Attitude readjustment

[canarlee]

Are your a motorcyclist - or do you just use it for transport as there is a difference.

a motorcyclist is someone that rides a motorcycle!


a biker/bikey however is different.

[peasea]

My mum always said, if you have nothing positive to say, don't bother saying anything.

Wasn't that Bambi's mother?.....Oh my god, a computer savvy Fawn.
(goes to get rifle, mmmm Venison).

Guns......oh dear.....

[peasea]

Motorcycling needs to lose the "it's us against the world" mentality - that's what encourages the Skidmarks of our society. Comments like "above all else he's a biker and a brother" are better off on the big screen in some cheesy Wild Ones remake. People need to stop and realise Motorcycling is just a common interest we have - it's not a bond that binds us.

If it's the movie I think you're referring to it was actually entitled 'The Wild One' and was pretty cool in its day, in fact, it still is. Cheesy it may be but I bet it made those dudes more cash than you'll ever earn.

I agree with oldrider in that if we aren't fully alert and take a 'them or me' attitude we'll all wind up dead. (It's actually 'us against the cops' anyway, remember?) You can make of motorcycling what you will but from a band of mates that goes back to the early 70's the people I am in closest contact with were/still are bikers. I think there is a certain 'survivalist' instinct among us, there needs to be, and perhaps it's that (as well as a passion for bikes) that gives us some common ground.

Having said that, I'd like to add; "piss off and whinge somewhere else".

[peasea]

a motorcyclist is someone that rides a motorcycle!


a biker/bikey however is different.

You could also say that because somone is in a motorcycle club (M/C) then they're a gang member. Not always true.

[MSTRS:Me]

I think we're all taking this far too seriously. I can't see how riding a motorcycle changes my personality, or values, or even value as a person.

Face it we are just a bunch of people who ride motorcycles. That's it.

Can't agree with that. Unless you ride a commuter (say) just to have wheels of your own.
Bikers come with all the same variety that any disparate group of people have, BUT with the added dimension of a shared interest, with all the stories and experiences that go with that.

[Katman]

BUT with the added dimension of a shared interest,

Like I've said, if I see a motorcyclist stranded I'll stop and help (but then again, I'd probably stop and help anyone stranded), and if I'm at a gathering and see someone who obviously rides a bike I'll no doubt end up talking to them. But it's because we have a shared interest, not a "special bond". What a ridiculous concept that you could have a "special bond" with someone you don't know.

[terbang]

Just looked up bond on my computers dictionary.

"A connection based on kinship or marriage or common interest"

[peasea]

3M use 'special bond' all the time; this is from their website:
"A new product invented and made by American 3m company, By using high toughness fiber and fine grit which combined by special bond"

[Grahameeboy]

Like I've said, if I see a motorcyclist stranded I'll stop and help (but then again, I'd probably stop and help anyone stranded), and if I'm at a gathering and see someone who obviously rides a bike I'll no doubt end up talking to them. But it's because we have a shared interest, not a "special bond". What a ridiculous concept that you could have a "special bond" with someone you don't know.

You are starting to be more constructive and see where you are coming from, however, what is a 'Special Bond'...I guess it is 'within' and differs from person to person. What you think is not a special bond maybe to someone else.....so it is only ridiculous from your world. You cannot criticise the way that other person feels, just you don't see it from their world...that is all.

I have not met you so I have a shared interest with you.

I have met a few KBers like Maha, Mom, Carnerlee, MacktheKnife to name a few and I have a special bond with them cause I know I can just call up and pop over or if I need help I know they will help me and vice versa which is more than just sharing a common interest.

[Grahameeboy]

3M use 'special bond' all the time; this is from their website:
"A new product invented and made by American 3m company, By using high toughness fiber and fine grit which combined by special bond"

I was thinking the same thing....must be that special bond eh??

[Katman]

I have not met you so I have a shared interest with you.

I have met a few KBers like Maha, Mom, Carnerlee, MacktheKnife to name a few and I have a special bond with them cause I know I can just call up and pop over or if I need help I know they will help me and vice versa which is more than just sharing a common interest.

That is precisely it. I too, have formed a bond with many motorcyclists I've met. Those who I have not met just happen to share my interest in bikes. To me they are just motorcyclists.

[Taz]

Mmmm Maybe southern comfort......... or bourbon...... Mmmmm

[FROSTY:Me]

I think we're all taking this far too seriously. I can't see how riding a motorcycle changes my personality, or values, or even value as a person.

Face it we are just a bunch of people who ride motorcycles. That's it.

I can't see riding bikes as "changing" anything either--I think a certain personality type is attracted to the freedom of being a biker.
ACTUALLY no I know stuff thats happened to me on a bike has changed me and the way I see the world.

[Goblin]

Mmmm Maybe southern comfort......... or bourbon...... Mmmmm

Mmmmm...Southern Comfort.

[Grahameeboy]

That is precisely it. I too, have formed a bond with many motorcyclists I've met. Those who I have not met just happen to share my interest in bikes. To me they are just motorcyclists.

But for some of us this site does have a special bond, demonstrated at times and there are some KBers who I have not yet met yet I feel a special bond.

All I am saying is that you started off attacking, seemed to have stepped back and you have to realise that not everyone see things the way you do and KB is a positive place with like minded people, with a common bond.....so can we compromise at 'Common Bond'??