everything was okay if they saw another bike on the side of the road.
• Bikers would just go up to another biker (no matter what type of bike) and start chatting admiring each others ride.
• there was no inter brand rivarly
• Atitude on the road and respect to other road users was totally different and is changing to the worse I fear.

[Grubber]

I'd like to call them wankers, but I don't know if they do the group "soggy biscuit" gig together, but today I was surprised that a bunch of aging baby boomers on restored, shiny bonnies, Nortans, Ariels etc didn't have the decencey to even say Gday at one of the local watering holes.
Sure, they saw me pull up on an unwashed, clay splattered scrambler of recent manufacture, sure, I look like a hat full of arseholes on my best days, but sheesh, when did wankers start crossing over to the Triumph side of life.

I got over it quite quickly, downed my pint, and chatted to a couple of regulars, one on a 1925 New York police Indian, and the other on a late model Yammy road bike.
The Indian dude is a cool ol coot, and can spank that beastie when required.

Might be time for me to search out another marque. The wankers have assimilated with the Trumpy folk.

SO??
Is this really it for the day?
Must turn TV off and get a life......

[Banditbandit]

Agreed... even in the time I been riding... (25 years ish) seen big atitude change... I can see what is doing it all (but not going to say and causes a shit fight)

back in the day;

• 99% of the time passing bikers would wave, (1% didn't because either in mid corner, did see etc).
• Other biker would pull over to assist or to see if everything was okay if they saw another bike on the side of the road.
• Bikers would just go up to another biker (no matter what type of bike) and start chatting admiring each others ride.
• there was no inter brand rivarly
• Atitude on the road and respect to other road users was totally different and is changing to the worse I fear.

Yeah ... ? I remember the days we would never never never talk to a rider on a Rice Burner ...

[Big Dave]

Yeah ... ? I remember the days we would never never never talk to a rider on a Rice Burner ...

And worse - Jap bikes kicked over at the pub and riders intimidated on brand biggotry. Don't park that jap crap here etc etc.

[HenryDorsetCase]

Meh... aren't they all grumpy old sods?
I mean women are grumpy when they leak every month - so how do you think a bonnie 650 owner feels.

I must admit I found this funny.

I'm going to hell, I know. S'OK though, all my friends will be there.

[HenryDorsetCase]

Agreed... even in the time I been riding... (25 years ish) seen big atitude change... I can see what is doing it all (but not going to say and causes a shit fight)

back in the day;

• 99% of the time passing bikers would wave, (1% didn't because either in mid corner, did see etc).
• Other biker would pull over to assist or to see if everything was okay if they saw another bike on the side of the road.
• Bikers would just go up to another biker (no matter what type of bike) and start chatting admiring each others ride.
• there was no inter brand rivarly
• Atitude on the road and respect to other road users was totally different and is changing to the worse I fear.

I don't know about that. I started riding in the 80's, and on Jap sprotbikes. (my first road bike wasnt really a sprotbike, a GSX400, though it did kick the arse of my mates CB400F) but anyway, back then none of the britbike guys would talk to us. and a Harley was a rare thing indeed. even the patched clubs were on all sorts of stuff: Triumphs and Nortons, the odd HD, but I saw a Ducati Dharma with big apehangers (WTF?).

I think too we were young and stupid and snotty and had a bad attitude: the britbike guys especially were older (some even had grey hair like I have now ) and didnt really want to talk to us....

Meh.

[NZsarge]

I'd like to call them wankers, but I don't know if they do the group "soggy biscuit" gig together, but today I was surprised that a bunch of aging baby boomers on restored, shiny bonnies, Nortans, Ariels etc didn't have the decencey to even say Gday at one of the local watering holes.

Might be time for me to search out another marque. The wankers have assimilated with the Trumpy folk.

Just because someone ride a certain kind of machine does'nt exclude them from being a wanker/arsehole.
Seeing more and more people seem to be riding Triumph's these days you're even more likely to run into Triumph riding wankers, it's the law of averages.

[HenryDorsetCase]

How's this one - I recently got a 'cease and desist' from Norton Motorcycles for a picture of a 1950's Bike I had on a tee shirt for sale.

No logo - just a picture of a bike.

Still doing it? I'd buy it just as a "fuck you" to whoever it was: presumably baldwins or JAWS or one of them.

[Banditbandit]

And worse - Jap bikes kicked over at the pub and riders intimidated on brand biggotry. Don't park that jap crap here etc etc.

Ummm ... yeah ... somewhere faintly back in my memory (musta been last century) I seemed to have urinated on a Honda four ... parked in Latimar Square I believe ... then I ended up owning one or two ...

We all grow up ...

[NighthawkNZ:Me]

Yeah ... ? I remember the days we would never never never talk to a rider on a Rice Burner ...

I don't know about that. I started riding in the 80's, and on Jap sprotbikes. (my first road bike wasnt really a sprotbike, a GSX400, though it did kick the arse of my mates CB400F) but anyway, back then none of the britbike guys would talk to us. and a Harley was a rare thing indeed. even the patched clubs were on all sorts of stuff: Triumphs and Nortons, the odd HD, but I saw a Ducati Dharma with big apehangers (WTF?).

I think too we were young and stupid and snotty and had a bad attitude: the britbike guys especially were older (some even had grey hair like I have now ) and didnt really want to talk to us....

Meh.

Goes to show I had the exact opposite experience... maybe it is you get out of it what you put in to it...

[Big Dave]

Still doing it? I'd buy it just as a "fuck you" to whoever it was: presumably baldwins or JAWS or one of them.

No, because unlike Paul's mates who got out of shape because the new legal owner was protecting his IP on their coffee cups and merchandise, (Insert evil smiley) I appologised and deleted it.

History is all about perspectives isn't it.

Triumph don't like 'em much either, but all they've ever done is raise an eyebrow. Maybe because I've sold 'em a shitload of bikes :-)

[Big Dave]

Whilst we are on the subject of anagrams... this one is quite nice....

Harley Davidson -> Yo, Vandals hired!

I'm still trying to sort out 'where' we got on the subject of anagrams

[Big Dave]

Goes to show I had the exact opposite experience... maybe it is you get out of it what you put in to it...

Or maybe that Dunedin is just entering the 60's.