Biker discrimination...

**Ixion** · 16th December 2008, 11:07

Ah, I just now managed to put in a bit of reverse discrimination.

Toddling back to the orifice from collecting my lunch, and lo and behold there's a strange Katana parked by the front door.

Ask the receptionist biddy "Whos wiv da muddacycle". Some dude applying for a job it seems . Not in my department, alas, but I still put in a good word for him with TPTB. Anyone who rides a Katana can't be *totally* bad. Dunno if it'll do much good, but y'never know.

**gijoe1313** · 16th December 2008, 11:25

Originally Posted by Tank

You have a spine?

You call your bikes "Daisy, Pippi, Betsy" FFS.

p/t obv GIJoe -

I am under the thumb of those particular girls, the lil'ol'hornet and Big Ol'Hornet being guys are happy as a pig in a poke in mud. They require a lot of coaxing, teasing, fiddling and attention being two-stroker girls ...

As for the Hornets they just want to ride quick n'easy as you please. I just give them a quick pat on the tanks and they are tickled pink, the others ... a never ending list of things to gubbinz up, lube, tighten etc etc ..

I know my place. That's why we loves them two strokers we does

**MsKABC** · 16th December 2008, 15:21

I don't frequent KB much anymore as I haven't ridden for quite a while so I feel like a bit of a fraud even being here, but in my personal experience...

There seems to be a bit of a double standard re society attitudes towards bikers. If you are a bloke, you're either considered a yob or a testosterone junkie with too many toys, depending on what your bike & leathers look like. If you're a woman, you're either a dyke or a really cool chick, depending on what you look like.

Fortunately for me I guess, I always struck the latter of the two, and when I was a teacher my students especially thought I was cool

There was this one kid, we'll call him "Dusty" (coz that was his name) who worked in Pak n Save. He saw me there one day in my leathers: "Oh wow Miss, do you ride a MOTORBIKE???" "No Dusty, I'm just a really, really bad driver - I've had 12 crashes this week - so I wear extra protection when I drive"

I quite often got "Oh, you ride a motorcycle...don't you know how dangerous that is?"

**Badjelly** · 16th December 2008, 15:42

Originally Posted by vifferman

I like being a bit different.

I like being able to have a somewhat different persona as a biker than I do at other times. When I'm in the car, I'm a biker in a car, but no-one except me knows that. When I'm on my bike, I *know* that I'm on my bike, and other people do too. I love that little kids (only up to a certain age) are fascinated, and get very excited if I acknowledge them.
I dunno if I like Boi RaceRs noticing I'm on a bike, as I have to choose whether to ignore them or blow them into the weeds, and sometimes I can't be bothered with that, or the "Pull a wheelie!" nonsense. I am not entertainment for them.

Discrimination? Pah!
I'm a biker - I don't really give a toss.

You like people to notice you're a bit different, and you don't give a toss.

**vifferman** · 16th December 2008, 16:07

Originally Posted by Badjelly

You like people to notice you're a bit different, and you don't give a toss.

Is that what it sounded like I meant in my ramblings? Hmmmm....
It should sound like, "I'm conscious of the differentness and after many years I don't generally care what people think of it".

I'm generally used to being ignored. I'd make a good criminal because there's something about me (blandness? banality? my cloak of invisibility?) that renders me forgettable, unmemorable and easily overlooked. Even my Mutant Offspring sometimes don't notice whether I'm there or not (once I was overseas for over a week before the youngest noted my absence!).
Being on a bike is the only time when I really don't feel like a nothing.

Of course, in D'Auckland I sometimes get ignored at intersections, which is why I have three horns on my bike.

**Badjelly** · 16th December 2008, 16:15

Originally Posted by Badjelly

You like people to notice you're a bit different, and you don't give a toss.

Originally Posted by vifferman

Is that what it sounded like I meant in my ramblings? Hmmmm.... It should sound like, "I'm conscious of the differentness and after many years I don't generally care what people think of it".

Fair enough. I was probably being a bit harsh there.

**SPman** · 16th December 2008, 16:16

Originally Posted by vtec

. Anyway I'm not anymore, it's too bloody boring.

Aaaaaargh - if only. Trouble is, each time I make noises about leaving, they pay me more - I've never worked so little, for so much!

**vifferman** · 16th December 2008, 16:16

Originally Posted by Badjelly

Fair enough. I was probably being a bit harsh there.

You should've spoken (written?) a bit louder - I didn't notice.

**Insanity_rules** · 16th December 2008, 23:11

Originally Posted by MsKABC

"Oh wow Miss, do you ride a MOTORBIKE???" "No Dusty, I'm just a really, really bad driver - I've had 12 crashes this week - so I wear extra protection when I drive"

I quite often got "Oh, you ride a motorcycle...don't you know how dangerous that is?"

Well its better than riding a bike wearing nothing (but a helmet and shoes), I'm still banned from a camp ground at the mount to this very day!

Hey I thought it would be a great New Years eve prank, but some people have no sense of humor.

**MsKABC** · 17th December 2008, 06:50

Originally Posted by Insanity_rules

Well its better than riding a bike wearing nothing (but a helmet and shoes), I'm still banned from a camp ground at the mount to this very day!

Hey I thought it would be a great New Years eve prank, but some people have no sense of humor.

I'm imagining gravel rash in places that would make your eyes water

....so you're not particularly...um...attached to your boy-bits then?

**Pixie** · 17th December 2008, 07:06

Originally Posted by MsKABC

I"Oh wow Miss, do you ride a MOTORBIKE???" "No Dusty, I'm just a really, really bad driver - I've had 12 crashes this week - so I wear extra protection when I drive"

Sue Bradford says that reply is child abuse